Quote:If you want to make a case about police brutality it does your cause no good to riot when someone is shot for pulling a gun on an officer. Are the police just supposed to avoid all minorities now?

 

This has now evolved into a target the police, blame all the police, and actively attempt to engage the police with violence. That's not only a stupid game it's a dangerous and deadly game that ends well for no one.

 

I agree with you. 

 

One problem was that the initial story being reported did not say the guy had pulled a gun.  So everyone got all riled up about it before they had the facts.  

 

The protesters could not have picked a worse trio of characters around which to build a cause.   Michael Brown- robbed a convenience store, punched a police officer and tried to take away his gun.  Then the guy in NY- he'd been arrested a dozen times.   This time he decided he didn't want to be arrested.   Cop probably shouldn't have overreacted, but then again, the guy was resisting arrest for committing a crime and he knew he was committing a crime.  And then this one- guy pulls a gun on a police officer and gets shot.   And in addition to that, they let Al Sharpton become their spokesman.   Talk about shooting yourself in the foot politically. 

 

My point is, what the protesters need to do is win the public over to their side.  So far, all they've done is repel the very people who can help them win this battle politically- the mass of people in the middle.   Do they really expect people like me to side with a guy like Michael Brown against the police?  

 

There's a huge backlash growing against these protesters, and they have brought it on themselves.   I'm not saying their cause isn't just.   That is a different conversation.   I'm saying the protesters have lost the political battle.   The great mass of people are not persuaded.   They are repelled. 

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