Watts, Ferguson, ...

[Dave Monroe]

http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/milwaukee-officer-in-fatal-red-arrow-park-shooting-has-been-fired-b99371931z1-279330932.html

On Tuesday, November 25, 2014, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/family-says-officer-shot-red-arrow-park-victim-15-times-b99315040z1-268006291.html
>
> On Tuesday, November 25, 2014, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/The_Ferguson_Decision
>> There is something gone badly wrong in the way police are taught to look
at civilians these days. This is the logic of an occupying power being
employed on American citizens. Ever since 9/11, when we all began to be
told that we were going to have to bend a little bit, and then a little bit
more, to authority or else we'd all die, the police in this country have
been militarized in their tactics and in their equipment, which is bad
enough, but in their attitudes and their mentality, which is far, far
worse. Suspicion has bled into weaponized paranoia, especially in the case
of black and brown people, especially in the case of young men who are
black or brown, but this is not About Race because nothing ever is About
Race. Even the potential of a threat requires a deadly response, Dick
Cheney's one-percent idea brought to American cities and towns until Salt
Lake City, of all places, winds up with cops who are deadlier on the
streets than drug dealers. This is how you wind up with Darren Wilson. This
is how you wind up with Michael Brown, dead in the middle of the road. This
is how Darren Wilson walks, tonight, for the killing of Michael Brown. This
is how you end up with an American horror story.
>>
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