Discussion for article #226645
Imagine that. When you begin to demilitarize the police the crowd responds with peaceful protests by and large. Who da thunk?
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Nahh, that’s just crazy talk. As Mayor Daley said, “The police are not here to create disorder; the police are here to preserve disorder!”
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Police Misconduct Free for 1 day.
Bloomberg had a small item on the demographic shifts in the St. Louis area, comparing changes from 1990 to present, i.e. how Ferguson went from being a white suburb to a black suburb. This kind of misses the point. Missouri is demographically unremarkable in the US context, with its population only increasing from 4.5 million in 1970 to 6.1 million in 2014. Rather, Missouri is and always has been about fudging the rules. The Missouri Compromise, for example, prohibited new territories north of the 36th parallel to have slavery – except Missouri. Missouri has also long been famous in opthalmology circles, perhaps because of an interest in the fine print. Rather, we see Missourians doing what they always do, creative interpretation of the law so it doesn’t apply to them in the same way as others, or just plain making up rules on the spot such as the arrest of a reporter based on “failure to obey.” If I was Eric Holder, I wouldn’t buy the remarkable justifications of militarized city police forces and justifiable homicide using six bullets to terminate an unarmed teen. I’d say, “Show me. Show me how your behavior protects our citizens.”
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Has anyone been arrested for the Wall Street looting of America culminating in the 2008 collapse of the economy? Has anyone been arrested for falsifying reasons to invade Iraq in 2003? Why does the Fock Snooze crowd crow about “justified” execution of a black teenager for allegedly stealing cigarillos, yet say not a word when there is zero investigation of the larger crimes listed above? Straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel, I guess.
Given how evenhandedly they’ve handled the aftermath, I find it hard to believe a Ferguson PD officer would gun down an unarmed black teen.
Glad to see everything has returned to normal!
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