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So Ferguson is blowing up again after another justified police shooting. It seems like this kind of thing is just going to routinely happen from now during the summer. Should we just accept it as a "fact of life" and simply try to give them "space to destroy" and move on?
I'd wager most of its residents are strong Democrats.
Just because the majority of residents are black doesn't make it a liberal stronghold. It may have escaped your notice, but when you actually look at the positions that many black people hold, those positions actually tend to be conservative positions. The Democratic party attracts black people because the party tries to be inclusive rather than exclusive. The Republicans are the ones wanting people to take oaths and promise to vote a certain way, and who point fingers at other Republicans decrying they are "Republican In Name Only". You can't win elections by rejecting your party's own members.
The father of the kid in the video was interviewed and said that he didn't know his son had brought his gun to the rally....
Is the kid old enough to have a firearm? Did he get a license to legally possess such a weapon? Somehow I doubt it soooo the father is just as much to blame as the stupid kid that pulled the gun.
The resulting shooting by the cops is why we pay them. Police are supposed to protect the public trust.
Maybe if that father was more like that mother in Baltimore that saw her boy dressed like a isis idiot and heading for nothing but trouble pulled him from that mob and gave him the smack down all the way home that kid in Ferguson wouldn't' have been shot.
If the kids are too stupid to know better than the parents need ot step up to stop them before the cops are given no choice.
And again, people look at the spark, not the powder keg. There's a reason people in Ferguson consider the police force the enemy.
This is a department who at one point arrested a (perfectly innocent, natch) guy, beat him up at the precinct and charged him with "destruction of public property" for bleeding on their uniforms. (I am not making this up.)
A department that would charge someone with "failure to identify" if they said their name was "Mike" and their driver's license said "Michael".
A department that would provide 20% of the city's operating budget in fines and court fees. They'd even promise the city government a certain income increase for budgeting purposes.
A court system that adjusted fines and fees to make them just cheaper than the price of mounting a defense.
And people in Ferguson are of the sort who can't afford a 30K house - once they're slapped with a $500 fine and court fees, their lives are derailed for months.
The legal authorities in Ferguson were essentially a shakedown operation. A couple of decades of that, and you've set up quite nicely for a random event to spin out of control. Which of course it did.
I lived through the violent Watts riots and saw this country coming apart at the seams in the 60's and early 70's. Nothing has improved for many of the black citizens living in the fringes....not one democrat has followed through with improving the inner city schools, keeping the kids even in school, lifting up their spirits etc. The democratic machine wants to keep them drugged and barely fed so they cant get out the vote when they most need it. Watch Hillary, Sanders and Biden start to worry about them very soon and make promises they will not keep. They need jobs but right now the left is more worried about giving ISIS jobs pfttttt.
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