Ferguson

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Police will always be protected no matter what. Political. They all protect each other no matter what. Even the dirty ones. The police know they are protected so they don't worry.

Not my words, the words of my girl's best friend who works at a court house every day here.
 

Wilson: I don't normally carry a Taser

In his testimony to the grand jury, Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson said he doesn't typically carry a Taser on him.

"We only have a select amount," Wilson testified. "Usually there is one available, but I usually elect not to carry one. It is not the most comfortable thing. They are very large; I don't have a lot of room in the front for it to be positioned."

Wilson said he's trained to use a Taser and believed he's used one before.

Wilson said on August 9, the day he fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown, he was carrying his .40 caliber pistol and mace.
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A little discomfort, a black kid's life. Eh. Seems like a fair trade.

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sageyefc said:
The officer wont be charged, and listening to the reasoning its easily the right decision.


Another case of certain media and media personalities like al sharpton stoking racial tension and putting out false information
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Agree 100% with this. Seems fairly obvious the thug went to beat up an armed cop and got what most people would expect to get in that situation.

Civil rights campaigners jumped on the wrong bandwagon with this one, and have hurt their cause as a result. There's plenty of legit things to support in their fight; not defending a thief who attacked a police officer purely because the criminal is black and the officer was white. It's reverse racism to me.
 
DualityNSNO said:
Still, he could've maced him, not shot him ffs

You'd think that the gun is there if there's a serious threat to the public/officer, not an unarmed kid.
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If it were me, I wouldn't have known if he had a knife, concealed weapon, anything. If I had a gun and some fella was attacking me in that scenario, there's well enough information for my brain to process that my life is in danger and to use the weapon.
 

Tubey said:
Agree 100% with this. Seems fairly obvious the thug went to beat up an armed cop and got what most people would expect to get in that situation.

Civil rights campaigners jumped on the wrong bandwagon with this one, and have hurt their cause as a result. There's plenty of legit things to support in their fight; not defending a thief who attacked a police officer purely because the criminal is black and the officer was white. It's reverse racism to me.
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Possibly. But there are thousands of 'legit' incidents like this and I'd see Ferguson as a response to something more broader in terms of police/African-American relations.
 
davek said:
Possibly. But there are thousands of 'legit' incidents like this and I'd see Ferguson as a response to something more broader in terms of police/African-American relations.
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Certainly. But if they want credibility when highlighting legit issues, which do exist, then they need to pick and choose their battles, and blindly defending a thug just because of the colour of his skin means taking anything they do in the future seriously is a lot more difficult.
 

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