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I agree that Wilson probably did nothing wrong. I've said several times that this is the wrong case to attach the movement to. BUT...many people are simply fed up with the militarized police state overall, which disproportionately hones in on blacks.

The police did not used to be like this. They were intentionally militarized, starting in the early 1980's. It's happened so gradually that we all have barely noticed.

Although it disproportionately affects blacks, we ALL should be concerned as citizens by the shocking overreach of the executive branch.

This, I, and most here will agree with. And there are numerous, NUMEROUS, threads posted here about this topic. If there is one unifying topic on this board, it is the atrocities of police overreach and militarization.

BUT, Ferguson is not solely about that, and you know it. Ferguson is about a white person killing a black person. I guarantee you that none of this would have happened if A) the cop was black, and/or B) Michael Brown was white.

That in and of itself shows that this is not about police overreach, it's about black vs. white. And the fact that they are using this incident, an incident where all evidence points to Wilson being in the right, just shows how disconnected they are with reality, and that their end goal is not justice, it's chaos and racial victimization.

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Posted by Big Scrub TX

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Posted on 11/27/14 at 11:51 am to rintintin

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This, I, and most here will agree with. And there are numerous, NUMEROUS, threads posted here about this topic. If there is one unifying topic on this board, it is the atrocities of police overreach and militarization.

I see it more as lip service. When it comes down to it, this board is on the "law and order" bandwagon. They don't seem to have lost much sleep about the St. Louis cop who was wildly pointing his rifle at civilians and screaming he would "fricking kill" them.

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BUT, Ferguson is not solely about that, and you know it. Ferguson is about a white person killing a black person. I guarantee you that none of this would have happened if A) the cop was black, and/or B) Michael Brown was white.

That's very true. But often the boiling over point happens in relation to an event that is not perfectly aligned with the narrative. Certainly you recognize this. Is it so hard for you to understand that the militarization of the police has really harmed black people in neighborhoods like these?

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That in and of itself shows that this is not about police overreach, it's about black vs. white. And the fact that they are using this incident, an incident where all evidence points to Wilson being in the right, just shows how disconnected they are with reality, and that their end goal is not justice, it's chaos and racial victimization.

I don't agree. I think they think it's a daily war with the police and the police are ultimately controlled by white America.

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Posted by Crimson1st

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Member since Nov 2010

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Posted on 11/27/14 at 12:03 pm to rintintin

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And the fact that they are using this incident, an incident where all evidence points to Wilson being in the right, just shows how disconnected they are with reality,

The Trayvon Martin example was used in similar fashion. Problem is that the rabid race baiters don't wait for facts to emerge beyond "black person killed by white person....err, white-Hispanic person" before hitching their wagons to the given incident. This shows that the race baiters are not interested in the facts. These poor examples, in turn, blow up in their faces in the end and do a dis-service to those seeking true justice with real examples of racism and waters down legitimate grievances.

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