I hope what happened in Ferguson never happens again. I hope they are preparing meticulously for the trial and they get the murderers the maximum. We need justice to fall down like gentle rain from heaven to heal this country. And we need to strike at the root of the problem, starting with the drug war and the entire mentality that the police work for the MIC, not the people.

...good to see this new attorney general make a personal appearance on the scene. We need prosecutions of these types of killings and abuses of police power to send the message that their epidemic of impunity is ending. That's really the only way, along with strong civil suits dipping into state coffers, to force departments to change their behavior. Not to diminish the sentiment of 'gentle rain,' I'm thinking a 'downpour of justice' is what's needed right now.

I think we need a sort of top to bottom cleanup. We've got corrupt pols like Walker and Christie all the way down to these insane cops. And not to mention war criminals walking free. We need to make this a very high priority, to make the streets safe from the cops. City coffers have been filled too long by the war on drugs, and the cops, like healthcare, should not be a revenue-generating stream. We need to somehow make private and for-profit prisons illegal and we have to get military equipment off of city streets. I don't know how to do it, I just know that people aren't safe to walk their own streets, and it's not because they're afraid of criminals or drug dealers any more. They're most afraid of the cops.