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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 rintintin

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Posted on 11/27/14 at 12:13 pm to Big Scrub TX

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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.

Lip service? What does that even mean? This is a message board, people post messages. Go look around here and the OT board right now. There are a couple threads about police injustices, and the majority of people are AGAINST the police.

What exactly are you doing to help curb police injustice? You are doing exactly what everyone here is doing, posting on a message board about it. For some reason you have this view of yourself as some vigilante against injustice, but what have you actually done to help that cause that anyone here hasn't?

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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?

No, I don't understand illogical actions. When you have a legitimate cause to protest for, you protest, and the message is taken much more seriously.

When you use a case like this (and Trayvon for that matter), as your shining example of injustice, people do not take it seriously, and it hurts your cause further because it is illogical. Burning down buildings in the name of a criminal does not help your cause, I'm sorry.