We Could Be Ferguson Tomorrow
By Van Harl
By Major Van Harl
United States -(AmmoLand.com)- I was in Zion, Illinois at a fast food drive through. After paying for my food I had to pull my car up past the service window, and wait to have the meal delivered to my vehicle.
A senior Zion police department officer walked up to hand me my food. They were requesting donations for a Special Olympics fund raiser. I told him I was an auxiliary police officer in suburban Milwaukee County. We quickly chatted about law enforcement and then I stated the concern that tomorrow our town and police department could become Ferguson, as in the riots and violence of Ferguson, Missouri.
The Zion copper’s expression changed and he advised me they worry about the very same issue at his police department.
A simple traffic stop for a busted tail light that could go wrong, dead wrong and now your town is Ferguson and on international news. This conversation happened only a few days after the shooting by a Milwaukee police officer of a young armed black man …Read the Rest
Source:: AmmoLand
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