Comments | scarybaldguy: Good going, Ferguson PD

scarybaldguy

Good going, Ferguson PD

Aug 13, 2014 23:41

Word is, along with refusing to acknowledge (much less interview) witnesses (whose testimony to the meeja has been remarkably consistent, unlike most eyewitness accounts) to Michael Brown's summary execution, you're now firing on journalists ( Read more... )

fuck the police

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scarybaldguy August 14 2014, 07:01:54 UTC

The people who make their living by holding others down don't remember. The people who are held down do. And there ain't shit us old white guys can do to make amends, AFAIK, aside from individual expressions of sympathy and solidarity, which ring pretty fucking hollow.

madman101 July 4 2015, 23:06:22 UTC

Get a real LJ life. This guy is an asshole.

madman101 July 4 2015, 23:05:23 UTC

Get a real LJ life. This guy is an asshole.

lisa_thecat August 14 2014, 10:41:16 UTC

I like the tag. What happened in Ferguson is a shame. I am not surprised at the protests and riots. People have good reason not to trust the authorities to be fair. I've read about Anonymous attacking the authorities and announcing they are going to publish the name of the killer. Apparently when the law doesn't work anymore, you need some unruled entity like Anonymous to intervene.

madman101 July 4 2015, 23:07:11 UTC

Get a real LJ life. This guy is an asshole.

achinhibitor August 14 2014, 14:23:39 UTC

refusing to acknowledge witnesses

As far as I can tell from the news stories, there are several parallel investigations going on now, so it's unlikely that the story won't get out.

You've single-handedly set race relations in the MidwestSadly, I don't think this is so. This sort of shit is an eruption based on a long history of trouble, that is, the situation was really bad even before, it just wasn't in the news ( ... )

thewronghands August 15 2014, 05:18:04 UTC

Yeah, and as far as I can tell the broken windows theory seems to have been largely discredited for actual rates of violent crimes, etc. Not sure about property crimes.

achinhibitor August 18 2014, 22:34:20 UTC

Well, I checked the Wikipedia article. There is much arguing about it, and some research, and it's not very conclusive.

OTOH, if the actual goal is to make middle-class people comfortable in an area, then "disorder" means "having a lot of poor people", and arresting people for "the crime of being undesirable" will get a lot of support from the voters.

madman101 July 4 2015, 23:03:12 UTC

Get a real LJ life. This guy is an asshole.

madman101 July 4 2015, 23:02:27 UTC

Get a real LJ life. This guy is an asshole.