Ferguson Riots

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#5,105
Weezer said:
Too sad to keep watching. I guess I knew better, but I honestly hoped we'd moved past this kind of behavior. Destroying the lives of others won't bring the young man back or change the findings of the grand jury. Peaceful protests I could understand(even though evidence leans in the officer's favor), but this does nothing to help the community and everything to destroy it. How do they not understand that they're only hurting themselves?
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I feel the same way you do.
 
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In an interview I heard a few days ago(totally unrelated to this case), I heard a black former football player saying how prominent racism is today, and that white people just couldn't understand it. He related a story about being pulled over by a cop for being a black man driving a really nice car, and it being racial profiling. I have no doubt that douchebags like that cop still exist, but I question this athletes assertion that it's the majority doing this. I don't buy it. I get that as a white man, I will never be able to fully appreciate what it is to be black. But what about the reverse arguement? The side that never seems to get argued is that a black man will never be able to fully appreciate what it is to be white. It's not as grand a picture as what some seem to want to paint. What about the black people who look at me and see a racist because my skin color is different than theirs? It happens. I've always tried to judge people on character, not on skin color, yet somehow I get painted as a bigot for sins of the past that I didn't commit. I'm not some upper echelon elitist driving around in a fancy car. I get up and go to work everyday, struggle to pay my bills, and try to just be an all around responsible citizen. The color of a man's skin means absolutely nothing to me. Nothing has been handed to me for being white. I've never felt entitled to anything. I was taught the only way to make it through this world was to work hard and ignore the haters. I don't make excuses, and I certainly don't look for them. It seems to me that too many want to use skin color as an escape from responsibility, and feel they are "owed" something for imaginary crimes committed against them. It's not about black, white, yellow, or any other color. It's about taking accountability for your life and persevering through. No doubt, you will face haters in the world, and some of those haters will be racists, but that doesn't make the white community predominantly racist. History shows MLK had many white supporters, but you rarely see them get recognition.
 
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It should be pointed out that all of this could have been avoided if Wilson were wearing a camera. Every police officer should have one of these devices. As I've stated a million times...it will protect good cops.
 
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n_huffhines said:
It should be pointed out that all of this could have been avoided if Wilson were wearing a camera. Every police officer should have one of these devices. As I've stated a million times...it will protect good cops.
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And where are cash stripped departments going to come up with the funding to do that?
 
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n_huffhines said:
It should be pointed out that all of this could have been avoided if Wilson were wearing a camera. Every police officer should have one of these devices. As I've stated a million times...it will protect good cops.
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I don't think it would change one thing because the video quality is usually bad. And there is a video of Brown assaulting the store clerk but some people still think he was set up. Plus three autopsy's were done and that show he was not shot in the back but they believe that was fixed as well.
 
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Burhead said:
The Unified Command is going to hold a briefing at 1:30.
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What the hell are those idiots going to say other than they stood by and watched half the city get set on fire... but the police department and the fire department buildings are intact and that's all that matters.
 
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#5,117
Burhead said:
And where are cash stripped departments going to come up with the funding to do that?
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Hahaha. Well, they wouldn't need all this riot gear if they had the cameras, so that's one place where they could have found the savings.

Come on man.
 
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#5,118
n_huffhines said:
Hahaha. Well, they wouldn't need all this riot gear if they had the cameras, so that's one place where they could have found the savings.

Come on man.
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I'm talking specifically about Ferguson PD right now. They don't have any riot gear or armored vehicles and they didn't even have money for dash cams...
 
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vols-1 said:
I don't think it would change one thing because the video quality is usually bad. And there is a video of Brown assaulting the store clerk but some people still think he was set up. Plus three autopsy's were done and that show he was not shot in the back but they believe that was fixed as well.
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The footage is great. Also, if it's well-established that all cops carry recording devices, people will behave better. No he said, she said. No killing a cop and getting away undetected.

Here is a video about the devices.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8QNWkqX_dk[/youtube]
 
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Burhead said:
I'm talking specifically about Ferguson PD right now. They don't have any riot gear or armored vehicles and they didn't even have money for dash cams...
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My point is that there is waste somewhere in their department. We both know it. Cameras are a must.
 
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n_huffhines said:
It should be pointed out that all of this could have been avoided if Wilson were wearing a camera. Every police officer should have one of these devices. As I've stated a million times...it will protect good cops.
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That is an interesting idea. Have you seen the two videos of the same incident where a cop shot (and may have killed) a perp where one perspective made it seem as though it was cold blooded murder and the other it was evident that it was not?
 
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Burhead said:
I'm talking specifically about Ferguson PD right now. They don't have any riot gear or armored vehicles and they didn't even have money for dash cams...
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The Federal Reserve print it every day, why can't law enforcement get some of the fiat money? Of all departments, they should be more supplied. Maybe instead of building a $700,000,000 embassy in Iran, we can give $50,000 to all major police forces for such necessities.
 
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@khjelmgaard 20m20 minutes ago

'Unless we bring 10,000 policemen in here,' we're not going to be able to control protesters, #Ferguson police chief says
 
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