Protests centered on Ferguson decision, nationwide

[gotsnowgotslush]

Blocked roads and highways, nationwide.

It is eleven, at night. The protesters are on the streets of Boston.
#blacklivesmatterboston

http://www.boston.com/news/local/ma...on-decision/YKpUu56Y86GZ1ro3wlDiYP/story.html

 

[Que]

Do you have any info on the location and timing of the #policemenslivesmatter rally?

 

[Busybody]

Do you have any info on the location and timing of the #policemenslivesmatter rally?

#Ainthappenin

 

[Que]

#butarentalllivesequallyprecious?

 

[Busybody]

#animalfarm

 

[phrodeau]

In Minneapolis, a car drove cautiously through a crowd in the street, or the car plowed over protesters, depending on which news source you use.

 

[ryan8558]

#dontlikeyourcitygovernmentregisterandvote

 

[Busybody]

#pointlessbromide

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

What I watched, was a car driving at a moderate speed, knocking protesters over.
I suppose location might have something to do with it.

 

[Skiddles2014]

How dare people protest over their concerns about police brutality!

Don't they know that there is no corruption in the system and that all cops are saints?

#howdarethey

 

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[Busybody]

How dare people protest over their concerns about police brutality!

Don't they know that there is no corruption in the system and that all cops are saints?

#howdarethey

they are PROTESTING?

 

[Kitty]

I still got my silly string!

 

[Kitty]

http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/BN6A7600.jpg

Oh bless her. And her skateboard.

 

[possum123]

How dare people protest over their concerns about police brutality!

Don't they know that there is no corruption in the system and that all cops are saints?

#howdarethey

We know for damn sure the colored boy that got shot was a thief.
We all saw video of him being a thief.

 

[Skiddles2014]

We know for damn sure the colored boy that got shot was a thief.
We all saw video of him being a thief.

Nobody here is saying he was a good person.

He was obviously scum.

The cop wanted to be hero. Instead of calling for backup, he got overwhelmed and killed an unarmed person meters away from him. Now he is a hero to some.

In America that's business as usual.

 

[Kitty]

We know for damn sure the colored boy that got shot was a thief.
We all saw video of him being a thief.

So what if he was a thief? That is irrelevant when discussing whether his death was justified homicide, or not. Why does this have to be explained to anyone.

 

[lovecraft68]

Do you have any info on the location and timing of the #policemenslivesmatter rally?

Hell no.....that would be....racist!!

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

So what if he was a thief? That is irrelevant when discussing whether his death was justified homicide, or not. Why does this have to be explained to anyone.

Brown didn't wanna go to jail, so the strong arm robbery is relevant.

 

[Kitty]

Brown didn't wanna go to jail, so the strong arm robbery is relevant.

Conveniently relevant True. If he wasn't out committing crimes, he wouldn't have even needed to be apprehended.

But that is neither here nor there. We know people commit crimes, okay? There's someone out here cutting someone's face now in every country as we type. The point is, that is why we have law enforcement officers. They are supposed to be trained to not resort to the same crimes they are trying to prevent. Yet what do we have here? A white guy with a badge waving his gun like the dick in his dad's pants.

 

[Kitty]

Peep this losers. While you're distracted with this tired bullshit, more prevalent crimes are happening to non-thugs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtBISRYFwVw

51 yr old black woman gets beaten by white cop on side of cali highway.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/marlene-pinnock-settlement-beating-california-highway-patrol-daniel-andrew/

51 yr old black woman gets $1.5mil in less than 3 months.

Yet no one knows about this. Because she wasn't a thug, so it won't be a great headline because racists wouldn't have a backdoor to run out of with this one.

 

[possum123]

Nobody here is saying he was a good person.

He was obviously scum.

The cop wanted to be hero. Instead of calling for backup, he got overwhelmed and killed an unarmed person meters away from him. Now he is a hero to some.

In America that's business as usual.

If you would do some reading you would see the cop didn't think he would need backup to tell a couple of hood rats to get out of the middle of the street. When he was attacked he didn't have time to do much but try to live.

 

[possum123]

So what if he was a thief? That is irrelevant when discussing whether his death was justified homicide, or not. Why does this have to be explained to anyone.

It goes to show the personality of the thief.
Just as the blood tests showed he was a drug user higher than a kite.
It was justified because he attacked the cop and tried to take his gun away from him.

 

[possum123]

Conveniently relevant True. If he wasn't out committing crimes, he wouldn't have even needed to be apprehended.

But that is neither here nor there. We know people commit crimes, okay? There's someone out here cutting someone's face now in every country as we type. The point is, that is why we have law enforcement officers. They are supposed to be trained to not resort to the same crimes they are trying to prevent. Yet what do we have here? A white guy with a badge waving his gun like the dick in his dad's pants.

Sounds like you know quite a bit about the cop. It must be from personal experience as I never read anything about his dick.
What would you expect a cop to do when he is attacked by a drug crazed criminal?

 

[Que]

Conveniently relevant True. If he wasn't out committing crimes, he wouldn't have even needed to be apprehended.

But that is neither here nor there. We know people commit crimes, okay? There's someone out here cutting someone's face now in every country as we type. The point is, that is why we have law enforcement officers. They are supposed to be trained to not resort to the same crimes they are trying to prevent. Yet what do we have here? A white guy with a badge waving his gun like the dick in his dad's pants.

A bit hyperbolic. The gun was in its holster on his hip, inside the car. It came out of the holster after Brown got his arms inside the car. You cannot do anything but take punches from inside the car, and modern cop cars usually have computers and mounts preventing you from sliding over to the other side to escape and re-group.

If Wilson made a mistake it was in not promptly exiting the car to talk to them. They probably thought he was accosting them about the bullying in the store, he probably thought this had no reason to get confrontational until it was too late.