This was among one of the more stupid and pointless articles I have ever read. At some point, in the article, the writer refers to the subject as a former Burger King worker?....give me a break. So basically because of this incident, every white person in control in Ferguson is a racist and is to blame. Is that the writer and your point?

 

I didn't say a word, just linked an article but excellent job jumping to conclusions.

 

The point is, there are a lot of things being unearthed that show why the blacks in Ferguson have a lack of faith in their police and city officials. Ignore it if you wish...

I didn't say a word, just linked an article but excellent job jumping to conclusions.

 

The point is, there are a lot of things being unearthed that show why the blacks in Ferguson have a lack of faith in their police and city officials. Ignore it if you wish...

So physical attacks on them are justified. Got it.

I didn't say a word, just linked an article but excellent job jumping to conclusions.

 

The point is, there are a lot of things being unearthed that show why the blacks in Ferguson have a lack of faith in their police and city officials. Ignore it if you wish...

 

I guess quid pro quo regarding jumping to conclusions.

 

IMO what is more important than her Burger King or other experience is how is she performing in her city council role? If she came out and exhibited a disregard for human rights and brutality as a council-woman, then that's something to talk about. I just see the author is really reaching.

 

I believe our justice system usually gets it right and doesn't need all this "help" of people who are basically trying to make a living off of it.

 

As I posted before, peaceful demonstrations and justice taking its course isn't newsworthy.

I said I don't have a solution in my initial post on the topic. But, yes, I think fewer guns leads to less gun violence. Whether it's possible or desirable to achieve that is an entirely separate debate.

It is another debate and I can show you where just the opposite is true, but we've been down that road before.

I didn't say a word, just linked an article but excellent job jumping to conclusions.

 

The point is, there are a lot of things being unearthed that show why the blacks in Ferguson have a lack of faith in their police and city officials. Ignore it if you wish...

I read the article about Tihen being elected to the city council. A couple of things that jumped out at me.

 

Even though Ferguson was more than 70 percent black, a considerable majority of voters were white in a municipal election handily held in April, a half-year away from a presidential election that would have an African American on the ballot.

This quote is one of them. The writer is trying to blame Tihen being elected on the when the election was held. If the eligible voters of Ferguson took their voting rights seriously then it wouldn't matter when the election was held.

 

Another is the fact that the writer doesn't state why the police were fighting with Mr. Davis. I can't form an opinion if the cops were in the wrong without knowing all the details.

I was more focused on the fact four officers beat a man they wrongfully detained and then charged him with bleeding on their uniforms. That's the type of thing that builds unrest in a community... :idunno:

So it's an outlier that really looks like few other "base towns," in other words.

Is that what you heard? Amazng....

Sorry if this one has already been linked:

 

Missouri cop was badly beaten before shooting Michael Brown, says source | Fox News

It's probably okay to stop protesting now.

Name another similar incident in which the governor of a state demanded that a police officer be vigorously prosecuted and the Attorney General of the United States interjected himself into a case without even giving the local and state police departments time to complete their investigations. I don't recall any.

 

I can't. I don't spend my free time researching racial incidents between the police and black people.

 

 

So you agree with mountainref? Cops are going to start turning a blind eye to black criminals because they are scared they'll be subject to race bating riots?

Sorry if this one has already been linked:

 

Missouri cop was badly beaten before shooting Michael Brown, says source | Fox News

 

Interesting....

I can't. I don't spend my free time researching racial incidents between the police and black people.

 

 

So you agree with mountainref? Cops are going to start turning a blind eye to black criminals because they are scared they'll be subject to race bating riots?

 

I don't think so, and I hope not. However, the uniform cams might be the trick to keep both the police and their detainees out of harm's way. Police are trained, and like most other animals , to fight for survival. If they are threatened with bodily harm, they will protect themselves and worry about the consequences later.

 

What I DO worry about, is what training, what communication, what education, can/should take place to 1) convince people that resisting the authorities in a rude or physical way is a bad idea; and 2) deploy methods police can use to better defuse these time bombs?

Edited August 20, 201412 yr by doomer

Stark Racial Divisions in Reactions to Ferguson Police Shooting | Pew Research Center for the People and the Press

Sorry if this one has already been linked:

 

Missouri cop was badly beaten before shooting Michael Brown, says source | Fox News

 

Not buying it... Why would it that this long for info that he was reaching in the cop car and beating his face in to come out?

Not buying it... Why would it that this long for info that he was reaching in the cop car and beating his face in to come out?

 

I heard it days ago. Makes more sense than Johnson's claim that the officer was trying to pull a 6'4" 300lb man into the driver seat with him.