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Not sure if relevant, but African-American "activists" are whining about how nobody should buy anything on black Friday, and people should only buy from minority owned stores.
Source- Spinning breaking news bar on CNN.

I'm ahead of that game already and have never gone out on Black Friday to shop. It never seemed worth it to me to get stuck, being knocked around in a in a mosh after standing in line half the night.

Relapse wrote:
I'm ahead of that game already and have never gone out on Black Friday to shop. It never seemed worth it to me to get stuck, being knocked around in a in a mosh after standing in line half the night.

Yeah, I think this could be the official Black Friday song:




Back on topic, I didn't watch any TV last night, did the rioting continue on Thanksgiving?

The protesters are enacting a "die in" in one of the Shopping malls in St. Louis.

However, earlier this week, armed looters hit a Ferguson school.
http://fox2now.com/2014/11/27/dellwood-elementary-school-hit-by-vandals/

“Ware said it`s the work of four men in two cars. He said, “They had guns on `em and all that and I approached and came out of my driveway, I noticed they were loading stuff up…One was standing through the sunroof of the white vehicle with his gun in the air.””

you looters.

@Radiation & @Psienesis? Still wanna defend these actions?

More genius from the brain deads who brought you the freeway blockings:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/11/29/ferguson-protesters-move-from-streets-to-stores-on-black-friday/


What a great idea. Ruin the incomes of small business owners during the time of year when they make most of their money. I guess props should be given in the restraint they show by not looting the stores.

And Wilson resigned.

 d-usa wrote:
And Wilson resigned.

And then the police force became afraid of self defense because riots.

Reading the last three pages of my thread has left me numb with stupidity. People are actually defending the looters?

 d-usa wrote:
And Wilson resigned.

And nobody was surprised.

Well he can't exactly be a police officer there anymore. He'd turn up dead in a week. Honestly, with all this media attention on him, it's safer for him to vanish. Assuming that is even possible. His life is pretty much ruined now.

 trexmeyer wrote:
Well he can't exactly be a police officer there anymore. He'd turn up dead in a week. Honestly, with all this media attention on him, it's safer for him to vanish. Assuming that is even possible. His life is pretty much ruined now.

Exactly why nobody was surprised.

I agree, there was no way he was going to stay with Ferguson PD, regardless of the outcome of the grand jury.

 trexmeyer wrote:
Well he can't exactly be a police officer there anymore. He'd turn up dead in a week. Honestly, with all this media attention on him, it's safer for him to vanish. Assuming that is even possible. His life is pretty much ruined now.

He could start a restaurant with zimmerman or something

 trexmeyer wrote:
Reading the last three pages of my thread has left me numb with stupidity. People are actually defending the looters?

You should read the opinion pieces on CNN. According to them, Brown was such a gentle giant that was wronged by Wilson, who should have been happy to have his kneck gently snapped. Also, they have no mention of him roughing up a store clerk half his size during a theft from a convenience store that was trashed by looters this past week. Then there's that precious picture of Martin .and Brown standing with their arms around each other's shoulders in the here after.
Simply tears me up with the injustice that poor mr. Brown, the looters who "burned the bitch down" in lieu of flowers, and the brain deads interfereing with people's safety and livlihoods by blocking roads have to endure...sniff.

My guess is he will go into private security or something along that line.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
My guess is he will go into private security or something along that line.

Maybe mall cop type, he really doesn't have the experience and training for much more in the security sector.

Forced out by a baying mob. Score one for justice! Wait a moment...

I'd move to another country. Switzerland or somewhere less....diverse.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/police-shut-down-mysterious-oath-keepers-guarding-rooftops-in-downtown/article_f90b6edd-acf8-52e3-a020-3a78db286194.html

It keeps getting better over there.

 Dreadwinter wrote:
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/police-shut-down-mysterious-oath-keepers-guarding-rooftops-in-downtown/article_f90b6edd-acf8-52e3-a020-3a78db286194.html

It keeps getting better over there.

So, I guess it's totally cool when Koreans do it in LA, but it's not cool for presumably white people to do it?

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 Dreadwinter wrote:
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/police-shut-down-mysterious-oath-keepers-guarding-rooftops-in-downtown/article_f90b6edd-acf8-52e3-a020-3a78db286194.html

It keeps getting better over there.

So, I guess it's totally cool when Koreans do it in LA, but it's not cool for presumably white people to do it?

It sounds like the police had no problem with it. But when enough people started asking questions about it and it became either a PR problem or a case of making people uncomfortable they asked them to stop. The cops knew it was good intentions, and it sounds like quite a few of the other folks knew that as well, but sometimes it's just easier to put everybody at ease and prevent a problem in the future. For what it's worth some agitators might have tried to take a shot at the Oath Keepers and then it could have turned into a shootout.

 d-usa wrote:


It sounds like the police had no problem with it. But when enough people started asking questions about it and it became either a PR problem or a case of making people uncomfortable they asked them to stop. The cops knew it was good intentions, and it sounds like quite a few of the other folks knew that as well, but sometimes it's just easier to put everybody at ease and prevent a problem in the future. For what it's worth some agitators might have tried to take a shot at the Oath Keepers and then it could have turned into a shootout.

Feth 'em, let it turn into a shoot out. I bet those agitators wouldn't have the aim of the "Oath Keepers", nor the conviction of their cause to keep it up.

So you have zero interest in having this situation resolve as peaceful as possible?

 d-usa wrote:
So you have zero interest in having this situation resolve as peaceful as possible?

Ohh, I do. But the police aren't trusted by the locals, and things seem to have at a minimum, not gotten better over the past couple days (I honestly don't know, I haven't watched the news since at least Wed. night).

The thing that remains then, is for people to ask for help from others' in protecting their property and their livelihood, unless you don't believe they should be able to defend themselves from anyone.


If the police and NG are unwilling, or unable to whatever is necessary to restore order, it falls on the "militia" to restore it.



I used the business owners in Koreatown as an example because the police had in every possible way, abandoned the people who lived there. It took a concerted effort by the people living/working their taking action for themselves for the State to say, "Ohh gak, maybe we should do something to help them"

If the police is making it difficult for people to defend their own property and looting/arsoning happens again...

Woah momma. The gak will hit the fan ya'll.

Wasn't "Oath Keepers" the organization that the Ferguson PD captain was caught saying racist things in front of?

 d-usa wrote:
So you have zero interest in having this situation resolve as peaceful as possible?

You know, if it was my property and livelihood on the line I would absolutely want and pray for everything to be resolved as peacefully and quickly as possible. But if someone else decided using force or threat of force to take/destroy my property and livelihood was a good idea, I would defend it. That has nothing to do with not desiring a peaceful solution. It has more to do with accepting that sometimes the peaceful solution isn't there in time.

 whembly wrote:
If the police is making it difficult for people to defend their own property and looting/arsoning happens again...

Woah momma. The gak will hit the fan ya'll.

What I'm saying is if the police basically leave an area, a la Koreatown and basically abandon citizens to the rioters/looters then people like the "Oath Keepers" or any other group should be able to defend/ aid defense of the area, until such as time as better law enforcement or the NG is called in.


But yeah... telling people to "stand down" could be kind of a means of making it "difficult" to defend your livelihood.

 d-usa wrote:
So you have zero interest in having this situation resolve as peaceful as possible?

Thats boring. Time to go Punihser. None of these people are actually FROM Ferguson. The businesses still got burned.

fething classy...

The Ferguson protesters disrupted Target again Sunday night...

THIS!> "@trucker_quotes: #Ferguson rioters in @Target terrorize young girl, mother and chase them from store https://t.co/vZgqSIPPPq” #tcot

— Cochise's Mom (@cochisemom) December 1, 2014

https://t.co/g4vmWFbb9L

— Paul Hampel (@phampel) December 1, 2014

Idiots.

I'm guessing they must have deserved it because of their white privilege.