Cops of FPD can't believe this is happening

[RobertEarl]

There the cops stand with their shotguns and rifles and armored trucks, and the people keep protesting!

The cops have beat up and killed so many before now and they never had such an uproar from the public.

They are scratching their heads trying to figure out why people all of a sudden got so mad, and why they keep protesting. "We have guns, and we will shoot you!" is the cops message and the people seem to not be scared.

This hasn't happened in such a long time the cops just don't know what to think, except bring in more troops.

[L0oniX]

1. V muthafuckas V

[riqster]

2. Inertia is a powerful force.

Sometimes it can really make it hard to change direction.

[DrewFlorida]

3. Well said! The combination of ignorance and arrogance is a common thread in right-wing circles.

[TxVietVet]

4. It's come to a boiling point and they don't know how to turn down the flames.

The cops and white folks have had the power and the citizens have been complacent until the shooting.

It's only going to get worse before it ever gets better unless people wake up and see how they are being treated.

With as many guns there is on the streets of the US, I'm surprised some haven't been used here.

[RobertEarl]

5. "... as many guns .. on the streets..."

Yes, the people of Ferguson have shown that acting toward oppression with Peace is the best way to act.

The people of Ferguson are keeping the peace. It is the gun-wielding cops who threaten the Peace.

[DFW]

9. There is much to that

The police have not been threatened, shot, tased, beaten or harassed. Yet they are the ones with armor our real military facing the Taliban could only fantasize about.

They are no doubt completely bewildered that with all their fancy destructive power that the people they are there to menace, er, I mean, protect, are no longer cowering in abject fear. They are SO ready to shoot back, but you can't shoot BACK if no one is shooting at you first.

[RobertEarl]

14. Yep

The police - masters of violent reactions - are bewildered by the peacefulness of the People. The cops have their fingers on their triggers, but no one has shot any of them, and they just don't get it.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

12. ^^^ this^^^ n/t

[Spitfire of ATJ]

6. Some people are treating it like a block party.

Others?

Like the mooning scene in Braveheart.

[rustydog]

7. This is Ferguson's Rosa Parks moment

It is so sad that Michael Brown's murder had to be the catalyst. It looks like the blacks in Ferguson will not move to the back of the bus any more.

[RobertEarl]

15. I like that

Ferguson's Rosa Parks moment.

Seems like Ferguson would be a good place to live, now that the cops are being put under control.

[niyad]

8. I caught a portion of chris hayes' show two nights ago--that line of cops was like something

out of a nightmare. and the close-ups of some of the cops??? the sheer hatred and anger and rage on their faces was enough to make one ill.

[BobbyBoring]

10. Just wait and see what happens if Wilson isn't charged.

I expect Rodney King on steroids riots.
That's why they're dragging this out.

[Generic Brad]

11. Same result if he is charged and found innocent

People are going to erupt.

[RobertEarl]

13. So why drag it out?

The historic pattern is the cop walks.

That's why the people are protesting. And they are doing it in Peace, with cop's guns aimed at them. They have stood down the cops who wanted them to all go home and watch fox news, but the People have told them they are not intimidated.

The People expect the cop to walk. But they may get justice. There is some hope left that justice will prevail. And that is why they are on the streets again tonight letting their voices be heard. In Peace.

Livestream: I am Mike Brown, link:

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