Have you seen the videos of them lobbing tear gas directly at news crews? Knocking over and smashing camera equipment? And this is merely the latest example of militarized police. The killings in New Mexico, the anal cavity searches (also in New Mexico), the flash grenade in a baby's crib in Georgia, and on, and on. People are sick of it, people from all across the political spectrum.
The police are that "standing army" the Founders were so worried about. I mean what difference does it make what you decide to call the standing army? Can you give military hardware and a military disposition to a group of government agents, and get around the legal restrictions on domestic use of the military just because you have decided to call them by some word other than "military"? Because that's what has happened.
And thank you Libertas for the visual of Rosie O in a size 2 dress. Lucky there's a trash can next to my desk.
I agree, the early meme on Brown was wrong, but the overreaction of the police to him and more importantly to everyone else as noted above is what shows we are in a police state, just because a dirtbag should be arrested for petty theft should not be grounds to be gunned down, and the typical overract/withdrwal/come in SWATed up with MRAPS & Tanks blazing is just retarded. What ever happened to in-neighborhood/on-site policing? Nobody "walks" a beat anymore, they cruise in cars and respond after the fact, they kiss minority butt thinking that'll give them a free pass when they have to riddle one of theirs with holes, they toe their union line and snap to for politicians and their aims then wonder why the people don't like or trust them anymore...etc etc...
I'm fed up, I don't give them the benefit of the doubt anymore, they've squandered that courtesy.
Our Founders would be sick to their stomachs over seeing what is going on now days, they would literally be ill, and mad as all Hell!
Sorry about the visual G, I had to come up with something impossible!