{"id":185445,"date":"2014-11-17T23:16:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T04:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/11\/17\/the-cops-will-riot-not-the-protesters-thats-what-happened-the-last-time\/"},"modified":"2014-11-17T23:16:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T04:16:00","slug":"the-cops-will-riot-not-the-protesters-thats-what-happened-the-last-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/11\/17\/the-cops-will-riot-not-the-protesters-thats-what-happened-the-last-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cops will Riot, Not the Protesters.  That&#8217;s What Happened the Last Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Craven Politician,<sup>*<\/sup> and Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-11-17\/missouri-s-nixon-declares-state-of-emergency-awaiting-grand-jury.html\">declare a state of emergency and call out the National Guard<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Governor Jay Nixon activated the Missouri National Guard in anticipation of unrest when a grand jury decides whether to indict a white police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Nixon declared a state of emergency and created a \u201cunified command\u201d of police agencies in preparation for the decision, due this month in the slaying of 18-year-old Michael Brown of Ferguson, a St. Louis suburb.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cAs part of our ongoing efforts to plan and be prepared for any contingency, it is necessary to have these resources in place in advance of any announcement,\u201d Nixon, a 58-year-old Democrat, said yesterday in a statement. \u201cPublic safety demands that we are fully prepared.\u201d <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The violence in Ferguson last time did not come from the protesters.  It came from the cops.<\/p>\n<p>The Ferguson, and the other local and county police forces participating, rioted.<\/p>\n<p>If Nixon wants to do the right thing, he needs to take those Guard troops, and use them to keep the local police in their barracks.<\/p>\n<p>If he is not willing to do so, then Obama should federalize the guard, and lock down the cops.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of meaningless violence would be prevented.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">But I repeat myself.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craven Politician,* and Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has decided to declare a state of emergency and call out the National Guard: Governor Jay Nixon activated the Missouri National Guard in anticipation of unrest when a grand jury decides whether to indict a white police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager.Nixon declared a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,1051,1041,978,1001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-hypocrisy","category-law-enforcement-misconduct","category-politics","category-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}