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Letās play pretend: After the police moved in to quash the peaceful protests, armed black nationalist militants from all over the country streamed to Ferguson to support the cause of ending police brutality and profiling.
I would imagine that the 2nd amendment, freedom loving patriots who held up Cliven Bundy as a hero could get behind this, right?
Right?
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This is why I love Elizabeth Warren, her statement could not be more spot on. Common sense is a beautiful thing, and Elizabeth Warren has more of that rare commodity than any politician to come along sense, well, sense John F. Kennedy.
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But a tweet! A tweet?! Cāmonā¦
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Not her state. IMO, an official response from ElWa (D-MA) could/would be construed as interfering or at least out of place. But we havenāt heard anything from Roy Blunt (R-MO) and McCaskill (D-MO). Blunt is a lost cause. Iām surprised that McCaskill hasnāt weighed in (as far as I know).
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Trueā¦in that context. Maybe I am just a Tweet-hater and find it an unserious communication medium.
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What if the answers really point to cold blooded murder under the color of law? I mean, for all we know the officer on duty had a vendetta he was acting on.
Weāve seen teachers unions close ranks over tenure. The FOP hasnāt really had to defend a 1st degree murder charge from an active duty officer.
The FOP would be apoplectic. And Iām not saying to pursue that specific charge if it isnāt warranted is a good or just idea. But a step in the right direction would be to prosecute the officer to the fullest extent of the law upon investigation (whether thatās manslaughter or whatever it is).
Prolonged edit: in-patient psychiatric evaluation is the only alternative ā not brief, anonymous, often paid administrative leave. Itās not enough that people take a ration of shit from their coworkers and get bad shifts until someone else fucks up. āPolice are sympathetic to police who commit crimes because cops are treated poorly in prisonā is too cozy of a code and must be addressed systematically.
Mr. President, Mr. Attorney General ā how does the situation look from Marthaās Vineyard?
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This is what happens when police depts get M-RAPs cheap.
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Thank you Senator Warren for making it plain. Some elected official in Ferguson City should have been at the podium speaking calm and providing answers to the citizens.
I challenge every protester in Ferguson City to register and vote out the clowns who are your current elected officials. For they all have collectively failed you in this horrible situation!
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Actually senator, it is America and it is a war zone. We should all be deeply ashamed that this BS is going on.
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Has she heard about whatās going on in Chicagoās neighborhoods? Talk about a war-zone. Of course, Illinois isnāt the state she represents, oh yeah, neither is MO.
Actually, the governor should be making the police force stand down, they should be removing the police chief from duty and letting someone else police the situation. Someone with a lick of sense.
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After looking at the pictures and seeing the MILITARY equipment that Ferguson police are using, Iām going with war zone.
What is happening in Ferguson is just an expanded view of what cops have become in America and how little the life of a black person is worth.
Those of you who back the war on drugs?
This is on you.
Those who think Treyvan Martin was a punk kid?
This is on you.
Those who back ālaw nāorderā?
This is on you.
Three Strikes?
Yeah you too.
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The parallel between Birmingham, AL, in the 1960ās with Bull Connors and Ferguson, MO, today is striking.
Today, the police in MO are not declaring āsegregation at all costs,ā but ,they are saying effectively: āWeāre not going to changeā.
Bull Connors was at least assaulting and brutalizing an actual crowd. The cop to protester ratio in Ferguson appears to be about 2:1.
Shades of āSoylent Greenā. Whatās next, removing citizens with bulldozers?
It IS kinda ironic that SOME peopleās constitutional rights are INVIOLATE, whereas other peoples rights areā¦not so muchā¦
Itās all so confusingāI guess, the Constitution still only matters if you are male and white.
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Itās not that funny; thatās what some of the shadier conservative conspiracy websites have been reporting to scare Good Proper White Christians - that the New Black Panther Party had rolled into town (complete with stock photos of random African soldiers in berets) with the intention of āblowing up white babiesā. If that had been picked up by bigger outlets - which is not inconceivable in the conservative insanosphere - most right wing Americans would eagerly believe it word for word. I also kept noticing stray tweets last night of white STL area residents worrying about roving bands of black gang members committing violent hate crimes against random whites, inexorably reported by āreliable sources in the areaā. This is the result of one case I heard of young black men in Ferguson taking their anger out on a white man they thought might have been an undercover cop; given an hour, that story becomes a city-wide terrorist siege by the NBP.
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Nope. Def. not funny. Having politicians and pundits gin up anger on the white right may result in actual sustained violence at some point.
Exactly; the follow up to those tweets was pretty much always white southerners/midwesterners saying āBring it onā and āLet them show up here, weāre readyā and referencing their guns. The same attitude among the police that started this entire mess.
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You are not alone!
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