Ferguson

[Slingin Sammy 33]

Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

To me, this was an extreme case of police overreach and covering their own ass to the detriment of the community they work for. As I read you, it was merely a (possibly) overaggressive response to a community that was out of control.

I don't think I ever would be behind police assault tactics like we saw used on civilians and journalists in the way we saw them (and when I was an MP, I trained with riot gear frequently). I guess you are saying that there are cases where a police force should be able to use those tools on journalists and unarmed civilians.

I guess we can always agree to disagree.

First off, the police were correct to withhold the name of the officer. When you have out-of-area agitators (NBPP, Al Sharpton, the media fanning flames of racism without facts) and straight out thugs and looters looking to take advantage of the situation shouldn't the officer and his family be protected from the threat of vigilante justice? Don't you remember the NBPP issuing a bounty on George Zimmerman?

Now it turns out Mike Brown robbed a store just prior to the incident with the police officer. Brown isn't a small guy and if (as witnesses have stated along with the police) he resisted and struggled with the officer and went for his gun....well the officer has a right to go home to his family and not end up dead.

How many police officers have been murdered in the US by gunfire in 2014? Answer 27, should Darren Wilson have been number 28?

How many young black men have been murdered by other young black men in 2014? I don't know the exact stats, but it's over 3,000. Where's the outrage about these murders? What is the NBPP, Al Sharpton, et al doing to stop that violence? Those are young American lives tragically and senselessly lost