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Ferguson Reforms Met With Rancor at City Meeting (Gave in to ALL their demands & still got heckled!)
ABC News / The Associated Press ^ | September 9, 2014 | Alan Scher Zagier and Nigel Duara of the AP

Posted on 09/09/2014 9:53:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Efforts by city leaders in the St. Louis suburb where an unarmed black 18-year-old was fatally shot by a white police officer to repair the local government's fractured relationship with its residents got off to a rocky start Tuesday at the first public meeting of elected officials since Michael Brown's death.

The shooting last month exposed an undercurrent of racial unrest in Ferguson and other nearby suburbs in mostly black communities of north St. Louis County, and prompted days of sometimes-violent protests...

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: blacks; darrenwilson; ferguson; gentlegiant; lawenforcement; michaelbrown; missouri; msm
This is why the founding fathers opposed democracy.
1 posted on 09/09/2014 9:53:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Danged if I can remember where in the pledge of allegiance it says “...and to the democracy for which it stands.” Oh, wait. It doesn’t say that. Guess when it was written, somebody never got the memo and stuck that old troublesome word REPUBLIC in there instead.


2 posted on 09/09/2014 10:01:35 PM PDT by rktman (Ethnicity: Nascarian. Race: Daytonafivehundrian)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I wonder how the MSM will report it when majority-white communities expect to have police depts which “reflect the community”. Not really, but then I don’t expect that many majority white communities will have the gumption to make the demand.


3 posted on 09/09/2014 10:06:46 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“You’ve lost your authority to govern this community,” said St. Louis activist John Chasnoff. “You’re going to have to step aside peacefully if this community is going to heal.”


What? The City Council didn’t shoot Brown.

Maybe the police should stage a mass strike for a month in Ferguson, they’ll be on the job but no arrests, no policing Ferguson just show up and do desk duty.


4 posted on 09/09/2014 10:09:12 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They will never adjust to a civil society.


5 posted on 09/09/2014 10:12:29 PM PDT by Iron Munro ("If you want to test a man's character, give him power." -- Abraham Lincoln)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Poorly written inflammatory article.

They stopped blacks twice as often as Whites...duh. Blacks make up 70% of the population. Whites less than 30% ...

Oh, there's that White math thing again.

6 posted on 09/09/2014 10:20:43 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How many blacks have applied to be LEO’s?

How many were turned down and why?


7 posted on 09/09/2014 10:36:22 PM PDT by NoLibZone (The bad news: Hillary Clinton will be the next President. The Good news: Our principles are intact.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Ferguson, a city of 21,000, is about 70 percent black. Its 53-member police department has just three black officers. The mayor and five of the six City Council members are white.

A 2013 report by the Missouri attorney general's office found that Ferguson police stopped and arrested black drivers nearly twice as often as white motorists, but were less likely to find contraband among the black drivers.


what's the issue here ? seems proportional to me.
8 posted on 09/09/2014 10:50:45 PM PDT by stylin19a (Obama ----> Fredo smart)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It was exactly this appeasement of the mob that led to king Louis XVI losing his head - literally.


9 posted on 09/09/2014 11:03:42 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: stylin19a
The mayor and five of the six City Council members are white.

Who voted them into office?

10 posted on 09/09/2014 11:12:02 PM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: stylin19a

Actually whites were being stopped at a higher rate. Probably because they actually pay their tickets.


11 posted on 09/09/2014 11:47:19 PM PDT by Rockpile
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

More fun in Playful City USA.


12 posted on 09/09/2014 11:48:14 PM PDT by Rockpile
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

People are surprised when they find out that the word “democracy” is nowhere in the Constitution.


13 posted on 09/10/2014 12:03:10 AM PDT by Republican1795.
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To: Republican1795.

Probably there should just be no policing in majority black areas. Let them have their jungle thang.


14 posted on 09/10/2014 12:40:15 AM PDT by angry elephant (Endangered species in Seattle)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think we need to just have all-black everything for these people and then whites can just stay away from those areas. One caveat.... They have to stay away from the all-white areas too.

They’re just completely ridiculous at this point so I’m just responding in kind.


15 posted on 09/10/2014 1:41:46 AM PDT by Bullish (You ever notice that liberalism really just amounts to anti-morality?)
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To: NoLibZone

I can tell from working in that area that the numbers of black citizens who desire to be police officers and can pass both the academy and the police department’s requirements and background checks are dismal.

When a common enjoinder is “Yo, how do I be a police?” you know you have a long way to go.


16 posted on 09/10/2014 4:14:48 AM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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To: Doomonyou

Right on. What they fail to understand is that when you don’t vote, you are still voting.

For the other guy.


17 posted on 09/10/2014 4:16:16 AM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
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18 posted on 09/10/2014 5:34:58 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: RginTN

And what business is it of a St. Louis resident what happens in Ferguson city government?


19 posted on 09/10/2014 8:00:02 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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