#BlackLivesMatter

[Heismanberg]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/violence-ferguson-police-fire-smoke-bombs-tear-gas/story?id=24973522

This development is crazy

[Tommy]

Cool. Love a little domestic unrest.

[Coach K]

Surprised Ferguson hasn't gotten it's own thread. excrement has got to change before this turns into the wild west. But I'll save my diatribe on law enforcement for later, too early for this I've been discussing this at length with people since Mike Brown was shot.

[Heismanberg]

I don't see why they won't just get rid of the cop that did this.

Multiple witnesses are saying that Mike Brown had his hands up after being shot once and the cop walked forward and unloaded on him. 

[Johnny English]

The militarisation of the police that seems to have accelerated massively over the last few years is terrifying.

[Pope]

Cool. Love a little domestic unrest.

Race war!

/cartman

[dcm1602]

I don't follow nonsense news outside of these forums

But I thought this kid was like assaulting a police officer and tried shoving the officer into his car and excrement?

[Badger]

6 posts before the inevitable turn, not bad everybody.

[dcm1602]

 Well I mean the report that came out was that the first shot was fired from within the police vehicle, and that the officer showed up at a hospital with a swollen face

So I think those things would be extremely easy for an investigation to confirm or deny.

As well as people saying the officer shot him 10 times vs the police saying it was 3

All easy things to confirm or deny

Worthless for people to speculate and assume otherwise.

[Badger]

So what exactly is confirmed? What are the facts here?

Not that it will matter for most people, they've already made up their minds and most will "coincidentally" fall exactly where they did on a previous high profile shooting case.

[Ignatius J Reilly]

I don't see why they won't just get rid of the cop that did this.

Multiple witnesses are saying that Mike Brown had his hands up after being shot once and the cop walked forward and unloaded on him. 

Unions.  Blue protects blue, and there's no way the police union won't fight any and every attempt to dump an officer.  It's the same exact thing with teachers.  Teachers are removed from the classroom and still paid if they molest a child and it can't be proven.  It's ridiculous the level of protection they are granted in the name of not allowing the powers that be to run roughshod over them.

[Ignatius J Reilly]

BTW, Anonymous has named the cop.  I'm obviously not going to do so in this thread, but it's out there now.

[Badger]

BTW, Anonymous has named the cop.  I'm obviously not going to do so in this thread, but it's out there now.

Looking at that now. I guess we'll find out if it's that's the guy or not. Right now the police are denying it's him.

[Heismanberg]

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/michael-brown-ferguson-shooting-former-nba-star-gilbert-arenas-calls-al-sharpton-attention-whore-1461156

[Badger]

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/michael-brown-ferguson-shooting-former-nba-star-gilbert-arenas-calls-al-sharpton-attention-whore-1461156

I got into a debate about Sharpton last week. They kept telling me he "raises awareness". I think mass media and social media are doing a fine job of that on their own.