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Multiple witnesses' have already given their testimony. They did so immediately after the shooting.
Yes. There are already over thirty eye witnesses who have given statements, as I mentioned earlier, and expected to be nearly 100 if the FBI can find them all.
Pu-lease. "Enduring poverty" and "political disenfranchisement" is so much bull-kaka. Some people are just a-holes and look for any excuse to steal, riot, destroy other's property and hurt people.
I don't disagree with you. Some people are definitely taking advantage of this situation to loot and destroy. Hopefully the police will crack down on them hard.
But many of the protesters are expressing frustration with a system that they believe doesn't serve them well. That also has to be taken into account and dealt with in a meaningful way.
I don't see any reader comments anymore on the CNN Brown articles. I know the media is not the government, but I find it ironic that they cry about people interfering with their speech right yet the control the public's speech on their stories.
I don't disagree with you. Some people are definitely taking advantage of this situation to loot and destroy. Hopefully the police will crack down on them hard.
But many of the protesters are expressing frustration with a system that they believe doesn't serve them well. That also has to be taken into account and dealt with in a meaningful way.
They represent nearly 70% of the town's population and yet only 13% of them are registered voters.
They have only themselves to blame for "no representation".
Yes. There are already over thirty eye witnesses who have given statements, as I mentioned earlier, and expected to be nearly 100 if the FBI can find them all.
I don't see any reader comments anymore on the CNN Brown articles. I know the media is not the government, but I find it ironic that they cry about people interfering with their speech right yet the control the public's speech on their stories.
I noticed that too. So pathetic. Clearly most people feel a certain way and CNN don't want to be associated with that.
Slightly unrelated, but to related to all of the negativity being spread about Ferguson.
Gov. Nixon just thanked the people in the community for feeding officers and others today. Residents have also lead the cleanup records.
Evidently it was a relatively decent middle class town until they tore down the projects in St. Louis and gave the residents Section 8 vouchers. The filth just migrated to the a cluster of apartments that Mike's grandma stays at. The complex account for about a third of the violent crime in the town although it's relatively small.
They found it in an isolated corner of Ferguson that was flush with sprawling apartment complexes. Far from Ferguson’s leafy residential streets and quaint downtown, many people didn’t even know the apartments were part of the city until young Michael Brown was shot and killed there Aug. 9.
But not the police. They knew.
After decades of relative calm and stability, the apartments have become a tinderbox for crime. Canfield Green Apartments and the nearby Oakmont and Northwinds complexes are a study of the slow encroachment of poverty and social distress into what had been suburban escapes.
Angela Shaver has witnessed that sea change since she moved into Canfield Green Apartments 20 years ago. The state employee said she raised a prom queen there and sent her off to college.
There used to be a swimming pool. Now, there’s a bullet hole in the door below her.
Yea, right at the same place too. Talk about being at the right place at the right time when one of their own was killed by a white cop. Normally nobody sees anything even if someone gets shot right infront of their face.
Evidently it was a relatively decent middle class town until they tore down the projects in St. Louis and gave the residents Section 8 vouchers. The filth just migrated to the a cluster of apartments that Mike's grandma stays at. The complex account for about a third of the violent crime in the town although it's relatively small.
Just like what happened in Memphis. They gave the people in housing projects vouchers to spread out around the city and get better lives, better schools. Instead they ended up spreading crime around the city and ruining the schools. The people hurt the most were working class blacks who lived in the areas that were solid middle class areas with decent schools before the projects were razed.
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