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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well those may be the last stores they’ll be looting in Ferguson. They’ll all be closed and empty soon.


61 posted on 08/16/2014 9:57:42 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: healy61

Sorry, but tough sh!t.


62 posted on 08/16/2014 10:02:12 AM PDT by rhubarbk (It's official, I'm suffering from Obama fatigue!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It never ceases to amaze me how 12% of the population can be responsible for 99% of society’s problems.


63 posted on 08/16/2014 10:16:10 AM PDT by rhubarbk (It's official, I'm suffering from Obama fatigue!)
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To: trebb
Just like the idiots who claim nobody is illegal - bet they'd react different if those poor immigrants decided to squat on their property and utilize their assets...

One of my middle school students went off on how illegals should be allowed to cross the border anytime they wished and have whatever freebies they wanted. I asked:

Do you have doors on your house?

Yes.

Do you lock them?

Yes.

Why?

I don't want anyone in my house. They might rob us.

So, you lock your doors to keep people who don't belong there out.

But, but my grandma's not bad!?! (a dim light bulb started to turn on)

So, I should leave my door open for your grandma to come in, sit on my couch, eat my food and do whatever she wants?

But, but, yeah.

Good, I can send my grandma and all my cousins over to your house to camp out and you'd be ok with it.

But, but, whaaaaaaaa!

The other students didn't say a word during all this but smiled and let her tie herself into knots.

64 posted on 08/16/2014 10:17:46 AM PDT by bgill
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To: CommieCutter

“If the Tea Party did anything remotely close to this it would be called Terrorism and the National Guard would be called in and start shooting.”

Of course the Tea Party would never even think doing something remotely close to this. Perhaps that explains why we are the most serious threat to national security, according to Eric Holder and his teleprompter-reading frontman.


65 posted on 08/16/2014 10:20:48 AM PDT by Junk Silver
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To: ExCTCitizen

IIRC, it was Spike Lee who was complaining not long ago about his old neighborhood getting gentrified. Funny, he lives in a mansion by Central Park just off Madison Ave.


66 posted on 08/16/2014 10:23:29 AM PDT by bgill
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To: posterchild; Flag_This

Great Minds——!
Great answer!


67 posted on 08/16/2014 10:23:44 AM PDT by GOYAKLA (Waiting for the Golden Screw to be removed from Obama's navel and his a$$ falls off!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s too bad that every single solitary business in Ferguson doesn’t pull out and go elsewhere. See how he likes that.


68 posted on 08/16/2014 10:28:57 AM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: A_perfect_lady

Probably more around 86 or less.


69 posted on 08/16/2014 10:30:52 AM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: F15Eagle

Sir- you are now 42. Apparently you are too young to remember the riots in Los Angeles.

Those buildings are still NOT in use.

They are not rebuilt & they are not likely to be rebuilt.

There are no major grocery stores in the immediate area, so your black brothers & sisters in LA must go a distance to get their supplies.

You in Ferguson will soon have the same problem....only it rarely snows in LA.

Why is there no major grocery store there?

Because NO insurance company will insure any building anywhere near Watts.

The blacks have destroyed the merchants who served them.

Now, those merchants in Ferguson are either out of business or more than willing to move a very long distance from where they had been.

Does your EBT card give you free bus rides to get to a better part of town to do your shopping???

YOU are the problem, sir.

You should be ashamed of your mob mentality.

The fallout from this useless rioting over a thug who was guilty from the moment he opened the door of that liquor store will be more far-reaching than your small brain can comprehend.

Somne may call it Karma. I call it PAYBACK & all Americans know what Payback is....a - - - - -.


70 posted on 08/16/2014 11:11:55 AM PDT by ridesthemiles ( Sensational, inaccurate, mistaken, misguided, and half-a$$ed “journalism” pretending to be an acc)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Repeat of the Watts riots.

They NEVER learn.


71 posted on 08/16/2014 11:13:00 AM PDT by ridesthemiles ( Sensational, inaccurate, mistaken, misguided, and half-a$$ed “journalism” pretending to be an acc)
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To: TurboZamboni

Bingo! He thinks food magically appears at the Safeway.


72 posted on 08/16/2014 11:14:15 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: healy61

The businessmen are going to take the money from insurance and leave town.:::

I am pretty sure that RIOTS are NOT covered by insurance.

These businesses are out of money & out of business. Next they need to be out of the area-—a long ways out.


73 posted on 08/16/2014 11:15:25 AM PDT by ridesthemiles ( Sensational, inaccurate, mistaken, misguided, and half-a$$ed “journalism” pretending to be an acc)
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To: A_perfect_lady

Is the average IQ for this type of urbanite around 90?”””

I think you are giving all of them waaaay too much credit...

Unless you are referring to a cumulative score of 90.


74 posted on 08/16/2014 11:16:47 AM PDT by ridesthemiles ( Sensational, inaccurate, mistaken, misguided, and half-a$$ed “journalism” pretending to be an acc)
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To: Parmy

That’s one of the problems. They “DEMAND” respect. They don’t understand that respect must be earned.


75 posted on 08/16/2014 12:23:00 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: Oldeconomybuyer

he’d think different if it was his business being looted.


77 posted on 08/16/2014 5:57:44 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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