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'There are no police': Ferguson store owners guard businesses; cite lack of police response
FOX News ^ | August 16, 2014

Posted on 08/16/2014 7:51:35 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Edited on 08/16/2014 2:08:08 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Looters in Ferguson, Mo., were met with little police resistance Friday night and store owners say they were forced to protect their businesses with their own guns, Fox2Now.com reported.

"I think the first message is to remind all law enforcement that they are hired to serve and protect and if they

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: banglist; ferguson; fergusonbusinesses; fergusonpolice; fergusonriots; mikebrown; missouri
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To: Sgt_Schultze

“Take your insurance payout and your jobs and move to a safer community.”

That’s what I say as well. The rioters and looters fouled their own nest. They can live in the filth, less the places of business they destroyed.


21 posted on 08/16/2014 8:03:43 AM PDT by snoringbear (E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

this

sadly


22 posted on 08/16/2014 8:04:30 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Missouri State Highway Patrol Capt. Ron Johnson said police backed off to try and ease the tension. No arrests were made.

“We had to evaluate the security of the officers there and also the rioters,” Johnson said. “We just felt it was better to move back.”

He should be replaced immediately.


23 posted on 08/16/2014 8:04:30 AM PDT by McGruff (You can lead a human to knowledge but you can't make him think)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"Comments are currently closed for this article."

I wonder why?

24 posted on 08/16/2014 8:04:59 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

and in another week Ferguson will be no more or like an ISIS controlled town in Iraq


25 posted on 08/16/2014 8:05:35 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Sgt_Schultze
Take your insurance payout and your jobs and move to a safer community.

There's gotta be a point where businesses have to get 'looter's insurance' in predominantly black neighborhoods. It will become prohibitively expensive like medical malpractice insurance.

26 posted on 08/16/2014 8:05:44 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
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To: cableguymn

The sheriff of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, David Clarke, Jr., has advised the citizens of that county that he would prefer they go about armed. This is in direct conflict with the Mayor of Milwaukee, Tom Barrett, who is another gun control freak on the order of former mayor of New York Bloomberg. But the sheriff has more standing than the mayor when it comes to “serve and protect”.

That means, that when a prospective perp walks into a convenience store, he DOES NOT KNOW if the clerk or the owner will pull down on him, or if the next customer in line may pull out a .45 ACP Glock, just to remind him of good manners.

The county sheriff, the sheriff’s deputies, and all the municipal police just cannot be everywhere at once. Their purpose is to investigate and report crimes, not stop them.


27 posted on 08/16/2014 8:07:07 AM PDT by alloysteel (Most people become who they promised they would never be.)
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To: McGruff

A few Hugs from Johnson and it’s over .NOT .


28 posted on 08/16/2014 8:08:54 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

the police got the message loud and clear. Evidently the store owners have not.


29 posted on 08/16/2014 8:10:22 AM PDT by sport
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To: McGruff

Why?


30 posted on 08/16/2014 8:10:24 AM PDT by dinoparty
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Someone said there was going to be a “purge” Friday night where anything goes. Looks like they were right.


31 posted on 08/16/2014 8:10:39 AM PDT by DannyTN (I)
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To: KeyLargo
"On the second day of the riots, the police had abandoned much of Koreatown."

I've encountered some around here who believe that "tactic" of de-escalating should be the first tactic that the police employ when dealing with feral savages intent on destroying, maiming and killing.

32 posted on 08/16/2014 8:11:11 AM PDT by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: McGruff
"Missouri State Highway Patrol Capt. Ron Johnson said police backed off to try and ease the tension. No arrests were made.

“We had to evaluate the security of the officers there and also the rioters,” Johnson said. “We just felt it was better to move back.”

"He should be replaced immediately."

But, but, but.... the black State Police Captain was supposed to calm the waters, give out hugs, part the sea and still the waters, just like Dear Leader Obama?

33 posted on 08/16/2014 8:14:35 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: hal ogen

That’s exactly what this illustrates.

To prevent murder charges, store owners should have guards with tazers who taze looters as many times as necessary before the police can come and haul the criminals off to jail. After a while people will hopefully figure out that it will be VERY painful to loot there because you may be tazed for the next 24 hours or however long it takes the police to arrive...

A sign on the door and somebody on a bullhorn making sure even illiterate people are forewarned might also stave off lawsuits.


34 posted on 08/16/2014 8:14:49 AM PDT by butterdezillion (Note to self : put this between arrow keys: img src=""/)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"We had to evaluate the security of the officers there and also the rioters," Johnson said. "We just felt it was better to move back."

No concern about business owners or other peaceful citizens.

35 posted on 08/16/2014 8:18:00 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why should the police risk their life or a law suit from the savages..IF I was on that force I would turn my badge and gun in and move out of that town..Let these freaks kill one another like they are doing in CHICAGO..once the slugs tear up the city then they will move on and terrorize someone else..


36 posted on 08/16/2014 8:20:01 AM PDT by PLD
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To: McGruff

“He should be replaced immediately.”

Who will replace them. He and the governor are taking orders from Holder.


37 posted on 08/16/2014 8:21:50 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Sgt_Schultze

But then you’d have Detroit in Missouri.


38 posted on 08/16/2014 8:21:53 AM PDT by Portcall24
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To: PLD

I agree with you.


39 posted on 08/16/2014 8:22:42 AM PDT by sport
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To: snoringbear

Someone was saying that insurance policies don’t cover rioting. Is that true?

How much does a tazer cost? I’d be willing to pitch in towards tazers for businesses who would be willing to post notices and have somebody on a bullhorn noting that their establishment is safe because looters and attackers will be tazed immediately, and re-tazed as many times as it takes for police to come and book the criminals.

At some point we have to make it clear to criminals that the PC enemy-combatant media and lawyers CANNOT steal, kill, and destroy without getting painful kickback. As one of the looters said on video, they ARE “revolutionaries”, and we need to fight back.


40 posted on 08/16/2014 8:22:45 AM PDT by butterdezillion (Note to self : put this between arrow keys: img src=""/)
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