Ferguson, Missouri

[Jim_Baur]

As I ponder the shooting in Ferguson, MO I ask myself who is prejudging whom?

I have to side with Holden and President Obama and the FBI investigators.

The head of the Justice Department has not demanded arrests for the officer involved in the tragic ending of the life of Michael Brown. If the officer were guilty, would Holder and his boss President Obama demand the arrest?

As a citizen of St. Louis, MO and a fellow parishioner of the Chief of Police in St. Louis, MO, I ask is Holden and President Obama telling their side of the story? If so, to whom?

I do not know the Chief of Police of St. Louis, MO.

I must ask, what do the African American police officers think?

If they are speaking out, I have missed it.

I do not have time to read the printed media nor much of the e-media.

Also, what are the Churches saying?

Again, I do not have time to research.

If any person answers this, I will most likely only read and learn.

I am not here to fight; I am here to hear and learn.

THANKS!

If this is on other threads, I have not searched–don’t have time.

 

[Jerurussia]

The officer told a friend he drove past the six-foot-something kid and told him to get out of the street, walking down the center line as is the custom among African males in the St. Louis region for long years to mandate a cock-of-the-walk pecking order. He said no. The officer then got the call for the assault and theft at the convenience store. He backed up to talk to the kid, who bum rushed him as he was getting out of his car, they struggled over the officer’s gun, and it discharged. The giant kid smashed the officer’s eye orbit/jaw, and walked off. The officer was reeling in pain and saw him turn and come back, thinking perhaps this time he could take him. The officer shot him dead in fear for his life. This is a great opportunity for the chaos feeders but is a rather cut-and-dried death of a dangerous bully. I note this heavy kid was a pot smoker, and it is a powerful enhancer of bipolar tendencies especially among the young; and is a plant estrogen that makes males and females alike estrogen dominant and grumpy. This may be a marijuana story more than a police brutality story. This was a kid who went down swinging like Trayvon Martin, and one notes the Southern culture has been shown to lead to more violence and deaths as personal honor is violently upheld as born out in the “black-on-black” crime statistics. Rather than a gateway to the west, St. Louis is more of a southern culture as shown by the dependence politics of exploiting African voter discontent in lieu of such things as tax strategies like neighboring Kansas that promote jobs and economic independence. The Catholic influence in St. Louis is dominated by “liberal” Jesuits who have foregone economic development among the poor as in centuries past for a more hand-holding stance. May all unite in the Holy Spirit to bring Christ’s Kingdom.

 

[Paleocon]

As I ponder the shooting in Ferguson, MO I ask myself who is prejudging whom?

I have to side with Holden and President Obama and the FBI investigators.

The head of the Justice Department has not demanded arrests for the officer involved in the tragic ending of the life of Michael Brown. If the officer were guilty, would Holder and his boss President Obama demand the arrest?

As a citizen of St. Louis, MO and a fellow parishioner of the Chief of Police in St. Louis, MO, I ask is Holden and President Obama telling their side of the story? If so, to whom?

I do not know the Chief of Police of St. Louis, MO.

I must ask, what do the African American police officers think?

If they are speaking out, I have missed it.

I do not have time to read the printed media nor much of the e-media.

Also, what are the Churches saying?

Again, I do not have time to research.

If any person answers this, I will most likely only read and learn.

I am not here to fight; I am here to hear and learn.

THANKS!

If this is on other threads, I have not searched–don’t have time.

Based on the eyewitness statements, it seems that Brown attacked the officer in his car, got shot, started running, the officer pursued and continued firing, then Brown raised his hands to surrender, and the officer shot him in extreme anger.