@tony5732,
Quote: I am waiting to see what the other side really has to say about Ferguson though, or how they can defend what's happening.
We are 181 pages into this thread and you are waiting to see what the arguments are???
The people of Ferguson have legit beefs
1) The citizens are used as ATMs for the public accounts, with the police pressed into revenue generator service. They are tasked with writing a lot of tickets and confiscating money and assets
2) Ferguson has become poor, and is still getting worse
3) the schools are bottom of the barrel
4) as whites vacated and blacks took over Ferguson the force stayed white
5) Ferguson police like a lot of forces adopted militaristic heavy handed tactics. The police in the USA kill way too many people, beat up too many people, and the "justice" system ruins too many lives for no or little reason.
However, Big Mike attacked a cop, and sometimes that is going to get people killed.
The argument of the Pro BLM side is that recognized victims have the right to lash out pretty much however they want, it is that victims have more rights than non victims, and they subscribe to the now almost universal theory in America that the ends justify the means. There is on the Pro BLM side a almost complete lack of interest in justice, just as the government has long practiced a almost complete lack of interest in justice.