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Fed up with pOlice, one Ferguson man welcomes the looting
Los Angeles Times ^
| August 16, 2014
| By MOLLY HENNESSY-FISKE
Posted on 08/16/2014 6:29:53 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A new round of looting and tense standoffs with pOlice ended early Saturday with no major clashes as the number of protesters gradually dwindled and pOlice retreated from the streets in a drizzling rain.
This is wonderful. This is what should have happened a long time ago, Robert Powell, 42, said as he watched looters during the night hop through the shattered glass door of a meat market.
He dismissed the looters as "suburban nerds" likely to get busted. But after years of living in a town in which he said African American men are singled out for harsh treatment by the pOlice, he shared the looters frustration.
He gestured to surrounding businesses, whose fluorescent lights were now shattered, their parking lots strewn with broken bottles.
"They support these pOlice, give them free food. People just got tired of it," he said.
Powell blamed the Ferguson pOlice chief's handling of information about Brown released Friday for setting off the unrest.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
pOlice...Is that the black way to pronounce it? “ Yo man, it’s tha POH -leese” lol
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Loot at any excuse. That is the way to be respected. Don’t get educated. That is the way to be respected. Talk stupidly. That is the way to be respected. (sarc)
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posted on
08/16/2014 6:33:53 AM PDT
by
Parmy
To: GrandJediMasterYoda
"They support these pOlice, give them free food. People just got tired of it," Says it all. Maybe he should get tired of giving food stamps as well.
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posted on
08/16/2014 6:34:54 AM PDT
by
HarleyD
("... letters are weighty, but his .. presence is weak, and his speech of no account.")
To: Oldeconomybuyer
If anybody believes they are looting and stealing because they are concerned about Michael Brown, then I have a bridge to sell you. This is alllll about "Gitting mah free shet mofo! I'm gittin whut is MY" Put it this way: How many blacks are killed every day by black on black crime? Any "rioting" over that?
*crickets* *crickets*
To: Oldeconomybuyer
This is wonderful. This is what should have happened a long time ago,
Nice attitude, but it perfectly explains why his “community” has become a cesspool. Would serve them right to make it an enforcement free zone so they can wallow in their own ruins.
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posted on
08/16/2014 6:36:27 AM PDT
by
rbg81
To: Oldeconomybuyer
"They support these pOlice, give them free food. People just got tired of it," he said. Now where is my EBT card and my obamamphone?
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posted on
08/16/2014 6:36:30 AM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I presume he owns nothing , is worth nothing, and does nothing.
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posted on
08/16/2014 6:37:04 AM PDT
by
TurboZamboni
(Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I hope all these business owners take the insurance money and run. Let these animals live in their own burned out filth with no market & liquor store or any other type of businesses. Uncivilized animals.
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posted on
08/16/2014 6:38:54 AM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(America is not a refugee camp! It's my home!)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
LA Slimes pushing Lawlessness
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posted on
08/16/2014 6:39:05 AM PDT
by
sr4402
To: Oldeconomybuyer
"But after years of living in a town in which he said African American men are singled out for harsh treatment by the pOlice," I found myself living in a city that was treating me pooly once....
Ya Know what I did ?
I Got on The Bus Gus....I packed up and left that town...sheeeech what maroons
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posted on
08/16/2014 6:39:58 AM PDT
by
virgil283
(Life is hard .....its harder if you re stupid.... - John Wayne)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
How to make a “food desert.”
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posted on
08/16/2014 6:40:24 AM PDT
by
Flag_This
(You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
To: GrandJediMasterYoda
pOlice...Is that the black way to pronounce it? To a white liberal it is. Also, a smear on the south.
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posted on
08/16/2014 6:40:26 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
A food desert grows in Ferguson.
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posted on
08/16/2014 6:40:32 AM PDT
by
posterchild
(It takes a politician to declare a settled science.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Another proud moment brought to you by liberalism.
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posted on
08/16/2014 6:42:58 AM PDT
by
dowcaet
To: Oldeconomybuyer
"They support these pOlice, give them free food. People just got tired of it,"
So what happens next week when there is no more "free food" to be had? The next town over doesn't support your cops and may actually defend themselves.
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posted on
08/16/2014 6:42:59 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
fire the police chief of Ferguson . . . "He's anti-black people and pro law enforcement, Powell said. That will be a start. Hey this guy must know about the 1960s riots.. it was not looting! (Liberals said)
It was layaway.
Back then buying something on layaway was common. Liberals said that white inner-city merchants overcharged blacks and the overcharges can be considered layaway payments.
So the people were simply picking up the merchandise they paid for over the prior weeks and months.
Meantime demands for law and order ("law'n order") was racist, liberals said.
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posted on
08/16/2014 6:44:17 AM PDT
by
WilliamofCarmichael
(If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
LAT thinks looting is a good thing
.from their gated neighborhoods and their building with security service at the ready. SOBs.
To: FlingWingFlyer
That’s exactly it.
Let them live in an area with no corner store to go to to get their 40’s!
Any sane person would be crazy to open a business there.
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posted on
08/16/2014 6:49:12 AM PDT
by
djf
(OK. Well, now, lemme try to make this clear: If you LIKE your lasagna, you can KEEP your lasagna!)
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