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Police threatening to kill journalists? There must be a mistake, this is coverage of trouble in Crimea or Somalia, right?
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So, itâs the old "good guy with a gun threatens to shoot a âjournalist bad guyâ without a gun. What a country we have become, with a lot of thanks to the NRA and the gun lobbyists.
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So why havenât the feds stepped in yet?
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I can tell you why they never will.
OBAMADICTATORPOWERGRABBLACKHELICOPTERS!
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I have to echo a few comments⌠When reporters get in the way they not only endanger themselves, but the protesters and the police as well. I watched all the live coverage last night. Reporters roaming everywhere. And Chris Hayes whining about being âthreatenedâ with mace? The police were trying to clear the streets, it was very tense, shots were heard, Molotov cocktails were lobbed (one reporter from MSNBC.com saw men trying to light one) and rocks thrown. Freedom of the press doesnât mean you get to ignore the rule of law.
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Why? Because he wonât allow the thugs that are disrupting protests to run rampant?
Right how dare they, they should allow the outside agitators to disrupt a peaceful protest with Molotov cocktails, rocks, looting and gun fire.
With modern high ISO cameras, and night vision cameras, it shouldnât be necessary to use video or other lights. That said, Fergusonâs finest need to stop behaving like jackbooted thugs.
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One, how does anyone know they were trying to light a molotov cocktail. I grant the photo shows they were trying to light something, but it could have been anything, even a mis-fired projectile from the cops.
So, that is evidence that âtheyâ eventually lit and tossed an object???
People. While common sense is not that common, apparently, please. Isnât speculation and fantasy one of the issues with those cops?
You forgot Benghazi!!
Not to differ with your post but it catalyzed a reaction in me:
Keep your eye on the ball people. The young Black man who was executed for jaywalking is demonized as a shoplifter deserving death. The policeman who shot a young Black man gets all the blame if the killing can not be justified. Once again a âlone assassinâ takes one for the team.
The policy makers who set the stage for these murders on a regular schedule benefit greatly while deftly deflecting the blame to pawns.
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I figured that one went without saying. After all, that was the single worst thing to happen to America or Americans ever.
The actions of the Ferguson police force suggest that they believe they are accountable to no one.
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I get confused with some conspiracy stuff. What is this all about then?
It also means you donât get to be a troll, Beej, with your straw man arguments, baseless assumptions and continual begging the question crap. Even the National Review says cops in this country are out of control, and unlike you, I can prove what I say. Oh, and by the way, youâre being watched. Just keep it up.
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Oh no! Beej will have to spend three whole minutes making another account!
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Sometimes annoyance value is the only value to be gained from a situation. 
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If you feel youâre a target, one of many targets, of whatâs going to seem to you like random defiance, random insult, random disturbance of the low-fruit ideal for the scene youâre in and your role in keeping it there, random loss of control or dignity or control, any of that stuff is going to serve as a substitute for believing yourself at more-or-less ongoing risk of physical injury or embarrassment from random assault. And that feeling, in the absence of locals and residents constituting actual threat to you or the order and authoritah youâre paid to uphold, is bound to get trained on the invasive species, the paid shite disturbers in media coverage of the circus, themselves not mere observors but actually entangling with the subjects of their cameras and questions looking for trouble to âreportâ as if theyâre geiger counters with no POV, just recording data - AS IF.
I think weâve reached that weird stage in the event where none of us, nobody, has a better or worse or even interesting perspective on what happened on those streets over the last few days. Weâre at the point where how Chris Hays feels moving about those streets has zero relevance to what led to the young cop pulling his firearm and unloading itâs contents at the young man.
Six separate wounds! Someoneâs got some kind of world class shooting skill or run of awesome luck under stress ⌠or else the target was awfully freaking close.
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I feel very sorry for the journalists trying to cover this story. On one side you have local power arguing justified homicide with very little transparency. On the other hand, you have an abused community that is getting very little help from the state and national authorities. It is truly amazing that 22 years after the LA riots the rules remain largely unchanged. Many American cities have segregate themselves by race and moved to this militarized management scheme for non-white populations. These communities are shattered and almost by definition cannot come up with a coherent response at the state or national level to fix things. That means the reporters also have to try and absorb blind anger and desperation, not the traditional sentiments underlying American Exceptionalism.
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