Grand Juror Sues McCulloch, Says He Mischaracterized the Wilson Case

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87. The cop killer was obviously crazy

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I stated as much.

I ageed with the poster that if Ferguson and Staten Island hadn't happened the crazed guy with a gun would not have had shooting a cop in his mind.

It's unfortunate that the timing of his tottering over the edge of sanity coincided with the Staten Island and Ferguson grand jury verdicts and took the focus off the police brutality protests, but blowback does happened.

And it's not always some crazy with a gun who has already shot his girlfriend and thus has nothing to lose. Sometimes it's people who've decided that they've had enough. Acknowledging that phenomenon is not being "chumped" as you put it. It's understanding that people will eventually push back against brutal treatment.

You wrote: "Taking up arms" against the police isn't very realistic, and, unless you're posting from a penal library, pretty doubtful."

Brush up on your history. The original Black Panther Party armed themselves in Oakland, CA in the 60s to protect their community from police brutality and police killings (headquarters on Shattuck then Peralta). Ever heard of the Black Liberation Army, Assata Shakur? You seem not to know any of that. And some of them are, yes, still in prison because they were committed to a cause and determined to do more than walk in street protests, which they of course recognized and supported as part of a wide movement composed of different components moving towards justice and the end of police brutality.

And btw, I happened to be an African American who has experience some of things I speak of and I don't make smart alec, uninformed remarks because of that.