Ferguson: too much or not enough?

[Brakeman]

"Bors Cartoon"

Don't you feel a little wrong about posting the Bor's cartoon where it claims that the kid was shot by a cop for "no discernible reason?" (Obviously caricaturing Michael Brown) There was certainly a discernible reason, he attacked a cop that was trained to protect himself with a gun. It is a lie that Bors is using as propaganda to steal some of the racist stirred outrage to push his views that white people are always racist, which is a racist view itself.

If the cop's gun had jammed and Michael had killed the cop, would all of you be screaming that it was a racial attack and that anyone who said anything about how Michael used to be a good kid would be trying to "belittle" his crime with racial motivation?

Why does your racist view only go one way?

Personally I don't see why the concept is so hard. Racism is not black, or white, red or yellow, it is an attitude anyone can have.

Ask yourself, if the cop had been black and Michael Brown white, and the lying witnesses white, how would your feelings about the incident and the aftermath differ? Would you be so quick to railroad the black cop who was doing his job as trained?

On another note,

It is necessary for fairness reasons to try a person in court without any reference to previous crimes, but in public opinion, repeated offenses do indicate a trend and only idiots don't recognize obvious trends. Why must society be blind and ignore statistics? As long as one remembers that correlation does not equal causation, then you're good.

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You can't say "oh, he attacked a cop so his immediate execution was appropriate," because that's not actually the only option available, nor even the easiest option, or the most morally acceptable option. If the cops where I am can manage not to gun down every guy who rushes them, there's no excuse for anyone else to.

That's a fine argument, but our police are trained to the standard that if the assailant is trying to take control of you and your weapon, then you are to use deadly force with the weapon, not a less effective taser.
We as American society have made the balance and said that someone who violently attacks our police officers are not equally valuable to us as our policemen and we condone the use of deadly force quickly to protect our officers. This can easily bee seen in the laws of almost every state in that the shooting of a police officer carries more punishment than the shooting of a congressman or mayor. Fastest way to the electric chair was often to kill a cop.