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

[ElectionsGuy]

What's outrageous is (some) right-wingers are already defending the cop, trying to say that we don't have enough evidence and that Brown could've been violent. No matter what, what the cop did here and what they do across America on a weekly basis is unacceptable. The evidence is that this cop shot multiple times when Michael Brown didn't pose a threat, as he had his hands in the air. The core problem is that they assume people are guilty until they are proven innocent, not the other way around. Especially if your a young black male walking around the streets at night. I do think that this had a racial element to it, they assume people like Brown are violent just because the way the look and/or stereotypes. Nothing makes my blood boil more than when people like Hannity or O'Reilly try and defend this injustice.

[ElectionsGuy]

I have no problem with "militarization" of police in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles where real violent crimes are committed and real terrorist targets exist. When you have a real job to do, there's no time for serious corruption and abuse.

The problem is these small towns and suburban police forces are given these tools with no legitimate use. "Let's call in the SWAT team for this because why not?"

St. Louis is home to the 3rd busiest inland port. They have been given advanced tactical military equipment to repeal and attack threats along the Miss. River.

What makes you think they need weapons of war to protect and serve the citizens?

[ElectionsGuy]

Could it be that they're all white??

[ElectionsGuy]

All night Ferguson has looked more like a middle eastern city than an American city. Really sad.

[ElectionsGuy]

The polling is surprisingly less bad than you'd think on this story.  It's kind of sad that "less bad than you'd think" means "white people claim to not know whether gunning an unarmed man down is a bad thing", but, well, there you have it: we're at least not generally saying that the victim deserved it like we do in a lot of these cases.

That's worse than I thought. 67% of white people think protesters went too far while only 27% of them think police went too far. There's even 15% of the total respondents that think police didn't go far enough...

[ElectionsGuy]

The polling is surprisingly less bad than you'd think on this story.  It's kind of sad that "less bad than you'd think" means "white people claim to not know whether gunning an unarmed man down is a bad thing", but, well, there you have it: we're at least not generally saying that the victim deserved it like we do in a lot of these cases.

That's worse than I thought. 67% of white people think protesters went too far while only 27% of them think police went too far. There's even 15% of the total respondents that think police didn't go far enough...

You expected to see less than 15% who would think the police haven't gone far enough?!

Well, I at least wanted to see people more sympathetic to protesters who are getting their rights taken away, rather than the police who are acting above the law (in this case). The 15% of people who think that way don't really matter, but more people need to realize what's happening here and why this could affect them in the future. Subconscious racism could be part of this as well.