Police state reached

[GenuineRisk]

From the article (worth a read):

By this time next year, Ferguson’s white mayor and all-white (save one) City Council will continue presiding over their majority-black suburban plantation. Economic disparities will persist, and local governments will continue preying on the poor for traffic fines to keep their budgets balanced. No recall elections will have ever been mounted—it should have happened by now—and young, know-it-all activists lacking political savvy will have missed golden opportunities to field candidates, raise fuds and crush the status quo.

No one, of course, had expected the tragic killing of Michael Brown to metastasize into an epic post-civil-rights-era clash between police and protesters. Once it did, we unraveled the rotten pistachio nut of race recurring like a bad cancer. Predictable bursts of reaction, from the peaceful to the violent pop-off, will be met by well-equipped police in waiting. But while the heat from calls for justice might thaw the frigid night air, the next day, month and year will find it right back where it all started.

[Danzig]

there are times when the police probably go too far, too fast. there are most likely times that they reach for a gun before the need to, or react overwhelmingly forcibly.
this isn't one of those times. there was no way, especially once all the evidence was collected, including gunpowder on the 'victim' which indicates extreme close range when shot, that this cop was ever going to be charged with anything.
there was a struggle for the gun, which put the cop in fear of his life.


http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fer...ing/ar-BBfNcvg

[Rudeboyelvis]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

Seems like a good opportunity for the Ferguson police to display what they're made of. If they're professionals, trained in actual law enforcement, they'll set aside her personal feelings about them and do their best to recover her stolen property. If they choose to treat her complaint based on her feelings about them, then they are absolutely demonstrating why the citizens they are allegedly hired to protect and serve don't trust them.

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

I think they and the District Attorney did everything they could to make the situation as bad as possible. Either that or they're just that inept. Either is possible.

And that prosecutor made it clear from the start he had no interest in bringing it to trial. The old saying goes that a District Attorney can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich if he wants them to. This article is of the opinion that the public was played, rather than the prosecutor just being an idiot:

http://www.theroot.com/articles/cult...ed_us_all.html

Have you seen the photos of Darren "Dumbo Ears" Wilson's alleged injuries? I've had rosacea flareups that look worse than anything on his face.

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

From the article (worth a read):

So, you indict the entire police force to fit your fanatical, fallacious narrative, and when that doesn't work you take pot shots at the DA - again to no other end but to sate some ridiculous bent of yours, without the slightest degree of fact. You are the punchline of a bad joke at best and more than likely you are simply just another wannabe charlatan. I pray you don't ever have to "forage" out of Utopia for non-GMO pistachio nuts or some sh1t and have to actually deal in the real world.......lol no I don't...

Le belch.

[Rupert Pupkin]

Legal Scholars Praise Ferguson Grand Jury for Fairness Beyond the Norm:

"Legal experts across the country agree that while the process that led to a grand jury’s decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson for killing Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, was unusual, it was not unfair. Rather if it was anything unusual, it was in its fairness and openness."

“It was the most thorough grand jury investigation that I’ve ever heard of,” said Stephen Saltzburg, a professor of law at George Washington University Law School.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...jury-fairness/

[geeker2]

Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

Legal Scholars Praise Ferguson Grand Jury for Fairness Beyond the Norm:

"Legal experts across the country agree that while the process that led to a grand jury’s decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson for killing Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, was unusual, it was not unfair. Rather if it was anything unusual, it was in its fairness and openness."

“It was the most thorough grand jury investigation that I’ve ever heard of,” said Stephen Saltzburg, a professor of law at George Washington University Law School.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...jury-fairness/

This is White BS...I need to know what Rev Al Sharpton thinks on the subject.

At the same time maybe we can get some tax advise from him.

[Benny]

Originally Posted by geeker2

This is White BS...I need to know what Rev Al Sharpton thinks on the subject.

At the same time maybe we can get some tax advise from him.

Yeah, ask the Rev. about Tawana Brawley while you're at it.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...primetime.html

How MSNBC gave him a show is unbelievable and i cannot watch it for that reason.