Ferguson Police should be outlawed Topic

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We may never know what really happened in the Brown shooting, what we do know for certain is that raucous was right, Ferguson police should be outlawed because they are a bunch of racist *************.


3/5/2015 3:54 PM
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The DOJ found that there wasn't evidence to charge him with a hate crime. Doesn't mean Wilson was right. It's possible to be wrong while also not committing a hate crime.
3/5/2015 4:05 PM
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I never accused Wilson of a hate crime. I accused him of being a ****** cop and making a criminally bad decision.
3/5/2015 4:15 PM
Doesn't matter.  Brown's family is suing the city for a payday.    If they get a big check, all is good.
3/5/2015 5:52 PM
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Posted by moy23 on 3/5/2015 6:33:00 PM (view original):
Posted by bad_luck on 3/5/2015 4:15:00 PM (view original):
I never accused Wilson of a hate crime. I accused him of being a ****** cop and making a criminally bad decision.
That sounds more like mike's argument , not yours. Mike has stated over and over that some cops are ****** cops and this one may or may not be guilty... And that the justice system should determine that, not the lynch mob or the media.
I think Wilson is part of a racist police force. I'd bet that Wilson is also racist. I know that charging someone with a hate crime is a high bar to clear and no one expected it from the start. The only chance Wilson had at being charged with a crime was from the DA and we all know that DA's don't like to charge cops with crimes.
3/5/2015 7:04 PM
Posted by moy23 on 3/5/2015 6:35:00 PM (view original):
Posted by tecwrg on 12/3/2014 9:15:00 PM (view original):
Posted by bad_luck on 12/3/2014 5:57:00 PM (view original):
From Tim Wise:

(read the whole thing, it's very good)

The constant drumbeat of negativity is so normalized by now that it forms the backdrop of every conversation about black people held in white spaces when black folks themselves are not around. It is like the way your knee jumps when the doctor taps it with that little hammer thing during a check-up: a reflex by now instinctual, automatic, unthinking.

And still we pretend that one can think these things—that vast numbers of us can—and yet be capable of treating black folks fairly in the workforce, housing market, schools or in the streets; that we can, on the one hand, view the larger black community as a chaotic maelstrom of iniquity, while still managing, on the other, to treat black loan applicants, job applicants, students or random strangers as mere individuals. That we can somehow thread the needle between our grand aspirations to equanimity as Americans and our deeply internalized biases regarding broad swaths of our nation’s people.

A selection of other articles by Tim Wise:

14 Bad Things I Did as a White Kid That Would Have Turned Out Differently If I Were Black

Posted on: Nov 26, 2014, Source: AlterNet

If I were black I would probably be in prison now.

Posted on: Nov 25, 2014, Source: AlterNet

Black people have to learn everything about white people just to stay alive. White people just don't get that.

Posted on: Nov 5, 2010, Source: AlterNet

The "Leave It To Beaver" days that Tea Party voters yearn for are about to be swept into the dustbin of history.

Posted on: Jun 16, 2010, Source: AlterNet

President Obama hails a post-racial future for America. But being colorblind to our society is not a smart move.

Posted on: Apr 25, 2010, Source: AlterNet

Imagine that hundreds of black protesters descended on DC armed with AK-47s. Would they be defended as patriotic Americans?

Posted on: Jul 14, 2009, Source: CounterPunch

A swim club in outer Philadelphia expelled sixty kids of color from its pool, reminding us that America is far from overcoming its racist past.

Posted on: Mar 1, 2009, Source: CounterPunch

Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder blamed personal cowardice for our racial divide, rather than institutionalized inequities.

Posted on: Nov 25, 2008, Source: Red Room

We don't need the "everything sucks" analysis; Obama has mobilized millions of activists and that energy is looking for an outlet.

Posted on: Sep 17, 2008, Source: BuzzFlash

Sounds like maybe Tim Wise's "thing" is to be the white man who bashes whitey?

Doesn't sound like his opinion is very objective.

You on the otherhand were quoting Tim Wise and even suggested his writings are very good.
You mean the essay about how racist the police are? Yeah, he's right.

Ferguson policies targeted blacks, created toxic environment: U.S. attorney general
3/5/2015 7:05 PM
Posted by moy23 on 3/5/2015 6:33:00 PM (view original):
Posted by bad_luck on 3/5/2015 4:15:00 PM (view original):
I never accused Wilson of a hate crime. I accused him of being a ****** cop and making a criminally bad decision.
That sounds more like mike's argument , not yours. Mike has stated over and over that some cops are ****** cops and this one may or may not be guilty... And that the justice system should determine that, not the lynch mob or the media.

No, I said some cops are ****** but that doesn't mean they're guilty of a crime. 

3/5/2015 7:54 PM
Brown attacked him.  Wilson, possibly, wasn't a good enough cop to repel the attack without deadly force.     That doesn't make him a criminal.   The criminal is 6 feet under.  And Wilson, possibly a crappy cop, is no longer a cop.   Win/win.
3/5/2015 7:55 PM
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