[jocon307]

I’m sorry, but it is hard to believe cops these days. Look at how they’ve carried on in other places.

Shooting up that car in LA, with the 2 women in it, because they thought it looked like the car the (admittedly dangerous) guy they were seeking had. But hundreds of cars look alike, you can’t just open fire on a vehicle, but that’s what they did.

Killing that old man in the nursing home, and another old man in his driveway, and I think another old man.

That craziness in New Mexico with taking the people to the hospital and having all sorts of really invasive procedures done to them because they thought they had drugs IN them. (I still don’t know how the hell they got away with that. I’d probably be dead if something like that happened to me because, yeah, I’d resist much.)

All the swat raids, sometimes on the wrong houses.

That teenager with the bb gun (or whatever it was), and they just opened fire on him.

They’ve just lost all credibility.

If you’re gunning down old men who don’t want to take their meds and throwing flashbangers (or whatever you call them) into infant’s cribs, why wouldn’t I believe you’d just haul off and shoot some black teenager?

I’m not saying that’s what happened, but it’s easy to believe.

And I used to be 100% pro-cop.

It’s the cops who changed my views.

[Mariner]

"It’s the cops who changed my views".

That is because, by and large, they have become enemies of the American People.

All of us.

There's too many of them BY FAR, they have too many weapons BY FAR and they are , for the most part, exempt from the law.

They have become the standing army our founders railed against, and yes, I'll say it again:

They have become the enemies of the American People.

All of us.

[Mamzelle]

There's also something very odd about this politically. I've started thinking like Rush, can't even see the media reaction to the suicide of Robin Williams without wonder what angle they're going to play..

Something's missing here. Jesse Jackson is late to this show. Where is Obama talking about Brown being his kid? Eric Holder? They're holding back for some reason, and it makes me uneasy.

[detective]

There are literally thousands of incidents involving police officers every day. If you pick and choose the worst 3 over the last year or so some will be bad.

When is the last time you had to confront an armed, violent thug and did everything perfectly and made no mistakes?

The incidents you describe have nothing to do with what happened to Michael Brown.

I don't know what actually happened. Neither do you.

Stop the irrelevant rants.

[libstripper]

This is a very ambiguous situation, profoundly different from Martin/Zimmerman, where it’s crystal clear that Martin was a wannabe murderer who got exactly what he deserved. The reported shooting at a 25 foot distance raises a real murder issue. The cops have some seriious explaining to do.

[servo1969]

Hard to decide who is telling the truth in this case. Cops and urban youths have become equally suspicious groups.