Posted on 08/14/2014 11:49:41 AM PDT by Kartographer
Ferguson suffered its 5th night of unrest; as we feared during the day yesterday, when night fell in Ferguson, a combination of massive SWAT team presence and an increasingly disillusioned citizenry were a recipe for disaster. Over 70 heavily-armed police enforced quasi-martial-law in the troubled town, at least 10 people were arrested, tear gas and rubber bullets were unleashed, and 2 reporters were (briefly) arrested. Perhaps Rep. Justin Amash summed it up best, "Is this a war zone or a US city? Gov't escalates tensions w/military equipment & tactics."
"I've had enough of being pushed around because of the color of my skin. I'm sick of this police brutality," said one protester, who gave only his first name, Terrell, 18. "I'm going to keep coming back here night after night until we get justice."
Clashes broke out between police and protesters overnight in Ferguson, Missouri, four days after police shot to death an unarmed black teen.
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I can’t think of any group there that has the ethical high ground in this.
“I’ve had enough of being pushed around because of the color of my skin. I’m sick of this police brutality,” said one protester, who gave only his first name, Terrell, 18. “I’m going to keep coming back here night after night until we get justice.”
Let’s look back a few days, Terrell;
What came first, thugs looting their own neighborhoods or cops trying to stop them?
Guess who won? The rioters are not in jail, so the next time there’s a provocation, there will be another riot, and so on.
Didn’t 0bama just today say that the protestors should not be arrested?
Did spokesnegro Terrell have new $200.00 tennis shoes?
I say get the police out of Ferguson, blockade it, and see what happens.
“The rioters are not in jail”
Look at Barry’s statement from today:
“There’s also no excuse for police to use excessive force against peaceful protests, or to throw protestors in jail....”
The man is angling for an expansion of the ahem ‘protests’.
I get the Free Shit Army crap. It happens in times of crisis (and it’s not race specific - cops/firefighters looting during 9-11 & Katrina). Crimes of opportunity. Envy is one of those 7 Deadlies...and will never go away.
This Ferguson thing isn’t going away anytime soon.
Black kids have been gunned down by cops for years...it’s only recently that anyone around HERE noticed (our dogs, our teenagers, our neighbors, even our homeless) have been targeted for the “hood treatment”.
Now, suddenly, we worry about our safety from Officer Friendly? LEO Bully tactics have been repeated for decades in our poorest inner-cities, and I do believe it was just practice for the rest of us.
Time to learn from those who have been in the cross-hairs for decades. (And yes, I blame liberal policies for putting our fellow Americans in the crosshairs. )
FEDGOV worries about us catching onto the FEDGOV schemes...therefore militarized police to keep us all nice & peacelike....
Time to wake UP.
War zone.
Lawlessness in the White House begets lawlessness in the streets. Go figure. We see here selective law enforcement resulting in police State tactics. Duh.
Seems like it would be cheaper to offer a free TV to anyone who goes home and stays there.
I just watched Full Metal Jacket last night, again. Anyone who knows that movie, I am sure, can imagine, the Animal Mother joke.
“if I’m going to die for a word, then my word is ‘poon tang’.”
Classic.
Adam Baldwin - great actor.
Not exactly the quote I was thinking...
Picky . . .
“I think we should win.”
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