The Death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri

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

Is This How A Dystopia Starts?

Who else is marching today?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bu9-pU8IcAAjiCt.jpg:large

they could just go home

When things are this messed up, it's not that simple, is it? The police presence is the problem, but the complete absence of a police presence does not sound like a solution, either. Unless you just want every single person here - justifiably angry, scared, tired, a few troublemakers, many peaceful folks - to just get it out of their system. Which I don't think is remotely as simple as that scans, either.

xpost If that photo is real and is what it looks like, that is so messed up.

Why the skepticism?

The police BEHAVIOR is the problem! But if they are absolutely unable to do anything right, they should for starters be removed from the equation because they are going to kill more people if this continues.

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