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Keanna Bess
3/9/2015 10:14:39 pm
My thoughts is the government is racist , not all but most. I should care because they control majority of the U.S. and if they don't like African Americans then that's a big problem for us. It affect me because I'm black and they favor whites the most, if we let this slide then they'll keep doing it without any cautions. Making jokes or even discriminating different race should be illegal.
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billy townes
3/9/2015 10:16:24 pm
i think its not good for the police to be racist and treat African Americans like that. If the cop is racist they should just keep it to there selves and treat everybody equal.
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Brandon
3/9/2015 10:16:31 pm
I think that the issue is a lot bigger than the state and the city of Ferguson is treating. The police departments job is to protect the citizens and innocent people of the city they are in, and the fact that they view a large portion of the Ferguson community as just a source a source of revenue and nothing else is a very large issue. We should care because this type of thing happens in more places than just that city and it affects us by showing us by showing that sometimes the people meant to protect us only care for themselves.
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Amanda Gibson
3/9/2015 10:16:46 pm
The report we read on the "Gangsters of Ferguson" was a very shocking article. The part about the e-mails surprised me the most because they were going through a government establishment with no re precautions at all. No government facility should allow that, especially a police department. I hope that the higher government deals with this in a timely manner, and get justice for that city.
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Anthony DiVirgilio
3/9/2015 10:17:29 pm
The findings of the Ferguson police department are highly disturbing. That the people put in place to protect us can so easily manipulate the system to monetize racial profiling and the obvious racial intolerance of the department, its nothing short of disgusting. We should care because this sort of thing is supposedly behind us and that it took so long to dig up this problem. I trust the system to protect my rights as a citizen, I'm sometimes skeptical but who isn't, this sort of thing weakens that trust.
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Isaiah C.
3/9/2015 10:17:46 pm
my thoughts on it is that its not right what Ferguson police gets to do and done to people such as Mike Brown. you should care because its innocent people being killed.
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ray
3/9/2015 10:22:14 pm
i agree
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shelby
3/9/2015 10:17:50 pm
well it is important to us and the government because the government is trying to seek out justice. also darren wilson was not the only person that got convicted of a crime that he did not do. it matters to us because what if we were in that situation, what would happen to us? so it is important to us because it could happen again to anyone.
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Jenifer DeJongh
3/9/2015 10:19:07 pm
At the beginning of the report, it read the officers in Ferguson saw black people as revenue, which is horrid. I mean, how can you just see a person as a source of money instead of as a person? It's sad that these officers are being so cruel to the people they're supposed to be protecting. Reading farther into it, I noticed it gets even worse and it's just an awful and horrible thing to do. Those people work hard to just pay it off and just get fined more.
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Deonte Stott
3/9/2015 10:20:00 pm
i personally think that the FDB is racist and doesn't take their job as serious as it should be taking they're taking this over the extreme of killing innocent black civilians.
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Kevin Brown
3/9/2015 10:22:05 pm
My thoughts on this situation is that the police feel that they are better than black people, and this shows that racism never left America. It affects me because this can give ideas to the police Department of my hometown and they can take this rule as their own.
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roy mercer
3/9/2015 10:31:35 pm
I think your right, the police are only shooting black people they didn't shoot not one white person. They think they can do stuff to people because they don't have weapons or they will go to jail if they touch the police.
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Matthew Jackson and Emily Cowles
3/9/2015 10:22:17 pm
This was extremely biased and only one sided. The author pointed the blame to the police department saying that they were the gangsters. When in reality the police are trying to protect people, they put their lives on the line to help and save people. We don't give enough respect to their bravery. They act out of self-defense, sometimes it's not the right choice, but they have seconds to decide. We can argue now about the justification of what they do, but if you were in that situation I'm sure that you would do the same. You can try arguing that, but in that moment you will protect yourself. Thank you police officers around the nation.
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Matthew Jackson and Emily Cowles
3/9/2015 10:25:15 pm
In Ferguson the police did appear racist but in general the police around the country are trying their best.
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Stephen G & Jacob H
3/9/2015 10:22:23 pm
After reading the Ferguson Report from the State Department we were very shocked by what we read. One thing that was really surprising was how Department Officials were caught sending racial emails to each other and were not fired. Another thing that really surprised us is how the police officers in Ferguson were more interested in making money than protecting the citizens. We care about this because we want things to be fair for all races. This affects us because more and more teens are dying everyday and we think that something should be done about it!
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nathaniel peller
3/9/2015 10:22:30 pm
i think that the police dpt definitely needs an overhaul of everyone involved in the emails or incidents involving in-just action based on race to profit. also we need to take further action as a country to stop prejudice based on race, age, or gender.
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Sheldon/Tyler
3/9/2015 10:23:18 pm
Tyler:My thoughts are that the government is racist and they should not be that way .We should care because it affects Africans Americans and its like putting a target on our backs.
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Jeremy E
3/9/2015 10:23:28 pm
I think that the Ferguson issue is way out of control and needs to be handled. I strongly think that this issue has a lot to do with race. The government does not seem to be involved in this situation. It affects us because it causes the black community to feud with the white community and it causes chaos everywhere as an end result.
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taylor
3/9/2015 10:23:55 pm
The thoughts that I had and maybe other people had on how the police department is running in Ferguson. Their department is not fair or safe to us blacks. The police is running their department off of getting ride of the black people,making money or putting the white people higher then blacks.We should care because this could be us in Detroit,what if it was us? we would be fighting back the police department if they ran their department how the police are running theirs in Ferguson. This effects me because I didn't know we could still treat somebody different because of their skin tone or always feel like you have to watch your back because you don't feel safe that's not how people black or white suppose to live.
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marcia mcintyre
3/9/2015 10:24:03 pm
I think that with the ferguson police department that all there doing is putting black people down. Make us seem like we dont know what were doing. One of the comments was that this how black people are " i be so glad that dis be my last child support payment". Make us seem that we can do nothing right that we will do anything to get what we want.
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Anaisha W
3/9/2015 10:24:20 pm
I think the racist jokes really crossed the line. The fact that they forwarded the messages to others was unprofessional and very childish.
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Kym Shaffer
3/9/2015 10:24:45 pm
I feel some of the government is racist. I think this because the government is letting the whites get away with things but not the blacks. We should care because the government controls the Untied States and if we don't do something about it things could get worse.
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Jack Taylor
3/9/2015 10:25:32 pm
What these police did was wrong and very unjust. This type of nstuff shouldn't happen.
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3/10/2015 03:40:04 pm
what the police are doing in Ferguson is just wrong. cops should ot be allowed to work for the government if they cant look pass skin color. and the fact that is taking the government so long to do anything about that problem shows they really don't care. this problem in our police departments can be happening anywhere now. what is next the cops of Detroit began to do the same as Ferguson all they r doing over there is putting African Americans down . WHAT THEY ARE DOING IS NOT KOOL OT ONE BIT.!!!!!!
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