MILWAUKEE, Wis. – The leader of a prominent community organizing group in Wisconsin, and a blogger for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, has taken to Facebook to condone the violent outburst in Ferguson, Missouri on Monday night after a grand jury found no probable cause to charge a police officer in the fatal shooting of a young man who had just robbed a convenience store and assaulted the officer.

“I will not condemn ‪#‎Ferguson protesters that turn violent,” declared Jennifer Epps-Addison, the head of Wisconsin Jobs Now, on Facebook. Epps-Addison wrote that the Missouri criminal justice system, which worked closely with the federal government, “would sooner murder” the protesters “than allow them a small amount of dignity.”

St. Louis County prosecutor Robert McCulloch said in a press conference Monday night that local officials worked closely with federal investigators through every step of the probe. It was a grand jury of citizens from Missouri that found no probable cause for prosecutors to press charges against Darren Wilson, the police officer who claimed self-defense in the shooting.

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In the aftermath of the announcement, police officers claimed they “came under heavy automatic weapon fire” according to USA Today, and at least two police cars were torched while buildings and restaurants were vandalized or looted.

The chaotic lawlessness didn’t bother Epps-Addison, however, who suggested the violence was part of a bigger struggle:

“I will not condemn ‪#‎Ferguson protesters that turn violent. They are David going up against Goliath in tanks with military grade assault riffles. While I hope for peace, I will not demand it of people I have no right to ask to be patient. The justice they deserve is long overdue. I will not shame my brothers and sisters fed up and ready to tear down an injustice system that would sooner murder them then allow them a small amount of dignity. I will not tell these mothers and fathers to turn the other cheek, when I am not sure I could do the same if it were my child that lay dead in the street. I will simply hope that when the smoke clears and the dust settles we are just as committed to building lasting power as we are to temporary disruption. Both will be needed in the long road toward justice.”

In another Facebook post, the veteran community organizer, who was given an award by the AFL-CIO last year, took aim at the verdict grand jurors had reached in the case. She claimed that the jurors were part of “a system built on the need to maintain power and dominance… to ensure the ‘peasants/pirates/slaves/rebels/heretics’ don’t rise up against the ruling class.”

“I am not surprised by the ‪#‎Ferguson verdict. My eyes have been wide open, and I am not under the illusion that this system is just. What I am is committed to the building of a more perfect union… to the amassing of power so that we can fight back and even win sometimes. I know this is not what people want to hear, but the struggle is real. We are talking about trillions of dollars, we are talking about wealth that dates back to before America even existed, we are talking about a system built on the need to maintain power and dominance… to ensure the “peasants/pirates/slaves/rebels/heretics” don’t rise up against the ruling class. Our country has never fully lived up to our ideals. But she is our country and we are responsible for transforming her. Just as millions who have fought and died before us have done to get her to this point. Yes, this is a beautiful struggle, but it is dark and twisted, and inhumane nonetheless. I urge you to stand tall family, in dignity and love. I call you to move with a righteous anger that burns deep in your soul. I pray you will be strategic, coordinated, collaborative, and relentlessness. I hope you will see the interconnection of between militarized police, the distribution of wealth, and the need to control the labor (whether in prison or in poverty wage jobs) of millions of black lives. Most of all I commit to stand and be counted in the resistance. There is an action happening now on 12th and Wisconsin. Tuesday, the Hamilton family is asking folks to meet at 5pm at Red Arrow park. Friday @ 6am a bus will leave to join striking Walmart workers. Show up and be counted in the resistance ‪#‎blacklivesmatter”

The violence condoned by Epps-Addison included vandalism against minority-owned businesses, and violent attacks on reporters.

In Milwaukee on Tuesday, liberals organized a bizarrely named “Die In” at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee to mark the death of Brown in Ferguson. According to the event’s Facebook page, “The plan is that we will all fall to the floor at once and stand up individually saying ‘we are Mike Brown, we are Dontre Hamilton, we are all people who have been murdered due to police brutality etc.’”

 

 

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Authored by Brian Sikma