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http://www.vice.com/read/retired-cop-ray-lewis-blames-corporate-america-for-the-situation-in-ferguson-825In 2011, when the Occupy Movement was thought of by middle America as a smorgasbord of drum circles, a photo emerged of a former police captain being arrested by the NYPD. That was Ray Lewis, 23 year veteran of the Philadelphia Police Force. The Occupy Movement turned him into some sort of legitimized and uniformed social advocate. Hes since traveled to various protests across the US, including the recent unrest in Ferguson. I caught up with him across the street from the QuikTrip where Mike Brown was killed.
VICE: Whats the most surprising thing youve seen in Ferguson?
Ray Lewis: Last night I saw officers not wearing name tags or badges. Its unfathomable to me that officers, while being investigated, and with international attention, are still breaking the law, I cant believe it. Officers on site are allowing it. Thats unheard of. If I ever saw that, the officer would be off the street in a second.
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http://www.vice.com/read/retired-cop-ray-lewis-blames-corporate-america-for-the-situation-in-ferguson-825
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)JEB
(4,748 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,780 posts)Thank you.
malaise
(269,328 posts)fredamae
(4,458 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)and for Lewis
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Brigid
(17,621 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)Disappear". The business communities began in the inner cities. But as the infrastructure aged and the white people moved to the suburbs. The author then showed how the jobs (corporations) followed them to the suburbs. Later the jobs moved south because of cheap labor and now they are overseas. Corporations are to blame. They have systematically deserted the American people starting with those in the inner cities and ending with all of us.
whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)CEOs believe that you can't make a decent living without an abused and oppressed underclass to do the work.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)and that is something that is new. The greed allows them to do anything they want regardless if it is right or wrong. They are above the law. That needs to change.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)underclass to do the work.
Wonder how long they firgure their obscene profit(s) will go on without a strong middle class to buy their cheap labor junk?
whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)NYPD to harass, abuse and intimidate Occupy wall Street protestors.
alfredo
(60,082 posts)ReRe
(10,597 posts)Thanks for bringing reality into the chaotic turmoil that those commandos brought to the streets of Ferguson against those peaceful protesters. They instigated the violence, passing themselves off as legitimate police officers. They were passed off to everyone as St Louis Co Police. How do we know, if they didn't reveal their identity? We don't know who they were.
There are real law enforcement officers all over this country who know that what happened there was not lawful.
Liberal_Dog
(11,075 posts)An eye-opening interview.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)tea and oranges
(396 posts)GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)No not at all, were going to get climate change and its going to change the earth, and its going to be too late to do anything about it. Were past the tipping point.
In 20 to 30 years, this country is going to be drastically changed, if it even exists. Everyone is going to be fighting each other for survival, the food that still exists, and the water that hasnt evaporated. People think there will always be a Walmart, theyll always have a big screen TV and an SUV. Its very short sighted.
Way to go, Ray!!!
moondust
(20,027 posts)~
Emerson is No. 121 on the Fortune 500 with 2013 revenues of $24.6 billion. Some 1,300 St. Louisans are employed at the Ferguson campus, most of them doing highly skilled financial and management work.
Emerson employs a lot of less-skilled people to make a lot of different stuff, but not in Ferguson. In Mexico, Central America, South America, Germany, France, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Poland, China, India, Japan, the Philippines and other nations, in 230 manufacturing centers, Emerson employs 130,000 people, including 33,000 at 80 locations in the U.S. and Canada.
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http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/columns/kevin-horrigan/horrigan-ferguson-s-global-giant-and-those-left-behind/article_54cf78a2-c735-5488-8fcd-c366ee36e132.html
More at DKos:
What do you think Im going to do? Farr asked his audience. Im not going to hire anybody in the United States. Im moving.
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Last year, David Farr was paid $25.3 million, placing him No. 5 on Equilars list of Americas best-paid executives.
~more~
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/24/1324179/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Round-up-Sorry-the-pundits-have-moved-on-edition
mrdmk
(2,943 posts)<snip from the link in the previous post>
Farr's threat was ridiculous. Emerson had already moved. Those jobs were long vanished from these shores. Like so many corporate bigwigs railing against regulation, the truth is Farr played all his cards years ago. Everything else is just a bluff.
Gee, how about that! Threaten to move when you already have, years ago...
These asshats are so full of themselves they are a total joke
If a person wanted to boycott TPTB in the Ferguson area for their bad behavior without doing too much damage to the residents/protesters who live there, Emerson Electric products would probably be a pretty good candidate.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)The AA community is being decimated, and will continue to be so with privatization of schools and "fixes" to Social Security (no thanks, Obama!).
Why "Middle America" can't (or won't) grasp that is baffling.
Excellent article.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,776 posts)to go fuck themselves. Arresting journalists for recording and reporting. Not to mention shooting unarmed kids to death due to an apparent lack of ability to handle a tense situation any other way. Don't expect justice in Ferguson.
secondvariety
(1,245 posts)cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)woo me with science
(32,139 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)woo me with science
(32,139 posts)Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)I looked around about a week ago to see if Capt. Lewis had weighed in yet on Ferguson. I'm not surprised he's there in person.
From his facebook page:
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