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Old 08-27-2014, 02:23 PM
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Should I know who LE is?
Law enforcement.

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The individual of whom you speak published another pic of that guy once, saying it was himself. But he was awfully silly, you know.
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Old 08-27-2014, 04:17 PM
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You trying -- and failing -- to think.
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Some people see a police force that's overwhelmingly white, in a neighborhood that's overwhelmingly black, close ranks around an officer who shot an unarmed young black man and don't see how race could be involved.................

Is officer Wilson a racist? Hell if I know, I never met the guy.

However, unless you're dumb, deaf and blind or just refusing to see, it's not all that difficult to see the potential for racial tension to develop, when day in and day out it's mostly white cops dealing with mostly black criminals. Under those conditions the stage is set for a racial divide to flourish. How can anyone NOT see that?

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No, but you should know who an LEO is. They carry the big stick.
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Old 08-28-2014, 11:24 AM
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Respectfully, some neighborhoods are "enemy territory." (There's really no getting around that.) The social question is how much perceived lack of freedom can be allowed to promote safety before it is determined to be Draconian.

Part of this is made difficult by John Q. Public. Why? When Barney Fife asked the Barber, "What are you doing up and about so early this morning, Ralph?," he didn't get "Fuck you, pig."

Something changed.

Folks can say it's military-style police but it happened long before that.

It happened with the fringe before that, but now it's happening with total law and order types like myself. It offends me that the cops drive ugly thug mobiles and outfit themselves to appear as threatening and intimidating as they can possible look. It offends me that cops are so unpredictable that I know I don't have to be doing anything illegal to become a "target".

Like someone once said, if you come at me looking like you want a fight, I'm putting up my dukes.

If the first thing out of a cops mouth is a barked command, like I'm his bitch, I'm going to become defensive right off the bat.
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Old 08-28-2014, 11:28 AM
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Either way, it is an illusion that a handgun will make you more safe in society.
I agree.

And perhaps it's all those carrying idiots that have turned our police into SWAT teams.

A self fulfilling prophecy perhaps.
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