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Fault Lines: Ferguson


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I may be a little late on this, but I find this documentary more one-sided than other Fault Lines episodes. One of the hosts were able to interview the civil rights activists who saw Mike Brown as completely innocent yet couldn't interview the PD for their use of enormous protection among the streets. Many protesters claim they were marginalized by the PD, but 85-99% of them probably wouldn't have had shit to say if they've taken more precautions and engaged in less suspicious activities. Systemic racism does exist. However, I do not entirely know the case that has lead to Brown's death. I understand his family is/was mourning, but Brown was said to have a criminal record as long as a counter-dependent (ie, antisocial) would. It seemed like Brown was going to commit some assault on an employee before he was shot. I am not saying the killing of Brown was right, yet that doesn't change the fact that he was a potential threat to society.The documentary also depicts lootings during the protest. The looters claimed that they were too oppressed not to loot though I just saw that they were using something as an excuse to be greedy or edgy.

The amount of military equipment by police during the protest is justifiable as there were a large group of protesters. And believe me, when there is an overwhelming amount of individuals on the middle of the street, shit happens. Not to mention they were heavily pissed by the shooting. Why interview only blacks and make it explicably a race issue? This Ferguson neighborhood was 60% Afro American according to the documentary, right? The unemployment rate there is extremely high, right? The majority (over 60% of residents) are poor, right? Class can be a simple reason why you are stopped, frisked, and arrested for whatever reason by police. One of the protesters claimed the neighborhood was so bad that this type of police-military defense has happened many times before. Believe it or not, but one could be grouped into a bad category if you can't afford but to live in a certain area. So, why not interview non-blacks as well. I am sure there a good amount of people who are neither black nor white as well. Your class could be the main reason why you engage in illegal acts to support yourself. However, upper-middle class suburbians do have a reputation of a great amount of crime also.

Why cover your face during the protest? I saw one lady shouting through her 'face sheet' and I'm like 'really, provoking perhaps'? What I hate most is that the host barely asks the 'pro blacks' questions to further evaluate their intentions. Maybe that is a sign that they are dangerous people. Perhaps those were the type of people who'd snap your neck off if you'd even bother.

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Remind me of how many get really angry here over a woman who got non fatally shot by the Police, even if all evidence cleary show she was going to stab a kid (or was doing it). But the ones in her family claim it is racism..

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Remind me of how many get really angry here over a woman who got non fatally shot by the Police, even if all evidence cleary show she was going to stab a kid (or was doing it). But the ones in her family claim it is racism..

I don't know much about that case, but the cop could have been a racist, given that he may not have shot her is she was white. He may have not shot her if she was any male. That being said, police brutality could be based on plenty of characteristics other than being black. Now, would there be a #BlackLivesMatter movement if all the polices mentioned were black? I don't know.

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Remind me of how many get really angry here over a woman who got non fatally shot by the Police, even if all evidence cleary show she was going to stab a kid (or was doing it). But the ones in her family claim it is racism..

I don't know much about that case, but the cop could have been a racist, given that he may have not shot her is she was white. He could have been simply a sexist, given that he may have not shot her if she was any male. That being said, police brutality could be based on plenty of characteristics other than being black. Now, would there be a #BlackLivesMatter movement if all the polices mentioned were black? I don't know.

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Remind me of how many get really angry here over a woman who got non fatally shot by the Police, even if all evidence cleary show she was going to stab a kid (or was doing it). But the ones in her family claim it is racism..

I don't know much about that case, but the cop could have been a racist, given that he may not have shot her is she was white. He may have not shot her if she was any male. That being said, police brutality could be based on plenty of characteristics other than being black. Now, would there be a #BlackLivesMatter movement if all the polices mentioned were black? I don't know.

She was stabbing a kid with a knife. I think it don't matter if she was white or a womean. If anything, if she had been white and a man it would most likely not been that much of protests against it.

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Remind me of how many get really angry here over a woman who got non fatally shot by the Police, even if all evidence cleary show she was going to stab a kid (or was doing it). But the ones in her family claim it is racism..

I don't know much about that case, but the cop could have been a racist, given that he may not have shot her is she was white. He may have not shot her if she was any male. That being said, police brutality could be based on plenty of characteristics other than being black. Now, would there be a #BlackLivesMatter movement if all the polices mentioned were black? I don't know.
She was stabbing a kid with a knife. I think it don't matter if she was white or a womean. If anything, if she had been white and a man it would most likely not been that much of protests against it.
I knew I agreed to this, but we were wrong. The only reason there is 'protest' would have been that she was falsly accused, at least in the protestor's belief. Look at the strong evidences or lack thereof that lead to the protest of this supposed individual, not just play the race/gender card. Historically, a black woman would have recieved the penalties as harsh as a black man. I'm not certain if the same goes for white communities in the US, so there is still a higher probability that the cop would not have shot the woman if she was fair, and thus more likelihood that the cop was racist. And your last post is contradictory because you said it doesn't matter if the allged suspect was a white woman, yet turned around and said she would have had less support if she was male? Anyways, it just seems like one of those scenarios that cry-baby white supremacists pull out their asses.
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Is their prejudice? Sure, but all in all their is very little hate crimes in America. There are a couple hundred million of us and very few hate crimes by percentage. The media hypes this up to create problems and to cover up other more important issues.

If we spend are time fighting different races and fighting for equality. Fighting different sexes, fighting this, fighting that. We are to busy to fight the real problem:government.

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