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    The Ferguson, Missouri thread

    Following the shooting of 18-year old unarmed black teen Michael Brown after a struggle with police, the small St. Louis suburb of Ferguson has had protests by day, riots and overwhelming police suppression by night. When the fatal shots were fired, it's believed that the unarmed teen was at least a dozen feet from the officer, with his hands in the air. Reporters have been arrested or forbid from shooting, tear gas and rubber bullets are being used, stores have been looted, and Obama has given an extremely tepid speech.

    This is where we talk Ferguson.

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...op-Unjustified

    At least two people who claimed to have witnessed a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer shoot an unarmed teen say that the teen had his hands in the air and was not acting provocatively when the officer fired his weapon multiple times.

    A woman who told the media that she witnessed the Saturday shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown said that the teen had his hands in the air but the officer opened fire anyway.
    "I saw him turn around with his arms up in the air, and they shot him in his face and chest, and he went down unarmed," Piaget Crenshaw told the local media.
    Jon Belmar, chief of the St. Louis County Police Department, admitted that Brown was found to be unarmed after the still unidentified officer shot and killed him for walking in the street.

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    Ferguson talk starts at 4:37.

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    Shit's getting ridiculous around here.

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    Doesn't surprise me. This is what happens when your POLICE force is armed and trained the same was our military is armed and trained. The police are here to serve and protect, the military is here to eradicate enemies of the country. Shit goes a bit haywire when you intermingle the two.

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    It just angers me to see all of this happening. Not just the racism, but the media blackouts and the fact that the only reason I knew about any of this going on is via social media.

    Disgusting.

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    An article that should be read.

    http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/saw-ferguson

    What transpired in the streets appeared to be a kind of municipal version of shock and awe; the first wave of flash grenades and tear gas had played as a prelude to the appearance of an unusually large armored vehicle, carrying a military-style rifle mounted on a tripod. The message of all of this was something beyond the mere maintenance of law and order: it’s difficult to imagine how armored officers with what looked like a mobile military sniper’s nest could quell the anxieties of a community outraged by allegations regarding the excessive use of force. It revealed itself as a raw matter of public intimidation.

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    You wouldn't know that though because you've demonstrably never picked up a book nor educated yourself on the matter. Let me guess, overweight housewife?
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    Reporters have been arrested or forbid from shooting,
    how is this legal?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ksandra View Post
    how is this legal?
    It's not.

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    Did some research on this just under a year ago. Wish I had this report when I did.

    For those interested:

    https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/f...t-web-rel1.pdf


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    kinda relevant

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ksandra View Post
    how is this legal?
    because they can shoot you if you point out it's illegal

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    When did the initial shooting happen? Over the weekend?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cail View Post
    When did the initial shooting happen? Over the weekend?
    Yeah, back on Saturday

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    So where's the Tea Party fury here? I mean, cops are basically militarized, going around on an overreach spree and the loudest advocates for a clawback of big gummint are quiet as church mice.

    I guess the right demographic cocktail hasn't been met to trip the alarms huh.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ronin sparthos View Post
    So where's the Tea Party fury here?
    They're too busy being spoonfed images like this:


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    This is the crossroads of the ugly underbelly of racism in America, the militarization of local police forces, and the entrenchment of government secrecy. All three are bad, but together this is what you inevitably end up with.

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    Right to guns lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by Not Kuno View Post
    Al Jazeera being hit with tear gas & Washington Post being confronted by SWAT and forcibly removed at McDonalds

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    Maybe it's time to arm reporters with guns to defend their right to report, and their cameras with guns to defend their right to shoot.. visual images.

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