"Hands Up, Don't Shoot" . . . "Pants Up, Don't Loot" (lawyer, companies)

[Mouldy Old Schmo]

Originally Posted by luzianne

Pay the Brown family for WHAT?! Raising a thug?

It happens quite often that the family of someone shot by the police receives a financial settlement even if the shooting is ruled justified. It's a cynical ploy to buy peace.

[Chicago76]

Originally Posted by McdonaldIndy

Pendleton Pike in Indy is fine as i drive down it everyday to work. What is your point?

Funny, it wasn't fine when my parents were doing the same (lived on Geist and commuted downtown and to an office off Shadeland). True story: a few years back a fast food joint was hit over there in an armed robbery. Someone else came to rob the same place a few hours later after police cleared out and they were disappointed to find out the place had already been cleaned out.

The place is a cesspool of the same suburban decline that Ferguson appears to be headed toward...which you equate to Detroit with a smiley face as if you're enjoying this.

This could just as easily have happened somewhere on your little drive to work. Remember that.

Your cute little comments are an affront to human dignity. Go enjoy watching human suffering somewhere else.

[illcosby]

Great stuff on the last page... when Al Sharpton is playing Gandhi's role, society is in trouble.

Thanks rampant, unfettered capitalism and the politicians that wedge us all. You're swell.

[oh come on!]

You're 38. Pull your pants up.
How do you expect the world to take your seriously.

[modernist1]

I guess they didn't take the stepfather to Geneva.

[oh come on!]

Originally Posted by Ant131531

Now, East Asians are extremely prosperous in America, but they're naturally intelligent and hard working, moreso than whites.

which is why I wonder why blacks can't do the same.
Go to school, read, do your homework. How hard can that be?

I will never understand sociology.

[UKWildcat1981]

Missouri has bad race relations it seems like.. come on people this is not Alabama and Mississippi in the 1950, treat everyone the way you want to be treated, Americans need to get past the "entire race" issue its sad. I am a dark skinned white people and Americans often think I am Latino or Middle Eastern its kinda funny.. why does it matter if I was.. just saying.

[jaydarl]

Originally Posted by Mouldy Old Schmo

It happens quite often that the family of someone shot by the police receives a financial settlement even if the shooting is ruled justified. It's a cynical ploy to buy peace.

The family would have had a much better chance of doing that if they had just let a competent lawyer work in the background to do such.

I had a church member's son (actually a decent kid, from a good family) killed by the police under vague circumstances nearly 20 years ago. The cop was dismissed from the force, but not charged (go figure). Many in the church wanted to do the whole protest thing to bring attention to the matter, which was more difficult then than it is now. However, we had a prominent lawyer that was a member, who advised against such and referred them to another attorney who got them a sizable settlement. Of course, no amount of money can replace a loved one, but it is better than losing your loved one under murky circumstances, getting nothing, AND having to live in a town that will forever be tarnished and ostracized.

[justNancy]

I keep hearing comments by news anchors & reporters that seem to justify the violence. Last night I was nauseated when one of the ABC anchors quoted MLK out of context. Dr. King was non-violent and did not condone rioting.

Of course there's racial profiling and racism in this country. Anyone who denies bigotry exists has his head in the sand. However, 9 members of a Grand Jury spent weeks studying the evidence, including eyewitness testimony and forensic reports.

Unlike people who chit-chat in social groups, on the street and on the internet, they hear, see and discuss physical evidence and sworn testimony. So if they decided there was not even enough evidence for a trial, then why wasn't justice served in this case? There's a big difference between getting the results you desire and "justice."

When Jordan Davis was murdered in Jacksonville, Michael Dunn was arrested, charged and convicted. Earlier this year, a police officer in SC shot an unarmed Black man who was reaching for his wallet, and the officer was immediately charged and fired from his job. Although it's sad when any life is taken, Michael Brown was a bully and the 7-Eleven video proves he had a violent streak. I wish his confrontation with Officer Wilson had ended differently, but people should choose their martyrs more carefully.

[BeatAngMoh]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmsK...A3BD2E6743BB97