Posted on 08/18/2014 7:08:07 AM PDT by FR_addict
Capt. Ron Johnson, the Missouri Highway Patrol officer in charge of security in Ferguson, Mo., told a thousand-strong audience ... "I wear this uniform, so I'm standing up here to say I'm sorry.
"This is my neighborhood. You are my family. You are my friends and I am you," Johnson said, appearing to tear up.
"When this is over, I am going to go in my son's room. My black son," Johnson told the cheering crowd. "Who wears his pants sagging. Wears his hat cocked to the side. Got tattoos on his arms. But that's my baby."
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My neighbor is black and a while back said that the kids wearing baggy pants and looking belligerent were destroying the neighborhood.
Sounds like race baiting now coming from Capt. Ron Johnson. He sounds like he is apologizing for wearing the uniform. He must be practicing to go on the race baiting circuit with Al Sharpton.
Vomit!!!!
yea I respected the guy right up until I heard that crap
Ron. If I were you, I’d tell him to never screw with anyone who is armed. Just turn and walk away. Works really well.
I think the police chief of Ferguson got a raw deal. They told him not to release the tape that showed Michael Brown was anything but saintly and was actually a nasty thug. The video would eventually come out. If he had not been prevented from releasing the video earlier, the race baiters may have not been able to drum up so much support.
I wonder if “his baby” listens to COP killer rap and hip hop, too?
Funny how they shove these black officials at every problem, and every problem gets worse.
We’re gonna let a fraction of the population take us straight into totalitarianism. All done in their name.
He came on the scene because he is black.
His smug gloating introductory speech said, ‘I am here now, and I am black, and this local police department is not to be trusted, I stand with the rioters, and I will keep the peace because I am black’
So, where is that going to end up?
He learned how to apologize from Barry.
Sounds like he’s describing Obama’s son. Did his son have 2 daddy’s? Oh, he not a thug, he jus like look like one.
I would say to Ron Johnson’s appropriately-diverse face: “Way to pander, dipsh!t.”
Tore a page right out of brocko’s “Dreams from My Son, Trayvon” book.
The photo clearly shows that brown was armed....... two strong arms overpowered the shop keeper.
The propagandists whining that Brown was not armed is lies. He clearly has two weapons, both are strong arms
Because the feds are using it to turn us into the police state the rioters in Ferguson are b*tching about.
Of course the sons of Obama envision a country where their stewards in the government take care of their every need but turn their guns on the other guy. They're in for a nasty surprise.
Has anyone said how tall the store owner is ???
Michael Brown was 6’4”
If it was, then Johnson's statement that the robbery and the shooting were not related is total BS. At minimum, Brown was the common denominator in both.
No, I'm not saying robbing some smokes justified the shooting. But the action in the video certainly lends some credibility to the police version of the shooting.
Is it too much to surmise that the release of the video was based on a reasonably thorough examination and conclusion that Brown was the perp in the video?
Johnson's statements about his son wearing his pants hitched down and his baseball cap crooked plays to some very ugly stereotypes about young black men. My co-worker's son who regularly mows our lawn and several others in the neighborhood wouldn't be caught dead in that attire. He is neat, polite and efficient . . . to mow lawns. People don't hire him because he's black, but because he is polite and efficient. I, for one, wouldn't even care about the neat part, because summertime lawn mowing doesn't even lend itself to neatness.
So, where is that going to end up?
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Well it started with local cops. Then Capt. Johnson and his state troopers showed up.
Things kept getting worse.
Now the National Guard has been called in. Still the natives are restless.
One thing is clear: Obama and Holder are WANTING the escalation of rioting and looting. Nothing is being done on a local, state or even national level that isn’t increasing the harm to Ferguson as this advances the divide and conquer strategies of the Kenyan.
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