Here's a Ferguson I could get behind...Hannah Ferguson
lol
Baloney.
arrrgh
militarization— the latest scapegoat for violent black criminal behavior
(previous scapegoats—racism, slavery, poverty, profiling etc.)
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Here's a Ferguson I could get behind...Hannah Ferguson
Whut?
“Faith in the police”? as in the police being god?
Liberals never miss an opportunity to blaspheme.
Utter nonsense. What I am tired of and find more troubling is the media desire to make police look bad.....just like they do anytime thugs and looters want to destroy neighborhoods
I do have an issue with the riot control later. One of the things I thought was inappropriate was the cop laying on top of one of the larger armored vehicles pointing his automatic weapon at the peaceful crowed in the middle of the day. He should not be pointing his weapon at people in that situation.
We do not believe they should be shooting dogs or breaking into the wrong homes.
nope.
In Wisconsin the law is that if police are involved in a shooting, the incident has to be investigated by another police department in a different jurisdiction. It stems from a case in Kenosha where a young man was handcuffed and shot in the temple by a cop. It was ruled a “justified” shooting by Kenosha police. They (the family)did some research and found that all of the police shootings in the country (over 400) were ruled “justified”. So, they made this law and I don’t think it goes far enough. They all belong to same union.
But - speaking personally - I have totally lost faith in the political coalition between Libertarians and Conservatives.
I am not anti-Police, I am not anti-NSA, I am not anti-Israel, and I am not pro-Amnesty.
And I will never support any candidate who is.
Barf alert
Hey, they aren’t abusing power. It’s not like they broke into someone’s house and shot their Golden Retriever. The death of that thug is merely the “Yute” excuse to loot, maim, and kill. The cops are welcome to restore some semblance of order by tear gassing the whole city, if need be.
Shooting the family dog goes much farther to undermine my faith in the police than does taking out the trash in Ferguson, Missouri.
Most police have very little education. I don’t mean college, I mean having done enough reading to have a feel and understanding about what this country is about and what being an American really means.
My view of the police is precisely the same as my opinion of the rest of the government. I don’t trust them, I certainly don’t like them and, if they weren’t the muscle preventing me from arming myself as I choose, I probably wouldn’t need them very much. Like the rest of the government, they are a necessary evil. How necessary and how evil are the open questions.
What are you talking about! The police must contain the violence, arrest the rioters, and if needed, the journistist’s who get in the way. If not, the unorganized militia WILL.
I lost faith in police years ago, Ferguson has very little to do with it. That said, I have not lost faith in justice and the rule of law.
I lost faith in the police because of:
-unions. Just like any union, they protect the bad apples and shield them from accountability. Very rarely are complaints of police brutality followed by disciplinary action.
-taxes. Many governments are swimming in red ink thanks to their big government policies. They have used the police as glorified tax and fee collectors (quotas to give traffic violations and the like.) This has soured even the police supporters.
-militarization. Not just of the police but of governmental agencies that shouldn’t have a freaking SWAT.
-Cushy pensions. Assuming that police have a dangerous job, how do you square a policeman’s pension with a miliary schlub’s who may actually find himself/herself in the middle of an actual war?