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Michael Brown's death apparently was the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back in that St. Louis suburb.
The kid he was with when the altercation began has wanted to provide testimony to the police but his offer has been rejected.
The cops will not reveal how many bullets were fired at Brown, and according to several witnesses their version of how the altercation began (allegedly in the Police car) is as credible as Condoleeza Rice's Iraqi mushroom cloud BS.
No matter how you perceive the incident, the facts are two unarmed black teenagers were accosted by the police for walking on a public thoroughfare, and one of them was gunned down.
The cops have also chosen not to reveal the shooter's name -- supposedly to "protect" their own.
If you wonder why police departments all over the country are incorporating military tactics and equipment that includes armored suits, face masks, machineguns, armored vehicles and heavy machine-guns, there's a very good reason: they're deathly afraid their history of arrogant, abusive performance will turn minority populations into armed enemies.
Oddly, it never enters the law enforcement mind that a little courtesy and good judgement might produce better results. Brown and his friend weren't doing anything to deserve being accosted by the Ferguson police. They were walking on a city street.
Brown's untimely death and the consequences (which are still taking place), aren't likely to change the policies of urban police departments -- including Ferguson, where, in a town that's more than half Black, less than 5% of Ferguson's officers are that color.
What is going to happen, for sure, is that these provocative cops will be buying more armor and military training. And they're most likely going to need it, all of it.
The kid he was with when the altercation began has wanted to provide testimony to the police but his offer has been rejected.
The cops will not reveal how many bullets were fired at Brown, and according to several witnesses their version of how the altercation began (allegedly in the Police car) is as credible as Condoleeza Rice's Iraqi mushroom cloud BS.
No matter how you perceive the incident, the facts are two unarmed black teenagers were accosted by the police for walking on a public thoroughfare, and one of them was gunned down.
The cops have also chosen not to reveal the shooter's name -- supposedly to "protect" their own.
If you wonder why police departments all over the country are incorporating military tactics and equipment that includes armored suits, face masks, machineguns, armored vehicles and heavy machine-guns, there's a very good reason: they're deathly afraid their history of arrogant, abusive performance will turn minority populations into armed enemies.
Oddly, it never enters the law enforcement mind that a little courtesy and good judgement might produce better results. Brown and his friend weren't doing anything to deserve being accosted by the Ferguson police. They were walking on a city street.
Brown's untimely death and the consequences (which are still taking place), aren't likely to change the policies of urban police departments -- including Ferguson, where, in a town that's more than half Black, less than 5% of Ferguson's officers are that color.
What is going to happen, for sure, is that these provocative cops will be buying more armor and military training. And they're most likely going to need it, all of it.