Conservatives Start to Take the Ferguson DOJ Report Seriously
Leon H. Wolf published a blog post at Red State titled, “Many Conservatives Are Blowing It on the Ferguson DOJ Report.” As he sees it, interpreting the news out of Ferguson has become “a part of ideological tribalism,” where conservatives “stand for the Ferguson PD” and “if you are a liberal you stand against them.” Liberals have thus resisted the information that Michael Brown never put his hands above his head and said, “Don’t shoot,” while conservatives have resisted information suggesting that “the Ferguson PD —as with many other municipal police departments in the country—truly is out of control, in that it recklessly violates the constitutional rights of the citizens of Ferguson and does so in a manner that has a clearly disproportionate impact on minorities.”