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After conducting an exhaustive, in depth, impartial investigation for 11 months, a conclusion was reached by two independent investigators finding that 12 year old Tamir Rice of Cleveland had it coming. Actually, that isn't exactly what they said. What they concluded was that the cop who shot him was justified because the kid had a gun (toy), was black (I just made that part up) and the rookie cop had to make a split second decision (he was in fear for his life, as per usual).
These two separate investigations were conducted by a retired supervisory special FBI agent as well as a Colorado prosecutor. Let's see now, FBI special agent equals cop in my book. Prosecutor? Definitely a cop. And what class, is the usual result when cops investigate cops? I'm sure it's not necessary for me to draw a picture here. Here it is 11 months later and the County prosecutor still won't file charges against the cops. I'm thinking that the "investigation" was and still is nothing more than a charade designed to cover their asses. I know, I know cops have a hard job and dozens of copsuckers will condemn me for making such scurrilous accusations. I've got no problem with giving kudos to "good" cops, problem is there are far too few good cops. When a cop fails to come forward to rat out the bad ones, he automatically becomes one of them. Cops are a necessary evil. No doubt about it, without them society would break down. Problem is, they've forgotten who they work for. Instead of working to gain any respect from society they have looked on us as the enemy (if you're not a cop, you're a suspect). Killer cops though, they have to go. Just watching the political crap going on around us, I find it disheartening. On one side you have a clown car loaded with an assortment of extreme right wing-nuts. And who leads in the polls? Donald Trump. Listening to him and his rants should make folks aware that this guy isn't prez material. The rest of the pack spends time trying to emulate him, denouncing Hillary Clinton and shouting out blather with threats to close down Planned Parenthood.
On the other side we have the Dems with a pretty slim group of talent who've chosen to run. I like Hillary. I think she's just as devious as her husband (2 term president Bill) and seems to cause her own controversies According to the media, The Donald is leading in polls ahead of all his rivals. Hillary is deemed to be the front runner (if not anointed) for the nomination. And because Trump continues to spew out outrageous statements, he gets the news coverage. Bernie Sanders is packing in audiences eager to hear what he has to say, but is being ignored by the press. The "mainstream media" just hasn't caught on that Bernie Sanders is saying stuff that resonates with common folk. I keep waiting for Cruz to drop out but he seems to think that he'll pick up all of Trumps' supporters when Donald is finally exposed as a blowhard in an empty suit. Huckabee? What a joke. Rand Paul? Loser. It's going to be a long year. |