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… While Rome Burns

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President and Mrs. Obama enjoyed a lovely jazz concert last night as part of their lovely, multi-million dollar getaway to Martha’s Vineyard.

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Meanwhile, back in America…

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Also, Missouri’s Democrat Governor is really, really mad at the police for releasing facts to the public that contradict the MFM’s “Innocent schoolboy who was just walking down the street when he was gunned down by a racist cop” narrative. e.g. the video of Michael Brown robbing a convenience store minutes before he was shot. The autopsy report that shows Michael Brown was coming at the officer that shot him, not running away.  Such facts need to be kept from the public, lest they invade the “National Conversation Lecture About Race” Leftists are so eager to have give.

Comments

  1. Blacks are so forever tied to govt handouts that they will expect money to pay for rehabilitation of stores and other facilities after they have been trashed. They got that after the Rodney King riots. If you succeed once at blackmail, try it again until it doesn’t pan out.

  2. The autopsy report confirms that Brown’s wounds were to the front- contradicting the story that he was shot from behind while running. And the autopsy corroborates eyewitness testimony that Brown was shot while running towards the officer. The whole thing sounds like Brown was high off his mind- the toxicology report will be due out in September. But as it looks now, the Left’s most recent Young Black Martyr was also the instigator of his own death.

  3. One of the earliest reports that I heard is that Michael had been in a tussle with the officer and was trying to take his gun away and that is how the first shot was fired. Professional agitators liker Al Sharpton are great and arousing the community to rush to judgement, instead of waiting for the facts. The only reason he doesn’t go to Chicago is there is no profit in it. Forty black youths being killed daily is old news.

    Will we ever see the day when a black person who is killed by a white person does not anger the black community to protest and riot. It seems that when a white person kills a black, he is guilty until proven innocent. If he is proven innocent, will the black community be able to accept it and not accuse the jury of being racists. The real racists are mainly in the black community.

  8. I gotta agree with Helio that the cops are really arrogant and out of hand In America. Why does every small town need a swat team?
    6 shots not 2 or 3, SIX. But can’t we please have a calm investigation instead of feeding the 24 hr media. One of the earliest mistakes was the cops not telling the media, LOOK it takes more than 60 minutes to INVESTIGATE a crime, either way.

    OBAMA and MICHELLE…
    tell me I’m wrong but I think ISIS, the Ukraine, Al Quida, the southern border, have all been more calm since His and Her Majesty have been on vacation.

  9. Gene in PA,

    “6 shots not 2 or 3, SIX.”

    You are obviously unfamiliar with the realities of combat. The 1911 Colt .45 was commissioned by the Army because the then current issue sidearm, .38 caliber, could not stop the Moro tribesmen in the Philippines. Just recently the Army initiated procurement of a replacement for the current 9mm sidearm because – it could not stop the Jihadis.

    There is a plethora of stories, available on the web, that describe criminals that continue to be a deadly threat with multiple bullet wounds.

    Six too many is far preferable to one too few. You live longer that way.

  10. The African-American community in Ferguson complains about the politics of the community, yet only 12% of the African-American community votes. If the town is mostly black, why is the police force mostly white? Have blacks been turned down for police jobs? have they applied?

  11. @ TnnsNe1: It seems like many blacks on welfare expect things to be handed to them on virtue of their poverty and/or race. So it wouldn’t surprise me if some of them assume that the police department should just pick some black people to be cops.

  12. Let’s separate the opportunists who loot and riot from the the protesters who wonder why a policeman put six bullets into an unarmed person.

    There was a police car which was undoubtedly equipped with plenty of stuff that costs far more than a dash-cam, which it did not have.

    How does suspicion of robbery result in being shot dead?

    A jury is going to decide that the cop was in no imminent danger. He had a gun and the safety of his car and the ability to call for back-up. When the scale of proportionality is introduced, the human life is going to be weighed against $5.00 worth of cheap cigars.

    There is reason for protests. There is never a reason for looting and rioting. But because of our habits of race-baiting, stereotyping and the politics of victimhood and division, there is a “black-thing” that loosely binds the protesters and the looters together. Some young people are ready to be seduced from protesting to rioting.

    In a town with an African-American population of 67% and a police department with 50 white officers and three black officers, there should have been a sensibility that holding the sheer fire power advantage was an incomplete plan for conscientious policing.

    The Trayvon Martin mess was between a kid and a quasi-civilian. This mess is between a kid and an officer of the law. But there is a remarkable similarity between Skittles and watermelon drink and some Swisher Cigars. When the governor is forced to call out the National Guard over such trivial stuff, we are thrown back into the days when police dogs and water jets were turned on civil rights protestors.

    I am not comparing what happened in Ferguson to attacks on Martin Luther King, Jr. But people emotionally protesting over real or imagined racial injustice is always a policing nightmare.

  16. The NYT reported that a second autopsy, requested by Mike Brown’s family, indicated that he was hit from the front – no shots to the back.

    An inconvenient fact?

    Laura Ingraham had General Russel Honore (ret’d) of Hurricane Katrina fame on this morning. He had an interesting angle: US police don’t seem to have much training in hand-to-hand combat (too much reliance on firearms?).

    That may well have nothing at all to do with the Brown case given the difference in size between Brown and the officer but it’s an interesting point. There aren’t enough facts available on this incident to allow for any informed armchair-quarterbacking.

    The fact that so many rounds were fired gets to one of my hang-ups: semi-auto pistols: it’s too easy to fire off lots of rounds… with a revolver, each trigger pull requires just enough effort to allow for an instant of evaluation: is the next shot necessary?

    Perhaps police need to add training for officers in resisting the urge to empty the magazine (and use of the baton).

  17. @ KCRob: From my understanding of guns, a 9mm does not have a lot of stopping power. It’s intended to injure and disable, not push back. Compare that to a .45, which can throw somebody back several feet. The distribution of shots shows them concentrated in the right arm. The officer may have been hoping that the pain of the bullets would be enough to stop Brown (who, according to eyewitness testimony, was barreling towards the officer), and then decided that he had to shoot to kill when the shots failed to stop him. Having never been in a situation similar to the one the officer was in, I will not say that I would have been any calmer in the face of a possibly stoned-out-of-his-mind black teenager a full foot and 100 pounds heavier than me charging towards me with possible murderous intent.

    At any rate, the autopsy does not suggest that the bullets entered from behind, which discounts the notion that he was shot from behind, and there is no gunpowder in any of the wounds, which discounts the idea that any of the shots were fired from close range. So the friend’s testimony has just gone up in smoke, and the testimony of the officer and the anonymous eye-witness is corroborated.

  20. Why did we ever have slavery? The worst error ever in this country. And we are paying the price with a race of people that are out of control. What were our forefathers thinking?

    I agree. We should have picked our own damn cotton.

    And yes, I went there.

    Regards,
    Peter H.

  21. The end result of this PC-lunacy is that many Police Departments actually discourage their officers from practicing “too-much” with the sidearms and from belonging to pistol competition teams. Why? Because when there’s a shooting the poor victim’s hired-shill (read “lawyer”) screamed DEATH SQUADS if the officer is actually a expert marksman…or even a so-so shot.

    So instead we get the sad spectacle of two of New York’s finest opening-fire on the crowded street outside the Empire State Bldg., missing the suspect entirely at-close-range, yet managing to shoot and seriously wound TEN bystanders in the fusillade.

    And it’s appalling the statistics on how many LE Officers shoot themselves due to carelessness, poor gun-handling skills, or sloppy weapons-hygiene.

  23. Blacks have got to get over the slavery issue. It has been 150 years since the Emancipation Proclamation. Slavery was basically practiced in the southern states, which means that in comparison to the rest of the settled country, the majority of white people at that time were not slave owners. It wasn’t long after that many immigrants (mostly European) arrived with barely their clothes on their backs. Surely they shouldn’t be forced to take on the guilt of the past. My parents and I were immigrants and lived in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, not exactly slave states. My maternal grandfather migrated to the U.S before the great wars and lived in New York. Obviously he was never a slave owner. I refuse to have us painted with the brush of guilt for slavery.

    If blacks want to harp on slavery, who was responsable? How about the Africans who went into the jungle and kidnapped young men and women and sold, I repeat sold them to the white slave traders. If my memory of Roots is correct, wasn’t that what happened to Kunte Kinte? Isn’t that similar to what recently happened in Nigeria?

    After emancipation, many ex-slaves lack the resources to leave the plantation, so they stayed and worked for their former slave owner. Those who could, moved to cities to look for work. Just as immigrants lived in tenements because that was all they could afford, so too blacks chose to live where they could afford. As more migrated to the cities, as the saying goes, “birds of a feather flock together,” they looked for their own to feel more comfortable. Whites are accused of forcing blacks into a ghetto. It seems like we can never win, as blacks refuse to let go of the past, of which they were never a part. Race relations will always be tenuous at best.

  24. We didn’t “have slavery”. Slavery was world-wide. EVERY empire, developed and undeveloped nation, every warlord, every tribe… every continent had slavery in it’s simplest form, somehow. In some places the euphemism ‘indentured servitude’ was applied.
    We were the first in the Western world to codify it as unacceptable and illegal. It still goes on today in the Far, Middle and Near East, in Africa and even in the Eastern European countries in some cases. But we don’t hear about any of that, now do we.
    ‘Restitution’ blacks and every simpleton referencing U.S. slavery from 150 years ago, disingenuously piss and moan about it, but absolutely FAIL in CHOOSING not to CELEBRATE the END of slavery then. They must drag us back, we who were not alive then and would not make the choice to espouse slavery today… we who love and appreciate a nation who would tear itself in two over an ACTUAL, FACTUAL, TRUE injustice.
    It all makes me so sick, I often wish voting was a privilege returned to landholders (read: taxPAYERS, not tax-filers) only.

  26. […] tell me I’m wrong but I think ISIS, the Ukraine, Al Quida, the southern border, have all been more calm since His and Her Majesty have been on vacation.

    Hate to say it, but you are slightly incorrect. ISIS is demanding that Barry interrupt his vaycay and do what they say or they will behead another US journalist (one already down).

    Oh yeah, and those nasty Israelis are being provoked into defending themselves from the freedom fighters in Gaza.

  27. @ Ted B.: To say nothing of the SWAT team who portray themselves with videos more befitting of white nationalist militia groups and heavy metal bands. They like the military power they’ve been gifted without merit, and they are pushing a peace-through-fear aesthetic that would not be out of place in the Galactic Empire.

  28. Riri (#6) Please, no. I like this commenting system better than Disqus, which I dislike using.

    Comment by Kevin — August 19, 2014 @ 4:15 pm – August 19, 2014

    Agreed. Disqus’ integration is heavily scripted, which means slower page load times and eventual browser window freeze when very long comment threads are loaded.

  29. I suspect that Trayvon Martin and, now, Michael Brown would tell us if you pick a fight and lose you don’t get to call anyone else a racist, you don’t get to say “But, he started it.”; others will do it for you; but, YOU cannot. That is a simple fact.

  30. Don’t forget that the officer was injured by Brown. There are reports of a broken eye socket. After such an injury, what would you do if you saw a very large man coming at you again while you are trying to see through the pain? It is also my understanding that the gun was discharged in the vehicle corroborating the story the thug went for it. Grabbing for your weapon and assaulting you does give a cop a justified reason to use lethal force. The officer did not know he was unarmed.

  31. @ Annie: If I was shot at by a cop, I would’ve stopped dead in my tracks and my hands would’ve gone right up in the air. If Brown failed to do so, he may be to blame for his death.

    I’m still shaking my head that the police cruiser did not have a dashboard cam. Those cameras a minor expenses for police departments nowadays. Not having them is no longer a question of budget, but a question of responsibility and transparency. That the Ferguson PD has laser scopes, green fatigues, and tactical gear, but not dashboard cams, speaks volumes.

  32. Sean, I’m not sure of the reason why they don’t have dash cams in Ferguson. It’s not a rich city and they do not pay their police very much. One of the lowest paid PD in the St. Louis area.

    I do know that once the looting got underway, all other PDs from surrounding cities were on-call to assist and many did. It wasn’t just Ferguson cops people were seeing and throwing molotov cocktails at.
    I did not see green fatigues on local cops and tactical gear may only come out during a riot. They would be foolish not to have such gear while being shot at…which was going on since back-up was first called.

    A lot of the thuggery is being committed by outsiders. Gangbangers from other cities and states are here stirring up trouble or sightseeing. Most locals don’t like it, don’t want it, and are scared.

    The governor is feckless, and has done a lot of damage by kowtowing to race baiters and stabbing the local PD in the back while making a terrific mess of what he put in it’s place, and then having to go back, by calling the Nat. Guard, to doing what the locals were doing in the first place for riot control and to protect businesses. A lot of the national media hasn’t helped with their biased ‘reporting’…or should I say making news about themselves. (i.e. Huffpo ‘journalist’ whining about being detained for not leaving McDonalds but not reporting McDonalds wanted him gone and asked the police to help. Though the video does show how many times he was told to go and him not going.) Bottom line, you don’t want to see police in riot gear, don’t riot. They have families, and want to go home in one piece, at the end of the day.

    There was a black guy, who called the local morning radio show, who made a great point. He said he drove through Ferguson at 4:30am, on his way home from the airport, to see how things were and noticed there were still people milling around. He cracked on the governor needing to help them get jobs because apparently they don’t have jobs if they have all this free time to stand around protesting all hours of the day/night.

    Here is that discussion about :56 in (and the politics of what is going on) and then Jamie talks to Kevin Jackson of the Blacksphere, a conservative black who has been on Fox, CNN, etc. speaking out on situation at 3:19.

    http://www.971talk.com/blogs/allmans-electric-stove/demand-audio/demand-audio-kevin-jackson-live-nyc-8-20-14