Darren Wilson's Side of the Story

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by Zeke

Now this is interesting and one of your better observations.

Here's the rub, at least regarding what I believe and the scenario you have generated:

1. The military WANTS those people.
2. Policing society CREATES such people.

Do you perceive the difference?

A sniper generates death from hiding. It requires no courage, merely skill. Chris Kyle, for example, was lying scum (guilty of character defamation) and died by his own gun worshiping sword.

Policing a fractured and entitled society, on the other hand, requires a whole lot of things that can only be accurately described if you possess a firm grasp of the society itself. You are immersed in it. There is no "death from above" with no physical contact...especially if you are serving a warrant or approaching a person of interest.

Brown had multiple opportunities to comply right up to when he assaulted an officer. At that point, he gave Wilson one choice. Brown earned his result and victimized Wilson whom -- I'd bet -- had NO DESIRE for this to occur.

That's different than Kyle who got off on this shit.

The difference is that one guy is canonized (militaristic propaganda) and the other stigmatized (white guilt).

LAME.

I'm not talking about Brown anymore. If you paid any attention to my posts you would remember that when we first heard about the situation in Ferguson I said that if you don't want to end up dead or stomped within an inch of your life...don't get aggressive with a police officer. The failure of this country's legal system is all I'm talking about related to Ferguson.

But Eric Garner. The video doesn't lie. Pantaleo was pissed off that Garner didn't fall to his knees and genuflect fast enough...so he jumped him and in a fit of rage, choked the life out of him, and was assisted by 4 or 5 others because that's what coppers do. They back their partner's play. Just like Anthony Abbate's partner and the rest of Chicago's blue curtain boys backed his play when Anthony decided to beat the hell out of Karolina Obryka. Maybe I'm a bad partner and maybe a bad partner is a bad copper...but if I'm Danny Pantaleo's partner, I'm dragging his ass off of Eric Garner and telling him to go cool the fuck off. And if he comes after me, then it's a fair fight.

That's it. You can jerk yourself around bleating about policing in a "fractured and entitled" society all day long. Just keep the roll of paper towels handy. This society is no more fractured than it was in the 1960's, and certainly no more than in the 1850's. Anybody who persists in trying to pitch that the poor coppers of today have it so much more tough than their predecessors because of entitlement is the one who's lame.