What is anyone getting out of destroying city property? Destroying a police car? Great, thanks, that is tax money.
For those of us who actually pay taxes.
Mob mentality sometimes makes zero sense. Now if you arrest those guys, they will be crying race discrimination.
However, I think that police officer should have gotten indicted. But do you see me throwing bottles and rocks? No. Cuz I pay taxes that pays for those police cars, and why would I ever wanna destroy people’s property. They attacked some poor chinese guy’s chinese restaurant.
If they wanted to show the world that the police harassment is totally racial, they lost that chance. They are showing that they respond to situations with violence and emotions. Which gets people in trouble. Makes the whole scenario of the police officer shooting at Mr. Brown understandable. You can easily see how law enforcement has to act to control the situation, so people will not have sympathy for the murdered boy when they see this sort of violence.
If they just held the violence and peacefully protested the world could say - look these really are innocent people.
They’re crying about how police is gassing them. Yet they’re the ones that are standing in front of the Ferguson Market and Liquor and ready to bash in the windows.
Great. Now you wont have groceries for tomorrow.
shakes head
Where are their moms? Brown’s mother is upset and crying because she lost her son. What about the other mothers. What are they doing to hold their sons in to prevent them from acting out like this?
I know of one young pakistani guy here who got shot - dude walked in said “I’m hungry”, and then before the Pakistani guy could do anything, he got shot, the other store worker ran off.
I mean, at the end of the day, you need police to control the situation. Maybe Brown was innocent, but these mobsters are basically handing their arses to the police, that here you go, we are showing the world why you’re justified at shooting at us when we act up.
Yes, they are targeted to some extent. But who tells them to commit crime?? Stop committing crime, stop vandalizing, learn to PEACEFULLY PROTEST, and if you don’t know how then talk to Brown’s mom, maybe she can teach you a lesson, cuz apparently your own momma is missing in action.
I am with @Southie here. A black person in America is born with certain disadvantages. There is mutual distrust between the black community and the Police and that gap is hard to bridge when the Police is predominantly white. If you have lived in the south for any amount of time, you will see this first hand. The problem in Fergusan is not about the shooting itself, but how the kid was profiled. The cop decided that he was guilty and had that confrontation that led to the shooting. Grand jury could have indicted him and let the court sort out the culpability. But no; they have to protect their own. I am against vigilantism, but this rage is justified.
If all accounts to believe, that 18yo young man was not profiled. He robbed a convenience store (caught on tape) and was intercepted by COP while trying to get away. He then instead of turning himself in, attacked the cop and tried to gain access to his weapon. Struggle went on for around 30 seconds, he then tried to ran away, COP came out of car and followed him. He then stopped, turned back and tried to rush towards cop again and was shot at that point.
Its pretty simple to me. Once you do not follow COPs instructions (and you attack them on top of it), all bets are OFF. Cops has to make split second decision which can make a difference b/w their life and death.
Not true. Wilson did not know about the robbery. The store owner did not call the cops and said nothing was stolen. By officer’s own testimony, he stopped the guys because they were walking in the middle of the road. Not for the robbery.
104 days of protest no car on fire no building on fire nothing, so plz don’t include Pakistan. hats off to people of Pakistan, 14 ppl were muredered brutally but they kept sitting peacefully.
Listen to DA’s statement of yesterday and earlier. Wilson was on another call and was going back to PS. He saw these two guys walking in middle of road MATCHING THE DESCRIPTION OF ROBBERS as it was relayed on radio earlier (socks, cap and shirt color)
Most of the “witnesses” who told media that Brown was standing with his hands up while he was shot or some who told that brown was shot in the back while running ended up changing their stories after 2 autopsy reports. Their “accounts” were mostly he-said-she-said based. Police Autopsy and autopsy did privately by Brown’s family matches the events as told by Officer Wilson.
Don’t you think DA is part of the cover up? Of course he would say that. Do you think someone that committed a robbery would leisurely walk middle of the road and not try to run from an officer?
Look, no one is contesting that a confrontation took place and Wilson did what he was trained to do. But the stop itself should not have happened. If you discount the fact that Wilson did not know about the robbery, stopping Brown was a case of profiling.
See that’s what ticks me. DA is part of cover up, 11 members of independent jury were part of cover up, Autopsy by Govt and Autopsy by Brown family was part of cover up and list goes on. You cant put someone on trial just because it helps sooth one specific race.
As for why would they walk in middle of road leisurely? have you been to such neighborhoods? Unfortunately that’s what they do. They don’t “run away” from police when they are in “their” area. I have been told by Police twice (once in LA and once in neighborhood of Newark airport, NJ) that I should ‘leave’ the area because its to dangerous. Such is the state of matters in these neighborhoods.
and how can you discount the basic fact that Wilson heard the description of robbers on radio, he saw two guys matching the description and he tried to stop and investigate them? Radios are not for ONE on ONE communication. What is broadcasst on radio is heard by everyone who have their radios on. This is how they work.
DA rounded it up very nicely that those 11 jury members are the ONLY 11 people in the world who has seen all the evidence rest is all, he said, she said, dont you think so, i dont think so, you dont think so…
