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Here’s what’s wrong with the riots in Ferguson: If
the community, rather than rioting and looting their own town, going as
far as burning down businesses, simply commented on how America is
slowly – or even not that slowly – turning into a police state, I
believe the whole country would rally behind Ferguson and we could begin
an honest national dialogue about something that’s becoming a very real
problem.
Police are trained – at least ostensibly – to
resort to the least serious form of force, moving up the theoretical
ladder from fists to batons to tasers, for example, before deciding to
pull out their guns. And if they do feel the need to use their weapons,
they are supposed to shoot to injure before shooting to kill.
It seems to me, at least, that neither side is
telling the real story here. I find it very hard to believe that Brown
was simply walking down the street minding his own business when a cop
decided to harass him for absolutely no reason before deciding that he
needed to kill the teen in cold blood.
I also find it very hard to believe that the police officer absolutely needed to shoot-to-kill an 18-year-old who was unarmed.
We may never find out exactly what transpired that
night, but I’d venture to guess that we won’t hear the full truth in
either side’s testimony.
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