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darkpagandeath · 2015-03-12 15:05:50

Seems some people are not happy with the verdict and actions of the Ferguson police department. And have now taken to shooting police officers. I don't ever think it was as simple as white cops killing black people. If you can form the mind set of shooting police I think there is a very very disturbed underlying problem in…

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#32 13-03-2015 6:06am
Manic Moran

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I think there are two separate issues.

One is the unfair discrimination against those communities. The other is the level of force which is necessary. Ferguson is a perfect case in point, if the DOJ's reports are to be taken as correct: There was a systemic issue of discrimination in how the city government (to include the police) treated the community, but when something goes down on the street, each incident has to be taken on its own merits, and in the case of Wilson and Brown, the evidence established that the shooting was objectively reasonable. (Not 'couldn't be proven as unreasonable', the DOJ's report was affirmative in its conclusion). Unfortunately or otherwise, messing with cops -is- going to result in deadly police tactics, and enough cops get shot at that you can't blame them for it.

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