I'm Hearing That The Fire Trucks Are Having A Hard Time Coming To The Scene Of The Fires.....

[global1]

Now - they were prepared with police in riot gear, national guardsmen, armored trucks, police helicopters, etc - because they expected violence to erupt. They had to know from previous incidences like this that perhaps a police car or two or a building might be set ablaze. Why didn't they have fire trucks staged in the vicinity of the police station in Ferguson just in case?

I'm sorry - I don't like being manipulated and that is just what is happening. They knew the Grand Jury verdict early on in the day. Why did they wait until people amassed in the streets of Ferguson and till almost 8:30pm in the evening to announce the verdict?

Why didn't they put out the police car fire immediately? They let it burn because it was good TV.

The way the verdict was announced and how that guy went on and on first answering questions and then talking about the supposed evidence.

Everything seems choreographed and staged. Someone(s) wanted this to happen. They wanted the reaction that we are seeing in the streets of Ferguson.

This is just wrong they way they orchestrated this whole thing - right from the minutes after Michael Brown was shot and left laying in the street until tonight.

[Scootaloo]

1. And we see here in DU, the usual anti-black jeerers fapping away to their riot porn

Grotesque, at times

[delrem]

7. This forum is infested, that's for sure. nt

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. There was live ammunition going off inside that cop car.

I heard it with my own ears. That would make any attempt to put out the fire unnecessarily dangerous. They cleared the area which is all they really could do. I should add, the protesters cleared the area; not the useless armored up cops.

[applegrove]

3. There were shots fired when the firetrucks were at the scene of one building fire.

So they had to leave.

[H. Cromwell]

6. Firefighters

are not going to get shot at or harmed trying to put out ANY fire. In a riot situation, firefighters WILL let cars and or buildings burn IF they are in danger of physical harm while trying to put out the fire. They are FIREFIGHTERS, not Peace keepers. If people want to riot and Burn property...when it is Safe firefighters will do their job.
From a 25 year interior attack firefighter...Firefighters DO NOT WORRY about Good TV. They actually do their job because they LOVE doing it. Until you've humped a hose into a burning building and or helped save a life...you are clueless.

[applegrove]

9. Of course not. I thought that was understood in my post. Of course firefighters are not police.

Nor should they risk their lives with no ability or institutional knowledge to keep safe.

[H. Cromwell]

13. Rioters will destroy fire trucks

Why didn't they have fire trucks staged in the vicinity of the police station in Ferguson just in case?

Putting a very expensive piece of manned fire apparatus in the vicinity of a mob of rioting people is not a real good idea. The mob mentality will destroy fire engines as easily as they burned police vehicles. Not to mention putting the fire fighters manning the apparatus in harms way.

[Cal Carpenter]

5. "They let it burn because it was good TV."

My thoughts exactly.

[Scootaloo]

8. Police were a two-minute walk away, in front of the fire department

[ucrdem]

10. Same thing happened with Rodney King.

A big new Ralph's, a Circuit City, a Walgreen's, lots of smaller shops all left to burn while the cameras were rolling. Very strange watching the little puffs of smoke turn into full-on fires and nobody lifting a finger, but that's how it went down. Yeah I was suspicious then too.

[Marrah_G]

11. They kept the firefighters away

they were saying there were gunshots.