::THE SLICE REPORT WITH MONA AUSTIN

buzzz worthy. . . Officer Darren Wilson (l); Michael Brown (r) By Mona Austin Officer Darren Wilson resigned from the Ferguson Police Department (FPD) on Saturday.  According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Wilson was informed the department had received threats of violence  if he remained and he did not want to endanger the force or the public. "I'm not willing to let someone else get hurt because of me," Wilson shared the St. Louis newspaper Saturday. Continuing, the officer who had served on the FBD  for nearly three years wrote: "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 until the grand jury made their decision before I officially made my decision to resign. It was my hope to continue in police work, but the safety of other police officers and the community are of paramount importa...

buzzz worthy. . . By Mona Austin "It's more to being a Black man than just being a Black man." Pastor Leandria Johnson Tensions came to a head in St. Louis Sunday as rioters responded to a policeman killing an unarmed black teen, 18-year-old Michael Brown.  Reports indicate this week would have been Brown's first day of college. In the above quote, Johnson prayed for a covering of protection over Black men during a concert at Bethune Cookman College in Florida earlier this year (Start at 1:41, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McOmuzTOozM). Eerily, her words seem to apply to the very event that transpired in St. Louis, but can apply to numerous news headlines involving the death or injury of individuals whose only "crime" appears to be existing while Black in America, whether they are male or female.     (Let us not forget there have also been numerous reports of Black women being the victims of police brutality recently.) Brown's death is the four...