Running gun violence thread

I'm sure they will.

The grand jury itself (and the pro-cop history of the man leading it, Bob McCulloch) is a source of controversy too. We could have a situation where the case is no-billed and the officer is free to go while the public hasn't heard from one of those witnesses or even seen the police report about the shooting.

 

If the protestors are so upset by the military prescience, then maybe they should come up with a chant that doesn't promise violence if they don't get the legal result they demand despite whatever facts of the case end up arising.

 

Because an offensive chant justifies a military presence?

 

Someone has to be using Baron's login info.

 

Baron's a real man of the people, huh?

 

He doesn't think they should be protesting more than eight hours a day.

And they definitely aren't taking their lunch breaks.

 

Actually, if I have one opinion Baron feels OBLIGATED to take the other side.

 

Local St. Louis sources said Wilson suffered an “orbital blowout fracture to the eye socket.” This comes from a source within the District Attorney’s office and confirmed by the St. Louis County Police.

http://bit.ly/1vd46D7

 

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/19/why-isn-t-the-nra-defending-ferguson-s-blacks.html

Good question.

The National Rifle Association has been warning us about the threat of a heavily-armed and dangerous government crushing dissent for decades. Their leader, Wayne LaPierre, even referred to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms as "jack-booted thugs."

Their dystopian nightmare sounds exactly like what’s happening in Ferguson, Missouri.

Yet somehow, the NRA seems to have missed the whole thing with the SWAT teams and the tank-like vehicles and the snipers and the LRAD sound cannon and the tear gas and the rubber bullets being trained on unarmed Americans. Not a peep from LaPierre on this extended assault on citizens of Ferguson, at least that I can find.

The writer has his own answer (hint: race), but I also think the NRA's bleatings are only to serve the purpose of selling more guns. Maybe they really believe this stuff, but they're just throwing metaphorical bombs for manufacturers, not actually throwing bombs.

 

“We are jobless men, and this is our job now — getting justice. If that means violence, that’s okay by me. They’ve been doing this to us for years.”

http://wapo.st/1oLDDwJ

 

So the District Attorney's office, which is notoriously pro-police to a fault, and the St. Louis County Police, which was yanked out of Ferguson because they were fucking things up so much, tell a right-wing blog about an "injury" the cop suffered. Of course, we'll never see the cop, so we'll never know this is true.

Which gets back to this question about leaking out things like the robbery and the "injury" -- if the police sincerely felt Wilson was justified in shooting Brown, why not lay this out on day one, instead of in dribs and drabs, whenever the narrative is getting away from them? Why not welcome an investigation, especially from a very friendly district attorney's office, that would include evidence of a struggle and injury?

There are only two answers I can come up with. One is that they're rank incompetents, which given the evidence so far may be plausible. The other is that they have something to hide, and they're closing ranks to save their asses.

 

You know what I love too?

If dome some idiot shows up at a "Tea Party" really with a racist sign, or acts like a fool, that's the big story, and the whole group is branded as racist.

In this case, the media is so contentious about telling us how it's only a very small minority of folks who are causing trouble.

And, we learn about the "peaceful" and the "elders".

I see stories about the wonderful folks who rise early every morning to clean up the previous night's mess.