The police in Ferguson, Missouri must be really mad that they've been defanged by Governor Jay Nixon and the Highway Patrol, and are no longer allowed to run around like tough guys in their cool camouflage and helmets and boots, carrying semiautomatic rifles and pointing them at reporters, kids and little old ladies.
Why else would they have trotted out that inarticulate fool they call a police chief to label — and perhaps libel— shooting victim Michael Brown as a crook (and to, yes, finally ID the officer who killed him)?
They even blindsided Ronald Johnson, the new dude in charge. “I would have liked to have been consulted,” Johnson said this morning. Way to go, Ferguson cops: Diss the black guy from Highway Patrol while you're at it. Good move.
So, yes, they're mad. Their vanity is wounded. So they decided to lash out with a disgusting "press packet" that provides Wilson's name, but no details of the shooting, and plenty of documentation about what a horrible person Michael Brown was — just as we're going into the weekend in a town that's this close to boiling over again. Brilliant!
The police say that Brown left a convenience store with items that, unlike Trayvon Martin, he didn't pay for. None of that matters, since the sentence for that crime — if indeed it was committed — is not death.
So we cats HISS, and stand in solidarity with the aggrieved people of Ferguson. Paws up, don't shoot!
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