Posted on 09/09/2014 9:53:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Efforts by city leaders in the St. Louis suburb where an unarmed black 18-year-old was fatally shot by a white police officer to repair the local government's fractured relationship with its residents got off to a rocky start Tuesday at the first public meeting of elected officials since Michael Brown's death.
The shooting last month exposed an undercurrent of racial unrest in Ferguson and other nearby suburbs in mostly black communities of north St. Louis County, and prompted days of sometimes-violent protests...
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Danged if I can remember where in the pledge of allegiance it says “...and to the democracy for which it stands.” Oh, wait. It doesn’t say that. Guess when it was written, somebody never got the memo and stuck that old troublesome word REPUBLIC in there instead.
I wonder how the MSM will report it when majority-white communities expect to have police depts which “reflect the community”. Not really, but then I don’t expect that many majority white communities will have the gumption to make the demand.
“You’ve lost your authority to govern this community,” said St. Louis activist John Chasnoff. “You’re going to have to step aside peacefully if this community is going to heal.”
What? The City Council didn’t shoot Brown.
Maybe the police should stage a mass strike for a month in Ferguson, they’ll be on the job but no arrests, no policing Ferguson just show up and do desk duty.
They will never adjust to a civil society.
They stopped blacks twice as often as Whites...duh. Blacks make up 70% of the population. Whites less than 30% ...
Oh, there's that White math thing again.
How many blacks have applied to be LEO’s?
How many were turned down and why?
It was exactly this appeasement of the mob that led to king Louis XVI losing his head - literally.
Who voted them into office?
Actually whites were being stopped at a higher rate. Probably because they actually pay their tickets.
More fun in Playful City USA.
People are surprised when they find out that the word “democracy” is nowhere in the Constitution.
Probably there should just be no policing in majority black areas. Let them have their jungle thang.
I think we need to just have all-black everything for these people and then whites can just stay away from those areas. One caveat.... They have to stay away from the all-white areas too.
They’re just completely ridiculous at this point so I’m just responding in kind.
I can tell from working in that area that the numbers of black citizens who desire to be police officers and can pass both the academy and the police department’s requirements and background checks are dismal.
When a common enjoinder is “Yo, how do I be a police?” you know you have a long way to go.
Right on. What they fail to understand is that when you don’t vote, you are still voting.
For the other guy.
And what business is it of a St. Louis resident what happens in Ferguson city government?
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