I read what I thought was an interesting article by Andrew McCarthy early this morning. Holder, etal are talking about a Fed civil rights investigation, etc. However, Andrew writes that they have no grounds to press charges for same. From the article:
“The deaths of Michael Brown in Missouri and Eric Garner in New York are each tragic in their own way. But in neither is there a federal civil-rights case to be had. To think otherwise, you have to be getting your advice from Al Sharpton — the huckster confidant of President Obama and Attorney General Holder.
The law of civil rights requires the government to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant, usually driven by racial prejudice, willfully acted — violently in these cases — with the evil purpose to deprive a person of specific federal rights. Let’s put aside the utter absence of proof that race had any bearing on what happened in Staten Island, for example, where police supervised by an African-American officer came to the scene because of complaints about Garner by local business owners. It is virtually impossible to prove a civil-rights violation when there is no denying that police were engaged in a good-faith arrest and were put in the position of using force because a suspect resisted.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3234567/posts
BBTW - Obummer is giving an interview on BET TV today, sorry I’ll have to miss it/s
I agree. I think there’s a lot more information on these incidents than the public is aware of or has been reported. With any luck maybe it will all come out eventually.
I am unhappy whenever the police use force, especially death... Still, I wasn’t born yesterday, and understand there are plenty of really evil people out there...
Having said that, too many dogs getting shot and some officers getting pumped up on steroids trying to bulk up, which is illegal in sports so why not with the police FGS?!
I do think there should be a civilian review board for every police department and the police should NEVER be allowed to unionize.
As retired military, I know the government is imperfect and sometimes there are bad guys in uniform. Too many cops act like soldiers nowadays. I personally get torqued whenever I see police in full camo or BDUs (which stands for BATTLE dress uniforms!) and full auto firearms like the military. They aren’t the military, and need to put the GI toys away and go back to being Peace Officers. We don’t need as many SWAT teams as there are now nor practically any armored personnel carriers in our police departments.
I think looking at where police departments are going and the future of policing in America that is supposed to be home of the free and land of the brave cannot be a bad thing. But trying to tie racism into it is over the top.
Open borders is screwing the dems far worse than they ever dreamed.
The obvious thinking that third worlders will be so gleeful just being here and working at McDonalds or doing laundry at the no tell mo-tel that they will vote dem forever may have some basic flaws that the DNC never considered!
Here's my experience with third worlders and I have had my share.
Most third worlders don't care about the U.S. or its people or becoming a citizen unless it gets them more of what they are here for:
Gringo DOLLARS!
To think that any third worlder gainfully employed will stop working long enough to vote is pie in the sky!--They won't leave that $4,5 or 6 dollar an hour job for anything or anyone unless it pays better.
These guys have one goal in life--take/make as much money as they can get and send it back home. That's it! Finish,over, done!
Making them loyal party democrats is a pipe dream and we already know what they smoke.
The side effect is that the loyal base they have/had,blacks are now the victims of open borders.Blacks that depended on working at Burger King/ McDonalds other entry level jobs are now being pushed out by lower wage applicants who barley speak the language and will always work for less.
So you have a bunch of Hispanics who couldn't care less about voting,don't care about learning English meanwhile blacks who are disenchanted disenfranchied who now won't bother to vote,older white libs who realize the party left them and if leaving them even more. So who is left to vote for socialsm/marxism and how much welfare can you possibly give them?
Things look dim from my perspective for the demoncrat party.