^ I guess it’s official. If you want to kill people with relative immunity, be in law enforcement.
I don’t understand how there can be no charges brought. Not charging the officer with homicide I can understand. He was in the call of duty. It was an accident (I assume). But surely what he did was at least reckless endangerment or something along those lines if not full manslaughter.
I couldn’t help it. This was funny. I’m also just annoyed at dealing wth the protestors around my apt. in NYC.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/ferguson-suffers-another-night-of-unrest-1439284454
Updated Aug. 11, 2015 12:08 p.m. ET 348 COMMENTS
FERGUSON, Mo.—The streets of this St. Louis suburb were once again the scene of unrest Monday night and early Tuesday morning as protests continued a day after police shot and critically injured a black 18-year-old who allegedly fired at officers.
Police arrested 22 people during the night of protests, according to a police spokesman Tuesday morning. That adds to the 120 people arrested at two other large demonstrations elsewhere in the city earlier in the day. The evening arrests followed demonstrators throwing bottles, frozen water bottles and rocks at officers, the St. Louis County Police Department said in a statement.
The violence followed events over the weekend marking the one-year anniversary of the death of Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old fatally shot by a white Ferguson police officer, Darren Wilson, during a confrontation.
Joe Piscopo? Damn I actually cite his leaving the Democrats as evidence they’re doing something good. Is quoting him supposed to impress anyone? Please find a bigger loser to quote. In any case, yeah LBJ was a massive racist, as were a lot of people then, including the lionshare of Republicans. You also are ignoring the fact that while he did it for entirely ignoble reasons, a lot of the legislation he pushed through benefit African Americans (and not just them, really all Americans) to this day- disagree? Please explain why. Also it’s cute you can only quote a Democrat saying that sort of thing decades ago, whereas I just need to listen to Donald Trump for five minutes and I could find him saying similar things. You also seem to be unaware that there was a massive house cleaning of the Democratic Party in the 1960s that lead to a lot of racist Southern Democrats jumping ship over to the Republicans, especially after Barry Atwater’s Southern Strategy kicked into high gear. You know, that strategy to intentionally pander to racists who were becoming disgusted by the Democrats kicking out their favorite hate mongers and adopting a progressive stance on civil rights? Anyway, just as long as you’re distracting everyone from findings of the Ferguson Report, you know, that basically validates what BLM initially brought to the nation’s attention. I mean, it would sure suck if we concentrated on that instead of tossing around a bunch of evidence-less conspiracy theories. But, just as long as we’re not discussing the massive systematic abuse lobbed at the poor and especially racial minorities like African Americans in this country, right? Soros possibly maybe donating money to an already existing organization is totally more important than that, let’s just ignore actual documented oppression in our country and talk about this instead all day. BTW just why can’t them darkies self-organize again?
“Police say the new footage is irrelevant to their investigation. Investigators have previously said Officer Darren Wilson initially stopped Brown for walking in the street, not because the store reported a robbery. Attorney Jay Kanzler, who represents the store and employees, told CNN that the version of events in the documentary is false and that it has been edited to omit a clerk throwing a bag back to Brown.”
Who knows anymore. Either way, the case was always that the police stopped him for walking in the street so I don’t see how it matters.
Here’s what’s going on in Midland these days. This began as a routine traffic stop because the guy (the one lying on the ground) ran a stop sign. (For some reason, the cop’s dash cam video wasn’t included. But after the cop turned his lights on, the guy drove two blocks, pulled into his driveway, and sat in his car for six minutes while the cop asked him to get out. The video starts shortly after he pulls into the driveway.)
It gets interesting at 6:00, really interesting at 9:45, then again at 25:00.
(EDIT - Here is a shortened video that contains all the interesting parts and what started it all.)
I mean, if all he did was run a stop sign, that could’ve just been a ticket. No big deal. Hey, I made a mistake, officer. It’s the insane and disproportionate reaction to a routine traffic stop that causes the issues.
Here’s the cell phone video from an “innocent bystander”.
greeny mad
Admittedly, the Midland video is nothing compared to the Minneapolis video.
Not that there’s any excuse for what the cops did, but I wonder what he did to “deserve” to get thrown down on the street, handcuffed, and his neck stepped on.
