Ferguson / Staten Island Decisions -- No Indictments

Legendary NYC retired police officer Frank Serpico on Eric Garner: Cops cry wolf all the time.

Cowardly cops living by the 'shoot first, ask questions later' mantra put the good guys in a bad light and threaten the public's right to justice.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/serpico-wedge-driven-police-society-article-1.2034651?ref=Outbrain&ADLocation=footer&ADPosition=2

 

How come white folk didn't protest when Kobe Bryant and Jameis Winston got away with violent sexual assault?

 

Looks like another excuse to sit out a few weeks.

 

If he can't breathe, then how can he play in an NBA game?

 

That's a solid Baron comparison.

 

can he read his own shirt? He did have someone else take his SATs. Maybe he's illiterate

 

Protest, at times, involves disruption of the general public's normal, collective life.

You advocating running people over fits.

 

I had a similar discussion with a friend who works in Boston and was upset with the folks who were disrupting traffic patterns there. His phrase was "My Ford F150 is made in America and so is it's driver, who won't bother tapping the brakes if these fools are in front of me."

I thought it was ironic - and I pointed it out to him - that he felt that committing violence in an "American-made automobile" against those exercising their Constitutional rights to assemble was as anti-American as it gets.

Frankly, protests don't work unless they disrupt daily life of someone. No one would pay attention if they were organized in a "convenient" fashion.

 

Chris Christie now has no chance of becoming President because he blocked traffic.

 

The way to get people on your side is not to put them in unnecessary traffic jams and keep them from getting where they're trying to get.

 

Protestors that break the law -- i.e. disrupting traffic, i.e. going on private property, i.e. walking on highways where no pedestrians are allowed to walk -- need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

It is not your "constitutional right" to break the law.

If you want to get a permit and have a march, if you want to walk on the sidewalk, if you want to rent a place and have a rally THOSE THINGS are "constitutional rights"

Stopping traffic is not.