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What people around the world are saying about Ferguson
Santa Cruz Sentinel ^ | 11/25/14 | Timothy McGrath

Posted on 11/26/2014 6:16:18 AM PST by artichokegrower

On Aug. 9 in Ferguson, Mo., Darren Wilson, a white police officer, shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager. Brown's body was left in the street for four hours.

Brown's killing was a familiar American tragedy in a country where young black men between the ages of 15 and 19 are 21 times more likely to be shot by police officers than young white men of the same age.

(Excerpt) Read more at santacruzsentinel.com ...


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KEYWORDS: 1deadthug; ferguson
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Fellow justice-seekers expressed solidarity. Palestinians, accustomed to surviving under military occupation, tweeted advice to Ferguson protesters about how to deal with tear gas, even as Israeli air strikes were demolishing Gaza and killing thousands of Palestinian civilians.


So the author equates Palestinians with American street thugs. I don't have a problem with that.

1 posted on 11/26/2014 6:16:18 AM PST by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

The unfortunate tragedy is that there’s more blacks than whites committing crimes because they think they’re entitled. They’re told by the Democrats that they’re victims and that they should lash out at evil whitey.


2 posted on 11/26/2014 6:20:46 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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I’m long past caring about what the rest of the world thinks. They believed Obama was the Savior of the Universe, too.


3 posted on 11/26/2014 6:21:23 AM PST by Nepeta
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“Brown’s killing was a familiar American tragedy in a country where young black men between the ages of 15 and 19 are 21 times more likely to be shot by police officers than young white men of the same age.

Ironic how the author cites a statistic which ably demonstrates how such black male youths are so much more prone to commit lethal felonies than their other peers.


4 posted on 11/26/2014 6:22:55 AM PST by WhiskeyX
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By now even Wolf Blitzer of CNN has been instructed by MO authorities that Brown’s corpse was left in the street until the crime scene was thoroughly searched and all evidence was recorded and secured. That took four hours. It was not a sign of disrespect, as the fevered race baiters in Ferguson publicized it, but a matter of following the law.

If you don’t want to have your body in the street, don’t attack a Missouri cop there.


5 posted on 11/26/2014 6:24:20 AM PST by txrefugee
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...in a country where young black men between the ages of 15 and 19 are 21 times more likely to be shot by police officers than young white men of the same age.

Could it possibly be that young white men of the same age have real fathers at home who teach their sons to be good citizens and obey the laws, stay in school and get a good education, graduate and get either a college degree or a skillful trade, raise a family and don't steal?..................................nah..........................

6 posted on 11/26/2014 6:26:14 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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If you don’t want to have your body in the street, don’t attack a Missouri cop there.

That's good advice for anywhere on the planet........................

7 posted on 11/26/2014 6:27:35 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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“So the author equates Palestinians with American street thugs. I don’t have a problem with that.”

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Exactly. Both countries have many useless troublemakers and PAID THUGS to create unrest, damage and chaos. As well as a government that keeps throwing gasoline on the fire....so to speak.


8 posted on 11/26/2014 6:27:44 AM PST by EagleUSA
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American stree thugs are worse, becasue they’re here.

So far, at least


9 posted on 11/26/2014 6:27:47 AM PST by chesley (Obama -- Muslim or dhimmi? And does it matter?)
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What I’m seeing is most think American blacks are oppressed and murdered daily by the evil white man.
Some of these people need to spend a little time walking through any American ghetto. If they manage to make it out alive, they will change their tune about the ‘poor oppressed black man’.
Then spend time in rural America. Black folks in rural America are just working neighbors.


10 posted on 11/26/2014 6:28:10 AM PST by envisio (Its on like Donkey Kong!)
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Given the drivel provided the world by our low IQ MSM, what matters what they say?

Brown was a thug.

And he could be the Obamadork’s sun.


11 posted on 11/26/2014 6:29:12 AM PST by Da Coyote
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Actually, I read that and thought...

the whites are also more likely to be in school in that age group too.


12 posted on 11/26/2014 6:30:14 AM PST by EBH (And the angel poured out his cup...)
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I still think Wilson handled it wrong. He should have called for backup before attempting to arrest Brown. Once he confronted him “feeling like a 5 year old” (eyeroll) it was too late.

You don’t arrest a huge guy by yourself just because you have a gun.


13 posted on 11/26/2014 6:30:49 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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One word: Disappointment. This is some seriously weak rioting. They are just going through the motions.

It’s the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of rioting.


14 posted on 11/26/2014 6:31:07 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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A person who rides a bike is more likely to have a bike crash than someone who doesn’t. Using their logic, bike riders are disproportionately targeted for bike accidents as opposed to those who don’t ride bikes.


15 posted on 11/26/2014 6:31:14 AM PST by envisio (Its on like Donkey Kong!)
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You are right.

You shoot his ass. If you do it right, you don’t even need the cuffs.


16 posted on 11/26/2014 6:31:59 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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Bud, the toilets today aren't worthy of the name. They come in designer colors, they're too low, and when you flush 'em they make this little weak almost apologetic sound.

Not a Ferguson. It only comes in white and when you flush it...Bam! Whooosh! That's a man's flush, Bud. A Ferguson says, "I'm a toilet. Sit down and give me your best shot." Oh, if only a Ferguson could speak, the tales it would tell.

17 posted on 11/26/2014 6:32:11 AM PST by dfwgator
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According to the FBI website, 27 police officers were feloniously murdered last year, 25 were white, 2 were black. No information was forthcoming about the races of the cop killers.


18 posted on 11/26/2014 6:34:53 AM PST by BlackAdderess
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21 times more likely to be shot? How many times more likely to be caught committing a crime?

If you exist in a criminal thug culture, you are likely to have conflicts with police. Watch the riots and tell me they do not exist in criminal thug culture.

Also, if you confront police instead of cooperate with them, they will feel threatened and you will not be safe.

Brown did not want to be arrested for theft, assault, and drug possession. So he decided to fight.

FURTHERMORE, this is not a collective case. It is an individual case with individual facts. There is no excusing the rioting no matter what.

LAST, yes, the parallel to arab thugs is certainly well made.


19 posted on 11/26/2014 6:37:31 AM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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Young black men between the ages of 15 and 19 are 21 times more likely to deserve being shot by police officers.


20 posted on 11/26/2014 6:39:34 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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