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So, the only way to keep tensions down, is for the officers to admit thst Wilson is guilty of a crime? Give in to the rioters?
Not wearing a bracelet is not admitting anything.
I disagree. Ferguson police officers have the right to be racist asses.
The U.S. Justice Department asked the Ferguson, Missouri Police Department on Friday to order its officers not to wear bracelets in support of the white policeman who shot to death a black teenager last month, sparking protests.
Read the article here: http://news.yahoo.com/justice-department-tells-ferguson-police-stop-wearing-bracelets-004135604.html35
I don't know what you think but it looks to me like it will be a long time before there's ever any peace in Ferguson, Missouri.
I don't believe that's going to bring people together.
What do you think?
I disagree. Ferguson police officers have the right to be racist asses.
You don't live in Ferguson, Missouri so you have no idea what the black people who live there have put up with for many years.
When did anyone say that it was?
The U.S. Justice Department asked the Ferguson, Missouri Police Department on Friday to order its officers not to wear bracelets in support of the white policeman who shot to death a black teenager last month, sparking protests.
Read the article here: http://news.yahoo.com/justice-department-tells-ferguson-police-stop-wearing-bracelets-004135604.html35
I don't know what you think but it looks to me like it will be a long time before there's ever any peace in Ferguson, Missouri.
Basically what those cops are telling people is that they're going to do whatever they want to do.
I don't believe that's going to bring people together.
What do you think?
I think it's ironic that Obama saw the need to say about Trayvon "That could be me" yet, DOJ demand Ferguson police to remove bracelets.
It is not the police, it is the DOJ telling them what to do.
Why would they listen to what they have to say?
Certainly, the can. When did they US Justice Department gain the authority to do so?
And as an aside, as I've noted above, this is in my view a union display of solidarity with a fellow officer. The police union here in Toronto frequently uses tweaks to their assigned uniform as a means of "job action" when upset about some initiative, or negotiations, or treatment of an officer. Sometimes they wear union baseball caps instead of their mandated hats, etc.
Surely, you're not against union activism, are you?
The racists are the ones politicizing the event in Ferguson.
Again, the DOJ does not have the authority to enforce such a demand to my knowledge, but it does have every right to ask the local police to change their policy or enforce, or whatever is appropriate here.
You know, I actually think that was a case of Obama realizing a mistake. When he said "that could have been me", he was commenting on the verdict of a jury by the man's peers. That undermines the trust in the legal system; if it had happened in Jefferson's time he would have been impeached for obstruction of justice.
I suspect the behind closed doors protest from trial lawyers, most of whom are liberals, warned him off further idiocy. If he had not ventured into the Trayvor thing, then his absence in Ferguson would not have been an issue. I suggest that because he had in that and other personal tragedies, the 'wronged' in Ferguson felt he had a responsibility to them because he had done so before, and by his absence, then, infuriated things even more.
That's why I see him as a rookie, even now, six years in. He continues to play rock star/obamacare salesman without realizing there is 250 years of precedent.
So, as it relates to authority, it would be the equivalent of Al Sharpton ordering the Ferguson PD to remove the bands.
Do you find it at all troubling, perhaps a conflict of interest, perhaps political intimidation or an attempt at illegal influence, for the Justice Department of the United States, a JD that has initiated an investigation into racism in the Ferguson PD, to try to wield authority they don't actually have?
Which is pretty much every one except the tiny handful of us waiting for more information and not taking a side.
Pure unadulterated and transparent projection.In this instance a racist is anyone who out of hand without any consideration to what actually went on assumes the worst about the white cop. The fact that the young man had just committed a strong armed and nearly killed a cop does not seem to matter to them.
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