My question is how we could start taking very serious matters like Ferguson seriously?
On Tuesday, November 25, 2014 12:18:10 PM UTC, archytas wrote: > > In the UK it is sometimes necessary for police to shoot members of the > public and even one of their own. These are unusual events and the general > plan follows Max Senate's Keystone Cops blueprint. We find the bungling > 'hidden' behind the 'utmost standards of professionalism' reassuring. The > general pattern is as follows: > > 1. A hectic car chase done for safety reasons and to avoid such dangerous > tactics as sticking a gun in the back of a walking criminal and saying > 'you're nicked Pal'. > 2. A defensive ramming attack known as a hard stop, followed by loud > shouts to confuse the hardened criminals bristling with high-tec machine > guns. All CCTV fails at this point. > 3. Suspects are shot and as note sent to the press that they were firing > at brave officers protecting the public. Any public at the scene is > dispersed for its own protection once the shooting stops. > 4. Some years later, after an investigation by the Independent Police > Complaints Commission clears all officers and various normal due process > like inquests have been avoided, we discover police evidence is entirely > inconsistent with some overlooked recording missed by the highly > professional IPCC. > 5. The shooting officer is then put on trial 10 years after the event. > The jury rejects the case on the grounds the officer was just doing his > best and was worried he would be late home for his tea, even if he > discharged 22 shots and tried to pistol-whip an innocent guy to death owing > to his poor aim and having run out of ammunition. Various suspect guns > turn out to be non-existent or crude replicas or converted starting pistols. > 6. Police are accused of racism, even though they are entirely fair in > random choice of victims, even to the point of shooting one of their own > point blank with a shotgun in training. > 7. At any given point there will be an ongoing enquiry into such a > killing to learn the lessons obvious for 50 years. > > In Ferguson, more police ammunition has been expended on 'troublemakers' > than in the UK annual season. The cover up processes seem far less > secretive in the colonies and completed (admittedly as effectively) in > outrageous haste compared with tired and trusted delay in the old country. > Your provision of no justice in a few months rather than after several > decades here may set very disturbing precedents. > > I'm rather bored by the scenario, wondering why we burn down Taco Bell and > not the banks and parliaments. > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
