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BJ
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BJ asked in News & EventsCurrent Events · 6 years ago

How are you accepting the decision made by the Grand Jury in Ferguson?

There are some that are rioting and others that are peacefully protesting. Will you be reading the details and then deciding your viewpoint? It is sad that there is violence that is taking place. We need calm at this point.

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  • 6 years ago
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    25 buildings already burned..... makes total sense to me. Hurt the people who had zero to do with the shooting. If I owned a business in that community, I would pack up and leave.

  • 6 years ago

    I am REELING in DISBELIEF about the decision of the Ferguson Grand Jury.

    It almost NEVER happens in America that the so-called "justice system" does the right thing. They usually comfort the guilty and punish the innocent. I don't know quite how the Ferguson Grand Jury managed to understand that Officer Wilson is a hero and Michael Brown was a worthless and violent thug. But they did understand it. So HOORAY for the Ferguson Grand Jury. I am going to have some champagne to celebrate!

  • 6 years ago

    I don't know quite how the Ferguson Grand Jury managed to understand that Officer Wilson is a hero and Michael Brown was a worthless and violent thug. But they did understand it. So HOORAY for the Ferguson Grand Jury. I am going to have some champagne to celebrate!

  • Jerry
    Lv 6
    6 years ago

    I accept the OJ verdict and found no reason to riot. I accept the Ferguson verdict and see no reason to riot

    I do not see any reason to destroy your own neighborhood to protect in a violent manner. The people who riot are criminals. They do not protest, they simply want the adrenalin rush such action releases

    They are destroying their own peoples hard earned property. Can .0001% of a population prove by damaging .001% of their home streets and businesses

    There is no respect earned in such behavior except that given by other hoodlums

    So once again African-Americans share the shame of an outrageous group of their own making. Where are their community and respected leaders who stand demanding justice when their own communities burn. Where is there stand agains violence now

    Looting is not even related to learning. You can not silence bigotry by screaming at it. You can not repair injustice by razing your own community. You can not earn the respect you seek by committing disrespectful acts

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  • 6 years ago

    The locals ASSUMED guilt before the officer was investigated or given a fair trial.

    Mob protests - lynch-mob style - BEFORE a trial - with threats of violence if guilt is

    NOT substantiated is NOT the American Way, surely ?

    Are the rioters, looters and arsonists BENT on self-destruction ?

  • 6 years ago

    As with any jury we not agree with it but ordinary folk have no choice except to accept it. There may be some other appeal ?

  • 6 years ago

    Appropriately.

  • Ibredd
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    There is no since in allowing protesting after dark it just leads to problems

  • BJ
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    I agree with packing up and moving on. I don't think you are the only one to feel that way either.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    They had all the facts and I didn't so I have to accept their decision.

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