[Conscience of a Conservative]

Your theory is that because the cops killed a guy, the greater society should tolerate the behavior of animals?

Absolutely not. But that doesn't mean that people should be posting racist cartoons.

They got their troubles, I have mine. I don't give a rat's ass about theirs.

But, in this case, their troubles ARE your troubles, even if you don't realize it. Abusive policing should be troubling to anyone.

[Stentor]

But, in this case, their troubles ARE your troubles, even if you don't realize it. Abusive policing should be troubling to anyone.

Yes and yes. Wasn't me that went out to create a rioting evil that takes attention away from the misconduct of the cops. Having said that, in a city of over a million people, it's not the cops that keep my head on a swivel.

[Trailerpark Badass]

My problems? Perhaps in some very theoretical way. There is less of a heavy police presence where I live because the residents are better at policing their own behavior. That's probably the main reason I choose to live here. I am scrupulous about not "inviting the man into my life," mainly by, get this, not breaking the law, no matter how stupid..

The places where these alleged abuses seem to occur are prone to them not because of geography or architecture, but because of the people who live there, many of whom understand the law to mean anything they can get away with.

and, personally, I have trouble ginning up a great deal of sympathy for Marxist separatists who constantly agitate for more government and race division, and then are shocked when government does what it does.