Police Brutality and Militarized Law Enforcement

[BlueStreak]

I'm thinking that anyone who leaps to support ever increasing militarization of LE and a legal system that rarely prosecutes the officer..............

Call me crazy, but that smells of impending tyrannical government more than Obamacare premiums ever will. My, my, how quickly the chameleons change color under the right conditions. Since Ferguson, all of the sudden all sorts of "freedom loving true patriots" want big government to crush the uppity peasants.

In loving sincerity,
Dave

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by ZeroJunk

Well, what are you asking for Ike ? The whole message is to leave these black hoodlums who commit the violent crime from police scrutiny.

I think that is what they should get.

How is that going to work out and who is it going to hurt ?

Don't answer the question.

I think that without armies of automatic weapon and RPG bearing government employees in MRAPs to protect them, all of the "real Americans" will do what they always do;

Pack up and run like hell.

Dave

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by ZeroJunk

Well, what are you asking for Ike ? The whole message is to leave these black hoodlums who commit the violent crime from police scrutiny.

I think that is what they should get.

How is that going to work out and who is it going to hurt ?

Don't answer the question.

It's a waste of time answering any of your lamebrained questions.

The police need to do their jobs and find ways to accomplish their jobs humanely. But enforcing the laws by targeting neighborhoods and the people in them who come from a history of 500 years of institutional racism, and not doing anything to correct the social situation, isn't going to correct anything.

Randy Newman was, and remains right:

We're rednecks...
We're rednecks...
We don't know our ass from a hole in the ground...
We're rednecks...
We're rednecks...
Keepin' the niggers down.