Originally posted by Henry_Pym
yes, the peaceful people should have immediately pointed out trouble makes or you get lumped together.
But that's EXACTLY what they did. There were numerous statements from protesters that vilified the looters. There were peaceful protesters who actively hunted down and exiled the looters. Did you even see the protests? Even if you even watched an hour of news coverage, you would have seen this. I think you need to reexamine your "facts".
Originally posted by Henry_Pym
When did that happen DURING the riots? It didn't happen when Ferguson was burning, White Reporters were being assaulted, protesters were blocking the streets not allowing Fire Engines unmolested access or when people were using the mass of protestors as cover to throw rocks and litter at police.
Again, you clearly didn't see the protests. Those rioters were vilified by the peaceful protesters DURING the protests.
Look, it's clear you just want to lump all the blacks in Ferguson together as riotous savages, even though that was clearly not the case. Even worse, it's clear you don't think Ferguson PD deserved to be vilified for their years of constant racial abuse, which you've admitted is OK in your book. So I'll just let you keep your bigotry, because it's clear that you want to adhere to your ideology rather than objective facts.
Think you're the third racist I've encountered on this board in the past week. Sad state America is in, indeed.
Most of the looters were not even from Ferguson.
I seem to remember hearing that some of the communities around ferguson had more tickets, fines and arrests then ferguson did. Upwards of 30-40 tickets and fines a year with populations half of that.
Mind you that the communities that had these had black mayors.
The whole area is ****ed up.
Originally posted by Lestov16
Look, it's clear you just want to lump all the blacks in Ferguson together as riotous savages, even though that was clearly not the case. Even worse, it's clear you don't think Ferguson PD deserved to be vilified for their years of constant racial abuse, which you've admitted is OK in your book. So I'll just let you keep your bigotry, because it's clear that you want to adhere to your ideology rather than objective facts.
The problem is that I'm not sure the DoJ was completely impartial in deciding whether or not the Ferguson PD was actually guilty of what you're claiming. It could be that they just decided that someone had to pay for the Brown/Wilson incident to appease the blacks who think that Wilson got away with murder so they trumped up the charges.
Hmm. I'm just going to end my rants here by saying that while I do not believe Brown's death in and of itself was racist (I view Brown to be a drug-addled prick), I do believe Ferguson had a right to protest the injustices of the police department, at least until evidence that the charges were trumped comes forward.
Unless you live and work in the St Louis area, you won't understand what goes on there. There is much more racial animosity from blacks towards whites. I was at a Metrolink station one time and reading the paper about some black on black shooting and no response from the mostly black people at the Metrolink station. A few weeks later there was a shooting where a police officer shot a black person who aimed their gun at the police officer. That Metrolink station of patrons was buzzing big time about that shooting, even though in happened in the city and not the county. That tells me in me segments of the black community, they are waiting for something like this to pounce on and cause an uproar.
As fair as racial injustice, it's mostly from the county of St Louis where they have close to 90 little towns and in order to raise revenue they target motorists for speeding, no seat belt on or failure to use their blinker. Mostly piddly stuff, but the local municipal courts charge from $100 to $300 for these tickets and the people that live there, don't have that kind of money. Most don't bother to show up for court and get arrested for FTA, failure to appear and get an even bigger fine.
Since most people in North County are black and the areas around the city are black, guess who is going to get pulled over more? It's not a race thing as much as it those who are the mayors and government leaders in those areas need a few million dollars raised every year and property, personal property and sales tax fall short of raising that kind of revenue. In essense, the blacks they are being targeted by their local government not for safety violations, which the cops can alway give a warning or fix it ticket, but just to fund the system and all those that are on the government payroll . The issue goes way beyond Ferguson or the police department being willing dupes and pawn for these towns that would be willing to harass their own citizens. Then again, you can slow down and put your seat belt on too AND use the blinkers .
Originally posted by Lestov16
Look, it's clear you just want to lump all the blacks in Ferguson together as riotous savages, even though that was clearly not the case. Even worse, it's clear you don't think Ferguson PD deserved to be vilified for their years of constant racial abuse, which you've admitted is OK in your book. So I'll just let you keep your bigotry, because it's clear that you want to adhere to your ideology rather than objective facts.Think you're the third racist I've encountered on this board in the past week. Sad state America is in, indeed.
I don't understand why anyone would protest, let alone loot overr some stupid kid bully punk that did not have any sense to not beat up a cop.
That is just as idiotic as Michael Brown's actions. I guess some people want to have a civil right of punching someone in the face and not getting shot to death. Perhaps a "hands off and I won't ever get shot" is the better motto for these protesters.
The recent report from the DOJ about the Michael Brown shooting says that his hands were not up in surrender like his friend claimed. His friend also apparently claimed he was shot at least one time in the back, which the autopsy proved wasn't true.
Now we have several witnesses there with no reason to lie saying he didn't have his hands up and that Brown charged at the officer. One witness even went on to say she thought the cop waited too long before firing, and that she would of fired sooner. 2 of the witnesses who are saying he didn't surrender, etc. supposedly had some of the best vantage point out of all the witnesses.
So the mantra of "Hands up don't shoot" apparently didn't even actually happen. There were also apparently "Pants up don't loot" t-shirts being sold. Not by the same people obviously.