Some Ferguson, MO Stores Were not Looted. Why?
Store owners defended them from looters – with guns. The looters saw the men with guns and left them, and their stores, alone. Duh!
Nobody is robbing St. Louis Ink Tattoo Studio anytime soon. Or County Guns, for that matter.
The two north county businesses share a storefront in a Florissant strip mall less than ten minute drive from the epicenter of last night’s riots in Ferguson. After nightfall, what began as a community’s peaceful demonstration against the Ferguson Police Department’s shooting of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown turned increasingly violent. Crowds plundered a QuikTrip and burned it to the ground, and local news began reporting brazen raids on other stores in the area.After hearing of the roving bands of looters, Mike Gutierrez knew he had to protect his tattoo shop. He brought a posse with him, including Adam Weinstein, owner of County Guns, who was acutely worried about criminals getting their hands on his merchandise.
“We didn’t want them coming in here and then running around with a bunch of free guns,” Weinstein told Daily RFT when we arrive at the store around 12:30 a.m. this morning. Weinstein was outfitted with an assault rifle, pistol and tactical vest. Gutierrez cradled his own rifle in his hands.
Gutierrez, Weinstein and their group arrived to find thieves tearing through a Dollar General in the same strip mall that houses their business. Weinstein says the looters attempted moving toward the shop, but were scared off by the guns. Then the police arrived.
“There were like two SWAT vans, two dozen cop cars,” said one woman. The cops apparently checked out the situation and then tore off to some other crisis.”
Read more at Riverfront Times
Source: http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=120691
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An “armed society” is a civil society.
Because they were exercising their 1st and 2nd amendments!
Ferguson and all the other State and Local police should not have surplus military uniforms, gear, vehicles and weapons of WAR. We have the National Guard for any major event. The police should not be play acting war soldier fantasies. They also should not be hiding their identity from the public any way, shape or form. Retrieve all those violent unsafe military equipment and send that military war gear to the Ukraine. Better yet, rent or sell that entire military surplus to the Ukrainians to help cover the initial cost that the taxpayer originally paid out.
We have too many uneducated corrupt violent psychopaths working in police departments across the U.S. They conduct profiling, racial bigotry, cultural bigotry, fashion bigotry, sexual bigotry, religious bigotry, political affiliation bigotry, socioeconomic status bigotry, etc. …and many use their job for criminal activity.
Our president did good …
… To get the Mike Brown investigation underway by our FBI and our U.S. Department of Justice.
Before cops are hired their personalities should be tested for:
• Psychopath tendencies.
• Violent authoritative responsiveness.
• Anxious eager behavior.
• Drugs and alcohol abuse (and any other abuses); and should be drug tested often.
• Manners – socially acceptable and respectful etiquette.
All police should also have a “real” four year college degree (too many police have no common sense or rational; and not intelligent enough to deal with the public). The police have to understand that their job falls under “hospitality” when dealing with the public.
All police should have excellent marksmanship shooting at a bull’s-eye target (police should not be allow to have machine guns that spray bullets aimlessly). Just because the bad guys have machine guns that spray bullets without direction; doesn’t give the police an excuse to use the same. Police should not use their gun for offense intent.
All police should have the latest video and audio equipment on their person and in their vehicles (to record any and all events) so there are no discrepancies, wrong doing and cover-ups.
Police should not have a mentality of a judge, jury and executioner. The people of the United States shouldn’t be paying for all this incompetent ineffectual security.
Anyone that kills another human being should be arrested, jailed and go through the normal legal process that is required. Just because you are a government employee (police) doesn’t afford you amnesty from the legal accountability. The police officer that murdered Mike Brown should be sitting in jail (Federal jail) during the investigation. Also the amount of bullets that were shot should have been determined the same day of the incident. If you have six bullets in the gun firing cylinder and then you open the cylinder after the shooting; you would have your answer without doubt about how many shots were fired that day; unless Darren Wilson reloaded the gun firing cylinder to continue to shoot.
Midnight until 5 a.m. curfew? … Businesses like McDonalds and Wal-Mart Supercenters are open 24 hours. Is the governor of Missouri going to subsidize all those businesses that lost money during the curfew that are open 24 hours? Doesn’t this remind you of the SUNDOWN TOWN law?
Do not violate the protestors civil rights of Freedom of Speech – Patrolman Ron Johnson continues to tell the protesters … “allowed” to speak … “allowed” to be heard. This is the comi-mentality of government employees; and the taxpayer is paying for all this. Let’s remind ourselves that We the People do not need a government employee’s permission to express ourselves.
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