St Louis police murder scandal (PLUS: riots, idiotic press conferences, etc.)

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Yeah, these pro-cop protestors look like your run of the mill teabagger to me. Of course, these days they can just write "our police" and everyone knows what they're talking about.

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Isn't like the first rule of gun safety to not point a gun at someone unless you intend to shoot them? I obviously don't use guns, but I thought that was gun safety 101.

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Even infamous fascist Ray Kelly thinks the Ferguson police are out of control!

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No words.

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the world is terrible.

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Apparently this Robert McCulloch guy's entire family has been police, his father was a police officer who was killed by a black suspect, and he wanted to be a cop before he lost his leg due to cancer. But I'm sure he'll do a great job and definitely won't do everything in his power to ensure that the grand jury doesn't return an indictment.

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Also it looks like the St. Louis police murdered another black guy yesterday and are already lying about it: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/20/kajieme-powell-shooting_n_5696546.html?1408579745&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067

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You do know that there are interactions that cops are able to have with people that don't include shooting them to death right?

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It's not the cops' job to indulge mentally ill people's desires to commit suicide. Shooting someone to death should be absolutely the last resort. The fact that they showed up and shot the guy multiple times to death ten seconds later is a complete failure of policing.

Of course the fact that they are lying about the entire situation, to make it seem like he was more threatening than he was, already belies the assertion that they were acting appropriately.

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I guess I understand shooting someone who has a gun. There's not a whole lot you can do in that situation. But shooting someone without a gun should almost always be murder, IMO. There is absolutely no reason that you have to fill a guy carrying a knife with ten bullets. Police officers around the world manage to non-fatally deal with criminals every day. The two police officers in the Kajieme Powell used three times as many bullets to "neutralize" his threat as the entire British police force discharged in the entire year of 2013! Why are they able to deal with people wielding knives without killing them and we are not?

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everything is terrible

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why are libruls always bringing race into everything?!?!?

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Tomorrow's St. Louis Dispatch front page:

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I wonder what the chances are that current events are going mainstream a "watered down" popular form of White Nationalism?

Yeah, it's called the Republican Party.

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Greater St. Louis needs a new Nelson Mandela.

Well, considering that according to the DOJ report, Greater St. Louis is basically an apartheid state at this point (and I am barely being hyperbolic at all), yes, probably.