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As for the Huffington Post link below, who read to the bottom?
"...As with most police abuse issues, the real failure here is on the part of the elected officials. They're the ones who can't resist the urge to incessantly declare "war" on things, who are responsible for setting the policies that have given rise to this culture..."
Please note this was an excuse often used by soldiers who vastly exceeded any bounds of human decency in past wars. When there existed a vacuum of leadership, people felt free to act without discipline or limit. If any bounds of decency were exceeded, it would always be someone else's fault.
The "good soldier" defense did not work at the Nuremburg trials, it did not work at Calley's trial, it has not worked for the Blackwater fiasco, it strangely only worked for officers at Abu Grahib, and it is cracking with police forces as citizen communities learn what unfettered police response means.
And it's going to annoy them more after Grand Jury exoneration and a potential-but-unlikely civil rights trail fiasco leading to some quick minor insurance bucks versus a second acquittal or inability to collect.
As for this part, the dismissal of the Ferguson police chief and the ultimate dissolving of the Ferguson Police Department/absorption into St. Louis County PD will speak far louder than a rubber stamp recommendation sought by PA McCulloch. If the "exoneration" is all important to you, why is the elimination of the Police Department in the works?
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