Leaderboard

I've been absent from this forum for more than a year for a variety of reasons, but I couldn't let this pass without comment... What part of this article do you not find serious? Being white, you experience positive profiling from law enforcement, i.e. you're white, you aren't dressed "like a gangster", thus you won't get much scrutiny. My girlfriend lives in Chicago. She's black (actually, a beautiful shade of brown). She has an advanced degree from a private school , earns well into the 6 figures, and is always dressed well. She gets followed in stores to this day. Believe it or not, but it's true. Not every store, obviously, but it does happen. She told me last night that she's so thankful she has a daughter instead of a son, and that her daughter has two girls, not boys. She knows what <could> happen to black men...she experiences racism as a black woman. If you don't believe that "white privilege" exisits, if you don't believe that law enforcement treats black people differently than white people, then you're kidding yourself.

This place hasn't changed much.

This is really all that matters. If the guy was 30 feet away and unarmed and shot, nothing he did previously can justify it. Even if he allegedly tried to grab the officer's gun beforehand, that situation was over. The potential robbery beforehand has nothing to do with it and any discussion of things before is just a distraction. If he was unarmed and not CURRENTLY a direct threat to the officer when shot to death, it was murder.

If I was president, the vending machines would get better sodas. And we would have more pizza parties during pep rallies.

those who ride with me, know I'm a HUGE advocate of the MSF course. I feel you will learn more in that class, than you could learn in 3 seasons of riding on the street. Once you get the MSF down, get your license , and ride a little. Sign up for a novice track day. I assure you, even if you don't want to go fast, and don't have any interest in track riding, you will learn a TON.

I sincerely hope that Mr. Brown did, in fact, get into a fight with the officer and the shooting of him was justified. If the facts play out otherwise and he was, for lack of a better word, murdered; that will only further erode the public's (of all hues) waning trust of law enforcement.

You better not have scratched my visor.

Like everyone else said, a little oil residue is fine. Some magazine actually suggested the following "life hack" for if you run out of gas in your car/bike: Because most people don't carry a gas can, you can avoid buying one at most gas stations by checking the trash or emptied oil bottles.

Why? So he can have Pauly do all but the simplest work?

Why waste bacon?

Yeah, mediocre chain pizza vs. smaller mediocre chain pizza. (I really do like both, though) I prefer the small mom and pop pizza joints.

The police version was that the officer gave chase and the final shots were fired at close range. The eyewitnesses version(s) were not clear to me on how far the officer was from Brown when the last shots were fired - does anyone have more information on that? I agree that even if he did try to grab the officer's gun, after he stopped trying to do that and ran away he is not a direct deadly threat any more. Not sure why the officer chose to shoot as he was running away - an action reserved only when allowing the person to escape would present an immediate danger to the public. The alleged grabbing of the gun has not been proven or refuted. That is simply a claim at this point. As is the "hands up" claim. Don't forget that in the Trayvon Martin killing, 3 different eyewitnesses stated that Zimmerman was the one pinning Martin down and that he shot downwards.

this ad is worthless without pics

BTD: So….weren't those videos all of the same chick singing the same song? I couldn't concentrate well after my eyes rolled back in my head…. Need more drugs.

Better call Saul.

I've most definitely driven like an asshat a few times, I'm not saying I haven't. What I'm saying is, the barrier did it's job. It's not dangerous. It's not going to jump out in the fucking road in front of you and chop your head off...it's going to STOP you from going into the opposite direction of traffic, potentially causing more damage/harm to others. The roads are safer with them in place, and that's a fact that can't be argued.

Here's the thing... They truly believe in it. They truly believe their way of thought is a reality. That is what makes this scary... That city was once, vey westernized but when IS takes control, the just follow suit. How blindly they will follow the blind!

As long as all the officers got home safe...that's all that matters anyways, right?

http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/14/us/missouri-ferguson-police-tactics/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 But to some security experts, this much is certain: the actions of police made things worse. "You're in trouble when your SWAT team is on the front line of dealing with a civil disturbance," Gen. Russell Honoré said Thursday. In 2005, Honoré was dispatched to New Orleans to lead recovery efforts after Hurricane Katrina, when the federal government said it was facing "urban warfare." Honoré famously told authorities to lower their weapons, and defused the tense situation. "I've seen this done successfully in the past where you have your front line policemen on the front until people start throwing things. Then you have your riot control squads in the back," Honoré told "CNN Newsroom" Thursday. "The tactics they are using, I don't know where they learned them from. It appears they may be making them up on the way. But this is escalating the situation."

The press has a right to be there. Why would the police care if it was being filmed unless they have something to hide?

I think we all agree that the looting of stores is idiotic, at best. But I'd disagree that the looting is a bigger issue than what appears to be ...if the reports are true...that this kid was basically executed, no matter what he did prior. If he gave himself up and the cop followed him, stood over him and emptied his pistol into his back...then yeah. That's a bigger problem.

Who ever condones looting? The morons who looted and rioted have nothing to do with the underlying incident involving an (allegedly) unarmed man being shot and killed by a police officer. If it went down the way the witness(es) describe, I think people have a right to be outraged. That doesn't give them the right to loot or threaten the officer's life, but outrage is warranted.

The safest place to be in Ferguson is a book store

This article can't be serious; http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/15/living/parenting-black-sons-ferguson-missouri/index.html?hpt=hp_bn1