Could you please share what those severe repercussions might be? As far as I can tell, this DOJ report is just a bit of theater. No one has been arrested for the criminal activity in the report. No charges have been filed. This report is from the department who bills themselves as “The Primary federal criminal investigation and enforcement agency” yet doesn’t seem to be enforcing anything at all.
The Fergusson should be ashamed.
Or required to state the correct amount of bubbles in a bar of soap. Or maybe, jelly beans in a jar. (True Southern facts from the good ol’ days.)
Would it not be possible to have something similar to quorum when voting? Under a certain percentage of voters, there’s no mandate and the election is illegitimate. Candidates and parties have the responsibility to ensure that enough people actually want them in power, rather than merely expecting to govern based on having the largest slice of a tiny slice of the pie. Voter apathy? Maybe that’s not the fault of the voters.
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Even relatively routine misconduct by Ferguson police officers can have significant consequences for the people whose rights are violated. For example, in the summer of 2012, a 32-year-old African-American man sat in his car cooling off after playing basketball in a Ferguson public park. An officer pulled up behind the man’s car, blocking him in, and demanded the man’s Social Security number and identification. Without any cause, the officer accused the man of being a pedophile, referring to the presence of children in the park, and ordered the man out of his car for a pat-down, although the officer had no reason to believe the man was armed. The officer also asked to search the man’s car. The man objected, citing his constitutional rights. In response, the officer arrested the man, reportedly at gunpoint, charging him with eight violations of Ferguson’s municipal code. One charge, Making a False Declaration, was for initially providing the short form of his first name (e.g., “Mike” instead of “Michael”), and an address which, although legitimate, was different from the one on his driver’s license. Another charge was for not wearing a seat belt, even though he was seated in a parked car. The officer also charged the man both with having an expired operator’s license, and with having no operator’s license in his possession. The man told us that, because of these charges, he lost his job as a contractor with the federal government that he had held for years.
It’s as if they get their ideas about justice from credit card issuers.
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