Hysteria over Ferguson grand jury an indictment of America

The Boston Globe ^ | November 24, 2014 | Derrick Z. Jackson

[2ndDivisionVet]

The national hysteria over the Ferguson grand jury is a fresh indictment of America. The core issue is a charge of police brutality by a white officer shooting an unarmed black 18-year-old man. Yet all around the country, the talk is about black violence.

Here in Boston, police are sending out robocalls to public school students and sending messages to college students to stay calm. In Oakland, California, businesses are putting steel plates on their doors. In Los Angeles, Police Chief Charlie Beck said he hopes to get advance notice from Missouri authorities about whether or not the grand jury indicts Ferguson officer Darren Wilson for Brown’s shooting. And in Ferguson, some schools are already closed in anticipation of the decision, gun sales have skyrocketed and a state of emergency was declared by Missouri Governor Jay Nixon.

To be sure, Attorney General Eric Holder and many black clergy have also asked for police restraint for any protests after the grand jury decision is announced. But such balanced pleas have been drowned out by the drama of an FBI warning that the grand jury’s decision “will likely be exploited by some individuals to justify threats and attacks against law enforcement and critical infrastructure.”(continued)

[ought-six]

There may be some limited yelling and screaming in Chicago, but the weather is too sh!tty for the ferals to be outside. Those of us who live away from Chicago and Cook County, in the “red” Illinois, will likely not see any trouble, as “red” Illinois is where all the armed citizens are.

[SpeakerToAnimals]

That was not always the case, until evil LBJ came along.

LBJ did what slavery and Jim Crow could not. He destroyed the black family. He seemed to be right about how long the (n-word deleted) would be voting for Democrats.

[Jim Noble]

There aren’t going to be any riots, and the only thing that I’m disappointed about is so many people bowing and scraping over this ooga-booga Mau-mau crap.

Sham rage is all it is. Best to ignore it and if you can’t, break a few heads.

[boycott]

Family is not a groupd of people with different last names living together (on the govt. dime no less).

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Many of them value family less than rats. We don’t feed rats. We might need to start cutting a lot of them off.

[baddog 219]

[onyx]

NO argument from me.

[EDINVA]

It’s all getting gentrified; the long-time residents have moved out to PG. All over the city. New, yuppy neighborhoods cropping up; restorations of properties in formerly questionable neighborhoods. Truly amazing.

[SkyPilot]

Decent people are sick and tired of these violent, criminal, contemptible, monstrous goons.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

I swear, I still can’t figure out how the pants stay up.

[SECURE AMERICA]

The core issue is a charge of police brutality by a white officer shooting an unarmed black 18-year-old man

Could not be further from the truth.
The issue is will we prevent police officers from defending themselves simply because a perp is black?

[Biggirl]

“The national hysteria over the Ferguson grand jury is a fresh indictment of America. The core issue is a charge of police brutality by a white officer shooting an unarmed black 18-year-old man. Yet all around the country, the talk is about black violence.”

Yet those security pictures CANNOT LIE.