Yep. The police have military grade weapons, but the border patrol, have only a bean bag gun.

I'm tired, too, of the "innocent black man targeted by the police" scenario. Just because a person is black doesn't mean he is good, and that can be said for white people too.
Which circle of hell did Dante reserve for the dividers? That would be you, Sharpton and Jackson.
That you would rather this country be torn apart than give up allegiance to BHO, who might very well be inciting riots to prove opposition to his policies is racially motivated, and not based on principle. For shame!

I posted the comment below at the site of "The Daily Sheeple" that the poster refers to above under the headline "Welcome to police state America. While there are true concerns about America turning into a police state, the roots of this incident are not entirely the fault of the Ferguson police department but should be placed upon the people who used this incident as a reason to riot and loot.

No legitimate "journalist" would describe what happened in Ferguson as a murder. Murder requires premeditation and no matter how you spin this story, premeditation was not a part of the incident. I'm sick and tired of people as individuals or as part of the media spinning every story to make some usually absurd point.

When a police officer stops you, the intelligent thing to do is to cooperate and if you feel that you have been discriminated against, file charges against the police department later.

We now know that Mr. Brown was indeed the person seen on the store video stealing items and attacking the owner of the store. The police officer stopped Mr. Brown based on a complaint and description matching him. What exactly happened after that has still not been definitely been determined through a legal process. there is no question that actions by both parties created a tragic result, but the true facts are yet to be determined. The one thing that has indeed been determined is that you have taken cheap shots and increased the chances of further tragedies to occur.

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The problem is demarcation of jobs.

Most police forces do not need the paramilitary capability they have.

Because when you need that capability, the force already exists within the State. You call the governor when the "protestors" take to the streets, and he sends in the State militia (aka, Nat'l Guard). The rest of the time that you don't need paramilitary capability, the police can handle the situation.

Bear in mind, the cop that did the shooting didn't do so with an AK-47 or M203 grenade launcher. The patrol car wasn't a Bradley Fighting Vehicle.

I have long advocated taking the guns away from the FBI and all other federal law enforcement types... except for the U.S. Marshall Service. Whenever any of the plethora of "investigation" agencies needs muscle, they can turn to the Marshalls. If the Marshalls can't handle it, then they can do like that PoS Reno did and ask for assistance from the governor in the form of the State militia, again.

And, y'know, it's way to late now to whine about "police state". Where were all of you when they called in light tanks against a masonite farmhouse populated by American citizens, with snipers in helicopters, using tactics that have been decried when used against terrorists? All to "clean up" a mess caused by killing someone's dog before serving an unnecessary and questionable warrant.

I kept waiting for civil war to break out in '93 after that horror. But all that happened was the talking heads shooting off their mouths. Reno wasn't imprisoned, Richards wasn't impeached, and neither was Clinton.

So all this hand-wringing over paramilitarized cops? Pfft... you have it coming.

I closed the link after reading the first line:
"Grabbing the national headlines at the moment is the story of the murder of 18 year old and unarmed Michael Brown by an unidentified member of the Ferguson Police. "

Bullsh*. I believed from the first, and still do, that the piece of garbage was shot in self-defense.

Now we know that the piece of garbage had roughed up a convenience store clerk (a non-black one, it looks like) to steal some Swisher Sweets, which no grown man wants to smoke. (most of us give them up before leaving high school).

This wasn't some poor innocent Urkel, on his way home from school, but an 18 ft tall, 9,000 lb Godzilla monster.

I find it telling that the rioters and looters seem to come out the quickest when the "victim" is least deserving of support.