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Ferguson and Police Militarization with John Oliver

I just noticed that on the FOX NEWS website all the Ferguson articles have been tagged with NO COMMENTS ALLOWED. Do you have any idea why that would  be in our post racial nation. Bill O’Reilly is now the angry Republican defender of Derek Wilson, militarized police, and the attack dog on Ferguson’s black community. So if you want to know what Republicans are trying not to say about all this, just tune in Billo…

ferguson police and john oliverA recent poll showed that 57%  of both black and white Americans believe the justice system is unfair, though twice as many blacks distrust the police as whites.

I remember a time when police were the go to guys when bad things happened. We were taught as children they were our friends. That all changed in the 1960’s. We had the police putting the water hoses, dogs and clubs on black civil right’s protesters and white Vietnam War protesters. That was bad enough to turn the tide, but we followed all that up with the War on Drugs. The police became the enemy of tens of millions of young people. They were the bad guys who were out to ruin your life and your family’s lives for having a gram of whatever in your pocket.

That war on drugs caused  – as Alan Dershowitz says – 250,000 cases of police felony perjury a year. Most of their lies under oath having to do with probable cause. Most cops are liars which many us know first hand. Even in traffic cases we know they lie at the car window and in court.

And where do the bullies from back in your school days end up? They now make up most of our police forces. Now we give them all assault rifles with 40 round clips instead of night sticks to deal with airplane hijacking and placing  bombs in crowds. That’s smart.

Once you have been beaten, falsely arrested or lied to by the police there is no going back.

The police all around the country are in full support of officer Derek Wilson who shot an unarmed man with his hands up 6 times. The officer is said to have been attacked by Michael Brown who charged him and when only a few feet away from killing Officer Wilson,shot him.

I am white and don’t believe anything a cop says, why would any African American?