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Originally Posted by DonShaw
So I am wondering is anyone at US First is worried about the safety of holding one of the two Championships events in Saint Louis? Currently Saint Louis is in state of emergency again for the violence of the Ferguson police shooting a year later.
Houston is also on top of the list as well as Detroit for violent crimes.
Is anyone else wondering if the leaders are looking at this when sites at chosen?
First emphasizes safety so much at their events while inside but does not seem to care what occurs outside the arena. Safety of all participants needs to be based on the entire makeup of the length of the events.
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I happen to be a FIRST team member in the St. Louis area I actually live quite close to Ferguson and St. Louis city. Right now i'm going to give you the rundown of whats really occurring.
1. Ferguson and St. Louis city are not the same thing they have a few miles between them.
2. The unrest that is occurring is only occurring a specific area that happens to not be in St. Louis city, it is not all over the metro area.
3. This "state of emergency" is blown up way past the reality of the situation because of the media. I have not been effected by this and I live closer to Ferguson than St. Louis city.
4. These people are protesting against police and they are still mad as I am. These people are not out to hurt you. Trust me I live here and these people aren't going to attack a group of robotics students. As an African American student who associates with many others who engage in protests I feel that I have an educated opinion on this subject when it comes to the Ferguson issue.
5. I've lived in St. Louis my entire life and I never once have been robbed threatened or attacked. Sure the media makes the St. Louis area look absolutely horrible to the public but in reality it's excessive reporting. You all know how the media likes to blow things up. Yes there are robberies, yes there are shootings those occur everywhere in the entire world.
6. This state of emergeny is for St. Louis "County" not the city of St. Louis as CNN had it (incorrectly labeled on the front page of the official CNN site for the entire world to read. The championship occurs in St. Louis city.
7. I've seen the posts where people say they ave gotten there cars broken into multiple years but this is not a specific St. Louis issue, you don't think that wold happen in Detroit or even a city that is known to be quite "safe" if you gave a thief the option?
8. Yes I am writing out of anger and I apologize.
9. This is an issue that I am sure no one in the FIRST community has thought about. Michael Brown attended Normandy high school in Normandy Missouri Which covers a few different municipalities in the county area. Normandy is a school district and community that I have friends in and I even have competed "with" and against in sports. Back to the point The school that Michael Brown attended had a FRC team up until this last season in which they could not compete because all of there funding from the school had run out. Normandy school district was unaccredited meaning that there students could attend other districts in the St. Louis area but the Normandy school district had to pay tuition for every student that left the district. The team they had was FRC team 2902 NYACK
http://www.usfirst.org/whats-going-o...rogramCode=FRC Which no longer exists because of money issues which was saddening to our team who accepted one of their former team members onto our team. Team NYACK even won the spirit award at the 2014 St. Louis Regional something our team could only ever dream of.
I needed to get that out.