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How can authorities restore order in Ferguson? (Kumbaya time children!)
AP ^ | Aug 19, 2014 7:30 PM (ET) | SHARON COHEN

Posted on 08/19/2014 4:58:21 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW

They've lined the streets with police in riot gear, brought in a new black commander with an empathetic manner, imposed a curfew, lifted it and deployed the National Guard — and still the violence erupts nightly in the town of Ferguson, Missouri.

After more than a week of unrest following the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old, law enforcement and political leaders are left struggling for answers to a frustrating question: What can we do to restore peace to the community?

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.myway.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: michaelbrown; racism; riots
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One answer, Nolan said, rests with police, who should take the initiative to meet with nonviolent protesters, pledge to scale back some of the more military-style methods of crowd control

Didn't they already try that? Hm?

1 posted on 08/19/2014 4:58:21 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW
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they can’t


2 posted on 08/19/2014 5:00:29 PM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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It would help if they sent all of the out-of-towners back where they came from. Looting would probably be cut by about 60-80%.


3 posted on 08/19/2014 5:01:53 PM PDT by rktman (Ethnicity: Nascarian. Race: Daytonafivehundrian)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Dusk to dawn curfew.


4 posted on 08/19/2014 5:01:56 PM PDT by DownInFlames
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Absolutely agree.

It might help to arrest some of the violent infiltrators from outside.

5 posted on 08/19/2014 5:02:30 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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How about they pass a law requiring white cops to refrain from taking action when black aggressors throw punches at them or bum rush them? /s


6 posted on 08/19/2014 5:02:38 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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Bring mobile libraries to those streets and they will run away from the books.


7 posted on 08/19/2014 5:03:39 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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Instead of gas canisters they should have launched small bricks of Marijuana at them. Then blast some Bob Marley at them.


8 posted on 08/19/2014 5:03:41 PM PDT by Usagi_yo (I don't have a soul, I'm a soul that has a body. -- Unknown)
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I think they’re being egged on by outsiders. A Communist group has people there but I forgot who else.


9 posted on 08/19/2014 5:04:14 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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Looters will be shot on sight!

Heck, if it was good enough for hurricane zones...


10 posted on 08/19/2014 5:05:34 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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Targeted drone strikes on the looters.


11 posted on 08/19/2014 5:06:07 PM PDT by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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The right to assemble is a right. Government should not abridge that right. They should vigorously enforce the law however. These things get out of control when “compassionate” officials and an insane media imply that an innocent cop was somehow guilty of something before one fact was in.


12 posted on 08/19/2014 5:07:54 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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Why not go ahead and play Kumbaya from sound trucks all day and all night, until the street rioters get so tired of it they leave. Nothing else has seemed to work.


13 posted on 08/19/2014 5:08:23 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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Let’s re-learn the lesson we learned in Iraq that we should have figured out without having gone through the exercise in the first place.

For the people of Ferguson to live in a civilized neighborhood, they have to, in short, acquire the aspiration to live in “the civil society” as it is termed. They have to WANT TO. And I absolutely acknowledge that most likely, the great majority of the people there actually do want this. But I also acknowledge that there is no visible evidence of this.

That means they have to reject mob rule which is what they have now. If they wish to appeal to law enforcement and/or government control (which has been so blazingly successful in the history of Black society) then they have to be willing to have various shining/s examples of their youth arrested and imprisoned, and for that, they have to cooperate with law enforcement instead of wishing it dead.

Until that happens, until the time when they realize that obeying the exhortations of the Al Sharptons and Jesse Jacksons and Eric Holders of the world are the very actions that preserve their self-imposed prison, then how they are now is how they shall remain.


14 posted on 08/19/2014 5:08:34 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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Anyone arrested loses their EBT for a year!


15 posted on 08/19/2014 5:08:42 PM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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Black Panthers


16 posted on 08/19/2014 5:09:01 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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17 posted on 08/19/2014 5:09:03 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (If you're on the same side of Ferguson as Al and Jesse, then you F-ed up somewhere. Rethink it dummy)
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To: Usagi_yo

Everybody must get stoned


18 posted on 08/19/2014 5:09:07 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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The people have to grow up and stand on their own.

Its the only way.


19 posted on 08/19/2014 5:09:24 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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I’d do it! The article mentioned “sound cannons”. Why not Kumbaya? LOL!!!!


20 posted on 08/19/2014 5:10:35 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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