Race Riot Romance

Bu98q54CEAIeJEb.jpg-largeThe fatal police shooting of a young black suspect in a Midwestern town last weekend has given the Left yet another opportunity to advance its destructive, racially polarizing agenda.

After 18-year-old Michael Brown, a black man was killed by police in Ferguson, a mostly black community in St. Louis County, Mo., the city and region surrounding it have been under siege. Not content to wait for the wheels of the justice system to spin, some view this tragedy as a license to riot.

Cries of “no justice, no peace” pierce the air as demonstrators hurl Molotov cocktails at law enforcement officials. Some say the police have been responding to the protesters and rioters with excessive force and have been mean by discouraging protests. Some blacks are reportedly randomly assaulting non-blacks as collective payback for what happened to Brown.

Looting and property destruction are rampant. Dozens of people have been arrested. The Federal Aviation Administration ordered aircraft to fly at least 3,000 feet over Ferguson airspace after police said their helicopters were fired on from the ground.

Witnesses give conflicting accounts of what happened to Brown. The young man was apparently walking in the street and then stopped by police. There was a scuffle over a policeman’s gun and Brown was shot. Local police are investigating as are federal officials and civil rights bureaucrats. Brown could ultimately be found to be a would-be murderer or a murder victim himself. Time will tell.

The name of the police officer who shot Brown has been withheld for the time being by police who quite justifiably fear for his safety.

All this unrest over the death of Brown seems selective, for lack of a better term.

By contrast, when James Boyd, a mentally disturbed, homeless, white man was fatally shot in the back by Albuquerque, N.M. police recently, there were some protests but no riots. In some circles, white victims are apparently less valuable than black victims.

Regardless of what he may say publicly, all this racially motivated anger and violence is fine by President Obama, an extreme-left community organizer by profession.

The Left tells Americans that racist whites kill black people all the time. Blacks just can’t take it anymore and now it’s time to burn down buildings and convenience stores, the false narrative goes.

Obama has been instrumental in crafting this narrative. The president wants racial communities and everyone else to be at everyone else’s throat because, as the now-familiar leftist adage goes, “you never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”

The Obama administration has used taxpayer resources in an effort to generate race riots. Eric Holder’s Department of Justice deployed government-paid community organizers to Sanford, Fla. after the shooting death of Trayvon Martin two years ago in order to foment racial tensions. Race riots benefit the Left, and in particular the Democratic Party, by riling up its staunchest voting bloc.

The Community Relations Service (CRS), an office within DoJ, sent taxpayer-funded political agitators to Sanford after 17-year-old Martin was killed during a physical confrontation with community crime watch volunteer George Zimmerman. CRS expended thousands of dollars to help organize marches in which participants exacerbated racial tensions and loudly demanded that Zimmerman, described by the media as a “white Hispanic,” be prosecuted. The pressure worked. Zimmerman was charged but later acquitted at trial.

Before anyone really has a good grasp of what transpired in the death of Michael Brown, the rabble-rousers of CRS may be on the ground in Ferguson right now demanding that the officer involved be railroaded and lynched.

Sanford wasn’t the first time President Obama used DOJ employees as his personal Alinskyite stormtroopers. Uniformed field representatives of the CRS also assisted the rape-prone activists of Occupy Wall Street and anarchist activists outside the Republican National Convention in Tampa in 2012.

At every turn of his entire political career Obama has been the instigator, promoter, and beneficiary of left-wing race hatred. It helped him move up the political ladder.

Fishing for votes, Obama injected himself and racial politics into the Zimmerman case during the last election cycle when he volunteered, “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.”

In the Martin case, the Left employed more or less the same race-baiting messaging strategy that helped to inflame racial tensions in the aftermath of the tragic 2006 death of Martin Lee Anderson, a 14-year-old black boy. After Anderson died during mandatory physical training at a Florida boot camp for young offenders, racial-grievance mongers and politicians claimed he was killed because of the color of his skin and demanded that criminal charges be laid. A racially diverse group of eight defendants (i.e. seven camp guards and a nurse) was eventually acquitted. The jury deliberated a mere 90 minutes after the three-week manslaughter trial.

To no one’s surprise, the race-baiting ambulance chasers of the fabulously wealthy Southern Poverty Law Center are already making money off the mob violence in Ferguson. The George Soros-funded group that sees as a major threat the nearly-dead remnants of the Ku Klux Klan that can barely afford scissors to cut holes in their bedsheets, doesn’t need the cash. This allegedly nonprofit organization reported a staggering $291.2 million in net assets for the year ended Oct. 31, 2013. The self-styled crusaders for social justice of the SPLC also reported having bank accounts in the tax havens of Bermuda and the Cayman Islands.

SPLC President Richard Cohen sent out a typically dishonest mass email to supporters last night with the subject line, “How many more innocents must die?”

“Our entire criminal justice system has mushroomed, in large part because certain politicians have made it a strategy to stoke fear among white people — fear about young black men,” Cohen writes. “Young men like Michael Brown — and their families — are paying the price.”

Setting aside for a moment the question of what Brown did or did not do that fateful night, Cohen ignores the fact that Americans in general, and not just “white people” in particular, have good reason to be afraid of young black males, unfortunately.

“[Y]oung black men do commit about 50% of the murders in the U.S.,” African-American John McWhorter, an English professor and linguist at Columbia University, noted last year.

He continued:

Hardly uncommon are cases such as the two black guys who doused a white 13-year-old with gasoline and lit him on fire, saying “You get what you deserve, white boy’ (Kansas City, Mo.) or 20 black kids who beat up white Matthew Owens on his porch ‘for Trayvon’ (Mobile, Ala.).

[I]t’s just fake to pretend that the association of young black men with violence comes out of thin air. Young black men murder 14 times more than young white men. If the kinds of things I just mentioned were regularly done by whites, it’d be trumpeted as justification for being scared to death of them.

McWhorter, by the way, is no conservative. He describes himself as “a cranky liberal Democrat … who supports Barack Obama, reviles the War on Drugs, supports gay marriage, never voted for George Bush and writes of Black English as coherent speech … ”

The Left must accept much of the blame for the growing epidemic of “knockout game” attacks by blacks on whites and for black violence generally. To leftists, violence committed by blacks is at best a political statement, and at worst a cry for help from the oppressed. The victims are irrelevant and if blacks get killed or captured by police in the process of committing criminal acts they are martyrs or supposed political prisoners like cop-killer Mumia abu Jamal.

The Left has been organizing in poor black communities for decades, not in an effort to improve anyone’s plight, but to get blacks to rise up against free enterprise and the American system.

These leftists have enjoyed spectacular success. Apart perhaps from crazed, drunken college sports fans, what group in society riots the most? When was the last time you heard of an Asian-American riot or a Jewish-American riot or an Italian-American riot?

Sociopathic radicals like Van Jones, Jesse Jackson Sr., Al Sharpton, Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Richard Cloward, and Frances Fox Piven have been agitating in inner cities for decades, doing everything they can to push blacks to violently revolt.

Cloward, who died in 2001, and his wife Piven objectified blacks, viewing them as cannon fodder in a fifth-column assault on America. They wanted blacks to remain miserable, docile, poor, and angry in black ghettos where left-wing community organizers could easily sacrifice their lives at will, as I wrote in my book, Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers.

In a particularly odious essay titled, “The Case Against Urban Desegregation,” these apostles of depravity wrote, “If the African American is to develop the power to enter the mainstream of American life, it is separatism—not integration—that will be essential to achieve results in certain institutional arenas.” The black American would be better off “consolidating his power within the central city” in order to “have some impact on the environment of the ghetto itself.” Blacks have to “organize as a bloc.” Achieving “effective separatist power” would not be accomplished by arguing “the ghetto must be dispersed.”

It is no secret that radicals want blacks to hate the police because it makes it easier to fan the flames of discontent. The leftist narrative is that the police are “pigs,” the armed wing of the white capitalist class that oppresses poor blacks. Cops are legitimate targets in the radicals’ war against what Sixties radicals called “AmeriKKKa.”

Echoing a sentiment expressed by Bolshevik barrister William Kunstler—defender of the Chicago Seven antiwar protesters, accused of crossing state lines to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention— Piven wrote separately in 1972 that growing numbers of poor blacks viewed police officers as a kind of “army of occupation in the ghetto.”

Piven herself argued that this perception of police-as-invaders was a wonderfully useful thing and that it should be encouraged in order to move the leftist counter-revolution forward. Left-wingers like Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and President Obama’s cabinet think otherwise, regard looting not only as an honorable exercise in redistributionism but also as a legitimate form of political protest.

Today’s violent cop-hating demonstrators in Ferguson have an ideological lineage stretching back at least to Cloward and Piven and other race-baiting radicals.

Even worse, you have been subsidizing this civil unrest for the last half century. Under the leftist-designed War on Poverty, the federal government has been handing out taxpayers’ money since 1965 to so-called community groups in order to encourage them to agitate against the status quo.

No doubt President Obama will find a way to funnel obscene quantities of taxpayer money to his friends in the radical community before he leaves office on Jan. 20, 2017.

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  • JJ

    Whenever a race riot is in full swing, the rioters and looters can count on the Leftist media to defend their actions. Don Lemon from CNN ” understands ” the rioting and looting.
    I don’t know if it’s true, but during the 1970s race rioting in New York City, Anthony Lewis, editorialist of the New York Times, allegedly wrote that they were rioting because they were hungry. The conservative icon, William F. Buckley, supposedly retorted back , ” Well, they must be thirty too, because they hit the liquor store first . . .”

    • Sheik Yerbouti

      These days they dine on sneakers, huge TVs and weaves.

    • shekky goldstein

      This jackbooted Ferguson Zio-Pig was well trained by Israeli LE (like many are in US LE) on the proper technique for shooting unarmed youth in the back.

    • Anonymous

      Respond by suspending the Constitution and declare martial law. That will send a clear message. Militarizing law enforcement is necessary to keep order. Enough of this unrest.

      • Young Werther

        Yes, if they hate the local police then let them experience Federal Occupation for a while.

      • Debbie G

        You CAN’T be serious.

    • Young Werther

      ha we need the clever humor of William Buckley now…

  • SCREW SOCIALISM

    There’s nothing that says Justice more than stealing boxes of overpriced sneakers.

    • DaCoachK

      Kind of like the queers each June with their ridiculous parades. Nothing screams “Respect my movement!” like two bearded men in thongs holding hands.

    • PATRIOT.WW48

      very well PUT

    • Anonymous

      Forget justice. Maintain order at all costs. Suspend the Constitution and declare martial law. Militarize law enforcement as necessary to keep order. That will send a clear message to the nation.

      • Trappedincalifornia

        Barack….is that you?

        The left is salivating to have martial law declared, it would make things so much easier, wouldn’t it?

      • SCREW SOCIALISM

        You’d like to suspend the Constitution?

        I don’t know who is dumber. Socialists or Libertardians.

  • johnlac

    Hey, I know if the cops shot somebody who looked like me in my area, the first thing I’d do is go burn down the grocery store where I buy my food. That’s the logical thing to do isn’t it?

    • Ganesha_akbar

      Meanwhile in DC;

      D.C. police on manhunt after off-duty detective shot in Southeast Washington

      An off-duty D.C. police detective was shot and another off-duty officer came under attack early Wednesday amid a recent burst of violence in the District.

      Police said the same group, riding in a car, fired on the officers in separate incidents only minutes apart in Southeast Washington.

      Nothing to see here… move along…

      • WhiteHunter

        Impossible! Handguns are illegal under the District’s tough gun control laws! [SARC OFF]

    • Michael Garfinkel

      Sarcasm aside, it’s obvious to everyone, except the oh-so-sincere-and-compassionate CNN anchors, that the roiling black underclass barely requires a wink and a nod to riot and loot.

      Of course, this “compassion” didn’t extend to the (innocent) Duke Lacrosse boys, Robert Zimmerman, or this police officer.

      Instead, they are demanding that the name of the police officer be released – as they gave out Zimmerman’s address, even though there have been credible death threats against the officer.

      You see a similar dynamic in play in the Gaza coverage.

      Yes, the leftist media is pernicious.

      But they’re also deeply opinionated, and stupid.

      And hopefully few are persuaded

  • KenoshaMarge

    Nothing says I “care” about the fate of this young black man like looting the local 7/11. Martin Luther King would have tried to quell the violence. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton and other leaders of the race industry pour fuel on the flames.

    As for fools like Lemon, if he “understands” people rioting then he has no regard for justice or the law. Just for race-baiting.

    • FrankTalk14

      Actually Jesse Jackson has called on people to pray and protest peacefully and to refrain from violence.

      • Pocho Basura

        ……and make a donation

        • pfbonney

          Actually, J. Jackson charges the Black community for this type of appearance.

          Not to say he would refuse donations, but these visits don’t come out of his pockets.

      • KenoshaMarge

        If so, good for him. He has also made remarks about there being a lot of Fergusons in the country as if everyone is just waiting to murder young black men. That tends to have a less than calming effect.
        And Sharpton has been asked to leave town by the Mayor because of his disruptive influence.

        • shekky goldstein

          Most psycho cops are looking for an excuse to light somebody up.

          • FloridaFishing

            Interesting, where I live all law enforcement personnel are required to undergo and pass a series of stringent psychological evaluations.

            I suppose that psycho cops should be classified as mentally ill or as common criminals.

            That would leave the remaining majority of police, deputies and troopers as not culpable unless they observed a bad cop engaging in psychotic, illegal or unethical acts.

    • Anonymous

      Suspend the Constitution, enact martial law, militarize all law enforcement, and send a message to the nation that order will be maintained by any means necessary.

  • Conniption Fitz
    • Pete

      It would help when you post this picture to have a screen print of the entire Facebook page.

      It is coming to the point people need software that detects photoshopping and they also need facial recognition software along with their Microsoft office. I believe the picture, but I am going to check the Daily Mail. I am more likely to get more of the pictures or all of the pictures than from the American mainstream lying shat press.

      • Pete

        Uncle Adolf,

        I see you have up-voted my comment. I think the picture shows Michael Brown. But I have my doubts, because I am not the best person when it comes to recognizing faces (one of my limitations).

        I would not have to walk anything back, which I have one 1 or 2 occasions here at FPM. Don;t get all exceited, because it wasn’t to a troll.

        You should have seen the recent Daily Mail story on the people who posted their thug pictures and regular pictures. It makes you wonder about more than 1/2 the teenagers and twenty somethings today. It also makes you wonder about the news media such as the NYT, ABC, and the rest.

        • dennis x

          Interesting because this young man posted two pictures of himself ( not the one shown here) one was of him in a usa t-shirt flashing what I believe is a frat sign ( the KAY bunny) another photo was of him graduating from high school and he wrote in the event of his death which picture would be used.

          • Dennis X

            Frats flashing gang sign is always a good thang.

        • shekky goldstein

          The cops and these punks feed off of one another and are part of the same rotten governmental system- they go together like peas and carrots.

    • Webb

      That’s Holder behind him isn’t it?

      • kevinstroup

        Dude, that was hilarious!

      • Young Werther

        looks like him

    • PATRIOT.WW48

      THX-MUCH for the INFO.!!!!!!! kinda says it all

    • Anonymous

      Here’s how to solve the problem. Suspend the Constitution, institute martial law, and militarize law enforcement, and send a message to the entire nation. Order will be maintained by ANY means necessary.

    • Toa

      I suspected that this was another Bernie Goetz/George Zimmerman railroad job by the “Liberals” in the Media. This photo confirms it.

    • SCREW SOCIALISM

      CNN: Stills from store holdup video.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSyKJSm6MVc

      • Webb

        The little guy should’ve put a round thru his nutbag and one thru his brain.

  • Ganesha_akbar

    Exhibit A Miami Herald: Leonard Pitts Jr. “The people screamed.”

    A riot can be many things. It can be an act of communal madness… And it can be an act of outcry, a scream of inchoate rage.

    That’s what happened this week in Ferguson, Mo. The people screamed

    Trayvon Martin is Rodney King… is Edward Munch!

    • Americana

      How long before Obama demands the city council looks like the neighborhood?

      fergusoncity.com/171/Council-Members

    • Guest

      Scream of Wheat, anyone?

  • http://www.GodAuthoredBible.com geneww1938

    I surely would expect a color blind FBI and DOJ investigation would use the video and photo images and arrest every out of [and in] town person who was involved in this riot and have them brought to justice. They should be charged and the appropriate jailed term rendered even if they are released on probation. The arrest record must remain.
    Letting them off is reverse discrimination … could you imagine if a mob of white went into any neighborhood and did the same damage for any reason!!!

  • Peter Pocket

    An 18-year old is legally, an adult. He can be tried as an adult. Sentenced as an adult. And executed as an adult. If he was 20 instead of 18, does anyone really believe that he would be more mentally and socially mature living in a culture where crime knows no age limits?

    But, the Media and race-baiters deliberately use broad categories so that they can paint everyone with the same brush of racism or brutality. When the media was showing photos of when you say, “Teen,” you’re talking about an age group that extends beyond any number ending in “teen.”

    Remember, it was the Media who knocked eight years off of Trayvon Martin’s real age and mental state by displaying photos of a nine-year old Trayvon instead of the 17-year old, dope-smoking, mixed matrial-arts gangsta wannabe who already had a long rap sheet hidden from the justice system.

    There should have been an immediate push back against the Media with civil lawsuits and criminal charges filed against the media for obstruction of justice, hate crimes, conspiracy, interfering with a police investigation, evidence tampering, and jury tampering. Zimmerman waited too long to sue MSNBC. He should have done it right after they edited the 911 call and put it on the air because it had a direct bearing on charges being brought against him.

    The Media is not immune from civil suits. They have some criminal immunities, but, when asked to name their sources, they will either comply with a judge’s orders or be held in contempt and sent to prison.

    Seems like the Left carry lawyers around with them like the Right carry CCW’s – for protection. The Media is the enemy of the people now that it has become a tool of the state.

    Both Obama and Holder are deliberately stirring up racial hatred. When it was learned that the DOJ was sending tax-paid agitators to Sanford, where was the outrage? Better yet, where were the lawsuits? George Zimmerman’s civil rights were violated before any charges had been issued. Same is true for the police officer in Ferguson.

    A note should also be made abouyt Obam a’s hiring of the attorney who defended the cop killer, Mumia abu Jamal.

    • ebonystone

      Just as after the Boston Marathon bombing, the MSM almost universally referred to the two perps — ages 19 and 26– as “just kids.”

  • Pete

    Police need cameras rolling anytime they interact with the public for their protection and for the protection of others.

    If we get the whole film instead selective clips from TV stations, we can get rid of some of this crap.

  • bob smith

    has anyone ever done a study on how many ‘odumbo’-like mulatotos are
    bred when these riots arise? better yet, how many are bred in the name
    of liberalism?

    would be an interesting study.

    from the
    picture above it is amazing to see a disenfranchised lesbian in the
    midst of a circle of gangbangers.

    • Toa

      Any time you see public anti-white activity, you will see (usually) red-haired white women acting as cheerleaders. I doubt she’s a lesbian; another Stanley Ann Dunham for certain.

      • bob smith

        True enough.

  • Race_Dissident

    Just pull all cops out of black neighborhoods and let the carnage and mayhem begin. Society can only benefit.

    • Sheik Yerbouti

      This has been done in many Hispanic neighborhoods. They have become no-go zones for cops in many cities. Their carnage is their own.

      • BS77

        I just heard on the radio that last year over 16 000 people were murdered in the US, mostly by gun violence in the worst inner cit y neighborhoods, and much of this is black on black killing….t here have been no riots, looting or marches over this horrendous mass killing …just the sound of crickets in the background……B UT, if a cop is involved, especially a white cop shooting a black man…then….OH THE HUMANITY!!!!!!

  • trapper

    It has been obvious for some time that the Left uses black thugs as their storm troopers to attack the white middle class and America in general. There are just 3 groups for the left: the oppressed (people “of color”), the oppressors (white people and especially white men), and the Leftist champions of the oppressed.

  • http://JudeoChristianAmerica.org Alexander Gofen

    Speaking about “Race riot romances”: Let us ask, where were riots for a black mother Miriam Carey, killed by the DC police without any necessity http://www.wnd.com/2014/08/why-no-riots-for-miriam-carey/ ? Uncounted race provocateurs wage a war on the white majority of this nation, and the corrupted black minority takes a full advantage of it smelling the blood in the air.

    Hey America: How did we allow to happen this? A clairvoyant poet Vladimir Ufland (USSR) envisaged it already in 1958. Isn’t it a high time to come to our senses?!

    America is changing rapidly.
    The Negroes quickly gain the power
    And soon the famous Lady Liberty
    Will be repainted in black powder.

    Then “disadvantaged” and the poor ones
    Will mock the millionaires blatantly
    While Anglo-Saxon-Whitey Puritans
    Will rush to mimic Negroes ardently.

    They will respect the Negroes dearly
    And glorify the blackest fellow,
    And Whiteys, walking with humility,
    Will bow the first to every Negro.

    (Here is the source http://www.judeochristianamerica.org/UflandAboutBlacksIn1958.htm )

    • 95Theses

      Worth checking out for the photos alone!

  • Dallas25305

    Why are Blacks never held to the same standard as other people? If whites held a riot and a looting because of one of thousands of murders committed on whites by racist blacks, the police and the Liberal Socialist media would come down like a hammer on them. The reason is “Black Privilege”. This as why they are not expected to work and are allow to sit on their ass’s , sell drugs and commit crimes with no criticism from the corrupt Liberal Socialist media all while the Race industry crooks like Sharpton and Jackson get rich.

    • American Patriot

      Don’t forget that racist crooks like Farrakhan and Wright also get rich because of publicity.

    • frodo

      Read Matt Taibbi’s *The Divide* before you talk about standards.

    • Anonymous

      We should suspend the Constitution, enact martial law, militarize all law enforcement, and send a message to the nation that order will be maintained by any means necessary.

      • Well Done

        Shut up and die, anonymous. Just shut up.

    • I_Am_Me

      “Black Privilege” is really more of a manifestation of “White Guilt”, which is a sub-species of “European Guilt” over slavery, colonialism and imperialism.

      The Left is so, so sorry about what mostly dead white people did to black people that they are repaying them with government dependency; instilling an inferiority complex through lowered standards and racial preferences; and validating thug culture through multiculturalism and cultural relativism.

      This does nothing but turn everyone’s soul into sewage.

  • liberalloons

    My father said 25 years ago that America would host the last great battle for freedom, and everyone laughed.

    • I_Am_Me

      Smart man. America was the only modern nation given an essentially blank slate to try to build something based on reason and freedom. The horrors of slavery and broken treaties with the natives aside, this little “experiment” is nearing it’s end.

      Looks like we’re sliding back to plutarchy, then oligarchy, monarchy, and in any case serfdom at best.

      Ignorance Is Strength

  • liberalloons

    This story has been on my mind for a few days, and for a lot of reasons. It happened a few miles from my house, along with the fact that the white woman was raped and butchered like a steer. Our local news media did everything in its power to hide the race of the murderer until a police mug shot forced their hand. When the liberals were demanding our tax money to build the bike trail , concerned citizens warned that its route through extremely bad parts of town would result in more crime victims- they were called racists .
    _______________________________________________________
    Teen arrested in murder of woman found near Pinellas Trail
    http://www.nbcnews.com/id/55850429
    ________________________________________________________
    Now here’s the saddest part of the story. The liberals that demanded the trail be built are telling people to ignore the murder and robberies that occur on it, and continue to enjoy the diverse scenery the trail provides.

    • Pete

      I have not read the link yet. I am going to guess this is the murder near Atlanta. It has been bugging me too.

      • liberalloons

        It happened in Pinellas County Florida. A few years ago gang members were ambushing, robbing , and beating, white cyclists on the trail.

  • frodo

    A “young black suspect”? We know nothing about why the police officer stopped Brown–what was he under suspicion for? Walking in the street while being an African-American?

    Are you really in support of a militarized police force like the one we are seeing responding to the protests in Ferguson?

    • j Ray

      So, you are in favor of black rioters burning down their community? And I bet you are a fan of “the knockout game,” too.

      And I bet you celebrate each and every liquor store and quick trip looted. I bet you even cheer: “Let’s torch that gas station for Michael,” don’tcha?

      YOU are part of the problem. YOU want to destroy people and things.

      • frodo

        Project much? Are you in favor of arresting journalists for no reason? Or of arming police departments with military hardware? Or is that okay when they’re deployed to black neighborhoods?

        Of course I’m not in favor of the violence, nor am I in favor of the tendency to generalize here (despite Vadum’s disingenuous use of “some” in the article).

        The bottom line is that we don’t know what happened in that street and even local PD are questioning the tactics of Ferguson’s police in responding to the aftermath.

        • j Ray

          “Project much?”

          It fits you to a “T” it seems.

          “Are you in favor of arresting journalists for no reason?”

          Sounds .like to me that there was a reason. Journalists are not above the law.

          I have found that the modern MSM lies about the Republicans and conservative for sport,

          • frodo

            Do you not recognize sarcasm?

            What reason was offered for arresting the journalists? They were not committing a crime, were they? Have you read the accounts of those events? It’s not illegal to sit in a McDonald’s is it? Or to film police activities, especially for journalists.

          • j Ray

            “Do you not recognize sarcasm?”

            I didn’t see a /sarc tag.

            “What reason was offered for arresting the journalists?”

            They were ordered to leave. They didn’t. They got arrested. Everybody in the restaurant was arrested.

          • frodo

            It’s called reading for a reason.

            They *were* leaving. They were complying–I guess that the police can decide what counts as leaving fast enough.

          • j Ray

            What part of “EVERYBODY in the restaurant was arrested” did you not understand?

          • frodo

            What part of they *were* leaving did you not get? Did you read the Post writer’s account? That everyone was arrested isn’t relevant, particularly, except maybe as evidence of over-zealousness.

          • Well Done

            That they “were” leaving isn’t relevant. They dawdled and dillied when asked to, in fact they turned on their camera after everyone else had left. Journalists have no special privileges and I would advise them to stop pretending they do, especially in a riot situation.

          • American Patriot

            Why don’t you focus on the repression that independent journalists face at the hands of the radical left in many Latin American countries (like Cuba and Venezuela), as well is in China, Syria, Iran and other places with autocratic and dictatorial regimes? By the way, Al Jazeera is funded by the government of Qatar. That government is also responsible for funding the Islamist terrorist organization, Hamas, whose goal (as stated by its charter) is the destruction of Israel. By the way, over 400 migrant workers have already died in Qatar due to poor working conditions and the intense heat while trying to build soccer stadiums to prepare for the 2022 World Cup that Qatar doesn’t deserve. Why don’t you talk about that, fool?

          • frodo

            Why shouldn’t I talk about the issue that the column above is talking about without having to add every other instance of oppression in the world?

            Yes, there’s a lot of repression out there. Agreed. It’s bad. Doesn’t mean that one cannot talk about one example of it without having to mention others that are not strictly relevant to the matter under discussion. That’s a distraction.

          • American Patriot

            Because all you care about is smearing America, while praising the so-called “virtues” of its adversaries. We never hear about the oppression of white Zimbabweans because the leftist/Islamist/Baathist dominated world stage doesn’t care, since it is primarily black-on-white violence in Zimbabwe, just like they don’t care about the Arab-on-black and Muslim-on-Christian violence in Sudan and Mauritania.

          • frodo

            That’s just absurd and false. Comments like this look like attempts to silence people with other views.

          • American Patriot

            Comments like mine are meant to tell the inconvenient truth that many like to avoid because it undermines their arguments that only the West is bad and everyone or everything else is perfect. One place where there is plenty of white-on-black violence is in Cuba. But leftists don’t like to talk about it (they even ether deny it exists there or they try to justify it) because they love the Castro family dictatorship in Cuba, since it is Communist and anti-American. Why doesn’t the Congressional Black Caucus denounce institutionalized racism in Cuba? In addition, the left has a double standard when it comes to voting laws, specifically voter ID. The left doesn’t mind when other countries pass such laws, but complain about it when America’s states does it. Why?

        • American Patriot

          Are you a fan of race riots like Crown Heights, Los Angeles, Freddy’s Fashion Mart and others? Do you support the neo-apartheid, Marxist dictatorship in Zimbabwe and its racist, anti-white discrimination policies like prohibiting white Zimbabweans from owning any farmland at all? If you want to talk about anti-black racism and violence against blacks, who don’t you condemn the brutal Islamist dictatorship ruling Sudan with an iron fist. The Islamist dictatorship, which consists entirely of Arab Islamists, is guilty of committing a genocide against Sudan’s native black African Christian population. Where is your outrage over that? Or how about the fact that race-based slavery is still practiced in Mauritania today?

          • frodo

            “Of course I’m not in favor of the violence” I wrote above.

          • American Patriot

            Sure you are. You are in favor of aggression as long as the perpetrator is a radical leftist or an Islamist and/or of a darker skin tone and the victim is white, Christian, Jewish and/or a conservative, regardless of characteristics.

          • frodo

            And you know this how? What evidence have you for this? You can read every single comment I’ve made and not find anything to support your claim.

          • American Patriot

            I know this fact because you are a Communist and a supporter of double standards and America’s adversaries.

        • Well Done

          “Journalists” are nobody special. They were NOT arrested without reason. You’re part of the chorus of “what”.

  • j Ray

    “No doubt President Obama will find a way to funnel obscene quantities of taxpayer money to his friends in the radical community before he leaves office on Jan. 20, 2017.”

    Assuming that he actually does leave office on 1/20/17.

  • William James Ward

    President Obama was to be a role model for black youth, well he has
    been looting the treasury, directing bribes and overall in charge of
    political criminal activity so why not steal and carry on riotously. Put
    the fun back in riots and throw fire bombs at the police. What I am
    amazed at is the restraint shown by the police at the Molotov cocktails.
    The taxpayers can sit back and grind their teeth at the horrific waste
    of public funds and see their futures headed toward bleak poverty
    with Obama ruining America with the help of the former Democratic
    Party who are now leftist, Communist shills. The ongoing show is
    overshadowing the fact a young man lost his life and a thorough
    impartial investigation is being tainted by rioters pushed on by
    political criminals…………………….William

  • http://Dimseatshyte.com/perverts Unc Remus

    Rabid Pack Animals…the solution is obvious…and called for…

  • cochise1

    “President Obama, an extreme-left community organizer by profession.”

    That’s much too mild a description. Obama is a radical Marxist and revolutionary. He tries to hide it by making lofty, patriotic bromides. The media is complicit in this cover-up. They are the ones responsible for the tearing down of the United States and I despise them. I don’t even actually hate Obama. He simply is what he is but I hate the left wing media with a passion.

  • PATRIOT.WW48

    So what do you expect from Scum Blacks(use whatever word that seems most fitting) They seem to have the same mentality as the off-spring of Ishmael(rag-heads, sheet-heads, sand-n………..

  • meanpeoplesuck

    For those who are spinning the tale that we must wait for the full investigation to know what really happened, I will save you some time:

    Even though Michael Brown reportedly had not been in trouble with the law in the past, he decided to be confrontational with the police and try to grab the officer’s gun to shoot him. Therefore, the officer acted in self defense and was justified. Logical, right? Only if you are a TeaBanging gun nutter who wanks to the Second Amendment and the Zimmerman acquittal.

    The KKK is alive and well, and serves in most of the countries police departments. Eric Holder must not let this one get away.

  • s;vbkr0boc,klos;

    Local uber-liberal Post Dispatch inadvertently let slip the fact that these ‘disrespected youts’ have so far BURNED 24 POLICE CRUISERS. I live in St. Louis County and I pay for those cruisers. There is LOTS of ugly ugly footage of these ‘righteous rioters’ at work that would make decent black and white St. Louisans nauseated BUT we are very selectively shown what they want us to see and told what we ought to think.

  • Lanna

    So….the Looting and robbing and lawlessness which we have seen on the news is supposed to be justified because of what….A brother getting shot, and what did he do to warrant this, did he push the officer and go after his gun..the investigation is taking place …How do two wrongs make a right. No wonder businesses want to move out of that district. The scenes of these people breaking in and running out of the stores with armfuls of stolen goods is reprehensible.

  • Armed_Infidel

    Most white and jewish liberals are racists and have lower expectations for blacks. They accept violent and other destructive conduct from young blacks they would never accept from their own kids.

  • Anonymous

    Suspend the Constitution and enact martial law. That will send a statement.

  • Anonymous

    Militarization of law enforcement is necessary to keep order-everywhere.

  • Anonymous

    Enough of this unrest. If a closed society under dictatorial rule with military support is the way to keep order-do it.

  • Anonymous

    It’s obvious a democracy or republic can no longer work in this day and age. Dictatorial rule with military backing is the only way out. Militarizing all law enforcement is necessary to keep order by ANY MEANS NECESSARY.

  • Well Done

    Yeah, “anonymous”, why don’t you go soak your head in a toilet somewhere…

  • Ricardo Z.

    Some conservative filmmaker really needs to make a documentary exposing the SPLC. It’s long overdue.

  • Young Werther

    Notice how the media seemed so very put out today because they had to show the video of the *gentle giant* robbing the store and shoving the clerk when he wanted payment of the stolen items, apparently not too long before being confronted by the cops…and just maybe *he* confronted the cops first? The crowd of so-called protestors are nothing more than a lynch mob…disgusting. And the media has been inciting race violence and their sponsors should be boycotted. Especially the likes of Nancy Grace,Sharpton, msnbc, hln and cnn. Pretty good comprehensive article Matthew Vadum.

  • Young Werther

    To my surprise, even one of The Five on Fox can’t stop plugging away at the wrong doing of the cops…it isn’t Bob B. but the other fat man. I don’t even know his name…

  • steves5687

    Why the great concern? It’s just another Democrat Party campaign event to get out the vote.

  • mikegiles

    Odd. The majority of the protestors in Ferguson were peaceful sign carriers, yet they were dispersed with rubber bullets and tear gas. Yet as usual, you stupid, stupid, people focus, on those who were looting and cheer on the police. Uh folks, a conservative should be very worried about police who look more like an occupation force, than police. You don’t even notice that the left has sidled right around Posse Comitatus, and armed a bunch of unionized public employees like a small army. Here’s a thought, remember back to Wisconsin, when the unionized police, were quite willing to let their fellow unionized public workers, run wild, in an attempt to stop much needed reform.

  • El Desdichado

    Finish the crackers – grab a smoke…
    of Ferguson my muse will sing.
    A call to arms – God’s fires to stoke;
    let Truth and Freedom ring !

    Take to the streets; avenge this wrong
    and hasten the end of racist rule.
    Justice, though it may tarry long
    will find its target in the duel.

    Young Michael Brown, like all true saints
    found himself craving Swisher Sweets.
    He robbed a store, whose camera paints
    impartial portrait. In the streets

    the thief refused to be detained
    and so threw off police restraint.
    Though sin escaped, the Law remained
    and made a martyr of this saint…

    Read FULL POEM commemorating St. Michael B:

    http://connecthook.wordpress.com/2014/08/16/hands-up-ferguson/

  • jamesbolin46@gmail.com

    Anyone notice things were starting to calm down until Rev Jackson, Rev Sharpton, and The new black panthers showed up? Check out the new black panthers by a web search. Seems they call for death of all white people. Perhaps they are recruiting and/or instigating the crowd.

  • http://yourdaddy.net/ NotaLemming

    Cloward and Piven – ‘It is ok to use violence as long as it is a BIG part of your strategy’ – YouTube http://t.co/X5d0El5fyC

  • Pete

    Your first non-trollish post (that I’ve seen). Do you feel better?

  • Pete

    L.A. Police Union Supports On-Body Cameras

    policemag.com/blog/technology/story/2013/10/l-a-police-union-supports-on-body-cameras.aspx

  • Pete

    Rialto police Sgt. Richard Royce said he was exonerated by the footage during the study.

    “I’d rather have my version of that incident captured on high-definition video in its entirety from my point of view, then to look at somebody’s grainy cellphone camera footage captured a 100 feet away that gets cropped, edited, changed or manipulated,” Royce said.

    foxnews.com/us/2014/03/15/officers-body-cameras-raise-privacy-concerns/