Posted on 11/25/2014 5:29:43 AM PST by shortstop
Actually, relations between the police and my community are great.
The police enforce the laws, the community obeys the law, we get along fine. We speak to the police politely, we comply with their orders, we don’t have a problem.
It’s all good.
So, no Mr. President, there isn’t a national problem between the police and “the community,” at least not in most communities.
And, likewise, Ferguson is not about some great rift between the police and society. Ferguson is about a kid who did a strong-armed robbery of a store and then attacked a police officer.
Period.
It’s about a series of events started not by slavery or Jim Crow, but by one young man’s decision not to obey the law.
If there is a trend illustrated in the events which led to Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson, Missouri, it is black lawlessness, not police insensitivity.
Those words may seem harsh, but they happen to be true.
Even if the president, the attorney general and various big-city mayors can’t see it.
Because what we were reminded of last night is that many people who happen to be black have a prejudice against the police. It is a bigotry against a profession as immoral and baseless as bigotry against a skin color, religion or sexual orientation.
That is the only explanation for some of the reaction to the decision of the St. Louis County grand jury.
Instead of basing reaction on the facts as ascertained by the investigation and grand jury decision, some people came back to their pre-existing belief – that the police are racists who target blacks.
The mayor of Rochester, New York, posted on Facebook: “I know that many members of our community are upset about the decision today in Ferguson. I am too. As I was thinking about how to respond, I went back to how the situation started: With a young, unarmed black man and an authority figure who had little regard for this young man’s life.”
Her final sentence is pure fabrication.
It is found not in the testimony before the grand jury, but in the prejudice of her own mind.
Regard for life in this matter is something which seemed to be lacking on the part of the young man who ended up dead.
It was he, after all, who attacked the police officer in his car and started grappling for his gun. It was likewise he, after all, who turned and charged the officer after repeated commands to stop and show his hands.
And that led to his death.
It was not some lack of sensitivity training – which the president said Sunday afflicts all of America law enforcement. It was not some racist attitude of the police. It was the lack of civil and legal deportment by the young man in question.
And that arose at least in part, it seems logical to surmise, from this young man’s upbringing in a stew of anti-police prejudice.
When the president and the pretend reverends from near and far lambaste the police, reinforcing folklore and fairy tale about a war on young black men, they encourage enmity with police, and antagonism toward them.
The kind of enmity that leads a young man to reach inside a police cruiser and begin pummeling a cop.
That’s the cancer that needs to be rooted out.
It’s not that the police don’t know how to respect minority communities, it’s that minority communities don’t know how to respect themselves – or anybody else.
And the palpable hatred of police leads to actions that endanger police and civilians alike.
And to bad policies, and bad policy positions by public officials.
Like the president, who said on national television on Sunday – the day before the Ferguson verdict – that more training for police on how to be sensitive to minority concerns would over time lead to building trust between police and “the community.”
Translation: Police are poorly trained and insensitive, that’s why there is distrust.
That’s what the president of the United States thinks and said.
And in so doing backstabbed all the cops in this country.
And perpetuated a lie.
Because the problems between the police and “the community” – I think that’s code for “black people” – are not the fault of police training or attitude, they are the result of a bigoted, prejudice-based attitude among the community toward police.
And the cops can’t fix that.
And elected officials shouldn’t perpetuate it.
Because it is morally wrong.
This vilification of police is immoral, dishonest and destructive of society. Nowhere is that more evident than in the reaction to Ferguson.
A young man initiated a violent attack against a police officer. He grappled for the officer’s gun. He charged the officer and refused to show his hands.
And he died for it.
It’s a tragedy.
But the truth is clear.
He deserved what he got.
No matter what color he was.
The law won and justice has been served.
No discussion of either should omit that fact at the very beginning.
Obola and Holder planned Fast&Ferguson and sent
in Black Panthers with bombs and other terrorists.
The MSM was their overwilling, adoring accomplice, as usual.
He deserved what he got. No m
atter what color he was. Yes he did.
I was positively sickened last night by the attitudes of the presstitutes in attendance at the news conference.
Sickened.
That’s not fair.
I’d agree that ObaMao aided and abetted same, but he did not “engineer” them.
He was involved from Day One. He put the word out that he needed an incident, and he chose from the ones he received.
Ferguson and Sanford both had “community organizer” written all over them. Otherwise nobody would have ever heard of either.
This is also about a segment of our society who will hold up a militant fist with one hand against us, while extending their other for a handout. This segment of our society has had trillions upon trillions of dollars spent/wasted on them and this is what we get in return.
It’s not that the police don’t know how to respect minority communities, it’s that minority communities don’t know how to respect themselves – or anybody else.
The cowards in congress have been afraid to impeach because cities will burn. Well, it don’t matter now, impeach and imprison him.
Ferguson is what elected the likes of Obama.
"Ferguson and Sanford both had “community organizer” written all over them.
Otherwise nobody would have ever heard of either."
This writer has totally nailed it.
And that is exactly why Obama was so P.O.'d
Did you see the look on his face when he began his speech last night?
It was obvious he was seething over the grand jury decision.
How dare they defy the wishes of the King!
Didn't Obama make it perfectly clear what he expected when he sent Eric Holder and 100 FBI agents to Ferguson?
And when he made a personal visit himself?
Yet these upstarts on the grand jury completely ignored his clear signals and treated him like the Rodney Dangerfield of presidents!
obola is at least a conspirator, or co-conspirator in the commission of felonious acts with eric holder
> Translation: Police are poorly trained and insensitive, that’s why there is distrust.
And I say he should try police training himself. I can assure you that he would flunk out. He has no clue what they go through. You are lied to every single day, you are called to scenes where the scum of the earth are creating havoc who would have turned out differently if their parents would have raised them right and weren’t off doing drugs or prostituting, you are asked to document EVERYTHING with reports for fear of stupid lawsuits, and you have to constantly make sure you make the right decision lest you get sued or fired. No, Mr. President, you have NO clue...
Great piece and I especially like this sentence. Hey Ferguson rioters - want to know why Brown died? Because of people, actions, and attitudes exactly like you and what you are doing. That's right, you are the reason so many Michael Browns get rightfully killed every year. Yes, I said it, rightfully killed. The world is just that much better off without him.
Teach your kids better attitudes, better behavior. Teach them respect, that there are winners and losers, that education matters, that the world does not revolve around their precious little underwear-exposing backsides. Then maybe they will make better life choices than to attack unarmed shop keepers and armed law enforcement. They might live to see 30.
The real issue is that black ferals want to be allowed to lynch white people.
That should be on Mike Brown’s tombstone: I fought the law and the law won.
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