The Ferguson, Missouri thread

**kuronosan** · 2014-08-20 01:04

Seriously, this is kind of depressing me. I can't conceive why nobody is doing anything about it.

**6souls** · 2014-08-20 01:04

"Now officers are letting the crowd leave in the direction they were blocking "

https://twitter.com/Patricialicious/...72023795404800

"One officer told me I needed to show her my ID to prove I lived this way."

https://twitter.com/Patricialicious/...72818058567681

**6souls** · 2014-08-20 01:06

"Cops jabbed @AlexWrobleski with gun barrel in media frenzy."

https://twitter.com/KatCaulder/statu...71229964648450

**6souls** · 2014-08-20 01:08

"Was walking next to protester in direction cops was telling us to. He faced them, walking backwards. Then suddenly rushed him..."

https://twitter.com/RayDowns/status/501971565878059011

"..threw him on ground, surrounded him with cops aiming guns at him, and hand-tied him. He was right next to me and obeying orders."

https://twitter.com/RayDowns/status/501971971249168384

**6souls** · 2014-08-20 01:15

Video from yesterday

**notorious bum** · 2014-08-20 01:16

Cops probably pissed they didn't get to break out their big guns tonight, they bit on the 2 water bottles thrown. That was all it took for them to break out SWAT, K-9's and start marching them off the street, grabbing people at random to toss in the paddy wagons.

**6souls** · 2014-08-20 01:19

Interview with Mawuli Davis, a legal observer with the National Conference of Black Lawyers

http://instagram.com/p/r6Mw8pgLQQ/ & http://instagram.com/p/r6N3SKgLRI/

**notorious bum** · 2014-08-20 01:21

Looks like atleast 2 people were also pepper sprayed at random, 1 man and this bullshit:

Dart_Adams @Dart_Adams
WAIT. THEY PEPPER SPRAYED THE SAME WOMAN WHO WALKED MILES WITH SUPPLIES FOR PROTESTORS WHOSE PIC HAS APPEARED IN MY TL ALL NIGHT LONG?

Dart_Adams @Dart_Adams
HOW DID THE SELFLESS WOMAN WHO BROUGHT SUPPLIES FOR PEOPLE IN THE CASE THEY WERE GASSED OR PEPPER SPRAYED END UP GETTING PEPPER SPRAYED?

jalylah @jalylah
Appears to be Ms. Jameila White RT @kodacohen Woman pepper sprayed, helped by others in #Ferguson #MikeBrown

**kuronosan** · 2014-08-20 01:23

They are really fucking up.

**6souls** · 2014-08-20 01:24

More from that instagram showing the National Guild Lawyer member arrested. He was pushed out of the way by officers making an arrest, then thrown down and arrested himself.

http://instagram.com/p/r6KTU7gLd6/ & http://instagram.com/p/r6K-lJALeX/

**6souls** · 2014-08-20 01:26

Cops - "Put yours hands up so we don't shoot you." "Tell us when you are ready."
Protester - "Ready for what?"

http://instagram.com/p/r6HoJMgLbd/

**Quicklet** · 2014-08-20 01:28

You know you've set the bar low when not using tear gas or LRADs is considered a "good night".

**6souls** · 2014-08-20 01:29

"Surreal. Police are pushing people over a fence. Many can't get over without help "

https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/statu...68438903205888

This is a fence that officers put up today to keep people out.

**6souls** · 2014-08-20 01:31

"By the end of the night tonight, positioning and handling of media a clear problem
With international attention story getting, TV crews and journalists all over the place. Things got hectic, police unsure where to send them
All media first ordered into one staging area, then told it should go all the way to other end of street to another
Meanwhile, there have clearly been some language barriers with some of international press that is here and police
Every media member I saw tried to comply with officers, but there was confusion and contradictory directions
All around, a messy situation. That said, officers dispersed people largely without force for first time in all of this"

https://twitter.com/WesleyLowery/with_replies

**6souls** · 2014-08-20 01:37

Fun fact: Before those two bottles were thrown, Police had been planning a press conference to declare a peaceful night.

**Abandon** · 2014-08-20 01:39

another fun fact: water bottles are means to arrest random niggas and pepper spray random fat old black ladies

**6souls** · 2014-08-20 01:45

The date on which the US police became my enemy

Front page of today's newspaper in Berlin. One of their journalists was also arrested last night while they were gassing the neighborhood after media was supposed to be out of the area.

Edit: or is it "The Enemy'? I grabbed a quick translation for that and I am not sure which is correct.

**6souls** · 2014-08-20 01:49

People hit with rubber bullets yesterday, gory, but reality;

Spoiler: show

**6souls** · 2014-08-20 01:51

News conference to begin at "2am." I'll get a link up when I find one.

**6souls** · 2014-08-20 01:57

Video - http://new.livestream.com/accounts/9...events/3271930
Audio - http://player.radio.com/listen/stati...adio-1120-kmox

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