Ferguson....

jpx7 said:
Essentially, yes: it's much more likely the officer would not have shot a gun, shot to kill, or shot so many times were the perpetrator white.
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Gotcha. So the officer would have let a white man charge him. White people dont' get shot by officers.
 
gilesfan said:
Gotcha. So the officer would have let a white man charge him. White people dont' get shot by officers.
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jpx7 said:
it's much more likely the officer would not have shot a gun, shot to kill, or shot so many times were the perpetrator white.
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Do you not see how you read something entirely different from what I wrote? Or are you just trying to be a glib ****head about things?
 

2 questions:

- Why are they associating with ISIS?

- What is the significant of "hands up, justice for Mike Brown," when he wasn't shot with his hands up like the original lying eyewitnesses state?
 
sturg33 said:
Amazing that this city has a military invasion and the issue is stolen cigars.
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I bet all the business owners were happy the police were there. If not who knows how much devastation the free loading looters would have caused.
 
I think a lot of this could have been avoided with the information coming forth at the begining. Unfortunately, I believe this is a small police office and involved other units coming in to assist, making it harder to release info in a timely manner. The public doesn't want to wait, and that creates a PR nightmare. I am not sure where, but I read somewhere in the past 36 hrs that there are more press egging it on more than protesters left, but I have no idea if that is valid or not.
 
The media eggs it on from the very beginning, just like they always do. Their goal isn't to inform the public, it's to see clicks or newspapers.

Without doing any research at all, they throw up "soon to be college student shot down by police" and throw Dorian Johnson in front of the camera inciting public outrage. I mean, lets know what for the facts, lets let this guy that was just an accomplice tell his side of the story. HOw much rebuttal can the cops provide when they are hours into an active investigation? Then once people start looting and ****, the media jumps on the chance to throws some cameras around and incite the riots even more.

I've read from multiple sources the people left over causing problems are media and other out of towners.
 
Tapate50 said:
I think a lot of this could have been avoided with the information coming forth at the begining. Unfortunately, I believe this is a small police office and involved other units coming in to assist, making it harder to release info in a timely manner. The public doesn't want to wait, and that creates a PR nightmare. I am not sure where, but I read somewhere in the past 36 hrs that there are more press egging it on more than protesters left, but I have no idea if that is valid or not.
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Actually I think a lot of this could have been avoided if the police didn't call in an overreactive backup when people at the vigil were shouting at them.

This quote from battlestar gallactica seems pretty apt.

"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people."
 
thethe said:
I bet all the business owners were happy the police were there. If not who knows how much devastation the free loading looters would have caused.
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By many accounts the police were the ones who started the escalation. By many of the accounts I read the rioting didn't start until the police showed up in force. Of course I'm sure you'll believe otherwise as I'm sure if there was a giant military police force showing up your reaction wouldn't be of self defense and you'd just listen to the cops cause they're you're buddies.
 
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