'People blatantly lied about Darren Wilson'

It will eventually turn into a revolution. Just a matter of time before the crowd breaks free and the news is showing American airstrikes on its own civilians.

Then when the chaos is over, the government will take away individual rights of remaining civilians and everyone will walk a single file line.

Following the Grand Jury and now the DoJ's findings, I think there needs be closure and
conviction of the people responsible for burning their own city down.

The political exploitation of this event is getting old.

Brown took a chance and lost his life. Accept it and learn from it.

I don't know how many times I've said this before, but if you mess with a cop, you
are flirting with a gun. It doesn't matter what the law says, you are taking chances with
your life. And rightly so, because for all the cop knows, you are going to try to kill him.

I don't care who you are, it's not the color of your skin, it's your attitude and illegal behavior that gets you into trouble.

Don't believe me? You wanna find out? Go play on the freeway, , play Russian roulette with a loaded pistol. Swim in an ocean of blood-thirsty hungry sharks. See how long you last. How well you fare. Makes no difference to me, it's all the same.

Farewell & Adieu
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This is true. Three days ago in the neighborhood next to mine the cops were called about a white male around 30 beating his wife in the parking lot of a gas station. When the cops arrived they claim the white male waved a knife in the air and out of self defense they shot him 6 times in front of everyone.

It's a combination of things. It's race vs race, and government vs civilians.

I agree though a cop has a gun an will shot you if they chose. We gave them guns in the first place to keep criminals at bay, so it's also the civilians fault this is happening at this point in life.

Posted by GetMisted

Posted by MrFirebird
Following the Grand Jury and now the DoJ's findings, I think there needs be closure and
conviction of the people responsible for burning their own city down.

The political exploitation of this event is getting old.

1. The protesting wasn't soley the result of Michael Brown being shot. Brown was the breaking point after years and years of racial inequality and extortion of the black community in Ferguson at the hands of its police force and city leaders.

2. After reading the DoJ report on Ferguson, I honestly can't say I blame Brown, or the community for the way they reacted in their respective situations.

My point is.. You can only beat a man down so much before he fights back for his life.

You call it political exploitation.. I call it an eye opening experience to the corruption and power of our police and city leaders. Money is power. And the power had all but been stripped from the low income citizens of this country.

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SMH.

Eye opening experience...—? What?? Are you people so naive as to think that this bit with greed for money is anything new?? That's been a problem for millennia since ancient times.

No, Americans are too warped, corrupt, stupid, ignorant and immoral to get themselves out of poverty.
Being crybabies won't get the job done! Senselessly retarded acts of crime, violence, only hardens the hearts of the majority that plays by the rules.

Anyone who doesn't play by the rules gets taken off the field. That's how it is, that's how it was
and that's how it will always be. Committing a crime carries a penalty.

Laws are written to keep the peace. When they are broken, the peace is broken and the lawbreaker is to brought to justice. IF that lawbreaker doesn't want accept that, he or she is free to take his chances and run or confront the law man at the risk of his or life.
To condone such lawlessness, makes you no different than the lawless one. To argue with me on this, is telling.

I'm not saying it hasn't been that way since the beginning of time, it's just in recent years cops shooting quick with few questions asked has increased.

Or has been exposed better with todays media and Internet.

Posted by GetMisted
@Firebird

How does one expect to overcome poverty when the system as a whole is working against them?

If you read the DoJ documentation on Ferguson, you would see multiple examples of how it's damn near impossible. You likely didn't, so I really don't expect you to understand.

Yes.. Laws are broken. I'm 100% positive that you have broken laws, however minor they may have been. The difference is that in Ferguson, a minor traffic violation that would normally be met with a fine/citation, instead results in arrest.

So now, instead of a fine that you may be able to pay, you're forced to pay bond to get out of jail. The problem is that posting bail is not cheap. If you can't post bail, you sit in jail until your court appearence which could be weeks away.

Now you're forced to pay court costs, the fines, and you've been out of work for several days to even weeks. If you're a low income citizen, already struggling to make ends meet.. You're now put into an even more desperate situation. Pay the court cost and fines.. Or have a warrent issued for your arrest.

It's a never ending battle, and one that could have been avoided by the officer issuing a traffics citation instead.

$ 50 speeding ticket vs. $ 1000-4000 worth of fines and jail time.

Low incomes citizens are trying to survive. The corruption lay with the city and its enforcers.. Not those in poverty.

BS. Corruption lies everywhere. Just because you're poor, doesn't mean you're pure.

For you to ask how to overcome the corruption tells me that you lack the core understanding of the really BIG picture. And I DO mean BIG.
What you're talking about is nothing more than props and scenery.


If you know that speeding can cost you, what? $ 50? That's nothing!!!! I was fined $ 300.00 20 years
ago for speeding. I paid the penalty, learned my lesson and went on my way. Instead of acting like a baby, and burn my city down, as those dumb ones among the protesters in Ferguson had done, I simply learned and accepted that that $ 300.00 was for all the times I didn't get caught.

There's a difference between assault and speeding.

To be perfectly honest, it's very possible that Michael Brown murdered someone and never got caught.
But no, nobody thinks of that possibility. Instead he's made a poster child of stupidity.

Dummy, if you know there's a penalty for breaking the law, don't break it, if you don't want to pay
the price.
"Don't do the crime if you can't do the time."
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