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Eric Garner’s crime was selling loosies. Using chokeholds to bring down a suspect is against NYPD policy.

Teabagistan is predictably outraged.

UPDATE: Here’s his resignation notice. I, Darren Wilson, hereby resign my commission as a police officer with the City of Ferguson effective immediately. I have been told that my continued employment may put the residents and police officers of the City of Ferguson at risk, which is a circumstance that I cannot allow. For obvious reasons, I wanted to wait …

Brooks was scheduled to perform on the Tonight Show.

Following last night’s decision in Ferguson, thousands of protesters marched from Union Square to Times Square and shut down the Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Triborough bridges. The protests were largely nonviolent, however NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton was splashed with red paint as he observed the protest in Times Square. Police declined to report on the number of arrests, but it doesn’t …

VIDEO: Live-streaming from the streets of Ferguson. UPDATE: Apparently Twitter shot Michael Brown. UPDATE II: The NCLR reacts. We vacillate between heartbreak and outrage at the decision from the grand jury. Injustice is too tame a word for what today’s decision represents. The fact that an unarmed black youth can be fatally shot by a police officer with no accountability …

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Ancona is the Imperial Wizard of Missouri’s Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. From the New York Daily News: The city of Ferguson is anxiously awaiting a grand jury’s decision whether to indict cop Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of unarmed teen Michael Brown in August. Several months of riots and unrest followed the shooting. “We will …

On Sunday the same Anonymous account claimed to have identified three KKK members in attendance at a rally in Wilson’s support. (Via JMG reader Scott)

Via Raw Story: On Tuesday, the campaign continued, with Anonymous moving beyond the Klan to target racist websites like Stormfront.org and writing, “The aim of our operation is nothing more than Cyber Warfare. Anything you upload will be taken down, anything you use to promote the KKK will be shut down. DDoS attacks have already been sent and have infiltrated …

The billboard hasn’t gone up yet, but it soon will thanks to a crowdfunding campaign inspired by the far-right National Review. This crowdfunding campaign is for the purchase of a billboard in the Ferguson, MO area. The billboard will display black text on a white background with the text “#PantsUPDontLoot”. After some initial confusion we are working with other, undisclosed …

Yesterday afternoon Anonymous seized the Ku Klux Klan’s Twitter account after the hate group threatened to use “lethal force” during any protests over the coming decision on the indictment of the Missouri police officer that killed a young black man. The Riverfront Times reported that the St. Louis, Missouri KKK group passed out pamphlets starting, “Attention: To the terrorists masquerading …