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The police chief did seem particularly competent, so this is hardly surprising.
The majority population of Ferguson, do what you have to, to get your city back. It will take time, but the only way to change things is to throw ALL the bums out!
The police chief and the DA stood their ground…
Most always bad news for minorities
Yes but in the case of Ferguson being Black puts you in the majority. So lets talk about that. Ferguson is about 2/3 Black. Yet it has a White Mayor, White Police Chief and 5 out of 6 of its City Council members are White. Its police force is over 90 % White.
But the Mayor ran unopposed in his last election. So WTF? Can we blame it on the Blacks in Ferguson just not bothering to vote? Probably as only 12.3 % of eligible voters in Ferguson actually voted in the last election. In the last few elections numbers under 10 % have been common. Ferguson’s elections for Mayor and City Council take place in April and they will have an election in 2015. But in the 90 days after the shooting only 128 new voter registrations took place.
So imagine this scenario: After the shooting of this young man there is no looting or incendiary protest. Instead the Black Community’s leaders get folks to register to vote. They promise that in the next election Blacks are going to vote as a block and at full strength even if the have to carry them to the polls on their shoulders. What do you think that DA and Mayor would have done had there been a real political threat to them? Throw Officer Wilson under the bus is a reasonable assumption.
I believe that kid was murdered by an angry cop. The cop’s anger was not motivated by Brown’s law breaking ( he was jay walking ) but in Brown’s refusal to cow tow to him. In fact I am certain that is the case. But given what I said above it’s hard to feel sorry for the Black Community of Ferguson. All they have to do is get off their asses and they could run the joint from top to bottom. Had they stopped the unproductive protest for the pursuit of political power this thing would have gone down quite differently.
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The multiple embarrassing incidents in the aftermath of the Brown shooting expose a racist culture within the FPD. A fish rots from the head, and it’s clear this individual allowed that culture to fester unchecked, if not encouraged it. If he won’t step down, he must be fired.