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Ferguson

Edgy MD Nov 24 2014 07:35 PM

Officer Wilson won't be indicted.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 24 2014 08:13 PM Re: Ferguson

Gun violence: It's the American Way!

metirish Nov 24 2014 08:50 PM Re: Ferguson

In a way I feel awful watching this , it's exploding. The CNN coverage features gas masks , tear gas landing next to them as they report. Chris Coumo acting the hard man , the whole this is shameful and I am part of it as I keep watching

metirish Nov 24 2014 09:32 PM Re: Ferguson

Don Lemon , please step forward , you are the worst

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Nov 24 2014 09:35 PM Re: Ferguson

The way this was staged, it's almost-- ALMOST-- as if they were courting a riot. Why was this announcement at 10pm Monday instead of 10am Tuesday?

metirish Nov 24 2014 09:44 PM Re: Ferguson

The media say well the prosecutor set the time, yet no one in their right mind would do this at night , the schools were closed anyway... fucking talking heads talking about their tear gas situations ...we hear you guys, you are fucking amazing , doing this for us .....Chris Coumo acting the hard man telling protesters "hey let us report OK"....

Nymr83 Nov 24 2014 11:38 PM Re: Ferguson

There shouldnt need to be a special time of day to anounce the decision of a grand jury. If people cant refrain from violence when protesting they need to bw thrown in jail.

Edgy MD Nov 25 2014 06:18 AM Re: Ferguson

I'll agree that it might have been smarter and safer to make such an announcement at 10AM.

MFS62 Nov 25 2014 07:05 AM Re: Ferguson

Edgy MD wrote: I'll agree that it might have been smarter and safer to make such an announcement at 10AM. The comment I heard on Good Day, New York was that they set the time to reduce the possibilities of injuries. They wanted to make sure kids could get home safely from school and the shop keepers could close up their businesses and go home in case there was a riot. Makes sense, I guess. Later

Edgy MD Nov 25 2014 07:14 AM Re: Ferguson

Sure, I guess it would be more fair of me to say that I disagree that one shouldn't consider the time to make an announcement that will have a traumatic impact on a large section of the community. Perhaps by announcing it in the evening, they allowed the most dangerous impulses to burn out by morning rush hour, while a 10AM announcement would have built momentum toward a dangerous disruption of evening rush hour. I shouldn't pretend to see all the angles.

Mets – Willets Point Nov 25 2014 08:36 AM Re: Ferguson

Nymr83 wrote: There shouldnt need to be a special time of day to anounce the decision of a grand jury. If people cant refrain from violence when protesting they need to bw thrown in jail. Except the people who commit violence can't be thrown in jail because they won't get indicted.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 05 2015 09:24 AM Re: Ferguson

No federal charges against Wilson, either. The Justice Department report on Ferguson, though, is pretty damning. As described in the report, Ferguson, which is a majority black city but where nearly all city officials are white, acts less like a municipality and more like a self-perpetuating business enterprise, extracting money from poor blacks that it uses as revenue to sustain the city’s budget... ... The report lists one example after another of arrests of African-Americans without apparent justification. In another instance from 2013, a group of black youths were listening to music in a car. Suspecting that they had been using marijuana, an officer arrested them, and some went to jail, for “gathering in a group for the purposes of committing illegal activity.” No evidence of marijuana was found, even after a search of the car. The report describes a reflexive and gratuitous hostility toward black residents that goes beyond arrests into routine uses of force. Several cases are described in which officers used Tasers against black people for no apparent reason of public safety, including one time when an officer shocked a man for urinating on the prison floor. Every instance in which a police dog bite was reported, the person bitten was black, including, in one case mentioned in the report, an unarmed 14-year-old boy... ... Federal investigators found that the judge, the court clerk, the mayor, police supervisors and officials from Ferguson and other neighboring cities — some of whom, the report pointed out, were quick to assert that black residents of Ferguson lacked a sense of personal responsibility — routinely had tickets dismissed for themselves and their friends, pleading “an honest mistake” or suggesting that having a ticket dismissed “would be a blessing.” “Your ticket of $200 has magically disappeared!” read one email from the court clerk to one friend. “It’s gone baby!” she wrote to another.