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In reply to the discussion: Ferguson Police Chief Says Darren Wilson Will Return To Active Duty If Not Indicted [View all]jwirr
(39,215 posts)think that works in all the countries that have a police state today? It was certainly the philosophy of many police states of the past. In all those countries where citizens were disappeared? In all those countries where they were detained with no trials because the police force was working to the dictator? In Germany so many years ago.
I hope that armed rebellion is not the only option that we are left with but what do you suggest when the law is not in the right? When all across the USA the police hold themselves above the law. All those countries I mentioned above should just stop protesting and let them set up their fascist states. Is that what you are suggesting?
The killing of unarmed often innocent victims and other abuses by the police in the USA is rampant. If we do not stop it now when are we going to stop it?
I suggest you find one of the lists of all the people who have been killed by police or vigilantes in the last 4 or 5 years and ask your self if jaywalking, shopping in WalMart, walking home from the store, selling cigarettes from your own pack and many other minor crimes should carry a death penalty administered by the police without any judge and jury. No matter what happened Michael Brown deserved a jury trial not a death sentence. Also this would not be the first cover up by a police force. We seldom find the police guilty of anything anymore. And unfortunately I think that is one of the problems - we have given them a license to kill under almost any kind of situation. I think the fact that they left his body lay uncovered for so many hours speaks volumes. Also the use of their precious military equipment against US citizens.
All I know about the St. Louis is that the Missouri Synod Lutheran Church headquarters is located there. What I am seeing from watching this incident on live stream from the beginning is that there is a real problem with hate in this area. You did not talk about the hate in your op and that is the problem. The underlying problem is being totally ignored and the police force is supporting the haters.