Grand jury reaches decision in Ferguson case (Announcement Monday night)

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These miserable skunks couldn't have just said 'the grand jury declines to indict' and gotten on with their skunk lives? They had to do this whole character-assassination rigmarole too? Sickening.

It's all part of reinforcing the narrative that this is all a case of HERO COPS holding the line against SCUM. *sheds single tear of respect*

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Any high school English class asked to do an even cursory analysis of this speech would conclude that it was biased from the beginning.

Want to write a more detailed analysis, maybe? Might actually be interesting.

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Can this disgusting gap-toothed racist from Arkansas please be removed from the forum asap? Thanks.

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But anyway, I'd say that it's fairly clear that the police have gone out of their way to provoke a riot tonight.

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Yes, the whole thing has been an exceedingly large and hugely dispiriting charade.

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Well, if he was a demon then he doesn't have to have acted according to human ideas of rationality. Case closed.

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Its one thing to shoot someone, surely quite another to empty your clip into him? Right? I mean this strikes me as a not unimportant point here.

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That's another thing that liberals don't understand.

I'm not a liberal.

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Are you suggesting that American police officers are not adequately trained?

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There were, what, six bullets in Brown's body? I'm no firearms expert, but it occurs to me that maybe you're confusing reality with action films again?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Name them; because the vast majority of European forces do.

Well, they don't in ours do they? Only specialised firearms units have guns.

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a.) need to genuinely be in grave danger
b.) have no other milder method of achieving the same result (making the suspect unable to harm him)

Not in the United Kingdom, that's for sure; this is reminding me a lot of the Mark Duggan case.

An exceptional (awful) case* that would have been headline news even had it not (via the rightly famed incompetence of the Met) led to riots across first the capital and then the country. I'm not sure how bringing it up really excuses or normalises anything, particularly as the inquest into Duggan's death was also a bit of a joke, what with the contradictory findings of the jury (Duggan was, it seems, quite a loss to our Olympics discus team).

*Whereas in the U.S.A. the police kill hundreds of people every year. That North American society is observably more dangerous than Western/Northern European society can really only explain part of that.

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Name them; because the vast majority of European forces do.

Well, they don't in ours do they? Only specialised firearms units have guns.

The PSNI carry them on a routine basis (and have for years), Garda detectives do and so do most of the forces of mainland Europe.

The PSNI carry guns because Northern Ireland has a bit of a problem with paramilitary activity.

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They are steadily increasing in London due to terrorism risks I don't know how long the Peelite instinct of an unarmed police force can last against political pressure.

They'll try for water cannon in a big way before trying that, I suspect. Which would still be a negative development.

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Already got one.

Thought that was still at the christmas wish list stage; must have missed that

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For understandable and logical reasons.