Posted on 09/02/2014 7:37:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The images of violent demonstrations in the wake of the killing of young Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., are subsiding, and now the nation awaits the results of local and federal investigations. Still, many of us continue to ponder the issue of the police’s response to those protests.
Scenes of the militarized police force roaming the neighborhoods in tanks — armed with tear gas canisters, smoke bombs and rubber bullets used indiscriminately upon protesters and troublemakers alike — reminded many of war-torn areas abroad or the violence visited upon demonstrators during the civil rights and Vietnam eras.
However, the killing of an unarmed teen is far from the only example of the kind of state-sanctioned bullying that makes one wonder whether police are out of control.
Take the recent case here in North Texas of Kametra Barbour, a young mother heading home with her children. She was stopped by Forney police, pulled from her car and handcuffed while the children were left terrified. Why? The police received a report of a beige or tan Toyota carrying four black men, one of whom was waving a gun. Barbour is a black female. She drives a maroon Nissan Maxima and had no weapon of any kind. Her 6-year-old son got out of the car with his hands raised high in the air asking, “Are we going to jail?”
This Forney mother’s encounter with the police is not uncommon. Indeed, it could have been worse....
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
True that!
1) The Dallas paper is very far left in its reporting.
2) There were no tanks in Ferguson. This racist “Rev.” is only repeating what other liberals have said.
3) It was not the Ferguson PD that was trying to control the looting, molotov cocktails, thrown bottles and rocks. It was the MO State LEOs who the idiot Gov. Nixon put in charge.
4) Treat any story in the DMN just as you would a story from the NYT, WaPo or LA Times. Believe only about 10%, such as place and peoples’ names.
The fake rev-run is upset that Obuma’s military tools were used against his home boys and the commie agitators. These tools are supposed to be used against whitey and Christians.
Oh, the inhumanity of unintended consequences.
Personally I have no problem that "police departments all over the Country have become militarized;" I do have a problem with the few police actions that employed the heavy equipment when there was no chance of encountering a heavily armed criminal gang or others bent on causing deadly violence.
It's more than the threat from Islamists. There are the domestic and foreign-based, heavily armed criminal gangs that police must now face daily. The police cannot always call upon the Guard to provide the support they need.
I referenced in my reply the armed federal Bureau of Land Management thugs and of course there are other traditionally civilian agencies like (including I suppose) the Library of Congress arming up.
I think that once we are rid of the aged 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus radical, psycho spoiled brats and their ideological litters (the Obama Adm.) then the adults in the next administration will correct the problems caused by the campus kids.
I cannot really argue that much with what you said but I do totally disagree with "But the ENTIRE situation with the rioting was, in my opinion, generated by a police force overeager to demonstrate their military prowess . . . ."
I think that it could have actually prevented it from getting worse. After the Norman Rockwell-like America through the 1940s and 1950s that I remember things exploded in the 1960s. IMO it is still with us.
Every instance of public tumult was provoked to the maximum. Violence including in my hometown of Cincinnati was deadly. I was so fed up with the turmoil that I actually called the mayor's office and said let's just get it over with in the streets. Virtually everyone in the city was already armed.
I honestly do believe the following from Abe.
You initiated a policy to tolerate the Marxist-Alinsky radicals and let them rant; not only has it not ceased but was constantly augmented by decades of infiltration and indoctrination. You now have two Americas. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half statist and half free; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Only after that crisis has passed can we go back to when "our fellow citizens" as policemen served as “peace officers.” Though hopefully this time with zero corruption and union thugs.
And that still leaves the Islamist war against us.
A moabist proposal
Massive Ordinance Air Blast, aka "Mother of all bombs"
Anytime ISIS scum gather in great numbers.
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