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Billy could just as easily have written this article. So, let's review, black teen gets shot by white LEO. By all accounts, the officer could have retreated and called for backup, with an ensuing stand off. The teen wasn't armed and non-lethal measures could have been used to subdue him.



The entire neighborhood would have turned out for the standoff, and the mob could have ultimately turned on the police officers. Since TPTB don't want to start shooting the peasants, it's bad public relations, this officer has been trained it's easier to shoot one and avoid escalation.



Now the peasants have had enough, perhaps rightfully so, and they start peaceably assembling in their own neighborhood. The police have formed their own line to keep them there, and the stand off continues.



It wasn't a righteous shoot. You can't gun someone down because of an irrational fear for your own safety. Yes, the kid was stupid, but that isn't a capital crime, and the police aren't judge and jury. The officer didn't wait for backup and took it upon himself to take down someone who was physically intimidating, but the officers life wasn't in danger when he pulled the trigger. The only way this was justified, is if the kid was charging the officer at the time he was shot. Waiting for backup would have taken away the lethality of the assault. You can't shoot someone because you don't want to get your hands dirty.



So, the question remains, why didn't the officer call and wait for backup? We know the consequences, but why? Are the Ferguson police riding herd over the urban dwellers? Well, it is Missouri.



This officer insisted on getting out of his car, and now a black youth is dead. Either this young man's life is worth something, or it's not. If it's not, then we've already become what we fear, a Machiavellian Police State. If it does, then the officer should be charged with manslaughter and let the courts do their job. Since the path of least resistance for TPTB is to do nothing, that's what they'll do. The main concern for everyone from the local police up to the Governor's office is to keep their pensions, and wait for everything to return to normal.



The city council could engage police and community leaders to address the strong arm tactics being used against the urban dwellers in Ferguson, but we're past that point. The local prosecutor most likely wants to keep his job past the next election cycle, so he's going to do what his backers want him to do, which is nothing. Besides, it would set a bad precedence if prosecutors started prosecuting real crimes, or charging law enforcement for the consequences of using excessive force. Given the overwhelming number of reports in the news of police using excessive force, perhaps this is exactly what is needed. The only difficulty is this requires TPTB to police themselves, which they have thus far been proven incapable of doing.



Who knows, I might peaceably demonstrate under similar circumstances, but I probably wouldn't do it in my own neighborhood. I would take it to the city council, and force them to cordon off city hall for every meeting for as long as it takes until the issue is addressed. It's not like these community activists have anything better to do than what for next month's EBT.



That's my 10,000 foot view with no other facts than the combat veteran who penned this post. When the US started fighting limited wars, it was only natural for them to bring this experience to bear on the domestic front. After all, that's what Barack Hussein Obama promised on the campaign trail, that's what he's doing, and it's the only thing our federal government knows how to do well, keep people moving around from reservation to reservation, relying on handouts. So much for the plantation.



Copfuks? The term police derives from the Latin and means "public order". The police are only doing their jobs. The root cause of the unrest is the establishment of a two tiered society of elites and the unwashed. Things have gotten quite desperate for those in the lower echelons of the social strata, and all the EBT cards and free stuff in the world can't restore a person's dignity.



It's probably too late for successive generations of welfare recipients. But it's not too late restore order, not on the streets, but in the board rooms, elected offices, and government at all levels. Or, maybe it is.



The protesters in Ferguson, Missouri aren't the problem. It's the killing of an unarmed teen by a police officer, only doing his job, that is the problem, and the use of excessive force.



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