tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11093162.post4172272679068427304..comments2024-03-23T19:16:01.555-07:00Comments on Can it happen here?: Ferguson from a little closer injaninsanfranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07548452260456734928noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11093162.post-6963641009729013002014-11-28T22:28:25.740-08:002014-11-28T22:28:25.740-08:00You know, I think a big problem is that it's h...You know, I think a big problem is that it's hard to feel at ease around uniformed cops carrying guns, especially if they don't look you in the eye and act like robots. They really need some instruction in how to come on to the public. I would like to see plainclothes cops on the street, carrying non-lethal weapons, instead of cops in paramilitary gear acting like an occupying force. I would like much more stringent gun controls. <br />Yesterday down in Puna a friend of mine's son was attacked with a knife in a "domestic" and I'm hoping he survives. He has a better chance, anyway, than if his attacker had had a gun. <br />Hattiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13297404386730167834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11093162.post-49381937849260267352014-11-28T06:09:57.615-08:002014-11-28T06:09:57.615-08:00I have read a lot about this. I wish the communit...I have read a lot about this. I wish the community had reacted on the wrongs against them with someone besides Michael Brown. From all I can tell, he could have gone either way with his life, but he wasn't innocent in what transpired so tragically. There are so many other cases where the person shot was totally innocent.<br /><br />Ferguson, I think, wanted to indict Wilson for all those other wrongs. That's what the left wing wanted also. I just feel that given this situation and what we know-- through all the mixed testimony-- Brown was not the right one to be picked as the martyr. It's hard to say what went wrong with him that day, but he stepped over a line that can get white men or women killed also. My concern is by picking the wrong one to get all riled about, the whole thing will vanish into the ether, not be taken as seriously as it should, and nothing will be done about the possibly badly out of whack police system when they are so afraid that they shoot a child with a toy gun.<br /><br />We know how lately there have been shootings of police and other law officers by ambushers, which often isn't based on race or ethnicity but just out of hatred for law and order.<br /><br />Incidentally a few years ago my husband and I had a brief run-in with a policeman over a possible traffic infraction; so I know they can be belligerent even with old whites. Just not as far over the top but that is also because whites like us generally are conditioned to trust them, don't reach into patrol cars for guns or react aggressively-- generally.<br /><br />It is sad how much our race relationships have again seemed to deteriorate into mutual mistrust of each other. We thought we were making progress but today it doesn't look like it :(.Rain Trueaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07994628226501093880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11093162.post-3622088579281401222014-11-28T06:07:46.628-08:002014-11-28T06:07:46.628-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Rain Trueaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07994628226501093880noreply@blogger.com