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Two Officers Are Shot Outside Ferguson Police Station[W:263]

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If racism is rampant in Ferguson, wouldn't you think the blacks would be the first to know and not need a DOJ report on the subject?
Do you think a lot of folks of color even realized such a thing until Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Eric Holder, activist Marxist groups and Obama told them it was so?
 
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Which other constitutionally guaranteed rights do you sneer at, besides the right to keep and bear arms?

At all of them, or more precisely, at all the people who believe that they actually exist and have some non-transitory meaning.
 
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Do you think a lot of folks of color even realized such a thing until Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Eric Holder, activist Marxist groups and Obama told them it was so?

While I am sure you see them colored folks as simple people, I suspect they had a clue or two before Rev. Al came along:

The Day Ferguson Cops Were Caught in a Bloody Lie - The Daily Beast

The officers got the wrong man, but charged him anyway—with getting his blood on their uniforms. How the Ferguson PD ran the town where Michael Brown was gunned down.

Police in Ferguson, Missouri, once charged a man with destruction of property for bleeding on their uniforms while four of them allegedly beat him.
 
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While I am sure you see them colored folks as simple people, I suspect they had a clue or two before Rev. Al came along:

The Day Ferguson Cops Were Caught in a Bloody Lie - The Daily Beast

The officers got the wrong man, but charged him anyway—with getting his blood on their uniforms. How the Ferguson PD ran the town where Michael Brown was gunned down.

Police in Ferguson, Missouri, once charged a man with destruction of property for bleeding on their uniforms while four of them allegedly beat him.
I'm sure could find abuse by officers regardless of their color/race in every major city across the U.S.. No one is stating it never happens.
 
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At all of them, or more precisely, at all the people who believe that they actually exist and have some non-transitory meaning.
If rights don't exist, all you have are privileges. And by what right does one man dispense privileges to another?
 
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I'm sure could find abuse by officers regardless of their color/race in every major city across the U.S.. No one is stating it never happens.

And yet the same no ones never seem willing to do anything about it, so now we have protestors all over the place. I have said it before and I will say it repeatedly, this is far more systemic a problem and wide-spread an issue than Darren Wilson or Ferguson. It is not going away until somebody gets dropped into the volcano.
 
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If rights don't exist, all you have are privileges. And by what right does one man dispense privileges to another?

They are all privileges and since rights do not exist, there is only power and the powers that be at any given time are the controllers of the dispensary.
 
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Which other constitutionally guaranteed rights do you sneer at, besides the right to keep and bear arms?

The right to not bleed on the uniform of Ferguson cop as he beats someone up.
 
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There are racists everywhere and always will be. Most racists aren't likely going around announcing they're racists in whatever organization they're in.

Heres what I would like to see happen. I WOULD like to see Eric Holder become Eric Holder...law enforcement officer in Ferguson Missouri. He could hand pick 30-40 people and be responsible for the day to day enforcement of laws in that place. Commit to it for say...5 years. Show us the way. Who knows...it could be AWESOME.
 
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You're misstating the issue completely. On one side we've got people blaming Holder and the DOJ for a report that revealed a completely dysfunctional and abusive police department. If you're read any of the report, the problems just are severe. One of the ones that stuck in my mind was when the boyfriend was at the scene of a car wreck where his girlfriend was badly injured and bleeding. When the cops arrived, they tried to get the boyfriend to back away, and he didn't or didn't do it fast enough, which is understandable - it's an emotional thing to see someone hurt and bleeding. So the cop then left the injured person, bleeding, arrested the kid, and charged him with FIVE infractions, and had his car towed and impounded. Several cases where women called the cops over domestic abuse, and during the investigation the WOMEN were ticketed for code violations. How willing are you to trust cops who come to investigate a crime against YOU and then give you a ticket?

The point is it's not Holder's fault for putting this kind of systemic dysfunction into a report. Does that mean it's the "cops" fault that some asshole shot two of them? No. But it's not Holder's fault that his department revealed a troublesome environment at the police department that is tasked with public safety, not generating revenue off the backs of its citizens.

And it's really not just a problem with Ferguson. I read a long article a while back and the entire area has too many little fiefdoms and they all need to pay for their own police, municipal government etc. and how they do it is through fines and penalties. And it just preys on the poor and gets them into downward spirals that are hard to emerge from, but the problem is the fines piled on penalties piled on warrants and court costs is a feature, not a bug, of how these little fiefdoms pay the bills.

The other thing, and this isn't directed at anyone in particular, is it's just bizarre that the right wing has a general distrust for the government, and is I assume opposed to what would approach a police state. But the report on Ferguson is a picture of the worst kind of government abuse against its citizens, and a great many of the conservatives here are blaming the messenger instead of for once joining with liberals in condemning government abuse of power. It really is something that should unite all sides - there is no defense of it. I have to assume, and hope, that those making light of the report haven't read any of it. If you can read it and find any reason for the black community to trust the police in that town, I will be amazed.

Although I think Holder and the DOJ botched this from the beginning... for instance, should have issued a separate report clearing Officer Wilson first, instead of just including that little tidbit, as if it were unimportant, in the scathing report about the department itself.

I haven't commented because I haven't read the report itself, just going off of "media interpretations"... don't get me started on how the media has fanned this blast furnace... but your description of the kinds of incidents documented in the report is jaw dropping. Thank you for giving us some enlightenment.
 
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Has anyone heard if they've said what kind of bullet hit these men? It surprised me to hear one of them was shot just under the eye with a rifle from about 125 yards, and yet was treated at the hospital and released. What happened to the other officer is not much less surprising. That bullet entered his shoulder and exited his back, but he too was able to be released after treatment.

It sounds like the rifle can't have been anything more powerful than a .22 rimfire--if so, it's sort of an odd choice as used. I've heard they were often used by hit men in Mafia killings because the noise is not very noticeable on a city street, but those shootings took place at such close range that a shot to the head with even a .22 was a pretty sure thing. Maybe this was just a prank, and the person who fired on the officers never meant to kill them. You know, just some kid horsing around.

You'd be surprised how lucky people can be. I once took in a patient (drug dealer) who someone had tried to kill. They pulled a shotgun on him but it misfired. When that happened a guy jumped out of the car with a sword ("like the 3 musketeers") and stabbed him. The sword lodged between his ribs and therefore did not penetrate deeply. He was pissed and I kept telling him he needed to buy a lottery ticket.

It just depends on if vital tissue is hit. Thank goodness both cops are alive.
 
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Except when they come for their guns, and then they'll shoot em like the paper targets at the range their prowess is so great.
Oh yeah, forgot about that. So many caveats.
 
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So investigations are attacks. Is Trey Gowdy attacking Hillary Clinton?

The huge condemnations and justifications for violence by Holder went well beyond an "investigation." It was horrific racebaiting attacks against Ferguson police officers.
 
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Watching some of the protesters being interviewed on Hannity this evening I just had to shake my head at the utter stupidity being uttered.
 
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The huge condemnations and justifications for violence by Holder went well beyond an "investigation." It was horrific racebaiting attacks against Ferguson police officers.

Their blood is at least in part on his hands. Wind people up like this over false narratives and this is the consequence.
 
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Their blood is at least in part on his hands. Wind people up like this over false narratives and this is the consequence.


From what I saw, still people standing in front of camera's hold their hands up....pathetic.
 
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Watching some of the protesters being interviewed on Hannity this evening I just had to shake my head at the utter stupidity being uttered.

And those were probably some of the brighter lights of the fair town of Ferguson--pillars of the community, you might say. Maybe it's their dimness and inability to think or speak coherently that makes the collectivists in the lumpenproletariat feel such solidarity with them.
 
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Perhaps-but leftists will tell you that objectively bad behavior can't be called out because its racist. :doh

Leftist need to stop stirring the pot or they just might find themselves in the fire that boils it.
 
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Watching some of the protesters being interviewed on Hannity this evening I just had to shake my head at the utter stupidity being uttered.

Keep in mind, they vote, sometimes more then once..
 
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