“Soldiers and police are supposed to be different. … Police look inward. They’re supposed to protect their fellow citizens from criminals, and to maintain order with a minimum of force.
“It’s the difference between Audie Murphy and Andy Griffith. But nowadays, police are looking, and acting, more like soldiers than cops, with bad consequences. And those who suffer the consequences are usually innocent civilians.”
Just as true post-Ferguson as it was eight years ago. Nevermind the race-baiters bottom-feeders Jackson and Sharpton, who’re there just to make their bucks with their usual b.s., the real story is the armored-automatic-rifled-flashbang-grenade-throwing cops who make the whole scene look like 1984. Enough, already.
Remember Michael Brown? Hell, remember Miriam Carey!
Via Instapundit.
UPDATE: “The Ferguson police must prevent rioting and looting and protect their own safety, though it is reasonable to wonder when law enforcement became a paramilitary operation. The sniper rifles, black armored convoys and waves of tear gas deployed across Ferguson neighborhoods are jarring in a free society.”
MORE: “The buzz phrase in policing today is officer safety. You’ll also hear lots of references to preserving order, and fighting wars, be it on crime, drugs, or terrorism. Those are all concepts that emphasize confrontation. It’s a view that pits the officers as the enforcer, and the public as the entity upon which laws and policies and procedures are to be enforced.”
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
All that being true, I am still not sure about the spark that started this fire. Too many unknowns, and I doubt that in the current atmosphere the public will ever know the truth of the story.
The spark in the cops’ case was the Worm’s defense department handing out war goodies to cops across the country, Now they all have the soldier mentality, which is shoot first. The spark of the Ferguson riots, well, who knows who’s right about Brown? Witnesses differ. Miriam is another story, She was murdered in daylight in front of scores of people and the authorities don’t care. Which ought to scare the bejesus out of people who live in D.C. where she was gunned down by our new soldier police.