Well, the dismal conviction rate for one. Not to mention that the way criminal rape cases are handled also needs serious work to be less traumatic for the survivor.

"The Sanctioning Officer will impose sanctions that are:

HAHAHAHA oh my GAH. How do you writhe subtly? And that last line line. Oh man, I needed these giggles.

Plus side: I assumed there came a point in their relationship where he actually puts her in a freezer. So at least it's not that!

You are literally dancing on Mike Brown's grave.

These disgusting racists are so glad to have even one straw to grasp at to prove that the cops were A-OK that they are embracing a militant oligarchy. Unfuckingbelievable.

I just keep getting angrier and angrier about this. It's like, Oh, you want the name of the officer? Here it is assholes, as well as some really irresponsible speculation about an unrelated crime! Ferguson PD is actually trolling right now.

Apparently he's a dispatcher, which already seems like a stressful enough life.

He lives in a different part of MO. I completely agree that the entire department is responsible, since they shielded him this long and cracked down so hard on demonstrators.

Even if it is proven that he did rob the convenience store (and the camera stills show someone that, IMO, looks too big to be Mike Brown), that does not justify Darren Wilson's actions.

I think we mostly agree with each other. Maybe I just missed your point somewhat, but it seems to me like there's no way to clearly separate the two, because some asshole will always insist that it's all slacktivism.

The thing is, no matter how important you might think an event or cause is, there's always going to be someone saying you're blowing it out of proportion. There are still people talking about looting and how Mike Brown "fought" the police officer on this story.

Look, don't get ahead of yourself. This whole article is about how it was people living in Ferguson who really got the word out. People who have allowed themselves to be photographed, recorded, and even named. Anonymous has seemed to be sympathetic to what's going on, but did not break this story, at all. And…

Your first paragraph is so telling, and chilling. I don't mean to sound like a college kid who just started reading about anarchism, but that's some bread and circuses shit.

I hear you. It's just that the looting was a drop in the bucket, and now when it gets brought up it seems irrelevant at best, and an intentional distortion at worst.

They have released the names and mugshots of the looters. http://fox2now.com/2014/08/12/mug…
Still waiting to find out which public servants are committing violence against peaceful demonstrators.

Just realized I incorrectly replied to you when I meant to reply to people asking what you meant.

Headlines often refer to "violence" without specifically attributing it to the police. This makes it very, very easy for casual readers to assume that the citizens are being violent. Especially due to the fact that really the only thing covered on Monday was the looting, and not the peaceful demonstrations, or the…

Your closing sentence is fairly disingenuous. Caring and criticizing aren't the same thing, and not all criticism is helpful. As to the first paragraph, there's no point in identifying The Biggest Problem. It's more useful to talk in terms of solutions, and in these cases, you have to break through institutional…

I'm not trying to be unkind, but there is no relationship between my question to you and a scary number about what percentage of black murder victims are killed by a black person. And by the way, the majority of homicides are always intra-racial, for all groups.

The fact that we're all human is why people who aren't…

Don't actually LOOK at the NUMBERS! Look at what white people are saying about them!