Ferguson Missouri Prepares

This cop could have been Jesus Christ in disguise, with all the purity of the Virgin Mother herself to boot...and no one will believe this outcome further than that nonsense can be thrown.

They didn't just have a corrupt, racist police chief and department provoke the people FAR beyond anything necessary from literal day 1, and I will never forget those cops roaring into the neighborhood BEFORE anything started, running over and crushing the memorial set up in the street, parking OVER it, then jumping out with rifles and dogs to menace people back into their homes or something. (They were out there in a vigil at first, and that stupid rambo B.S. is a good part of what blew that neighborhood into open riot in the first place) No.. It wasn't JUST that. That explained the riots and uncontained fury in the beginning...but not now.

This will likely come because the Grand Jury and investigation itself was handled so far into the realm of 'cover my ass by deflecting onto yours", all around, they didn't just screw up the Grand Jury presentation. That would be too easy. They didn't HAVE a Grand Jury presentation. Someone came up with the brainstorm of making the GJ a *PART* of the investigation by literally running fresh evidence by them as it was BEING investigated. It totally blurred and muddied everything about a clean question of the few moments of action that happened that day, in a case ALREADY pushing the realms of impossible to get a clean grand jury process in, if they'd HAD done it right.

I don't know if the cop should be convicted or not. I do know the cop left the car in pursuit of an unarmed kid, running from him, and he was still firing. I know the kid went down in a hail of bullets too far from the cop to have been an immediate threat anymore, and ...which head shot did the cop figure DID end the threat? Since ..one gruesome and impossible to miss type of hit wasn't enough to stop shooting. Did that cop just close his eyes and shoot down the point line?

.......I have no dog in this hunt beyond being a citizen of this state, but I think this result...TO EITHER SIDE, and with EITHER outcome, would have been largely rejected by one whole side of the equation. Had it gone the other way, and charged him after THIS big a mess? The cops and citizens on that side would have yelled it was reactionary and a virtual legal lynching.

Again...the authorities screwed this up SO badly and never backed up to set anything right? I can't even say either side would (or is now) wrong, to see it from their perspective. I just wish the feds would step up and step in with THEIR level of investigation before the neighborhood and half of St Louis may explode. (Race tension is VERY high there in good times, let alone right now...and it is something particular to St Louis with it's distinct history. It isn't just 'race is always touchy'.)

dirkgently,



There are just some types of people who thrive on violence and look for any and all reasons to act out

Violence is their way and they enjoy it as well get pleasure from knowing it scares people, especially them white folk that owe them


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I think this issue is only highlighting problems for both sides. We can all agree that the communities reaction has been despicable, but we also have to realize that the black community has gone through a lot of violence and abuse from law enforcement over the years. That abuse has continued to increase and we are beginning to see it become even worse for all colors of people.

Like it or not, this was bound to happen in some form or fashion. The police cannot continue to act as they do and not expect backlash.....even in cases where the cop may have been justified in his actions.

Uh-oh!  I hope this doesn't go bad, but I have a feeling it will.

My niece lives close by.  I wonder if she has heard about this?  Maybe I should warn her!!  

Despite what any of us would like to believe, racism, and even racial violence, does still exist in this country.  

On the other hand, I have been a first hand witness to being accused of being a racist when I was simply doing my job.  

For some, "playing the race card" has become nothing more than a manipulation to try to gain advantage and get what they personally want out of a situation.

It seems pretty obvious that there have been long-standing racial tensions in Ferguson; vis-a-vis the Missouri Attorney General's investigation, the makeup of the population and the makeup of the police department.  

I don't think that Michael was blameless at all in the situation; he seems to have been a hooligan if not an outright bully.  

I also don't think that it is necessary for a law-enforcement professional to shoot someone 7 or 8 times as they are running away from you ... in order to save your own life.

If we are going to effect a change, in any of this, we do need, all of us, to stop coming down on any side other than that of the truth, as best we can determine it.

I hope fate is as kind as it can be to Ferguson MO, whatever the outcome of the announcement.  They need it.

This appears to be getting worse. Someone supposedly in law enforcement up there simply advises people to get a gun and keep it near.


That was a direct quote taken from the online posting at 'Coptalk', according to CBS St. Louis. This is from their report:

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The propaganda is running high from both sides, and they are both working themselves into a fit right before the direct fight. This could get real ugly, I fear. 

I also hope, for the sake of those I came to know up there and who are probably in this now, they know to break off if the Mo-Guard actively moves to restore order.

Our Nat'l guard isn't staffed by cupcakes playing weekend warrior, and our state sent it's fair share through the wars. Those guys won't be like the cops if the cops feel they've lost control and turn tail. (I don't have much respect for the cops up there in terms of professionalism)

There is also a quote in that local story stating that authorities think there would be rioting EITHER way the indictment comes back. Well.. Umm.. DOH!? Do they REALLY believe news of the cop being indicted for trial would CAUSE rioting? What that suggests about how the cops (if that is one in the story quote) view the people they police is the scariest part, IMO.