Ferguson

[Mr. Buddy Garrity]

@HuffingtonPost: Ferguson judge who helped turn court into a cash cow is ousted http://huff.to/1KNRYnI

[smitty]

"Hands up, don't shoot" never happened!!   A lie perpetrated for the sheeple! 

[Mr. Buddy Garrity]

@AP: MORE: Ferguson city manager John Shaw out following Justice Department report: http://apne.ws/1AeyWNb

 

 

 

 

They dropping like flies, sheesh. 

[tvc184]

It is called scapegoats. 

 

The city manager is HIRED by the council who then look at his requests for money/budget and oversee where the money is made and where it is spent. The CM is basically the day to day operations manager of the city and does the bidding of the city council. Now the same city council that HIRED him is acting shocked at where the money came from that they voted on (I am assuming the issue is with traffic citation money) and how it was spent? 

 

Right.... and I have the Liberty Bell for sale, cheap. 

 

The CM is cannon fodder for the federal government to try and limit any further involvement. 

 

Anyone that doesn't believe that many or most small cities get much of their money from traffic citations is living under a rock. I don't agree with it but that is simply how most of them work. They figure traffic citations into their budget just like property and sales taxes. 

 

Also, all city courts that I am aware of operate separately from the police department including their budget and who makes their rules. Most of the many officers that I know do not particularly like their city courts. Although there might have been problems with the CM or city court, they usually have little or nothing to do with the police department and many times the police departments are at odds with the other two city government departments. 

 

To try and say the police department is somehow tainted by the CM or the city court is a stretch unless they can find some kind of collusion. The federal government looks into the police department and find what they think is massive trouble in the city court and they are blaming it on the police. 

 

Is the federal government going to try and force out the elected officials that set the rules, tone and do the hiring for the CM and municipal judge? 

[westend1]

Does it seem right that 97% of jaywalking tickets were given to blacks?   Maybe holder is just making that stuff up.

[77]

Sounds like they should cross at the light!

[PAMFAM10]

I posted on here a while back maybe in this thread. So called Jay walking is all they need to stop you.

[tvc184]

Does it seem right that 97% of jaywalking tickets were given to blacks?   Maybe holder is just making that stuff up.

 

Actually the report said 95%.

[tvc184]

I posted on here a while back maybe in this thread. So called Jay walking is all they need to stop you.

 

 

That is correct. All it takes is reasonable suspicion of a crime and in the case of jaywalking (which in itself is not really a law in most places but a generic term meaning pedestrian violations) it goes beyond reasonable suspicion and all the way to probable cause. Of course realistically in many times it is proof beyond a reasonable doubt but by our system even videoing it is not proof until it goes to court. 

[Mr. Buddy Garrity]

@CBSNews: JUST IN: Ferguson police chief to step down today, official confirms to CBS News http://cbsn.ws/1GsBxGV http://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/575739547121745921/photo/1

[tvc184]

@CBSNews: JUST IN: Ferguson police chief to step down today, official confirms to CBS News http://cbsn.ws/1GsBxGV http://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/575739547121745921/photo/1

 

 

Not really a shock no matter the outcome of anything else. The chief being an at will employee (unlike many patrol officers) is usually the first to go in any controversy because he is retained and paid by the city council which coincidentally are politicians and will have to again run for office. Chiefs are almost always sacrificial lambs bearing no evidence as to what has really occurred. 

[LumRaiderFan]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/03/12/2-police-officers-reported-shot-outside-ferguson-police-department/

[Chester86]

Crying shame. 2 officers shot outside their station. Wonder if it will be listed as a hate crime?

[thetragichippy]

Browns family, the media and the race baiters are all to blame in this.....sad

[Mr. Buddy Garrity]

Crying shame. 2 officers shot outside their station. Wonder if it will be listed as a hate crime?

Yeah things got heated last night I see. Hope they catch the shooter. 

[Mr. Buddy Garrity]

https://m.facebook.com/akil.hutchins/posts/10206354820011555


You can hear the bullets go by in this video clip, language pretty graphic. Im surprised the protesters that were in the front didn't get hit. Sheesh.

[Mr. Buddy Garrity]

@CBSNews: UPDATE: 2 officers shot during protest in Ferguson treated and released from hospital, official confirms http://cbsn.ws/1wZzdaY



That was quick.

[77]

Looks like the good rev. and the rest of the stokers in DC may get that race war they been wantin if they keep this up.

[Mr. Buddy Garrity]

Looks like the good rev. and the rest of the stokers in DC may get that race war they been wantin if they keep this up.

im interested in seeing what Holder does.

[77]

http://www.youngcons.com/al-sharpton-says-federal-crime-shoot-black-people-even-self-defense/

[Mr. Buddy Garrity]

http://www.youngcons.com/al-sharpton-says-federal-crime-shoot-black-people-even-self-defense/

Got a link for that interview? I wanna listen in to see if he actually said that dumb crap. 

[tvc184]

You sure that isn't The Onion?

[Mr. Buddy Garrity]

@ABC: County police, state patrol taking over security for #Ferguson protests after officers shot: http://abcn.ws/1GxkF1D http://twitter.com/ABC/status/576155618492473344/photo/1

 

 

 

Hope nothing pops off. 

[77]

I would like to see a fund to support the Ferguson police officers and everyone of them could quit and let the thugs have Ferguson then those folks will see how much the police help them.

[77]

Heres the problem , just to many idiots!
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/03/13/ferguson-protester-hears-facts-from-doj-report-for-first-time-as-hannity-reads-it-to-him-live-on-air/