[metmom]

Police held their own and tempers soon calmed, but as night gripped New York, the already congested Times Square ground to a halt as thousands flowed into the streets to demand an end to police brutality and militarization and justice for 18-year-old Brown.

While I in no way can justify the rioting and looting and there's plenty of conflicting reports of what happened in that shooting, they do have the point about police militarization.

They have been getting out of control with their knock down the doors, shoot the dog, trash the house, and realize they have the wrong address kind of gestapo tactics.

I doubt that any shooting of any black person, no matter how justified in self-defense, at this point in time would provoke any other reaction than what we've seen here.

This country is coming apart at the seems.

[dragnet2]

“”While I in no way can justify the rioting and looting and there’s plenty of conflicting reports of what happened in that shooting, they do have the point about police militarization.””

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See post 31 and the accompanied Mike Brown crime scene video at the thread link. Ignore the audio and focus on the first half of the video.

This very well could have been a legitimate shoot.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3192974/posts?page=31#31