NEWS :: One of the construction workers who saw Mike Brown killed, says he heard Brown verbally surrender before the 4 final death shots.
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Shaun King (@ShaunKing) September 06, 2025WATCH this St. Louis police officer assault this handcuffed man. Found NOT GUILTY w/ help from @RoordaJ youtu.be/T4HUvXOvgkQ
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Shaun King (@ShaunKing) September 03, 2025****
Important account from the construction worker on how Mike Brown surrendered. http://t.co/PZXuHM9KFA
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Shaun King (@ShaunKing) September 07, 2025The account of the second construction worker. He "had his hands up" when the officer unloaded on him. http://t.co/xAHB7GfZtp
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Shaun King (@ShaunKing) September 07, 2025****
Detailed VIDEO of eyewitnesses : youtube.com/watch?v=fRbiEZ…
Gunshot Audio : youtube.com/watch?v=f8IHIJ…
Worker Accounts http://t.co/Y6hMyuFn1y
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Shaun King (@ShaunKing) September 07, 2025It's embarrassing that the whiteness of the construction workers even means anything, but in the sad era of racial politics, it matters.
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Shaun King (@ShaunKing) September 07, 2025****
Owner Bruce Levenson will sell the Atlanta Hawks after revelation of a 2012 racist email, NBA commissioner Adam Silver announces.
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Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) September 07, 2025There was meeting in NYC including NBA owners late last week discussing issue, sources told Yahoo. Levenson agreed to sell, Silver says.
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Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) September 07, 2025****
The Racist Email
Regarding game ops, i need to start with some background. for the first couple of years we owned the team, i didn’t much focus on game ops. then one day a light bulb went off. when digging into why our season ticket base is so small, i was told it is because we can’t get 35-55 white males and corporations to buy season tixs and they are the primary demo for season tickets around the league. when i pushed further, folks generally shrugged their shoulders. then i start looking around our arena during games and notice the following:
- it’s 70 pct black
- the cheerleaders are black
- the music is hip hop
- at the bars it’s 90 pct black
- there are few fathers and sons at the games
- we are doing after game concerts to attract more fans and the concerts are either hip hop or gospel.
Then i start looking around at other arenas. It is completely different. Even DC with its affluent black community never has more than 15 pct black audience. Before we bought the hawks and for those couple years immediately after in an effort to make the arena look full (at the nba’s urging) thousands and thousands of tickets were being giving away, predominantly in the black community, adding to the overwhelming black audience. My theory is that the black crowd scared away the whites and there are simply not enough affluent black fans to build a signficant season ticket base. Please dont get me wrong. There was nothing threatening going on in the arean back then. i never felt uncomfortable, but i think southern whites simply were not comfortable being in an arena or at a bar where they were in the minority. On fan sites i would read comments about how dangerous it is around philips yet in our 9 years, i don’t know of a mugging or even a pick pocket incident. This was just racist garbage. When I hear some people saying the arena is in the wrong place I think it is code for there are too many blacks at the games. I have been open with our executive team about these concerns. I have told them I want some white cheerleaders and while i don’t care what the color of the artist is, i want the music to be music familiar to a 40 year old white guy if that’s our season tixs demo. i have also balked when every fan picked out of crowd to shoot shots in some time out contest is black.
I have even bitched that the kiss cam is too black. Gradually things have changed. My unscientific guess is that our crowd is 40 pct black now, still four to five times all other teams. And my further guess is that 40 pct still feels like 70 pet to some whites at our games. Our bars are still overwhelmingly black. This is obviously a sensitive topic, but sadly i think it is far and way the number one reason our season ticket base is so low. And many of our black fans don’t have the spendable income which explains why our f&b and merchandise sales are so low. At all white thrasher games sales were nearly triple what they are at hawks games (the extra intermission explains some of that but not all). Regardless of what time a game starts, we have the latest arriving crowd in the league. It often looks and sounds empty when the team takes the floor. In the past two years, we have created a section of rowdy college students that has been a big plus. And we do a lot of very clever stuff during time outs to entertain the crowd. Our kiss cam is better done than any in the league. We have all the same halftime acts that other arenas have but i question whether they make sense. people are on their cell phones during half time. i wonder if flashing on the scoreboard “$2 off on hot dogs during halftime tonight” just as the half ends would be a better use of our halftime dollars and make the fans happier. We do all the usual giveways and the fans are usually their loudest when our spirit crew takes the floor to give away t-shirts. It pisses me off that they will yell louder for a t-shirt then for our players. Our player intro is flat. We manufacture a lot of noise but because of the late arriving crowd and the fact that a lot of blacks dont seem to go as crazy cheering (another one of my theories) as whites, it is not great.
More at SB Nation
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There was meeting in NYC including NBA owners late last week discussing issue, sources told Yahoo. Levenson agreed to sell, Silver says.
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Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) September 07, 2025Today’s statement from Levenson is extremely disappointing & does not reflect Hawks values. Team statement: atlantahawksinfo.com
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Steve Koonin (@SteveKoonin) September 07, 2025****
Reporters confirm that police & advisors concealed the identity of Darren Wilson until he could delete all social media & move out of state.
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Shaun King (@ShaunKing) August 25, 2025Aaand still no charges for Darren Wilson or Daniel Pantaleo (cop using illegal chokehold to kill #EricGarner in broad daylight, on camera).
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jesseWilliams. (@iJesseWilliams) August 28, 2025****
White teen acts erratically, attacks police, TAKES & FIRES COPS GUN. Don't worry, he's fine. tmblr.co/ZE4-qw1PMzlD7 #BeingAPersonAndAll
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jesseWilliams. (@iJesseWilliams) August 27, 2025Another Black person commits magical "suicide," somehow shooting self in chest w/ hands handcuffed behind his back. tmblr.co/ZE4-qw1PKJrmB
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jesseWilliams. (@iJesseWilliams) August 27, 2025****
A side by side comparison of how The New York Times profiled Michael Brown and Serial Killer Ted Bundy: tmblr.co/ZE4-qw1PBJR1T
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jesseWilliams. (@iJesseWilliams) August 25, 2025
