msnbc host destroys ferguson coverage and MB supporters

They don't seem to realize that it takes a decent, strong person to admit to being wrong. We see the exact same thing all day, every day where 0bama is concerned. No matter what, they defend him; to not do so would be to admit they were wrong, and like little snotty-nosed kids, they blame someone else, never looking inward.

Watching the entire Zimmerman trial, reading the entire Wilson transcript, and watching 0bama lie through his teeth all the time, and they still can't admit to the truth: They were WRONG.

What sad, little lives they live.

 

Joe summed up exactly what I've been thinking and saying since this whole crap storm started.

 

The Police do not need the liberal media to help them destroy their credibility. The Police have done this all on their own.

Police have too much power, and are not often prosecuted when they commit wrongs. Power corrupts .... and so on.

Police are just people and of course if you give "people" too much power some are going to abuse it.

It would also help if we got rid of nanny laws so the Police would not be harassing people so often for silly things and they could focus on real crime.

Chasing Pot and Prostitutes do not cut it as real crime and the State does an injustice having the Police harass people for these things.

 

Scarborough is right. This is a prime example of a lie being reported as the truth. The media has been completely irresponsible in the coverage of the Michael Brown shooting. The false narrative could not be possible without the willing cooperation of the media reporting a lie vs the truth.

 

throwing people in prison for life, or "just" 25 years is a bit worse than "harassment," don't you think? and the govt has done exactly that to HUNDREDS of thousands of people over mere dope, man.

 

WTF does that have to do with the subject here?

 

TRue, Trayvon was somewhat similar though. Using a photo of when he was 10 years old to represent him, when he had grown into a 6 foot tall teenage punk.

 

Scarborough is a scab.

 

My friend gets up each day before work and puts on his body armor

Unlike me, his job requires him to meet people at their worst. He gets to meet parents who just got done burning their kids with cigarettes, or worse. He then gets to go back to those homes when the court returns the kids to those parents and finds the kids again beaten.

He gets to go to a scene where young BLACK (yes I said black) kids were shot by other black kids for no real reason (well, they think they had a reason)

He works in a tier 2 city

the majority of crime is committed by blacks

he has witnessed the flight of whites, Asians and Hispanics from communities as black crime increased. He buried a friend who was shot in the line of duty. The friend was responding for the 6th time to a domestic abuse call on a black couple. He was putting handcuffs on the male after pulling him off of the woman. She was angry that they were taking away her man. 2 little girls lost their daddy that night.

My friend has told me countless stories of things that would turn the stomach of decent folks. And, the majority of their calls are black-on-black crimes.

My friend is a black policeman who fears for his life each day at work. He has seen a tremendous culture shift and the "inner city" folk have more luxuries today than he or I had as we were growing up.

I often ask my friend and his colleagues how is it that they don't become cynical or jaded. One of his co-workers replied to me and it still rings in my head.

We were playing cards, he asked me what I do for a living, and then asked me about the other other guys around the table. I was the only non-cop.

Imagine holding down a job where it affects your life so much that you really can only feel comfortable around others in the same profession?

Perhaps you should consider the job that you, me and others ask our police to undertake before you vilify them.

 

So, the media has a history of misrepresenting the truth when it comes to a racial matter.

 

Because of Obamas best visitor at the WH all the time, Sharpton.

 

I don't care much for Joe Scarboro, but I don't care much for MSNBC's decision to beat the race drum over this either.

 

Now all we need is a relevant black leader (Obama, Holder, Oprah, anyone) to say the same thing. Not holding my breath.

 

If you can't take the heat get out of the kitchen. I did not vilify all cops (Go back and read my post more carefully).

It is true that many police do get jaded as you allude to. They start to treat everyone like the bad guys they regularly encounter. I totally understand this. If your only interaction is with crappy humans, you start to think all humans are crappy.

The other point of my post however was to point out that Police are doing stuff that they perhaps should not be doing. "Errand boys for the State" ... a State which has overstepped its bounds in terms of restricting personal freedom.

It is this erosion of personal freedom that is the root cause of the problem. As personal freedom is eroded people start to think it is ok to violate such freedom ... and police are people.

Is the right not to be arbitrarily detained a freedom we still retain ? I would claim it is not given the way courts are ruling of late.

The point of having such rights is not to protect people from Osama Bin Laden.

The point of having such rights is to protect people from "The State". Since the Police are the enforcement hand of the State .. these "rights" are to protect people from the Police.

This is the point I think you are missing.