St. Louis Vs. The Police IV: Now It Gets Real!

Where was the part in that where the police officers are attacked?

The underlined part doesn't make sense by itself.

Racebaiting, sexist remarks, and partisan rhetoric. And liberals love to accuse Republicans of doing all 3 of those things.

Lol.... Did you even read what I said? Attacking an officer would be breaking the law/not complying to a police officer.
I don't understand your question in regards to my post.

I didn't ask you a question.

And KB was the one who asserted that attacking an officer was part of the equation, though I'm sure no one can convince him of this at this point.

I didn't ask you a question.

And KB was the one who asserted that attacking an officer was part of the equation, though I'm sure no one can convince him of this at this point.

I'm sorry, but are you inferring that police officers randomly shoot people just for fun? Care to prove that?

I hope you're aware that you just randomly made up two lies in the span of 10 minutes and forced them on to people(me) just so you can attack them.

I know this wasn't directed at me, and I don't know if it was for fun, but there is this serial killer cop. :3

Manuel Pardo, a former Florida police officer turned serial killer who was executed Tuesday, was one of the latter, officials say. He shot nine people to death in the late 1980s, claiming he was a ”soldier” ridding the streets of the wicked.

Source: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/11/15845678-cops-gone-bad-some-notorious-cases-of-officers-who-wound-up-on-the-wrong-side-of-the-law

Psycho's exist. Some may be cops, but it's less likely (I hope)

"There is no "nice" way to arrest a potentially dangerous, combative suspect. The police are our bodyguards, or hired fists, batons and guns. We pay them to do the dirty work of protecting us, the work we're too afraid, too unskilled or too civilized to do ourselves. We expect them to keep the bad guys out of our businesses, cars and houses, out of our face. We want them to "take care of the problem." We just don't want to see how it's done."

Charles H. Webb, Ph.D.

This may sound insane, but... Your odds of getting shot by a cop go down dramatically by not breaking the laws/complying with police officers.

So everyone is going to ignore the DOJ's report then?

FERGUSON, Mo. - Two officers were shot in front of the Ferguson Police Department early Thursday as demonstrators gathered after the resignation of the police chief in the Missouri city that became a symbol of racial tensions following a white officer's fatal shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old.

The shots were fired hours after Ferguson's mayor announced the resignation of Police Chief Thomas Jackson in the wake of a scathing federal government report alleging bias within the city's police department and court system. Before the shooting, some at the protest were chanting to show they weren't satisfied with the resignations of Jackson and City Manager John Shaw earlier in the week, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

A 32-year-old officer was shot in the face and a 41-year-old officer was shot in the shoulder, St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said at a news conference. Both were taken to a hospital, where Belmar said they were conscious, but he described their injuries as "serious."

"I don't know who did the shooting, to be honest with you," Belmar said, adding that he could not provide a description of the suspect or gun.

He said his "assumption" was that, based on where the officers were standing and the trajectory of the bullets, "these shots were directed exactly at my officers."

The protest was a familiar scene in Ferguson, which saw similar and much larger demonstrations after the shooting death of Michael Brown last summer by city police officer Darren Wilson. When Wilson, who is white, was cleared in November by a state grand jury, the decision set off further protests, looting and fires. Thursday was the first time an officer at a protest had been shot.

After the shooting, officers with guns and in riot gear circled the station, and more than a dozen squad cars blocked the street.

Jackson was the sixth employee to resign or be fired after a Justice Department report found a profit-driven court system and widespread racial bias in Ferguson's police department. A separate Justice Department report released the same day, however, cleared Wilson of civil rights charges in the shooting. Wilson has since resigned.

Mayor James Knowles III announced Wednesday that the city had reached a mutual separation agreement with Jackson that will pay Jackson one year of his nearly $96,000 annual salary and health coverage. Jackson's resignation becomes effective March 19.

Jackson had previously resisted calls by protesters and some of Missouri's top elected leaders to step down over his handling of Brown's shooting and the weeks of protests that followed. He was widely criticized from the outset, both for an aggressive police response to protesters and for his agency's erratic and infrequent releases of key information.

During a 12-minute news conference, Knowles said Jackson resigned after "a lot of soul-searching" about how the community could heal from the racial unrest stemming from the fatal shooting last summer.

"The chief is the kind of honourable man you don't have to go to," Knowles said. "He comes to you when he knows that this is something we have to seriously discuss."

How admirable. A mayor who thinks honor is a matter of who calls who first.

Hopefully there are some bright, well-intentioned people that see opportunity to change things for the better in the midst of all this mess.

Then again, for a place that created the myth of the Veiled Prophet of Khorassan, something tells me things will get worse before they get better.

Reported by the Associated Press.

In Ferguson? At this point I feel every time I read something about that hole, my brain cells start to systematically commit suicide one by one.

This may sound insane, but... Your odds of getting shot by a cop go down dramatically by not breaking the laws/complying with police officers.

It should be 0 at that point already.

Even still, not complying with officers commands or simply breaking a law does not give the officer a right to shoot you.

Depends on the circumstances. If you pose a threat, then the officer may be justified to use lethal force.

Depends on the circumstances. If you pose a threat, then the officer may be justified to use lethal force.

Only time an officer is justified to use lethal force is when they are faced with a kill or be killed situation. This includes, but is not limited to: firearms, knives, blunt objects (baseball bats, batons, steel pipes, etc.) or when the suspect is using force great enough to produce serious injury or death. This also extends to if an officer sees a suspect causing harm to another person, if the officer feels the suspect is likely to cause serious injury or death to another, the officer is allowed to use lethal force.

Note: this is specific to Oklahoma, however, I'd be confident in this also being upheld in the other 49 states.

Depends on the circumstances. If you pose a threat, then the officer may be justified to use lethal force.

African American

Never understood that phrase personally, if you were born in America and live in American you aren't African.

I am Welsh by family tree, does that mean I am Welsh American? Nope... Just American unfortunately.

The problem is, what the officer perceptive as a threat is subjected to their biases. Remember the story of the black kid holding a weapon of some kind; the cops pulled up and killed him immediately. Recently, there's a story of some white guy walking around a school of all places, with a gun and the police didn't do squat.