The Death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri

amazing to me that no higher authority has seen fit to rein in the cops if for only pr purposes

oh well, war on the streets, states' rights ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It doesn't seem like to me that the city government of Ferguson realizes that THE ENTIRE WORLD is watching and tracking their every move. Or maybe they do and just don't care.

i don't think higher authorities really give a shit unfortunately and never really have : /

The FBI has opened a civil rights investigation but yeah I don't know who is watching the watchers in this case

PaulSzoldra
SWAT using LRAD (loud deafening siren) in Ferguson

hang on, claire mccaskill has made calls to the dept. of justice, may discuss things tomorrow

Way to be on top of things, Claire.

You've had four fucking days.

have we heard of the governor of missouri?

Shit's getting real:

@RealAlexJones 2m
#Ferguson Police Attack Protestors With Tear Gas & Rubber Bullets! Infowars reporter Joe Biggs wounded LIVE: http://bit.ly/1kCmkgt

(They've pissed off Alex Jones! I haven't clicked that link yet.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=zApzDwjxfgs

This is insane

http://new.livestream.com/accounts/9035483/events/3271930

holy fuck

Media has been told to stop rolling and the St. Louis Police have issued a "final warning" to the crowd. What the hell

Protectin and serving (themselves that is)

This stream is a repeat, because what's going on now is what's in the youtube video linked above.

When police fuck up then lose control, what can they do to get back control without more fucking things up? It's the eternal police state paradox.

they could just go home

don't read the comments on that video fyi : [

man twitter is a fucking godsend right now. i havent been this disgusted in my country since katrina.

guys america is the best country its the BESSSSSSST

*burns passport*

this place is garbage

luckily you won't be needing that to get to missouri

So fucking frustrating

kinda feeling like germany in 1933 atm

Fucking crazy.

Rubber-bullet Tiannamen.

st louis twitter folks to follow:

https://twitter.com/BlackSpade
https://twitter.com/Vandalyzm
https://twitter.com/TefPoe
https://twitter.com/Nettaaaaaaaa
https://twitter.com/brownblaze

@brownblaze particularly is key imo

Antonio French got arrested

so proud of the people filming and recording the events, i doubt i would have the courage.

are they incredibly stupid or omnipotent... either way they are armed to the teeth and i am really fucking scared

Occupy got us used to footage of tear gas creeping through downtown streets and city parks, but I have to say its a new sight seeing it crawling down suburban roads and lawns

And was wondering when the LRAD would see another deployment.

Reading the story of those reporters who were beaten up and arrested for sitting in a McDonalds and then released without ANY police report / documentation being written up was horrifying, and it's not even close to the worst tidbit of this whole saga

They let us hang out for a couple of months before they came in with night sticks and tear gas. They don't seem interested in letting people in Ferguson stay the night.

xp

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/14/us/missouri-teenager-and-officer-scuffled-before-shooting-chief-says.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=LargeMediaHeadlineSum&module=photo-spot-region®ion=photo-spot&WT.nav=photo-spot&_r=0

The photo accompanying this article is so fucked

(not graphic, just the level of armament)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xnSVtW49roE

jesus fucking christ @ that nyt picture

APV with a sniper on the roof - better equipment and coverage than soldiers got for large parts of the Iraq War.

one of the vet tweets I saw tonight commented something like "people who don't want to get shot at don't poke their heads out the top of an armored vehicle" on a similar picture

https://storify.com/AthertonKD/veterans-on-ferguson

https://mobile.twitter.com/AntonioFrench/status/499577829420302336/photo/1

(eugh storify lets you create hipster banner photos now?)

this is spectacularly fucked of course; such a mindfuck to see ongoing reporting

from FB

Sandy Mahady
These are thugs running amuck. I can't blame the officers at this point. This is not about a victim but it has turned into a thug Fest with unruly and tyrant behaviors from immoral thugs!!!

pictures look more like an occupying, hostile army than a police force

I mean, this is a long passage of uneditorialized text, and the views expressed therein are not very well-thought-through, and pretty predictable. So why?

The article critiques that passage throughout its entire length, both through the facts of the case and the interviews with other people involved, which you'd pick up on if you read it.

fair enough, I'm in a foul and impatient mood right now, will give it a chance later

The most telling portion is how the defense from Wilson's former mentor crumbles when he tries to assert that the situation would have gone down the same way if HE'D been involved when the article has already gone to great pains to show that the mentor:

- was gay and felt some empathy to the ostracization of the black community he was policing as a result;
- did a lot of community outreach in his capacity as a policeman, changing the dynamic with which he interacted with the members of that community;
- was in a situation where people were shooting at him and had the wherewithal to remove himself from a potentially dangerous chase scenario and circle back to see if his partner, who had been hit by a bullet, needed help

There are some good points in that article, where the writer presses against inconsistencies in the worldview of the cop. Darren Wilson uses all the coded language of a racist asshole, and he has no awareness about his own hypocrisies. Like, Wilson has never read the justice report on racism in Ferguson, because he doesn't want to dwell on the past, but he has no problem discussing everything else about his own past, and the problems he saw while on patrol. Just, racism, that's not to be dwelled on, because that is the past.

And yeah, that passage is really really strong as well, x-post.

Another police shooting tonight, police firing smoke/tear gas at protesters, this is useful:

https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/lists/ferguson

this is awful.

i should know this by now, but where would be the best place to look for updates on this, where the stories don't consist entirely of things asserted by the police?

washington post has been doing some good reporting all year

deray, netta, cornell west arrested

http://gawker.com/state-of-emergency-declared-in-ferguson-as-protestors-a-1723175123

The place to look for news about all this btw is twitter.

Really good essay by Darryl Pickney:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/08/18/black-lives-and-the-police/

really wish this stuff had come out a couple years ago

http://www.theroot.com/everything-you-think-you-know-about-the-death-of-mike-b-1793261221