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2. 80% of the population! That's incredible

Sun Mar 15, 2015, 12:10 PM

Mar 2015

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In the city of Ferguson, nearly everyone is a wanted criminal. [View all] kpete Mar 2015 OP

wow! nt G_j Mar 2015 #1

80% of the population! That's incredible notadmblnd Mar 2015 #2

and wouldn't that make someone reluctant G_j Mar 2015 #3

I'm not sure having wanted criminals phil89 Mar 2015 #14

So if you get a parking ticket or a speeding ticket Tsiyu Mar 2015 #23

Very convenient gollygee Mar 2015 #26

That is how it works in Jim Crow America, so you approve? NoJusticeNoPeace Mar 2015 #28

It is a major travesty. Trillo Mar 2015 #4

so why aren't the officials in jail? questionseverything Mar 2015 #5

On some set date everyone should show up at the PD and turn Downwinder Mar 2015 #6

It would make great tv, that's for sure. . . n/t annabanana Mar 2015 #18

A protest they can't complain about. Downwinder Mar 2015 #22

Hah! That would be great! nt Lucky Luciano Mar 2015 #25

I doubt that that's true pintobean Mar 2015 #8

Do you also doubt that it's true they charged Henry Davis Tsiyu Mar 2015 #10

No, not at all pintobean Mar 2015 #13

Lol Tsiyu Mar 2015 #17

Well, the only one you cited is not a Ferguson resident pintobean Mar 2015 #24

Holy shit! gopiscrap Mar 2015 #32

This is what widespread institutionalized racism looks like blm Mar 2015 #9

proto-police city-state KG Mar 2015 #11

the new slavery grasswire Mar 2015 #12

Impressive, this type of governance needs a name. gordianot Mar 2015 #16

How about racist and corrupt as fuck? gopiscrap Mar 2015 #31

That works. gordianot Mar 2015 #33

According to the Justice Department Report and the injustices bonniebgood Mar 2015 #20

agreed gopiscrap Mar 2015 #30

Another day in the Land of the "Free" arcane1 Mar 2015 #27

That's fucked up gopiscrap Mar 2015 #29

Yikes. romanic Mar 2015 #34