<p>I do support thorough and impartial investigations, and I think special prosecutors that are not connected to the police in any way would be a very good idea.</p>
<p>However, the way you phrased your sentence, “But as long as people feel the justice system does not work on their behalf, I would only expect these things to continue to happen,” does not sound very good. If you don’t explain yourself, people will read exactly what you wrote to be exactly what you meant to write. Your further explanation is much clearer. </p>
<p>Whole lot of people continue to believe the Michael Brown shooting is a prime example of the justice system not working, in spite of lacking proof. While a trial might have given s bunch of lawyers the chance to crowd onto the head of a pin and dance, the physical evidence is just lacking as to some sort of hate crime being committed. And without the racial component, this is just another sad death that’s senselessy fueling more. Shame on Sharpton and all his ilk. </p>
<p>Maybe they fixate on anything that could be argued to have a racial component because they’re too dismayed by all the ones that don’t… shifting attention’s therapeutic, maybe.
<a href=“http://homicides.suntimes.com/”>Homicides in Chicago: A list of every victim | Chicago Sun-Times;
Saddest thing is that clicking past the first page, to older posts, is going to only take you back to December 16, at best. </p>
<p>I wonder if it really was the work of a crazy. I was watching the protest march of a number of people in NYC. They were walking down the street yelling something like, “What do we want to do? Kill the Police.” Were they all crazy? There were a large number of them. They think this guy was a gang member. If that is true, wonder how many other people he has shot. Not necessarily the work of an insane person, but perhaps a viciously violent person.</p>
<p>I didn’t write it that way to “sound good.” I wrote it to make a point, which still stands. I DO expect people’s growing frustration to end in violence. I don’t support it, but I think it is inevitable. We are living in incredibly polarized times. We have also seen a huge growth in hate crimes against minorities in the past few years. I (and many others) have seen that coming, too.</p>
<p>Actually, cat, if you google it, it sounds like hate crimes are decreasing every year. </p>
<p>Perhaps the huge growth in hate crimes that she is talking about are all the attacks on Bosnians by black youths in the Ferguson area. Perhaps that’s what she saw coming.</p>
<p>Ugh. And now different police unions are blaming the mayor and saying “he has blood on his hands”. Turning their backs when he arrived for a press conference. Worse and worse and worse. </p>
<p>The police union has already started a petition with officers demanding that the mayor not attend their funeral should they die in the line of duty, due to his lack of support. It sounds like they loathe him.</p>
<p>“Inside Edition” airs here just before NBC news in the evening. Last week they were playing a clip of hundreds of marchers in NYC chanting “kill the police.” They were carrying what appeared to be professionally printed placards. I’d say this is a movement. </p>
<p>Gotta admit, bd - I never would have expected Bosnians to star as the up and coming oppressed group.</p>
<p>Seriously, did any of those attacks make the hate crime cut? It’s always seemed to me a pretty high bar to cross, unless the injured party was from a historically downtrodden minority. Hmm… a better way to phrase it would be that being beaten by a historically downtrodden minority made it tremendously difficult to qualify. </p>
<p>Yes, cat, actually I recall reading that the St Louis police have said that they think the beating attack of a woman, and the murder of the man with a hammer are hate crimes. Though I don’t know who ends up making the final determination of that. Apparently white heterosexuals can be targets of a hate crime. Who knew.</p>
<p>All this senseless murder and violence is so wrong. I don’t know what is wrong with people that they enjoy attacking random people, just to brutalize them. But these few cases are a tiny number. In Chicago this year already, 436 homicides, 2,530 people shot. That’s just one city. Pathetic. Where are the protests in Chicago?</p>
<p>“Ugh. And now different police unions are blaming the mayor and saying “he has blood on his hands”. Turning their backs when he arrived for a press conference. Worse and worse and worse.”</p>
<p>Watching NYC news. This is bad and leadership matters. And, I don’t see any out there right now.</p>
<p>What happened in Brooklyn today was no different than what happened in Las Vegas this summer. Only it was white supremist anti government nut jobs doing the murdering of police officers. I don’t recall any of the people who are outraged over the killing of the officers and the protesters saying the same things about these two murderering thugs and their ilk as they are saying about the man who killed the officers in Brooklyn and the black community. </p>
<p>Leadership has heard the call and swung into action:
While he’s damning police with the faint praise of ‘most’ not being bad, he sounds most aggrieved at what he sees as copyright infringement/misuse. </p>
<p>" The Garner family and I have always stressed that we do not believe that all police are bad, in fact we have stressed that most police are not bad.”</p>
<p>This would be funny if it wasn’t so pathetic. And, Garner’s widow has said she didn’t believe race was a factor at all.</p>
<p>Marie, now you’re verging on a little far out there. No mayor of any city would back marchers chanting kill anyone. The police aren’t mad at the mayor because of the marches. They’re angry with him necause in the wake of the Ferguson verdict he made a comment about the fact he felt he had to have the talk with his own son, who is half black, about how he should act around police if ever he were pulled over. I can understand why the police would resent that comment, but I also think they’re smoking something if they don’t understand why he said it. </p>
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