Two police officers were shot during a protest in Ferguson, Missouri, last night. One was shot in the face, the other in the shoulder. The St. Louis County police chief is clear that he doesn’t know who was behind the shooting.
The CIAA commissioner is considering whether or not to continue booking rooms at the Ritz-Carlton for the basketball tournament. Jacqie McWilliams told the Charlotte Business Journal she hopes to meet with hotel executives soon to get a better understanding of the service charge the hotel lobby was instituting this year. “For me, it’s just making sure I have all the facts before I make any response about what I don’t know,” McWilliams said. “I’ve read a lot of the articles that have been out, whether it was racially motivated or whether it’s just the CIAA. I’m trying to distance myself from that.”
Guess which state passed anti-discrimination ordinance protections for its LGBT community, with the support of the Mormons? Utah. Except “religious organizations and their affiliates would be exempt from the bill’s requirements.”
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Why are you surprised in Ferguson? Every major news outlet has been fanning the flames of anger against police for weeks. Every day I hear a news reader repeat the phrase “white cop shot an unarmed black teenager” with absolutely no reference to the fact that he had just robbed a convenience store or that they were in a physical struggle when the shots were fired.
Lethal force is only justified when a person is under threat of immediate death or grave physical injury. An unarmed person robbing a convenience store does not meet that standard.
He didn’t shoot him for robbing the store. He was questioning him about the robbery when the “unarmed black teenager” attacked him.
When the Feds stepped in and investigated, if they felt that the amount of force used was excessive they would have charged him. They did not.
The media loves to fan the flames of any kind of unrest anywhere.
= When the Feds stepped in and investigated, if they felt that
= the amount of force used was excessive they would have
= charged him. They did not.
I guess you believe every financial executive on Wall Street is innocent too.
So a police officer shot an innocent teenager just because he was black? I guess you must be right. You see that all the time. “Look one of those people. Let’s kill him”. & your proof is that some Wall Street financial guys didn’t get prosecuted?
The Feds did find other people in the department who were racist, and heads are currently rolling, so it doesn’t sound like much of a cover up.