(September 1, 2015 at 11:42 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(September 1, 2015 at 11:29 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: You are missing the context of that situation in Ferguson. If Darren Wilson were black, it would have still been an issue. The Police as a unit were at odds with the entire community.
Police in Ferguson, MO, were abusing power, beating up and extorting residents, writing superfluous tickets solely to fund the courts, etc.
For example:
(bold mine)
http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/fil...report.pdf (page 6)
Please, just peruse that document and tell me honestly that you think it was the color of that cop's skin that was the reason that the people of Ferguson finally said enough.
But if racism is what caused the riots, and they would have happened even if Darren were black, would that mean then that a black cop can be racist against blacks?
Which just doesn't register to me at all. You would think that a black officer of the law would not treat his own like that just because he is now a cop. I mean surely that black officer, before he became a cop, had played basketball in the park just as the above victim did.
