Off-Topic III: The Revengening!

[40kGamer]

Yes, :[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_bullet[/url]

[url]http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rubber-bullets-in-missouri-clash-highlight-militarization-of-america-s-police/[/url]

If this "non-lethal" approach does not deter protesters one worries how long before non-lethal force is replaced by live rounds

Damn those are still horrifying results. Hasn't anyone came up with a productive way to manage civil unrest? The crap they are doing in Ferguson appears to just feed the fire.

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Well the ones in Ferguson are rubber coated metal at least.

That is ridiculous! Like a wolf in sheep's clothing!

[eldargal]

That's deliberate though, as people there have said they aren't out of control they know exactly what they are doing and are oging about it in a controlled fashion. The only issue is no one seems to know what they are trying to do beyond terrorise the African American community.

[Gotthammer]

It depends - there are "bean bag guns" which are like super nerf cannons that fire rubber batons or beanbags (and are still potentially lethal), baton rounds for grenade launchers (instead of teargas) and shotguns which are often just lengths of wood, and rubber coated slugs for rifle calibre weapons. Not saying all these are being used but given the police equipped with large amounts of M4's they'd def be using rubber bullets out of them.

Also if you see pics of police with paintball guns they have special rounds that when they break open leak the liquid used in mace and tear gas instead.

it actually is illegal. officers are required to wear their name tags for accountability purposes.

if a cashier can be penalized for being on the clock without a name tag, so can an officer. the biggest ****ed up part about it is that you can’t even report it to their superiors because their superiors probably told them to remove their tags.

Most officers also don't have their badges on so have zero form of open identification visible.

[Wildeybeast]

You wonder at what stage this becomes enough of a PR nightmare/horrific example of state brutality that BO decides to intervene?

[Wolfshade]

To be honest, with it being such a mess I wouldn't be surprised if he tried to stay as far from it as he could.

[Mr Mystery]

Dear America.

You really need to sort your house out, and pronto. You're meant to be a world leader, not some tinpot police state.

[Wolfshade]

Dear America.

You really need to sort your house out, and pronto. You're meant to be a world leader, not some tinpot police state.

Don't forget we had our rioting that went national because of the killing of one youth in london.

[Psychosplodge]

Isn't he in his second term? He might wade in...
If he had to worry about re-election he might avoid it. or would that work better the otherway? who knows?

ours definitely wasnt a peaceful protest though was it?
plus what rioting?

[40kGamer]

To be honest, with it being such a mess I wouldn't be surprised if he tried to stay as far from it as he could.

My thoughts exactly.

Didn't see this in prior posts:

State Senator tells Govenor 'F*** You' on twitter:

[url]http://www.inquisitr.com/1419224/missouri-senator-drops-f-bomb-on-governor-jay-nixon-over-handling-of-ferguson-riots/[/url]

She was tear gassed while participating in a peaceful protest a few days back and she is not a happy lady.

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Isn't he in his second term? He might wade in...
If he had to worry about re-election he might avoid it. or would that work better the otherway? who knows?

ours definitely wasnt a peaceful protest though was it?
plus what rioting?

He is in his second term so no it wouldn't impact him. Although his party may not want him to get involved.

[DWest]

At this point, Obama is staying out of it because the swivel-eyed loons would accuse him of "stirring up discontent" no matter what he said. This way, they can't make the story about him, and even the (reasonable) right-wing elements are now saying "hmm, maybe giving the police tons and tons of military gear isn't a good idea". I'm hoping that the nation might actually do something useful this time, but I'm not going to bet spending money on it.