Posted on 12/25/2014 5:52:43 AM PST by walford
The police officer who shot and killed a man on Tuesday in Berkeley, Missouri, was given a body camera but it was not activated at the time of the shooting, officials said today.
The shooting sparked new unrest in a region already reeling following an August police shooting a few miles away in Ferguson. About 200 to 300 protesters gathered at the gas station where Tuesday night's shooting happened.
When asked whether he was concerned that the officer's body cam was not activated, Berkeley Mayor Theodore Hoskins said he was "not concerned."
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Al Sharpton, Eric Holder, the President and others who are politically and economically invested in falsely racializing incidents -- and thus sowing division within American society -- have successfully fanned the flames to the point in which black mobs are calling for lynchings based upon race rather than evidence -- and completely missing the absurd and tragic irony in this.
To what end?
It would seem that we are already at the point wherein even if the would-be perpetrator is caught on camera pointing a firearm at an officer, if he is not killed as he is supposed to be there will be riots, looting, threats to the officers' families and random racially motivated attacks upon innocents. Is the object to undermine confidence in local law enforcement so they are forced to abandon certain areas? Perhaps then an American version of La Guardia Civil takes over?
We already suffer under an administration that does not believe in equality under the law, so we would have a federalized constabulary in which law enforcement depends upon group identity and political connections rather than Rule of Law -- which is arguably dead already.
Is the next step declaring a State of Emergency, instituting Martial Law -- and perhaps suspending elections? How far does the destruction of our society need to go to appease those who lust for power?
eXCELLANT POST.
you summarized it all succinctly and accurately.
The problem is that it is a tool that can be seen as manipulatable. Sometimes it’s on, sometimes it’s off. In this case, it’s introduced another element of doubt in an irrationally unbelieving mob.
The gas station VIDEO shows exactly what happened!!
And yet there were still riots.
Would he be alive today if the cop wore a camera? Nope. But, the boy would be the star in the latest snuff film. His parents and girlfriend could at least collected royalties.
What exactly is the “Black lives matter movement”? If this
“movement” really cared they would address the abortion issue that kills black babies instead of manufacturing a “movement” that suits their own ends.
But I guess the agenda always comes first no matter the cost of unborn lives.
This is EXACTLY the racial division and path to the blacks taking everything from the whites and then pushing the whites out that Rev Wright’s Black Liberation Theology teaches. Very muck like Alinsly too...rubbing raw the perceived injustices.
In the past year 150 blacks were killed by police — owing in no small part in their over-representation in committing violent crimes, hence increasing their chances of life-threatening situations involving law enforcement.
During that same period 6,000 blacks were murdered by each other.
During that same period over 600,000 black babies were killed by their mothers in the womb. Reportedly there are more black abortions than births in NYC.
If black lives really do matter, the fingers currently pointing outward need to be exchanged for some candid introspection within the community.
body cameras are a very very bad idea.
First place, we can see, even, and most notably, in the case of the NYC Mayor, that people will not see the truth when it is filmed in broad daylight if it doesn’t suit their ideology.
Body cameras see in an enclosed area. They don’t see 360 in every direction.
They’re not the solution.
The patrol car cam should have caught it too.
Is the next step declaring a State
of Emergency, instituting Martial Law — and perhaps suspending elections?”
IMO, that’s exactly the goal.
Yes, but that doesn't matter to the Piece-of-Cr@p-In-Chief and his lying cohorts.
It will be interesting to watch them shut down Times Square New Years Eve on national TV with full immunity from law enforcement consequences. This may also present an opportunity for a terrorist to take advantage of.
I’m going to steal that.
I think we are in a low grade race war already. It may become a higher grade war later, but we all know, in a war, the first casualty is the truth. Their side is not interested in truth. They want to do a Rev Wright on us, the truth be damned.
We can see the perp pointing a pistol very clearly, so the cam being on is a moot point in this case.
Do you have a link? I’d like to see it.
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