just imagine this story president barack obama decides he wants to have a national referendum on being able to have a national referendum during the next general elections what if obama really went off the deep end like honduras mel zelaya ferguson has resonated across the country not because of the merits of this one particular interaction where the facts are still uncertain but because of other similar but less deadly policing tactics in certain urban communities policing stop and frisk with stop and track policing we witnessed the scenario taking place in fergerson missouri before more often than not a white police officer shoots an unarmed young black man under circumstances where it would appear lessthandeadly force was an option lets tell it like it is