If I had a son...
What is happening in Ferguson and Why
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.
COPS is a media product. Do you trust the media that much?
All these conservatives that love big government policing and the media...the New Free Republic?
I've seen these guys armed to the hilt while eating lunch in the suburbs. That tells you who really is about to crap themselves. If you're scared, get a different job.
The specifics of Ferguson aside, I'm not sure Samuel Adams or Thomas Jefferson would appreciate that particular attitude of submission.
The problem in Ferguson isn't that the residents "refuse to submit" to the police, it's that the leading citizens of Ferguson have no moral authority to set the town's standards of behavior by example, which in turn requires entirely too much police interaction to make the place livable.
Since I’ve worked around COPS - I’d bet on them before I’d ever bet on anybody in the media.
Yes, it’s a “reality” show .. but it is a good sample of what a police officer really has to do on the job. Never having been a police officer (for most people), at least they can get a sense of what the COP’s life is like.
If you’re convinced it’s fake .. well good luck with that.
Yeah, I agree. Putting clues together is very interesting.
On cable is a network - IDHD - where they have a program called “Homicide Hunter”. It’s a true program - in that the real homicide investigator tells the stories of his career as an investigator. It’s really fascinating.
Exactly! It’s all the same mindset: Israel and USA are bad and deserve to have their whole countries burned to the ground.
And .. They teach little boys to strangle puppies, while they repeat the statement, “this is the dog the Jew, and this is what I can do to the dog the Jew”.
And .. They teach little girls to cut the head off a snake, while they repeat the statement, “this is the snake the Jew, and this is what I can do to the snake the Jew”.
And then, people wonder why these youths are willing to strap bombs on themselves and blow up people.
It’s as fake as the evening news.
and .. you know that because ..................??????
Two innocent black children clutching bibles shot down in cold blood by an evil white or half-white monster, and Eric Holder visits the scene to coordinate.
Of course King Obama was mad. Someone killed one of the King’s Deer.
Because they are the media.
“if they don’t want to live in a burnt out, robbed out ghetto, it was up to them to decide to defend it.”
Apparently some of that went on last night. According to one Freeper some residents of one neighborhood banded together and fired shots to deter a large crowd of rioters.
I believe Obama's attitude that he can violate the constitution and law whenever he wants, sets a tone for the country, especially to those prone to lawlessness and criminality already, that it is okay to break the law if you don't agree with it. Holder is in contempt of Congress but has given them the big middle finger instead of being held accountable. These are the two top law enforcement and black leaders of this country for the last six years. They personally and professionally set an extremely poor example for citizens in the country to follow. But their words and behavior also encourages the black community that they can do the same thing and get away with it.
Sorta sounds like the middle east doesn't it. Yea. Jews, blacks, infidels, what's the difference. Hate is hate and when it is taught to CHILDREN it must anger a just God. Teaching children to hate is a mortal sin deserving of eternal damnation.
It reminds me of a song from a long-ago movie .. “We’ve got to be taught to hate”.
I think the movie was “South Pacific”.
He fought the law and the law won.
I agree, these incidents were selected and fabricated by Obama forces to polarize the races.
St. Trayvon is the most amazing. Look at the phony pictures all the Obama media ran from the first day of the “innocent child,” when in fact the guy was a gold-grilled gangbanger.
The whole thing was rigged to create a narrative that was totally false, and unfortunately a Hispanic protecting his neighborhood who was jumped by a feral playing the Knockout Game became the victim.
The leftist media has come a long way since Dan Rather did his phony National Guard reports.
yup
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