Posted on 08/25/2014 10:32:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Views of the police reaction to protests in Ferguson, Mo. have become more favorable since last week, but views on the subject have become even more racially polarized
Rallies and vigils are planned around the country for this weekend and Monday to mark the funeral of Michael Brown, the Missouri teenager who was shot to death on August 10 by a police officer. His death sparked weeks of unrest in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, centering on accusations of racial discrimination by the almost totally white police force against a majority black population. The police department’s reaction to the protests – which have led to looting in some cases – has also been criticized for being too heavy-handed.
YouGov’s previous polling on the subject revealed a national public divided on the police response but less sympathetic to the reaction of Ferguson residents to the shooting. The latest polling finds that public opinion has hardened further against the residents, and softened slightly when it comes to the police.
56% of Americans now say people in Ferguson have reacted in an “unreasonable” way, up from 45% the week before. However, the number who say the residents have been reasonable has increased too, albeit by an insignificant amount, from 25% to 27%.
(Excerpt) Read more at today.yougov.com ...
“The police department’s reaction to the protests – which have led to looting in some cases – has also been criticized for being too heavy-handed.”
At the next riot, police should stand aside, until the critics start to criticize them for being too lax.
Might spend the night eating donuts.
As people find out what actually happened...a large, black 18 year old who robbed a convince store and then physically assaulted and injured a police officer, who then had to hoot the thug as that thug charged him...versus the false narrative that an unarmed black teenager was wantonly gunned own by a racist white cop for walking in the street...of course their opinion is changing.
Sharpton, Jackon, Holder, Obma and ll their ilk will keep that truth from the African-Americn citizens of this nation for as long as they can.
Let em keep acting like animals.. will be a bloodbath in November.
Typical gobbletygoop. It’s how you phrase the question. People IN Ferguson or People FROM Ferguson.
An I bees owed everything I wants so I's gwan to take it.
Don’t worry Bobble-head Al will bring everyone together
Some would say Daryl Gates did this in the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The police refrained from taking a stand for this very reason. And then the press and the public trashed them for that too.
You can’t win. You go in hard to put this down, and your trashed for it. You stand back and let the idiots blow off steam and you’re trashed for that.
How do you put this down when the destruction is massive and wide-spread? You essentially go in guns blazing. It’s about the only way. Think the populace would stand for that?
These police officers put on camo and had ARs out there, and people were livid, blaming them for the destruction.
The police in this nation should take a thirty day vacation and let the public see what they would normally face without them.
I’m thinking some idiots just might think differently by the end of the month.
It would be opens season on law abiding citizens in a way folks say they are under the cops.
I’ll bet that trash talk would end.
As the truth starts to trickle out....
Well, that’s two of us who’ll be disappointed when all we get in are more Republicans who tilt RINO..as we’ve seen..disinclined toward any bloodletting or even any mild retribution. We’ll retake the Senate and McConnell will...as he’s vowed... take us all back to the good old 60 vote filibuster while he and the Dims sing “Happy Days Are Here Again...”
Tear gas and Tasers,
wearing holiday blazers,
for all the thugs to see.
No more lethalities
to stop their frivalities,
Oh, that’s the Police we’ll be!
Pretty good...
Is that the words to a song I should know?
Thanks for the up-vote. The melody, as my wife reminds me, is “My Favorite Things” from The Sound of Music. The words are mine.
I don’t believe any other racial group stands with the looters... I’d like to see a breakdown on how Hispanics and Asians feel...
“The police made a mistake in not releasing their information early, so that it looked like your usual police cover up of an unjustified shooting”
Perhaps. . .but it was a darned-if-you-do, darned-if-you-don’t.
Release info early with soon to follow updates/changes would cause all sorts of charges. . .and withholding facts and evidence until you get the facts and evidence leads to charges.
No matter how soon or late facts and evidence is released, the police would have been wrong.
Oh good. Okay great job.
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