YouTube and Google leader Susan Wojcicki passed away from lung cancer.
One of the early pioneers of Google and YouTube has passed away from lung cancer. Her impact has grew the video platform from a mere 5,000 videos to over 4 billion.
Susan Wojcicki has passed away on Friday. She leaves behind husband Dennis Troper and her five children. Her son Marco died in 2019.
Wojcicki worked in the technology industry for over twenty years. She became involved in the creation of Google in 1998 when she rented out her garage as an office to the company's founders. She worked as Google's first marketing manager in 1999, and later led the company's online advertising business and original video service. After observing the success of YouTube, she suggested that Google should buy it; the deal was approved for $1.65 billion in 2006. She was appointed CEO of YouTube in 2014, serving until resigning in February 2023.
Susan Diane Wojcicki was born in Santa Clara, California, on July 5, 1968, the daughter of Esther Wojcicki, an American journalist, and Stanley Wojcicki, a Polish physics professor at Stanford University. Her maternal grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants. Her paternal grandfather, Franciszek Wójcicki, was a Polish politician who was elected MP during the 1947 Polish legislative election. Her paternal grandmother, Janina Wójcicka Hoskins, was a Polish-American librarian at the Library of Congress and was responsible for building the largest collection of Polish material in the U.S. She had two sisters: Janet, a doctor of anthropology and epidemiology, and Anne, an entrepreneur who is the co-founder and CEO of 23andMe.
Wojcicki grew up on the Stanford campus, where mathematical scientist George Dantzig was her neighbor. She attended Gunn High School in Palo Alto, California, and wrote for the school newspaper. Her first business was selling "spice ropes" door-to-door at the age of eleven. A humanities major in college, she took her first computer science class as a senior. She studied history and literature at Harvard University and graduated with honors in 1990. She originally planned on getting a PhD in economics and pursuing a career in academia, but changed her plans when she discovered an interest in technology. She also received her MS in economics in 1993 from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an MBA in 1998 from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
After Wojcicki became the CEO of YouTube, the company reached 2 billion logged-in users a month and that users were watching one billion hours a day. By 2021, YouTube had paid more than $30 billion to creators, artists, and media companies. There are localized versions of YouTube in 100 countries around the world across 80 languages. Since she became CEO, YouTube's percentage of female employees has risen from 24 to nearly 30 percent. Wojcicki also emphasized new YouTube applications and experiences designed to cater to users interested in family gaming, and music content. While CEO, the company developed 10 forms of monetization for YouTube creators, including channel memberships, merchandise, BrandConnect, and paid digital goods like Super Chat. She also launched YouTube's advertisement-free subscription service, YouTube Premium (formerly known as YouTube Red), and its over-the-top (OTT) internet television service YouTube TV. In 2020, the company launched YouTube Shorts, its short-form video experience, which surpassed 50 billion daily views in February 2023. In November 2022, YouTube publicized that the company had surpassed 80 million Music and Premium subscribers, including trailers. The company also reported over 100 billion hours of global gaming content watched on the platform in 2020.
Wojcicki tightened YouTube's policy on videos it regards as potentially violating its policies on hate speech and violent extremism.
Let me guess Israel.
Israel has confirmed it has impact on Facebook, X, YouTube, Tinder, Instagram, Myspace, POF and is trying to force TikTok to abandon the pro Palestinian content. The U.S. is forcing ByteDance to sell TikTok to American investors like Zionist Steven Mnuchin so they can police content. The ADL and AIPAC are notorious for pushing for content creators to be deplatformed.
The more stringent policies came after The Times showed that "ads sponsored by the British government and several private sector companies had appeared ahead of YouTube videos supporting terrorist groups" and several large advertisers withdrew their ads from YouTube in response. The enforcement policies have been criticized as censorship. YouTube has also faced criticism that the company applies its enforcement policies inconsistently, with larger content creators treated more favorably. During the controversy surrounding Logan Paul's YouTube video about a person that committed suicide, Wojcicki said that Paul did not violate YouTube's three-strike policy and did not meet the criteria for being banned from the platform.
Wojcicki has emphasized educational content as a priority for the company, and on July 20, 2018, announced the initiative YouTube Learning, which invests in grants and promotion to support education focused creator content.
On October 22, 2018, Wojcicki wrote that Article 13, as written in the European Union Copyright Directive, would make YouTube directly liable for copyrighted content, and poses a threat to content creators' ability to share their work.
On February 16, 2023, Wojcicki announced her resignation from YouTube via a company blog post. She said she wanted to focus on "family, health, and personal projects" but would be taking on an advisory role across Google and its parent company Alphabet.
Sexual predator Elon Musk will do a town hall with sexual predator Donald J. Trump.
The former president was allowed back on X (formerly Twitter) after its controversial owner Elon Musk deactivated the permanent block on him and numerous agitators who violated the platform.
Musk is taking X to Texas or Florida by 2025. He will move the iconic social media company out of San Francisco after the state demanded he release his books and are investigating the allegations of unfair labor laws and sexual abuse.
Now as he is regrouping, Trump is heading back to X to instigate, misinform and gripe.
Smells of desperation. Calling his opponent a radical is nothing new. You wanna know what is radical? A political party backing a man convicted of 34 felonies. A man who instigated a seditious rebellion against the peaceful transfer of power. A man who lies about 10 seconds whenever he speaks. A man who doesn't have his former vice president backing his bid. A man who is a sexual predator.
But let's call our opponent a radical. Good job Republicans.
Trump could also be in violation of Truth Social, the platform he partly owns but also uses more. He is supposed to devote more time in promoting that platform. He is going to piss off the investors and co founders.
Musk is a sexual predator as well better be cautious. The feds are looking into those claims of abuse by former workers and women who were paid off to not speak about his conduct and his affection for underage minors.
The conversation serves not only as a way for the former president to reach potentially millions of voters directly. It’s also an opportunity for X, a platform that relies heavily on politics, to redeem itself after some struggles.
Live conversation on 𝕏 with @realDonaldTrump & me at 8pm ET tomorrow
— Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TeamTrump) August 12, 2024
X has already been the scene of some of the 2024 cycle’s most memorable moments. As he skipped the first GOP presidential debate in August, Trump launched counterprogramming of his own, appearing in a taped interview with former Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson, which aired on X. Last month, President Joe Biden broke the news of his departure from the campaign in a letter posted to the platform.
Also notably, in May 2023, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis used the platform as a way to officially announce his presidential bid, a disastrous rollout marred by technical glitches, overloaded by the more than 400,000 people who tried to dial in.
Ahead of his conversation with Trump, Musk posted on the platform that X was conducting “some system scaling tests” to handle what’s anticipated to be a high volume of participants.
Musk, who has described himself as a Democrat until a few years ago, endorsed Trump’s candidacy two days after the former president was wounded during an attempted assassination at a Pennsylvania rally last month.
Long before he endorsed Trump, Musk turned increasingly toward the right in his posts and actions on the platform, also using X to try to sway political discourse around the world. He’s gotten in a dustup with a Brazilian judge over censorship, railed against what he calls the “woke mind virus” and amplified false claims that Democrats are secretly flying in migrants to vote in U.S. elections.
Musk has also reinstated previously banned accounts such as the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and Trump, who was kicked off the platform — then known as Twitter — two days after the Jan. 6 violence, with the company citing “the risk of further incitement of violence.” By November 2022, Musk had bought the company, and Trump’s account was reinstated, although the former president refrained from tweeting until Monday, insisting that he was happier on his own Truth Social site, which he launched during the ban.
Hours ahead of his interview with Musk, Trump posted a two-and-a-half minute video to his X account, featuring video from his time in office, as well as audio of him saying one of his standard campaign lines referencing the legal cases that have mounted against him: “They’re not coming after me, they’re coming after you, and I just happen to be standing in their way, and I will never be moving.”
But Trump’s audience on X is legions larger than on Truth Social, which became a publicly traded company earlier this year. Trump has just over 7.5 million followers on Truth Social, while his mostly dormant X account is followed by 88 million. Musk’s account, which will host the interview, has more than 193 million followers.
Trump’s campaign didn’t immediately respond to a message as to whether he would cross-post his interview with Musk via his own accounts, including on X.
The former president has most recently posted on X only once, with a photo of his mug shot after he surrendered at an Atlanta jail a year ago on charges he conspired to overturn his election loss in the state.
Vice President KAMALA HARRIS has a 50% chance of winning the 2024 presidential election.
Harris will now face former Republican president Donald Trump in November. During the Democratic presidential primaries held early this year, President Joe Biden won about 95% of all delegates to the August 19–22 Democratic convention. These delegates are likely to support Harris given Biden’s endorsement.
Since the debate with Trump on June 27 that was widely thought to have been a disaster for Biden, he has faced pressure to withdraw. In an Ipsos poll for US ABC News that was released before Biden’s withdrawal on Sunday, Democratic voters wanted Biden to withdraw by 60–39.
Harris said that Trump doesn't have the balls to say these insults to her face. She finally got Trump to change his mind and do the arranged debate with ABC News on Sept. 10.
Last week, Trump was unhinged, senile and chop full of lies. He lied about a helicopter incident with Willie Brown, former San Francisco mayor. Brown called the former president delusional. He also endorsed Harris for president.
We are the underdogs in this race.
Trump isn't holding many campaign rallies. He has to contact his probation officer in New York. Trump also is trying to change his campaign strategy so he can regain footing.
While at his Mar-a-Lago course with his son Barron he talked to supporters and made a snide remark about Harris. He literally called her a "nasty bitch."
Trump calling Kamala Harris a "fucking bitch" is hilarious because that's going to be his nickname in prison pic.twitter.com/zATECzbJww
He claims it is a ‘confirmed’ fact that there was no crowd at Kamala’s Detroit event….an event of which there are many videos published by news orgs, and that it was all AI.
Trump’s embattled campaign has spent two weeks navigating a rising Harris and a series of missteps from the former president. Still, averages in the battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin showed Saturday morning that Harris had not yet become the favorite to take the White House in November.
J.D. Vance admitted he tried to repress gay thoughts. This is allegedly a picture of the vice presidential nominee in drag.
Iran allegedly hacked into the Trump 2024 Presidential Campaign website and internal data of the Republican National Committee. They leaked out the vulnerabilities of Trump and his running mate Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH).
Trump is still fuming about Harris being the nominee and not President Joe Biden who the former president labeled, smeared, used every allegation to his advantage.
The questions of Harris' race, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's military service and fearmongering isn't working.
Vance is flipping. White nationalist Nick Fuentes complaining about Trump picking Vance who is married to Indian American lawyer Usha Vance, supportive of Israel and the former president rehashing a playbook that isn't new. He said that the base ain't buying it.
Puerto Rico is the most populated has 3.2 million residents.
Those living in our occupied territories are U.S. citizens. They just don't have the complete rights as the United States consist of 50 states, five territories, one federal district and 10 uninhabited islands under either military control or in protection of the Department of Interior.
In the five permanently inhabited territories, citizens are not allowed to vote for president. They only are allowed to pick the nominee for president. They have a U.S. Representative who is a non-voting delegate who only votes in committee but not on the general floor. Inside The District of Columbia, those who live there are allowed to vote for president and it holds three electoral votes.
With the exception of American Samoa, anyone born in a U.S. territory are citizens. They can freely enter the mainland without any restrictions.
President Joe Biden and former president Barack Obama failed at this. It appears that the Democrats will still have trouble trying to pass voting reform so it allows all Americans the opportunity to vote.
Puerto Rico is a U.S. commonwealth that has semi-autonomy. Most citizens speak Spanish.
The U.S. Virgin Islands is a territory that maintains all motorists drive on the left of the road.
Guam is the most strategic point between the U.S. state of Hawai'i, Japan and Australia.
Northern Mariana Islands is the poorest of U.S. territories. The commonwealth is notorious for sweatshop labor.
American Samoa is the only territory where being unincorporated inserts that born residents are not citizens but U.S. nationals. They have to obtain a special U.S. passport and pass a citizenship test to be citizens. They also can't work in federal jobs until they become citizens. It which means you're only 2/5 of American. Due to their conservative traditional laws and regulations, for the time being they are comfortable with it. If they are granted citizenship, any U.S. citizen could sue the territory for land ownership and access to reside without being denied. You must obtain a passport to enter American Samoa due to the territory having no U.S. Customs and Border Agency stations.
Due to the Insular Act, those born on U.S. territories are 3/5 American. They have legal right to travel freely to the United States if they did not land on a foreign port. They are considered not American enough in the minds of the Supreme Court and Congress.
According to a 2021 U.S. Commission of Civil Rights Report, these territories have a total population of 3.5 million, 98 percent of whom are ethnic or racial minorities. This is equivalent to the number of people residing in the country's five least-populated states - Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) one of the sponsors of the John Lewis Voting Rights Act is pushing for President Joe Biden and Democrats to grant voting rights to the five territories.
The Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act allows former residents of any of the 50 states living in a U.S. territory or commonwealth to vote absentee in presidential elections. The 2021 U.S. Commission of Civil Rights Report recommended extending the right to vote to all citizens living in U.S. territories and commonwealths.
Republicans oppose granting voting rights to those living in the U.S. territories.
They also oppose granting statehood to Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia.
The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2023 (H.R. 14) is proposed voting rights legislation named after civil rights activist John Lewis. The bill would restore and strengthen parts of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, most notably its requirement for certain jurisdictions to seek federal approval before enacting certain changes to their voting laws. The bill was written in response to the Supreme Court decision in Shelby County v. Holder in 2013, which struck down the system that was used to determine which jurisdictions were subject to that requirement.
The bill is constantly stalled because Republicans oppose any opportunity for citizens to vote because they assume voter fraud despite evidence saying it is rare.
Defeating Donald J. Trump is essential. Defeating Israel is essential.
To save democracy will be making a choice between Kamala Harris and Trump.
They told a Black man that the law ain't gonna do anything to stop them from a lynching. Now these three are facing charges.
A Black man who was doing a voter registration in rural Storey County, Nevada was accosted by a white man and his family. The white man told him that he would have been swing from a tree had he gotten near him.
The man and his wife owned a local bar in the unincorporated town of Virginia City.
Because of the confrontation and the woman touching the Black man, the man, his wife and daughter faced battery and possible hate crime charges.
Owners of Firehouse Saloon in Virginia City Nevada- These people are absolutely disgusting & need to be shut down pic.twitter.com/8IpjMK40Li
TRIGGER WARNING: Video surfaces of a saloon owner in Virginia City, Nevada, making racist comments toward a man while others around him laugh at the racism. A woman is heard laughing and saying, “Do you know the history of our city?” after a threat to hang him.
Sheriff’s office arrests three people following racist incident during Hot August Nights Car Show last weekend in Virginia City, Nevada, that went viral on TikTok.
Janice Cusack Miller, Gary Miller, and their racist ass daughter, Tiffany Miller!!! #racists Owners of the Firehouse Saloon in Virginia City, NV. These people are trash!!! If you support them or this, fuck you too, racist! We all saw the video. These people are racist scum! pic.twitter.com/mu7f8bXEjq
The 3 MAGA owners of Firehouse Saloon in Virginia City, Nevada named Gary, Janis and Tiffany Miller have officially been arrested following a highly racist incident caught on video of them threatening and taunting a black man with tree hanging remarks. pic.twitter.com/a9F8ZNZiqq
— Wen ♠️ Vote Blue💙 Play when you can ♦️♥️♣️♠️ (@wendow) August 8, 2024
A rural Nevada sheriff is investigating a potential hate crime after a Black man who was collecting signatures for a ballot measure recorded a confrontation with another man he said directed a racial slur at him and said “they have a hanging tree” for people like him.
The incident occurred when Ricky Johnson was collecting signatures for a ballot measure during the popular Hot August Nights classic car festival in Virginia City, a tourist town just south of Reno. Johnson began videoing after the alleged racist comments were directed at him. In the video Johnson demands that the man repeat the words on video.
It's 2024 and we still have this stuff happening.
A loud, profanity-filled argument on both sides followed before a woman told Johnson he was on her property. Johnson repeatedly asks her not to touch him as they move the conversation into the street, the video shows. At no time on the video is the “hanging tree” comment repeated, nor are any racial epithets uttered.
“I’m still shaking every time I think about it,” Johnson told The Associated Press by phone Monday as he boarded a plane in northern Nevada back to his home in Houston, Texas.
Johnson posted part of the video of the Aug. 2 incident in Virginia City, Nevada, on social media, and the comments drew swift condemnation from local and state officials. Sponsors of the 10-day Hot August Nights classic car event that was being held at the time said it revoked the registrations of those identified in the video confronting Johnson.
Storey County Undersheriff Eric Kern said Monday the office has completed interviews with Johnson and potential suspects and delivered the case to the district attorney for a decision on any charges.
Johnson posted the video to TikTok on Aug. 2, drawing prompt condemnation from local and state officials. The Storey County Sheriff’s Office interviewed Johnson and others involved, then turned over evidence to the district attorney.
On Wednesday, the sheriff’s office issued a news release saying two women and a man had been arrested and booked into jail. The man in the video was charged with breach of peace, a gross misdemeanor that includes making threatening comments based on race. One of the women was charged with battery and the other with interfering with a peace officer, both misdemeanors.
The arrests drew quick praise from Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford, who is Black.
“The public outcry was heard loud and clear, and steps have been taken to hold these individuals accountable for their racist and unlawful actions,” Ford said.
Johnson, from Houston, was in Virginia City working for Advanced Micro Targeting Inc., a Texas-based company that provides voter outreach and get-out-the-vote services. He was collecting signatures for a proposed Nevada state ballot initiative aimed at capping fees that attorneys collect from clients in personal injury cases.
The verbal altercation occurred in downtown Virginia City, an old mining town that attracts tens of thousands of tourists who walk its wood-planked sidewalks filled with old saloons and stores.
The suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
The American teen who was gunned down by a Missouri cop in August 2014 became a spark in the Black Lives Matter Movement.
Today is the 10 year anniversary of the tragic death of 18 year old Michael Brown.
Brown was shot six times by then Ferguson, Missouri police officer on Aug. 9, 2014. The fatal encounter all stemmed from an incident earlier in the day when Brown was accused of stealing a pack of cigarillos from a nearby liquor store.
Brown's death ignited weeks of protests, chaos and unrest in the small town located 15 miles north of St. Louis, putting Ferguson into the public consciousness. Claims of excessive force and racial bias would lead to demonstrations around the country.
Of course, I am still working on the Sean Hannity Word Vomit. Sean "Softball" Hannity also had a part in this tragedy because he and the late white supremacists Rush Limbaugh and Colin Flaherty instigated the violence.
The incident in Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis was a catalyst. President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Democrats were caught off guard by the disappointed voters who demanded they do something. It led Republicans to win back Congress because they had used the pain of Black America to scare whites into voting.
Then president Barack Obama and attorney general Eric Holder address the Talk.
Obama who had his second term marred with Republicans in the House blocking his gun and police reforms. He had Republicans in the Senate filibuster judicial nominees, appointed officials and numerous bills to protect Black Americans, LGBTQ Americans, immigrants who were children but not American and women.
Michael Brown's death was a horrible reality of police abuse. All over a pack of cigars.
Darren Wilson, the former police officer who shot Brown left Missouri and allegedly changed his name after being placed in federal protection. Michael's mother Lezley McSpadden and father Michael Brown, Sr. continue to push for police reform and accountability for police officers.
Darren Wilson.
Brown was accompanied by his 22-year-old male friend Dorian Johnson. Wilson, a white male Ferguson police officer, said that an altercation ensued when Brown attacked him in his police vehicle for control of Wilson's service pistol. The struggle continued until the pistol fired. Johnson said that Wilson initiated a confrontation by grabbing Brown by the neck through Wilson's patrol car window, threatening him and then shooting at him. At this point, both Wilson and Johnson state that Brown and Johnson fled, with Wilson pursuing Brown shortly thereafter. Wilson stated that Brown stopped and charged him after a short pursuit. Johnson contradicted this account, stating that Brown turned around with his hands raised after Wilson shot at his back. According to Johnson, Wilson then shot Brown multiple times until Brown fell to the ground. In the entire altercation, Wilson fired a total of twelve bullets, including twice during the struggle in the car. Brown was struck six times, all in the front of his body.
This event ignited unrest in Ferguson. Witnesses to the shooting claimed Brown had his hands up in surrender or said "don't shoot", so protesters later used the slogan "Hands up, don't shoot". A subsequent FBI investigation said that there was no evidence that Brown had done so. Peaceful protests and violent riots continued for more than a week in Ferguson; police later established a nightly curfew. The response of area police agencies in dealing with the protests was strongly criticized by both the media and politicians. Concerns were raised over insensitivity, tactics, and a militarized response.
A grand jury was called and given evidence from Robert McCulloch, the St. Louis County Prosecutor. On November 24, 2014, McCulloch announced the St. Louis County grand jury had decided not to indict Wilson. In March 2015, the U.S. Department of Justice reported the conclusion of its own investigation and cleared Wilson of civil rights violations in the shooting. It claimed that Wilson's account was "corroborated by bruising on Wilson's jaw and scratches on his neck, the presence of Brown's DNA on Wilson's collar, shirt and pants, and Wilson's DNA on Brown's palm", and claimed that witnesses who corroborated the officer's account were credible. The U.S. Department of Justice concluded that Wilson shot Brown in self-defense.
In 2020, St. Louis County prosecutor Wesley Bell spent five months reviewing the case with an eye to charge Wilson with either manslaughter or murder. In July, Bell announced Wilson would not be charged. Bell is the Democratic nominee for Missouri's 1st Congressional District. Bell is facing controversy for allegiance with AIPAC, the foreign lobbying group associated with the apartheid ethnostate of Israel.
McSpadden said that Bell promised her he would file charges, but then chose not to pursue an indictment in 2020.
"Wesley Bell promised to review the evidence and would never promise to file charges in any case," Chris King, spokesperson to the prosecuting attorney, told ABC News in a statement. "And he kept that promise by reviewing the evidence and making a public announcement that he would not file charges. At the end of the day, as was concluded by the DOJ and other investigative agencies, there is not sufficient evidence to justify any charges."
As ABC News interviewed Brown's family, they admit that lawmakers are failing and it leads to more young Black Americans to be killed.
"That's kind of like my worst nightmare that came true," Deja Brown, Mike Brown's sister told Morgan. "You always hear about Black males in the world just being killed for whatever reason, like, they don't make it past 25."
"I was at work," McSpadden said, referring to the day her sister called her to tell her Brown was shot. "She just said to me, 'They shot Mike-Mike' [Brown's nickname]. Those were her only words to me. When I clicked over and say 'Hello,' my heart dropped."
McSpadden immediately received a ride from a co-worker to the scene where her son's body lay in the street for more than four hours.
"I saw an officer standing there," McSpadden said. "He's never seen me. I've never seen him. And I asked him, 'Is that my son? And he say, 'yeah.' And I can't tell you anything that happened after that for probably 72 hours because I died for a second there. I just lost it. I couldn't believe it. Why?"
Michael Brown, Sr. and Lezley McSpadden were the parents of Michael Brown.
Wilson claimed Brown attacked him and tried to take his service weapon. A St. Louis County grand jury declined to press charges against Wilson in November 2014, sparking more protests, arson and clashes with law enforcement in Ferguson.
"They got out the car, maybe six police officers, and they grabbed their dogs, and I was one of the people who was blocking the street," Deja Brown said when she remembered one particular night of protests. "I felt like I needed to be out there too. You know? Like, us being out here was making a statement."
Wilson resigned from the police force soon after.
The U.S. Justice Department also chose not to indict the former officer in March 2015 due to witness accounts and evidence that claimed Brown attacked Wilson. The DOJ stated that they found no evidence to disprove Wilson's belief that he feared for his safety.
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump represented McSpadden and the family right after Brown was killed.
"Everybody to a one in that Black neighborhood said that Michael had his hands up, which is the universal symbol of surrender," Crump told Morgan. "And I don't care what you allege he did. Once he puts his hands up, you don't kill him."
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris continue to push for the George Floyd Policing Act.
Accounts that Brown put his hands up are "inaccurate because they are inconsistent with the physical and forensic evidence," the DOJ states in its criminal report.
Brown's family received a $1.5 million settlement in 2017 after they filed a lawsuit against the City of Ferguson.
The judge ordered the settlement agreement sealed, writing that its disclosure "could jeopardize the safety of individuals involved in this matter, whether as witnesses, parties, or investigators," according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
In an exclusive interview with ABC News in 2014, Wilson told George Stephanopoulos during an interview on "Good Morning America" that he wished to see peace in Ferguson in the wake of the civil unrest.
"You can't perform the duties of a police officer and have racism in you," Wilson said. "I help people. That's my job."
ABC News reached out to Wilson by phone to request an interview, but he declined to comment.
"I met mothers that didn't look like me that experienced the same thing," McSpadden told Morgan. "And what we did have in common was the communities that we came from. Poverty stricken, low-income housing, people that they think are uneducated. But I will say that it's been outrageously done to those who look like you and I."
McSpadden created the Michael O.D. Brown Foundation in her son's memory after his death. She said the foundation has awarded thousands of dollars to college-bound scholars -- most of the students attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
"All of his siblings loved him," McSpadden said as she described how she wanted her son to be remembered. "When it comes to the tech industry, computers, music, he was a lover of all those things. And he was self-taught. … He would have been a great contribution to this world, had his time not been cut short."
Israeli far right extremists want to free IDF rapists.
I am back on the fence again. To support the Democrats is supporting chaos, global conflicts, promises never kept, constant gaslighting and staunch loyalty to a foreign country literally meddling in our elections.
To support the Republicans is chaos, civil wars, gun violence, global conflicts, loss of freedoms, censorship only when it opposes their agenda, constant gaslighting, constant grievances, racism, religious extremism, intolerance of facts, bullying and staunch loyalty to a foreign country literally meddling in our elections.
President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, former president Donald J. Trump, Minnesota governor Tim Walz, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Nicole Shanahan, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), members of Congress and the junk food media:
The "special relationship" must end. The U.S. must cut its ties with the evil apartheid ethnostate of Israel.
Israeli leaders are defending the military in its war crimes and the several who raped, tortured and murdered people held in their death camps.
My taxpayer money is funding a Jewish supremacist ethnostate pretending to be a victim while acting like a goddamn bully and also rapist. A country that literally bans Christians, Muslims, Sihks, Buddhists and other religions from associating. A country that bans interracial marriage. A country that forbids Jews from marrying other religions. A country that murders migrants entering its soverignty. Those who are not white are subjected to second class standards let alone you live in the Gaza Strip or West Bank.
They allow European, British, Canadian, American and Australian citizens who are Jewish automatic Israeli citizenship and stolen land to occupy.
They literally shoot children and women who are near their razor wire fencing. They urinate and throw debris on those living in the West Bank. They cruelly mock Gazans starving and subject to deadly diseases.
They control the water, electric, internet and agriculture of Gaza and the West Bank.
Biden continues to back Israel despite the ethnostate's illegal actions in five sovereignties.
Acts of resistance, boycotting and pleading to world leaders who aren't the U.S. and Great Britain are often called out as antisemitics, terrorists, useful idiots, chaos agents, Trump supporters, Biden supporters, Harris supporters, tankies, anti-American and other colonialist rhetoric.
Jonathan Greenblatt, Jake Tapper, Dana Bash, John King, Mark Levin, Sean "Softball" Hannity, Andrea Mitchell, Nicolle Wallace, Malcolm Nance, Jerry Seinfeld, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tara Strong, Mayim Bialik, Haim Saban, Miriam Adelson, Rahm Emanuel, Justin Bieber, Kim Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, Dwayne Johnson, Matt Drudge, Oli London, Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY), Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA), Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL), Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Rep. Shontel Brown (D-OH), Rep. Lucy McBath (D-GA), Rep. Nikema Williams (D-GA), Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN), Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) and all the folks who wave 🇮🇱 along with the 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇬🇧 in their social media profiles, got a question:
Are you gonna condemn rape conducted by the Israeli military or pretend it doesn't happen?
What y'all gonna do? You already claim it's all a damn conspiracy and we are just antisemitic or anti-Israel?
How many Americans are gonna lose their jobs, their platforms or their companies because of the ADL screaming antisemitism at every person who opposes Israel?
How much money will the AIPAC pour into the 2024 election to elect Israeli/Zionist loyalists like Wesley Bell and George Latimer?
How many more UN workers, World Central Kitchen and Red Cross or Red Crescent aid worker are killed without any consequences? I mean the U.S. continues to allow Israel to investigate itself for the actions and still no accountability or punishment.
Israel is a threat to the world and stability of peace.
Hamas selected Yahya Sinwar as their new political leader.
Russia, China, North Korea, Iran and Venezuela have nothing with the instability. They are rotten countries but we aren't punished in the U.S. for criticism of them.
We criticize Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Honduras, Afghanistan, Guatemala and Colombia because of immigrants, Communism, fentanyl and terrorism.
We want to build barriers and threaten death to migrants.
We criticize our president and lawmakers. It is a standard in the junk food media.
Only Israel where criticism is resulted in condemnation or arrest.
Israel has been at the forefront of our downside of democracy. While Biden is staunchly supportive of Israel, his legacy will affect Harris and her presidential bid.
Harris while still backing Israel has been wishy washy on either a ceasefire or an arms embargo. She doesn't want to cause conflict with Biden while not pissing off AIPAC.
AIPAC supports Trump because he will do all he can to allow Greater Israel through Project 2025.
CBS reports Israeli nationalists stormed two military facilities late Monday, protesting the detention and questioning of nine Israel Defense Forces reservists suspected of raping and abusing a Palestinian prisoner whose injuries were so bad he had to be hospitalized. Social media videos show guards at the Sde Teiman military base and prison, near Beersheba in southern Israel, shouting at and pushing military police who'd arrived to question the reservists, seemingly in defense of the suspects.
Progressives are going to protest Harris and Walz. They need to figure out whether they're for a ceasefire or a continuation of Israeli regime crimes.
The Sde Teiman facility is known to hold Palestinians arrested in Gaza since Israel launched its war on the territory's Hamas leaders, in response to the Oct. 7 attack.
The soldiers suspected of the abuse have been held for questioning, which is rare in Israel during an ongoing conflict, and it has drawn a furious reaction from far-right Israelis, including some senior government officials. On Monday evening, a group of Israelis attempted to storm another military facility, with one protester threatening an uprising against the government if the suspects remain in custody.
The nine Israeli soldiers suspected of the abuse were to appear before a military court Tuesday. Israelis have been rattled by the events, which have highlighted the deep political divisions in the country.
A member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party, speaking Monday at a meeting of lawmakers, justified the rape and abuse of Palestinian prisoners, shouting angrily at colleagues questioning the alleged behavior that anything was legitimate to do to "terrorists" in custody.
Lawmaker Hanoch Milwidsky was asked as he defended the alleged abuse whether it was legitimate, "to insert a stick into a person's rectum?"
"Yes!" he shouted in reply to his fellow parliamentarian. "If he is a Nukhba [Hamas militant], everything is legitimate to do! Everything!"
Trump and Vance will continue to gaslight and back Israeli regime crimes.
Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who's drawn U.S. reprimands with his provocative actions since the war started, wrote in a post on social media: "Take your hands off the reservists."
Other senior Israeli officials, however, including Netanyahu and army commander Lieutenant-General Herzi Halevi, condemned the attack on the army base by the far-right protesters.
"Breaking into a military base and disturbing the order there is severe behavior that is not acceptable in any way," Halevi said in a statement, adding: "We are in the midst of a war and actions of this type endanger the security of the state."
Netanyahu called for calm, adding his own strong condemnation of the protesters for attempting to break into the IDF base, while Defense Minister Yoav Gallant warned that "even in difficult times, the law applies to anyone — nobody may trespass into IDF bases or violate the laws of the state of Israel."
United Nations agencies and human rights organizations, along with officials in Hamas-run Gaza and former prisoners interviewed by international news agencies, have all alleged abuse of Palestinians in Israeli detention facilities.
Israel's military insists that its detention centers are run in accordance with international law.
Let me get this straight: You are more upset over words than actions. You are upset someone using their freedom of speech to criticize a foreign country engaged in a propaganda campaign to shield itself from war crimes and impunity. You are upset over people using their voices, their wallets and their time to protest an injustice. Well, get upset over your taxpayer money aiding foreign nations. You upset other countries deciding to ban or boycott Israel for its actions. Get upset over foreign nations killing Americans in a war funded by our taxpayer money. Get upset over the deaths of thousands in Haiti, Chad, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Syria, Venezuela, Myanmar, Mexico, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Ukraine and Palestine. Get upset at your president, your senator, your representative, your governor, your state leader, your mayor and your local junk food media for bowing to the evil regime of Israel.
Could you name one damn thing Israel's done for the United States?
Cause sure as hell, Israel is spying on Americans, meddling in our elections, doing foreign lobbying with the assistance of AIPAC and the ADL.
The Israeli government through its proxies are trying to sway American lawmakers into criminalizing criticism of its actions to antisemitism.
Israel's latest excuses to justify the genocide:
They claimed that Hamas wants to kill as many Jews as possible.
They claim that Hamas has underground tunnels under schools, hospitals and refugee camps.
They claim that Hamas was planning on building a dirty bomb.
They claim that Hamas are using civilians as human shields.
They claim that Hamas is ISIS.
They claim that Hamas had a copy of Mein Kampf inside a base in a children's bedroom.
They claim that Hamas was beheading 40 babies.
They claim that Hamas misfired a rocket at a hospital.
They claim that Hamas wants a regional war.
They claim that Hamas had top secret plans to attack the U.S. and Great Britain.
They claim that Hamas has a calendar that showed the shifts of who was watching the hostages.
They claim that Hamas shot female soliders in the pelvis, buttocks and breasts.
They claim that Hamas shot dead a civilian and raped the victim's corpse,
They claim that Hamas has placed explosive devices on corpses.
They claim that Hamas has infiltrated college campuses in the U.S. and Great Britain.
They claim that Hamas support from individuals amounts to being a terrorist sympathizer.
They claim that Hamas were working with UNRWA workers.
They claim that Hamas has been hiding in plain sight.
Hamas is not raping women and there is no proof they done such a horrible act. It is part of the dehumanizing campaign Israel is promoting to influencers in the West. You see it when they are constantly deflecting from the images of Gaza being destroyed by American and European sponsored Israeli weapons. In their minds, they are justifying the brutal slaughter of children, men, women, journalists and doctors as collateral damage.
Israel has raped, pillaged and tortured Palestinians. It is confirmed but the United States won't do not one damn thing about it.
Hamas stated the reasons for the attack on occupation forces. It has nothing to do with the Jewish religion or Iran.
The IDF has the weapons to destroy everything. All on the American taxpayer, Israel has killed civilians, their own citizens and the American status quo.
Keep pressure on them with Israel.
The Congress has less work than most Americans. It is infuriating that the average worker works more 50 hours a week while 435 House members, 6 non voting House delegates and 100 senators work on average of 25 hours a week.
Holding these lawmakers accountable is not just a pledge, but a promise. You need to learn who represents your community. Your local community member, your school board member, your mayor, your state representative, your state senator, your governor, your U.S. Representative, your U.S. Senator and the president need to be held accountable for their actions.
We need to put pressure on Republicans and Democrats to do something to improve everyone's lives.
Israel must be held accountable for war crimes and the U.S. must end its aid. Our taxpayer money should not help Israel any further.
They are feeling it. Democrats know the risk of supporters being turned off by their policies. They know that Biden is under extreme pressure to do something. Arab Americans, Muslim and young voters have vowed to never back Biden. In turn it puts the Harris-Walz ticket election chances in danger.
The call number to the White House and U.S. Capitol is now going to be used. This is the official White House numbers 202-456-1111 and 202-456-1414. This is the Congress official phone number, 202-224-3121. Please be respectful to operators, staff members and elected leaders. Your calls are monitored by the U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Capitol Police.
Let them know that "thoughts and prayers," "hearts going to" and "good guys with guns" are no longer acceptable and you want legislation to curb gun violence. Let them know that we are tired of police officers using immunity when committing death of suspects in custody. Let them know that you are tired of private equity firms getting away with destroying small businesses and long established companies. Let them know that you are tired of your taxpayer money going to foreign nations like Israel. You are tired of hearing about "Israel having a right to..." and the bogus claims of being anti-semitic or in support of terrorism.
We have bigger issues at home and our tax dollars should solve the housing crisis, lowering food prices, fixing roads, bridges, helping reinvest in struggling urban and rural communities. We have hospitals closing, big box retailers leaving communities and television programs dying.
There are bigger issues in the country than Israel. You want an immediate ceasefire and accountability for war crimes done by Israel. You want no more foreign influence in American elections. You also want to make sure future presidents and lawmakers avoid influence from lobbyists.
Doing his press conference at Mar-a-Lago was a huge mistake. Former president Donald J. Trump and Republicans are resorting to grievances instead of policies.
It became a huge colossal failure.
Trump recommitted to debating Vice President Kamala Harris after recently backing out, holding a lengthy news conference Thursday in which he taunted his new rival, boasted of his crowd on Jan. 6, 2021, and lashed out at questions about the enthusiasm her campaign has been generating.
As the Republican presidential nominee addressed reporters at his Palm Beach, Florida, estate, ABC announced that Trump and Harris, the Democratic nominee, have agreed to a Sept. 10 debate, setting up a widely anticipated faceoff in an already unparalleled election. Trump said he had proposed three debates with three television networks in September.
Trump again wrongly insisted there had been a “peaceful transfer” of power in 2021 and renewed attacks on Republican rivals like Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, whom Trump has harshly criticized since Kemp refused to go along with his false theories of election fraud.
In taking questions from reporters for more than an hour, Trump tried to draw a contrast with Harris, who has not held a news conference since President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the race.
This shows how Republicans bite more than they can chew.
All the noise about President Joe Biden being too old and fumbling around, look at Trump doing this.
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