On 8/15/2014 10:15 AM, sf wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 09:23:38 -0400, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
>
>> On 2014-08-14 11:19 PM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
>>> The cop will never see a day in jail. He'll never even see a court trial.
>>> The police chief of that town appears to be a hard core bigot and the county
>>> DA has come out and said the governor had no authority to take the county PD
>>> off the case an said he shamed them. And he's the man who will file
>>> charges - or not. I am betting on not.
>>>
>> It will be interesting to hear the other side of the story. I saw a
>> video of the victim's friend describing what had happened and it didn't
>> make much sense. It seems they was just walking along the road.The cops
>> stopped and cursed at them for walking on the road. Then the cop pulled
>> up and tried to pull the kid into the car and already had his gun
>> pulled? The victim them ran away, stopped and put his hands up?
>> Meanwhile, the friend was running away because he was fearing for his
>> own life, and still managed to see what had happened. There are some
>> credibility issues.
>>
> When you don't live in those states, you don't understand the racial
> divide.

Largely true.

> My DD went to the South (MO or MS - I don't remember) as part
> of her community service one year in JH. It was so bad that there
> were actually white and black sides of a single street. She and a
> friend were stopped and admonished (nicely) by a well dressed,
> grandmotherly looking, black lady driving down the street, who told
> them they were on the wrong side and should be walking on the other
> side.

Wow.

> The racial divide is very deep and whites don't appreciate
> uppity blacks. If you've noticed, Ferguson residents are *very*
> middle class. They are well dressed and speak proper English, nothing
> to belittle - but whites still do and it was well demonstrated by that
> incident.

That is supposition only.

> A police force that brings out an armored vehicle and
> machine guns to a peaceful demonstration is over reacting. How are
> 10-12 YO girls tap dancing in the street a threat?

How much rioting and looting can occur before a message need be sent?