No one had
heard of Ferguson until Michael Brown was gunned down
Not like
Rodney King where there was a video that might have shown the execution of Michael
Brown
No film, no
video only witness accounts and a major distrust wave
Real
challenge in this town to a sense of calm and safety save
In a town two
thirds black with six percent of the police black
Easy to
understand why the calm and peace being sidetracked
Investigations
should be painstaking and the facts must prevail
But Ferguson
is beginning to look like a community where faith in justice has just bailed
If Michael
Brown had his hands up and he was shot down like a dog
Before this
town explodes DOJ and the State pedal to the metal to clear away the fog
Each day of
anger and curfew and an impression of the facts not coming to light
Another day
of violence another violent chaos spreading into the night
Another
autopsy and it looks like the DOJ has the FBI in droves on the ground
Sooner the
facts come out less chance of more looting and shooting coming around
After a
week, we still do not know whether he was shot in the chest or in the back
With all the
flips and flops, the Ferguson police department has a major credibility lack
The chief of
police is probably facing in his future a sack
Lost among
the tears from tear gas is that Mr. Brown will never be coming back.
Urging calm,
especially from the Al Sharpton likes, and a major effort to get the facts
God help the
officer and the city’s coffers if Mr. Brown was shot in the back.
© August
17, 2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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