Police State

This Hong Kong headline reports something you'll never read about US cops: seven Hong Kong cops arrested for beating protester.

Criticism of Ferguson police and security plan.

"Law enforcement officials had more than three months from the August shooting death of Michael Brown to Monday's reveal of the grand jury decision to prepare for protests.
Yet many of the tactics used by Missouri prosecutors and police — from scheduling the announcement at night to not deploying National Guard troops — puzzled experts and are being questioned by residents in the wake of destructive protests in Ferguson that appeared to spiral out of control.
"They said they had a plan. They said they were going to protect our businesses and community," said Rob White, pastor of Peace of Mind Church and a protest organizer. "That plan failed miserably.""

Like somebody else said, they let them destroy stuff to show what happens if they aren't aggressive. This is another grand government failure, and it was intentional. What it shows is socialist police cannot be trusted. They should abolished so people can hire much more effective private security at a much lower price.

National Guard troops deployed on the second night reduced violence.

On the corrupt grand jury process:

"New York state Judge Sol Wachtler once famously remarked it's so easy to get a grand jury to indict, they'd indict a ham sandwich if that's what the prosecutor wanted.
Except when it comes to police officers."

That's because prosecutors manipulate grand juries so they don't indict police officers.