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How Ferguson Changed America
Slate ^ | August 2, 2015 | Jamelle Bouie, staff writer

Posted on 08/02/2015 9:35:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I feel pains in my bowels every time I see something posted from slate or salon.

Apparently facts don't matter, just skin color.

21 posted on 08/02/2015 10:17:35 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: PGR88
Michael and Cecil the Lion are together now in MSM heaven.

That is the funniest one-liner EVER.

Outstanding!

22 posted on 08/02/2015 10:23:16 PM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: onedoug
I’m coming less and less to give a damn what the seeming majority of blacks understand

Put me down in this column.

Years agao I cared, but their behavior since Obunghole was elected has pissed that away until I am filled with contempt and left with viewing Lincoln's idea of repatriation to Africa as a missed opportunity.

23 posted on 08/02/2015 10:27:13 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: doorgunner69

I’ll second that. I have lost any white guilt that I never had anyway...these racists liars like this sponge can just step off and die.


24 posted on 08/02/2015 10:39:47 PM PDT by right way right (Disclaimer: Not a prophet but I have a pretty good record.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
This writer is STOOPID!

Imagine if the cops just scooped Brown's body up and left the scene?

The howls of "cover up" would STILL be ringing in our ears.

They HAD to "leave" Brown's body where it fell, to ensure that all available evidence was collected and properly accounted for.

It doesn't matter what "color" a person is, nor how famous.

The investigators don't move a body, ANY body until they've obtained evidence.

25 posted on 08/02/2015 10:46:02 PM PDT by boop (A joke? The hell kind of joke is that? 'Bout as funny as a gutful of pinworms!)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER
He doesn't have a name.

He's not relevant to the narrative.

Please move along. Nothing to see here.

Oh, and you a raciss!!!

26 posted on 08/02/2015 10:47:15 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wow, no bias in this story. A little rabble rousing going on.


27 posted on 08/02/2015 10:47:36 PM PDT by lurk
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

.... They killed him for no reason … they just killed this n—er for no reason ...

The n—er was shot because he attacked a law enforcement officer. But facts don’t matter. Only #blackliesmatter.


28 posted on 08/02/2015 10:57:14 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

If the body was immediately removed there would be claims of cover up. The racist sees race in everything and will lie to promote their agenda.


29 posted on 08/02/2015 11:07:17 PM PDT by Ray76 (Obama says, "Unlike my mum, Ruth has all the documents needed to prove who Mark's father was.")
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To: Bogey78O; 2ndDivisionVet; All

Murder rates are up for both Baltimore and Washington, DC. Mostly black on black killings????


30 posted on 08/02/2015 11:23:33 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin; Bogey780

We’re not supposed to talk about that.


31 posted on 08/02/2015 11:24:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: Brad from Tennessee; All

It wouldn’t have hurt to put a drape over the body, especially as they saw photos being taken.


32 posted on 08/02/2015 11:25:03 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: tumblindice

If he’d been a lion, too...


33 posted on 08/02/2015 11:28:54 PM PDT by Salamander (We're ALL Dixie, now.)
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To: Eagles6

If he is stupid enough to work 70 hours a week he doesn’t matter!


34 posted on 08/02/2015 11:31:01 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER
Yes, he is a fool. He needs to realize the new "normal".

Doesn't this silly immigrant know that the "American Dream" was unfriendly to "others" and, BTW is dead?.

It was a racist, heteronormative construct of White, Christian old dead White guys anyhow. (Do I need a /sarc tag?)

35 posted on 08/02/2015 11:43:30 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

“Depending on where a homicide occurs it takes time for certified forensics officials to reach the scene.”

The grand jury report fully explains the length of time required to move the body and there were several good reasons. In that Brown was killed by a Ferguson officer, the rules in effect required the investigation to be conducted by another police department. It took time for the St. Louis PD to send in its investigators. The body could not be moved until the crime scene was fully measured, photographed and all evidence collected. The body could not be moved until the medical examiner came to the crime scene and collected the body.

The investigators on the scene were dealing with an unruly and hostile crowd which was often attempting to enter the crime scene and disturb the evidence. Gunshots were heard in the background. The investigators felt concern for their own safety.

Had the Ferguson officers removed the body they would have been accused of tampering with evidence. All they could do is act as human shields until the St Louis PD detectives arrived to conduct the investigation.

Once the St. Louis detectives arrived and surveyed the scene they constructed a barrier with tarps to block the body from view of the crowd. However, they followed the rules for evidence collection, crime scene management and the handling of the body scrupulously. Note there has been no lawsuit alleging evidence was tampered with or the crime scene investigation was improperly conducted.

Furthermore it is not unusual for a dead body in a shooting to be left in place for hours while the scene is being investigated. In reality removing the body quickly is a sign of disrespect for the deceased, assuming a thorough investigation is desired. A thorough, by the books, handling of the crime scene by competent and professional detectives, shows great respect for the deceased.

I have read the grand jury report. Some of these journalists and commentators should do the same before making incindiary accusations of “disrespect”.


36 posted on 08/03/2015 1:16:58 AM PDT by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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To: Soul of the South

Thanks for your insight.


37 posted on 08/03/2015 1:21:01 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Had to wait for the coroner/forensic team to preserve evvidence


38 posted on 08/03/2015 4:04:59 AM PDT by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a murderer, and find one.... what's yoIur plan?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ferguson demonstrated to everyone that assimilation was impossible, and that after 50 years of reparations blacks were even further behind everyone coming to this country from every corner of the globe.


39 posted on 08/03/2015 4:17:04 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: onedoug
"I’m coming less and less to give a damn what the seeming majority of blacks understand"

It's called black fatigue. It usually afflicts many previously white supporters of black causes who simply have been worn out by the constant complaining and blaming of whites by blacks for black-created problems.

In the minds of racialists like Bouie no black person ever causes their own problems. Always and forever Evil Whitey is the mischief maker who causes all black problems. At some point things will come to a head with unfortunate consequences for the racialists.

40 posted on 08/03/2015 4:19:14 AM PDT by driftless2
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