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Justice Department tellsFerguson police tostopwearing bracelets

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.


What's " racist " about them wearing bracelets that support Darren Wilson ?

Wait, you don't honestly STILL buy into the " gentle giant with his hands up " gun downed from behind lie ?

Lol !!
 
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

The U.S. Justice Dept is out of line.

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.

Thanks to Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Obama, and Eric Holder. They fanned the flames.

I don't believe that's going to bring people together.

What do you think?

The problem is that the usual suspects are attempting to remake the young man who was killed from a dangerous criminal into a saintly martyr. The young man had just committed a strong arm robbery and assaulted a cop, nearly killing him. If someone had attacked me and fractured my eye sockets, I would have feared for my life as well and killed him if I had the chance. And the only thing that mattered to Jackson, Sharpton, Obama, and Holder was that it was a white cop shooting a black man. Young black men are getting killed daily in the nation's inner cities in gang violence. That does not seem to faze them.
 
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.

Sorry, I didn't know Missouri was now in Europe. I'm guessing Toronto, Canada is closer to Ferguson Missouri than any place in Europe. Regardless, what makes your opinion of events in Ferguson relevant and mine not?
 
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.
 
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.



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.
 
It is not the police, it is the DOJ telling them what to do.

Why would they listen to what they have to say?

No, it is the DOJ asking. There is a large, unsubtle difference between telling some one to do something, and asking them to do something.
 
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?

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.
 
The racists are the ones politicizing the event in Ferguson.

Which is pretty much every one except the tiny handful of us waiting for more information and not taking a side.
 
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.

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?
 
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.

That's why, in my opinion, this is even worse. It went from a bad comment from the President to the DOJ that shows how interconnected they are to Obama politics, instead of even justice for all.
 
So, as it relates to authority, it would be the equivalent of Al Sharpton ordering the Ferguson PD to remove the bands.

Probably not the comparison I would have invoked, but close enough. Kinda like Obama telling congress to pass a bill I think would be a better comparison. He is certainly able to ask them to do it, but then don't have any obligation to do so. Note that I am not an expert on the bureaucracy involved, but that is my understanding anyway. In this case, the article was clear that the DOJ was asking, not telling.

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?

No one tried to wield authority they did not have. The DOJ is perfectly within it's rights to make requests. It may not be able to order the local police to do something, but they can certainly request their cooperation on a matter.
 
Which is pretty much every one except the tiny handful of us waiting for more information and not taking a side.

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.
 
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.
Pure unadulterated and transparent projection.
 
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