Posted on 10/28/2014 5:06:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Last week was awful. Gun violence struck still another American school and Canada's War Memorial. We learned that U.S.-led air strikes have killed 32 Syrian civilians so far. Perhaps worst of all, despite all of this, we probably spent more of our week talking about the ongoing Ebola faux-outbreak.
News feeds on the sensational — one of tragedy’s closest cousins. But not all tragedies are suited to a 24-hour news cycle or our flighty national attention span. Some spiral beyond the public's capacity to follow along. When it’s a missing airplane in the Indian Ocean, it’s largely irrelevant whether or not we keep watching. But when it’s the slow movement of the wheels of justice responding to Mike Brown’s death in Ferguson, Missouri, the dynamics are different.
That’s because the local response to Brown’s death depends upon the country’s ability — and its choice — to keep paying attention. This isn’t an abstract theory. The national conversation about police behavior in Ferguson has already made a difference on the ground in that community. But there’s no reason to assume that that marginal progress will last — especially if the country stops looking.
What happens when the news cameras start to leave?
I don't know. Those cameras extended my eyes and ears into Ferguson. They were my window into the prominent insanity of a place where, for a moment, the many layered systems of American racial injustice were on display and being challenged.
So I asked my friend (we attended Bowdoin College together) Deray Mckesson, who’s intimately involved in the protests, about the dynamic....
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Two beautiful little black girls have been murdered in drive by shootings in in KC Metro. No one saying who. This is where we need the riots!
What is this Ferguson?
Ferguson was not an out of control SWAT Team hitting the wrong house without a warrant and killing mammals of all kinds and getting off Scot free.
Please replace "riots" with "thorough investigation and cautious reason".
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Ferguson jumped the shark.
The out of town trouble causers leave too.
the left is even more concerned because “Real America” supports the cop; taxpaying Americans pay him to do just what he did - deal with the garbage there so we don’t see it here...
I had a shooting a couple of miles north of me a couple of weeks ago (in Lyndhurst NJ); a couple of savages from Newark in a stolen car tried to steal another, got into a chase, and tried to ram a cop. The driver was shot & killed, and after an initial traffic tie-up life went on - no protests, and everyone in the area breathing a sigh of relief that at least one of the perps wouldn’t be back.
“Two beautiful little black girls have been murdered in drive by shootings in in KC Metro. No one saying who. This is where we need the riots!”
But Mercat they were almost certainly murdered by other blacks so the usual race hustlers don’t care. Frustrating isn’t it?
Not this time. Hell, the Palestinians are there this time!!
Do police make mistakes? Yes. They are human. But no where in their job description does it say ‘required to die on duty’.
That’s what a Grand jury is for. They can protest. But to come out and declare that they will not abide by an ‘interpretation’ that doesn’t jive with their view. That, my friend, is when the shark was jumped.
We had an unfortunate incident near here in Beavercreek. The Police received a call about a man in a Walmart carrying a weapon. The two officers that responded had just be at a situational training that enforced every 5 second delay costs a life. It went down fast according to the video. It turns out that is was the store’s stocked MK-177. The Grand Jury did not indict. And good ol’ Al Sharpton was here. They can’t seem to get the juice goin’.
My beef is against the cop who shot a 5 foot man for jaywalking while sitting in his car. He had yelled at the jaywalker and when he turned towards the car, he said he felt threatened. He shot him in the gut and he survived. The guy was a homeless bum who hadn’t ever hurt anyone. But because the cop said he was threatened. Well,he was not indicted. Really mixed messages there.
I’m worried that we’re no longer paying any attention to the horrific beheading of an innocent woman in Oklahoma by a pure & devout Muslim following the teachings of the Koran & encouraged by ISIS.
Dropped off the radar, unlike the defensive shooting of the raging 300 lb gorilla in Ferguson.
“I’m worried that we’re no longer paying any attention to the horrific beheading of an innocent woman in Oklahoma by a pure & devout Muslim following the teachings of the Koran & encouraged by ISIS.”
The young cop who took a hatchet to the head isn’t getting much attention either.
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They moved on with their lives. If you want to keep rioting, just keep it in your neighborhood and leave the rest of us alone.
Have fun!
I used to stay at the Hampton in Florissant (just north of Ferguson), about $80-$95 a night. When checking for a room, for today’s St. Louis trip, I noticed the Florissant Hampton had rooms for $58!!
There was no way I was going to that part of town again. I guess many feel the same way.
Ferguson, like the gentle giant, committed suicide.
Not paying attention to the woman who was stoned to death by ISIS savages and the video of it on the internet either.
OK. But I need to be forgiven. I’m watching the Royals trounce the Giants.
It is frustrating and scary.
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