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

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Some fascinating statistics about Ferguson, MO

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http://new.livestream.com/accounts/9035483/events/3271930

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Rich, white celebrity Sean Hannity has had nothing but smooth professionalism from the police in all his experiences interacting with them, so shucks, he just doesn't understand where any of this animosity is coming from.

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Important advice for dealing with police harassment

I posted that on FB several hours ago, and got exactly zero likes. 

Time to delete all my friends and start again, methinks.

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Steals cigars and candy from a convenience store, physically threatens the owner... SHOOT HIM TO DEATH

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I thought the highway patrol had taken over from the county police dept last week?  Did the PD take over again?

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Al-Jazeera asks the virtually rhetorical question: Why isn't the Tea Party or NRA sending a militia to Ferguson, to defend the local populace from the overreaching police?

I was confused by it at first, because my instinctive reaction was that they are in Ferguson already.  They're forming the counter-protests in support of Darren Wilson and his noble slaying of a ne'erdowell.

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A Ferguson cop does his very best to restore peace and civility to the situation.

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everything is terrible

Notice how the number of whiteys donors to the Darren Wilson fund is about half as many as the donors to the Michael Brown fund.

(A perfect demonstration of the oligarchic style of GOP vs Democratic fundraising, in fact.  I always love that the fundraising emails I get from Democrats usually ask for $3, $5, or 'whatever you can afford', compared to the starting amount of $25 'expected donation' from the GOP.)

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everything is terrible

Notice how the number of whiteys donors to the Darren Wilson fund is about half as many as the donors to the Michael Brown fund.

(A perfect demonstration of the oligarchic style of GOP vs Democratic fundraising, in fact.  I always love that the fundraising emails I get from Democrats usually ask for $3, $5, or 'whatever you can afford', compared to the starting amount of $25 'expected donation' from the GOP.)

Although, if we look more closely at the figures, it can be seen that, since the Michael Brown fund had a four day head start on the Darren Wilson fund, in fact, it seems as if the latter has actually received more donors, proportionally, in its first three days, than the Michael Brown fund did. Indeed, if we extrapolate these figures, assuming no change in the rate of new donors, it looks as if the Darren Wilson fund will have about 6,000 donors after a week, which would leave it well ahead of where the Michael Brown fund had been. No matter, both families must be positively licking their chops at the thought of all the suckers giving them money.

Yes, and the same extrapolation would put the teabaggers' donation total at over $260k.  Again, poor black people can never compete with rich white people.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/los-angeles-police-admit-accidentally-killing-tosh-0-production-assistant/

One of the production assistants for Tosh.0 was accidentally shot dead by the LAPD after being confused for the suspect of a stabbing rather than another victim.  Of course, this victim was white, so an official apology from the police was quickly released.

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"If that’s not fanning the political flames, I don’t know what is," the Missouri Republican Party executive director Matt Wills told Breitbart News. "I think it’s not only disgusting but completely inappropriate."

... Now what exactly could have disgusted this GOP director so much?  Why, voter registration drives among the black community in Ferguson, of course.  What else could piss off a Republican more than encouraging a black majority to vote out the white minority government?

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Also, I'm sure everybody was impatiently waiting to see Joe the Plumber weigh in: