It's been the lead story here in San Diego every newscast. Clearly a lot of very angry people   

Joe

The media has been stirring the pot furiously around here.  One of the biggest reasons I refuse to watch the propaganda, I mean news. 

Jerry

I'm in England and as far as I know we have heard nothing here. What's happened?

maz wrote on Aug 14^th, 2014 at 3:30am:

Sat. a young man was shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer.  Not much has been released about the shooting other than that the officer states that he stopped two people (I'm not sure for what reason) and a struggle ensued.  The officer claims that Mike Brown attempted to grab his gun thus resulting in the officer opening fire and killing him.

An eye witness, a friend of Mike Brown, claims that they were stopped for simply walking down the street.  He claims that there was no struggle and at no time did Mike Brown go after the officer's gun.  He says that the officer fired as Mike Brown had his hands in the air and was pleading, "Don't shoot!" 

Since then, "peaceful" protests have turned into looting and setting businesses on fire.  The looting has made it's way outside of Ferguson and into the city and surrounding counties.  There have been cyber attacks resulting in police officer's private information being made public.  They have gone as far as releasing pictures of their children. 

Civic leaders have gone on record saying that the officer "murdered an unarmed boy in broad daylight."

It's a mess and doesn't seem to be getting better. 

On the other hand, other witnesses say Brown physically attacked the officer, and the officer had injuries to his face. 

What the real truth is no one knows.  We certainly aren't getting it from the media.


Jerry

And Al Sharpton has gotten into it and that's just stirring the pot. Last night seemed a little calmer, but it's still a mess.

Take care and stay safe. Our prayers are with all our friends in St. Louis. And it is a beautiful city. 

Yes of course Jeannie. It must be dreadful for them all, especially any children involved.

It finally made the news over here late last night.  In a country who's regular police don't carry guns this type of news is always horrific. We do have armed response teams and sadly there have been a couple of similar incidents here over the years, but it never ceases to cause great shock.

I'm so glad guns are not commonplace over here.

My thoughts go out to all concerned.
Maz.

People around here are very upset about the release of this information. I fear that tonight will not be as peaceful as last night was.

Linda_Howell wrote on Aug 15^th, 2014 at 7:11pm:


Luinda,

Suppose you see will this kind of thing up on the mesa? Or will you have to go slumming in AG in order to see some riots?

Marc

I think the media always fans the flames in cases like this. I recall the 1992 trial of three police officers accused of beating Rodney King happened in Simi Valley, CA at a courthouse less than a five minute walk from my house. There were dozens of media trucks and what seemed like over 500 police in my neighborhood. I couldn't even get out of my neighborhood to drive to a store. The media kept going on about the "all white jury from Simi Valley" acquitting the officers, though only two of the jurors were residents of Simi Valley. We got a bad rap for a while, being known as a city full of racists.

Jeannie wrote on Aug 16^th, 2014 at 6:15pm:


Is this the rule of law or the rule of the mob?

Imagine if you were one of the shop owners who had their store looted?

The only ones not cleaned out were the ones who armed themselves and defended their stores.  They weren't bothered, but you don't see them covered by the news.  It doesn't fit the agenda of guns being bad.  I'll bet the other shop owners wished they had done so!

The majority of the looters are not local.  Some of them are not even from Missouri, or even from across the creek in Illinois!

Jerry