Ferguson / Staten Island Decisions -- No Indictments

Re: Ferguson Decision -- No Indictment

And I'd again like to point out that while I have about as low an opinion as it is possible to have of Wilson after reading his testimony, there's almost no chance that he could be convicted because of the way the laws are written and it wouldn't do much good anyway.

We need reform on how police are trained, equipped and authorized to use deadly force. In communities like Ferguson, we need massive changes in how local government in general and specifically the police deals with the black community.

Putting Darren Wilison in jail might appease this specific flare-up, but it wouldn't save Tamir Rice or the next one or the next one in the endless line.

 

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Massive changes.

America will get right on that.

I think the Vite went 9 racists for no indictment and 3 looters for burning the cracker.

 

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It seems like there might actually be an increase in cameras filming police activity, which isn't nothing.

The only outcome in Ferguson that I'm rooting for, besides some sort of miracle reconciliation on all sides, is that a higher power comes in and tells the entire government of Ferguson that it's fucked as hell and is being fixed.

 

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You're right it's not nothing, but.

 

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Dana Milbank noted that despite the overwhelming percentage of grand juries that return an indictment, this prosecuting attorney is now 5 for 5 in presenting a case against a cop and watching the grand jury decline to indict.

That is Giants-in-October kind of clutchness.

 

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Nah, you're just programmed to believe that.

 

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Positive variance, though. I'm sure the next five cops will be indicted for demon slaying.

 

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Mos def, and Vox will be all over those stories.

 

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Do you think that this intensive new training and body cameras that you propose will help get illegal guns off
the street and reduce murder rates in minority neighborhoods?

If not what is your plan there?

 

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Most of those murders can't be attributed to racism, so Rick doesn't care.

 

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Oh fucking bullshit. Because not having a solution to one problem makes it impossible to propose solutions to other problems. We don't have a solution to the eventual death of the sun that will kill us all! So why try to make police accountable for their actions?!?!

 

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cant do it. Must go with our democratic principles and if enough people are loud enough and demonstrate they believe in something so strongly that existing law must therefore overruled. Moral authority must be ceded to those godly men with the highest ratings, Billy Graham, Pat Robertson, Al Sharpton.