St Louis police murder scandal (PLUS: riots, idiotic press conferences, etc.)

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Horrible.

I hope they bring the racist police officer to justice.

But the police and army are in general a cesspool for far-right white extremists (not just in the US).

[Tender Branson]

What also worries me is the military-style outfit of the police in small towns like this one in MO:



Not even the riot police in Vienna (a city of 1.8 million) is outfitted like this (they have a few water cannon throwers and normal guns and pepper spray).

It's like they are trying to fight ISIS within a MO small town ...

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But the police and army are in general a cesspool for far-right white extremists (not just in the US).

That's not true in the US.  The far-right white power guys here hate the govt.

Oh, it is true (especially in the US).

Take a look at this documentary about the US border patrol and how they sniper to death unarmed Mexican kids from their control posts on the wall between the US/Mexico border:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYmnngW3Zgo#t=9m01s

I have made the video start at the relevant section.

[Tender Branson]

But the police and army are in general a cesspool for far-right white extremists (not just in the US).

That's not true in the US.  The far-right white power guys here hate the govt.

Oh, it is true (especially in the US).

Take a look at this documentary about the US border patrol and how they sniper to death unarmed Mexican kids from their control posts on the wall between the US/Mexico border:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYmnngW3Zgo#t=9m01s

I have made the video start at the relevant section.

Your cite that police and the Army in the us is a cesspool for far right white extremists is an Al Jazeera documentary on the US Border Patrol (that isn't even available on the US youtube I might add)?  Odd.

So you can't watch the documentary in the link I have posted ?

Odd.

Ask yourself why... Maybe the US government doesn't want you to know the truth ?

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Interesting development.

If true, that changes quite a bit.

But: does a police officer really have to kill an (unarmed) cigar robber ?

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Even if Brown did everything what he's accused of, it brought some serious problems into the spotlight (aside from the fact that he still didn't deserve to die):

1) Majority black towns with all-white police forces and all-white city administrations as if we were still in 1955 Alabama. (And there's also things like this statistic that St. Louis County Police happens to stop black drivers twice as often for traffic control as they do white drivers.)

2) Police militarization taken to insane levels and police forces who see crowds of average citizens as security threats.

The first part of 2) is correct, but the bolded part is pretty much true of everywhere else as well, see Stuttgart 21, in which the police also used to be quite brutal. Or Istanbul, or Kiew, etc.