All-purpose news and politics thread: Two Steps Beyond!

[7thangel]

Well, that kind of backfired on them, after arresting two reporters.
But, hardly no major networks showed up...not important enough, I guess.

going after the journalists and even al jazeera will get a msm backlash, no doubt.

a f*cking no-fly zone. smdh

[Surtur]

The most disturbing thing is that this man is on paid leave.

[Vibranium]

Well, that kind of backfired on them, after arresting two reporters.
But, hardly no major networks showed up...not important enough, I guess.

CNN is down there, MSNBC has their stringers down there and are culling from the internet journos there

Fox News won't be bothered...and they (Ferguson PD) were right in their assumption until those two reporters got arrested, now the media has its hackles up

[the4thpip]

Soit is not a Stain on the UKs. France or Germany's histories? WTF? It would be difficult to find even national guard Units and Reserve Units where a majority of the peole in them have not already done multiple combat tours, cay your nation say the same? We hav e beat the hell out of our military since Kosovo with deployments. enough is enough

It ain't always our job, and it is not always our responsibility. As I said before the US should Put in the fifth combat division and the fifth Combat air wing

Have you ever heard that with great power comes great responsibility?

[Kasper Cole]

Honestly what was briefly happening shouldn't even be called rioting. It should be called an uprising.

[Surtur]

Anyways, so this shooting. isn't the only screwed up things that have happened lately:

http://abc13.com/news/woman-accused-...earing/256716/

Just..what the hell? The fact that the judge didn't whip his gavel at this womans face shows the guy has a lot of self control. Well, she wasn't there in person, but the fact he didn't whip it at the screen with her face on it..

[Vibranium]

People are awful, and the rest of us who aren't awful are getting sick and tired of it and are now shining a light on it

You call us (Im black) animals, but you gun us down knowing you can get away with it

hell no animal is that cruel

[Darrell D.]

CNN is down there, MSNBC has their stringers down there and are culling from the internet journos there

Fox News won't be bothered...and they (Ferguson PD) were right in their assumption until those two reporters got arrested, now the media has its hackles up

The livefeeds of the cops attacking the protestors last night came from what most would consider 'fringe' organizations.
Except for the local Fox affiliate that kept a feed going for most of the night.

[Michael P]

I'm starting to hear reports that the governor is deploying state police and requesting federal authorities, both for the purpose of relieving the local police of their duties in this matter.

Edit: Here's a link: http://www.thewire.com/national/2014...rguson/376072/

Meanwhile, the local chapter of the KKK is raising money for the police officer who started all this: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/1...ed-black-thug/

I imagine the guy in charge of PR for the Ferguson city government reading this and crying softly to himself.

[Darrell D.]

I'm starting to hear reports that the governor is deploying state police and requesting federal authorities, both for the purpose of relieving the local police of their duties in this matter.

Well, that is probably the best move for him at this point. The PD has shown to be somewhat incompetent at best, and criminal at worst.

[Surtur]

People are awful, and the rest of us who aren't awful are getting sick and tired of it and are now shining a light on it

You call us (Im black) animals, but you gun us down knowing you can get away with it

hell no animal is that cruel

There is just something in the last few years that has caused some huge shift in police behavior. I realize we've always had corrupt cops, but we really are hearing about these things more and more. True, social media helps shine a lot on it more then in the past, but we've had social media for a decent amount of time now..but it still seems like only in the last 1-2 years have you really begun to hear about more and more.

It's not just racism and murder, it's all around general craziness. There is a minor issue that happened not too long ago..two women are pulled over and a cop decides they should be cavity searched(for no legit reason). Now, this was a male cop..so they had to put a call in to a female cop to come do this. The problem is the cavity search on one woman is caught on video and..the police officer is not wearing gloves when she cavity searches the woman. Not only that, but she cavity searched the womans ass before moving on to the front before sticking the same fingers in the womans vagina. Which..you know how you aren't supposed to do that..given all the bacteria..it's a minor issue, but still part of this growing trend.

Or you have the recent cop that "jokingly" acted like he was going to rob a gas station. As in..dude pulled his friggin gun on the cashier..but then said he was just messing around. Oh and the cop was drunk and was not even in his police uniform..but he did come in wearing a bullet proof vest. Though I will say the cop was fired for that..but he still received no penalty other then losing his job.

[Kasper Cole]

And it can't be stated enough...The police are the ones approaching the protesters.

The press conference the other day was complete BS. They claimed the attacks by the police wouldn't happen as long as protesting remained "peaceful" yet they showed up in huge numbers hours after the murder, and had riot gear well before any property had been damaged.

I'm also baffled by anyone being shocked by this type of thing as this is what has historically happened to black communities in America. They might have different tools but the same show of force by the police has been happening for hundreds of years.

[7thangel]

new tools, same old ****

[Kasper Cole]

There is just something in the last few years that has caused some huge shift in police behavior. I realize we've always had corrupt cops, but we really are hearing about these things more and more. True, social media helps shine a lot on it more then in the past, but we've had social media for a decent amount of time now..but it still seems like only in the last 1-2 years have you really begun to hear about more and more.

It's not just racism and murder, it's all around general craziness. There is a minor issue that happened not too long ago..two women are pulled over and a cop decides they should be cavity searched(for no legit reason). Now, this was a male cop..so they had to put a call in to a female cop to come do this. The problem is the cavity search on one woman is caught on video and..the police officer is not wearing gloves when she cavity searches the woman. Not only that, but she cavity searched the womans ass before moving on to the front before sticking the same fingers in the womans vagina. Which..you know how you aren't supposed to do that..given all the bacteria..it's a minor issue, but still part of this growing trend.

No it hasn't and no you're not.

This has been happening throughout this nations history. African Americans have been speaking out about this throughout this countries history. It's in our literature, our music, and our films. It's not that people haven't been hearing about it, it's that a lot of people refused to listen and assumed black people were lying or over exaggerating.

The only thing that has changed between 70 years ago and now is that everybody has camera phones. Because apparently the word of millions of black people hasn't been good enough, people needed audio and video footage....and sometimes even that apparently isn't enough.

[Vibranium]

No it hasn't and no your not.

This has been happening throughout this nations history. African Americans have been speaking out about this throughout this countries history. It's in our literature, our music, and our films. It's not that people haven't been hearing about it, it's that a lot of people refused to listen and assumed black people were lying or over exaggerating.

Exactly...and it was this blatant execution that has finally shown people that this is really happening, the black community is not hysterical