Posted on 07/21/2016 8:33:17 AM PDT by Marie
Yep, I was wrong on the Mike Brown incident and I was horrified by the aftermath. But I understood then and now what gives the demagogues their power.
I recommend Radley Balko’s more in depth reporting of the “policing for profit” that is particularly noxious in Ferguson and surrounding towns. This laid the tinder and kindling for activists looking to light a fire.
It’s no different than the Sagebrush Rebellion in Nevada, Utah and Eastern Oregon. Government overreach first creates criminals and then it punishes them.
Ya, ‘The Man’ made Mike brown rob that convenience store and assault that police officer. Get a job.
Do you think this was a ‘bad shoot’?
You’re seriously threatening to DOX a fellow FReeper?
What is wrong with you?
I was not referring to Mike Brown, but rather the local citizens who seemed perfectly willing to burn their own town down because they were fed up with being bled dry by the excessive number of city ordinance and traffic tickets being issued. Brown was the spark, but because of the nickel and dime policing (when 40% of the city budget comes from ticket fines there is a problem) none of the locals had any respect or goodwill for cops. They were perfectly willing to march to the BLM tune.
The Sagebrush Rebellion involves the other BLM, but the same overreach only at the federal level resulted in armed resistance that they crushed and are still crushing.
Trying to equate the two is a stretch.
I considered the jest possibility but
didn’t want the unknowing to get the
wrong idea about the limitations of
behavioral therapists.
There is a distinct difference in method and understanding of the problem between the two groups, but the underlying rage at the machine is the same.
Urban populations have been living on the Dem’s war on poverty plantation for so long they really haven’t figured out who forged the chains they willingly put on. They focus on the cops that hand out all the citations while still voting for the elected officials passing ordinance after ordinance, while ranchers recognized damn good and well who is shredding their grazing and water rights and burning down their pasturage.
But in both instances the actual cause of their grievances is insane levels of government.
In the news report below (if I have the right link), the police department is saying the autistic man and not the therapist was the target. The officer shot, they say, because he feared the autistic man was going to shoot the therapist.
The behavioral therapist was shot in the leg.
http://wsvn.com/news/local/video-shows-moments-before-north-miami-police-shot-unarmed-man/
Why shoot the therapist if the autistic person was holding the toy truck?
Wait until these apologists for the cop find themselves on the receiving end of the police bullets and attitudes when they have not violated any law[s]. Then they will sing a different tune.
The police union president says that the officer shot at the autistic man and missed, hitting the therapist.
This is about to be covered on World News Tonight. I wonder how they will cover it.
Don’t watch WNT or any other MSM’s ... used to watch BBC but even then it was a gag factor. If I want to be lied to I’ll talk to my cat.
I suffer through it just to know what people are being told.
I read the news blogs that highlight their idiocy. I can’t stand to watch them when those bobble heads read what someone wrote for them to say and then they call them selves journalists. Europe has it right: they’re called “News Readers” over there.
Okay, WNT just covered it.
They actually even mentioned that the officer said he thought the therapist was in danger and his target was the autistic man.
PLUS, they included a statement from the officer himself. He said something like that he took this job to save lives, and he did what he had to do, and then something about making the decision in a split second.
“Europe has it right: they’re called “News Readers” over there.”
Almost right. Not sure what they read could always be called “news.” I’ve heard them called “presenters” there, too, I believe.
One thing about this incident. The police came out quickly with the officer’s version, which is good. It is good for for getting more of both sides out, hopefully helping to defuse the controversy until the investigation process is complete.
The officer’s statement:
“Meanwhile, the officer involved in the shooting released a statement Thursday afternoon saying, “I took this job to save lives and help people. I did what I had to do in a split second to accomplish that and hate to hear others paint me as something I’m not.”
“The officer has not been identified, but police said he is a 30-year-old Hispanic man who has been with the police department for four years.”
Yes, that makes it sooooo much better.
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