gatorfan wrote:I don't think the National Guard is a good idea, they aren't trained for situations like this. Remember Kent State? All it takes is a scared 18 y.o. guardsman popping off a few rounds and the situation will get much worse.
As for cops dressed like soldiers and armored cars what do you expect? They can't anticipate a peaceful situation but based on the past rioting and looting had to be ready for a violent one.
It's a tough situation with no easy answers. The town leadership needs to start putting out some real information on the incident.
The protesters need to stay home before it escalates into something much worse than one shooting.
You make some good points. What do the police want?
That's easy -- they want a cowed populace of African Americans to go back inside their homes and cease protesting. They want Ferguson's African Americans to accept that white cops have the right to gun down an unarmed black teenager. To protect their uniformed brother, they've refused to interview witnesses and to even release the shooter's name.
What do the people of Ferguson want?
No matter how the cops try to justify the murder of Michael Brown -- the shots fired at him when we was trying to flee -- cannot be justified. One witness claimed that after Brown exited the car the cop followed and shot the teenager in the back. Hit, Brown turned and raised his hands and begged the officer to stop shooting. The cop kept shooting and killed him.
What the people want is an end to out-of-control white cops whose attitude and treatment of Ferguson's black populace has become intolerable.
What the people want is a murder charge brought against the cop who shot down Brown.
What the people want seems more than reasonable and just.
Maybe you're right -- it isn't the National Guard that should be called in to bring order to the chaotic situation. It should be Federal troops, same as were required in Alabama during the civil rights era.
Let's face it, Ferguson's white cops are anything but the good guys in this tragedy.
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