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Originally Posted by ateamstupid
I know the context because I was watching it live you fuc king buffoon. I wasn't sitting in my ivory tower waiting for Fox News to tell me why it's ok to blame poor/black people for the latest issue. There were 20-30 people in the street chanting and that was the police's response. Yay America.
This is why I don't venture into these threads often, because it raises my blood pressure to actually interact with someone as dangerously ignorant and out-of-touch as Rupert. But I'm glad you like the police in America looking like Mubarak's army in Egypt in that video. It should tell everyone never to take any of your libertarian "get big gubmint out of my life" bullshit seriously ever again. Because the militarization of the police is the biggest government overreach there could be and while it was happening you stood there waving your pom pom's for it.
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By the way, I remember exactly what was going on in Ferguson back in August. I remember reading the ridiculous arguments about how the riots were being caused by the police because the police were being too aggressive. That turned out to be total nonsense. When the police listened to these ridiculous critiques and backed off the next few nights, the violence got worse. A high percentage of these so-called protesters are just opportunists. They push the envelope and hope the police won't do anything. They are hoping a riot will start so they can start looting. We've seen this type of thing plenty of times before. It's happened in Los Angeles on several occasions.
I think there should be a zero tolerance policy on civil unrest. Anybody who gets violent including throwing objects and/or breaking things should be arrested immediately. I'm fine with peaceful protests but once they cross the line they need to be arrested. I feel bad for all the people whose businesses got burned down. It would never happen if we supported the police and let them do their jobs. They get criticized by the left so much that sometimes they are afraid to do their jobs.
And for the 10th time, I don't think the police are perfect. When there is obvious misconduct or even obvious incompetence, I am the first person to want the officers to be held accountable. There was a case recently where the police were searching a neighborhood for a suspect and they were going through people's backyards throughout the neighborhood. They went into one guy's yard and when they saw a dog (who belonged to the homeowner) they shot and killed it. I was outraged by this. I didn't defend the cop. Quite to the contrary, I thought there needed to be consequences. You don't go into a guy's yard without a warrant and kill his dog. There wasn't even any reason to believe that the suspect was hiding in this particular yard. It was just one out of fifty houses in that neighborhood where they were searching. I thought this was certainly an abuse of power by the police. By all accounts, the dog was friendly too.