hang on, claire mccaskill has made calls to the dept. of justice, may discuss things tomorrow
― mookieproof, Thursday, 14 August 2014 02:23 (nine years ago) link
Way to be on top of things, Claire.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 14 August 2014 02:28 (nine years ago) link
You've had four fucking days.
have we heard of the governor of missouri?
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 14 August 2014 02:29 (nine years ago) link
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
― the one where, as balls alludes (Eazy), Thursday, 14 August 2014 02:33 (nine years ago) link
(They've pissed off Alex Jones! I haven't clicked that link yet.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=zApzDwjxfgs
― polyphonic, Thursday, 14 August 2014 02:33 (nine years ago) link
This is insane
― ruffalo soldier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 August 2014 02:42 (nine years ago) link
http://new.livestream.com/accounts/9035483/events/3271930
― JoeStork, Thursday, 14 August 2014 02:42 (nine years ago) link
holy fuck
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 August 2014 02:54 (nine years ago) link
Media has been told to stop rolling and the St. Louis Police have issued a "final warning" to the crowd. What the hell
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 14 August 2014 03:00 (nine years ago) link
Protectin and serving (themselves that is)
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 14 August 2014 03:01 (nine years ago) link
This stream is a repeat, because what's going on now is what's in the youtube video linked above.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 14 August 2014 03:05 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 August 2014 03:15 (nine years ago) link
they could just go home
― j., Thursday, 14 August 2014 03:16 (nine years ago) link
don't read the comments on that video fyi : [
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 14 August 2014 03:18 (nine years ago) link
man twitter is a fucking godsend right now. i havent been this disgusted in my country since katrina.
― owe me the shmoney (m bison), Thursday, 14 August 2014 03:31 (nine years ago) link
guys america is the best country its the BESSSSSSST
― gbx, Thursday, 14 August 2014 03:33 (nine years ago) link
*burns passport*
this place is garbage
― gbx, Thursday, 14 August 2014 03:34 (nine years ago) link
luckily you won't be needing that to get to missouri
― j., Thursday, 14 August 2014 03:37 (nine years ago) link
So fucking frustrating
― ruffalo soldier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 August 2014 03:58 (nine years ago) link
kinda feeling like germany in 1933 atm
― clouds, Thursday, 14 August 2014 03:59 (nine years ago) link
Fucking crazy.
Rubber-bullet Tiannamen.
― the one where, as balls alludes (Eazy), Thursday, 14 August 2014 04:04 (nine years ago) link
st louis twitter folks to follow:
https://twitter.com/BlackSpadehttps://twitter.com/Vandalyzmhttps://twitter.com/TefPoehttps://twitter.com/Nettaaaaaaaahttps://twitter.com/brownblaze
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 14 August 2014 04:06 (nine years ago) link
@brownblaze particularly is key imo
Antonio French got arrested
― owe me the shmoney (m bison), Thursday, 14 August 2014 04:18 (nine years ago) link
so proud of the people filming and recording the events, i doubt i would have the courage.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 14 August 2014 04:22 (nine years ago) link
are they incredibly stupid or omnipotent... either way they are armed to the teeth and i am really fucking scared
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Thursday, 14 August 2014 05:05 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 14 August 2014 05:14 (nine years ago) link
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
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Thursday, 14 August 2014 05:24 (nine years ago) link
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.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 14 August 2014 05:24 (nine years ago) link
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
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 14 August 2014 05:38 (nine years ago) link
(not graphic, just the level of armament)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=xnSVtW49roE
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 14 August 2014 05:39 (nine years ago) link
jesus fucking christ @ that nyt picture
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Thursday, 14 August 2014 05:45 (nine years ago) link
APV with a sniper on the roof - better equipment and coverage than soldiers got for large parts of the Iraq War.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 14 August 2014 05:52 (nine years ago) link
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
― heck (silby), Thursday, 14 August 2014 05:56 (nine years ago) link
https://storify.com/AthertonKD/veterans-on-ferguson
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 14 August 2014 05:58 (nine years ago) link
https://mobile.twitter.com/AntonioFrench/status/499577829420302336/photo/1
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 14 August 2014 06:03 (nine years ago) link
(eugh storify lets you create hipster banner photos now?)
― heck (silby), Thursday, 14 August 2014 06:09 (nine years ago) link
this is spectacularly fucked of course; such a mindfuck to see ongoing reporting
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 14 August 2014 06:17 (nine years ago) link
from FB
Sandy MahadyThese 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!!!
― the late great, Thursday, 14 August 2014 07:14 (nine years ago) link
pictures look more like an occupying, hostile army than a police force
― lex pretend, Thursday, 14 August 2014 08:27 (nine years ago) link
Is This How A Dystopia Starts?
― ambient yacht god (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 14 August 2014 10:16 (nine years ago) link
Who else is marching today?
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Thursday, 14 August 2014 10:52 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bu9-pU8IcAAjiCt.jpg:large
― Welcome to my spooooooky carnival! Hope I don't... blow your mind! (Phil D.), Thursday, 14 August 2014 11:47 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 August 2014 12:32 (nine years ago) link
xpost If that photo is real and is what it looks like, that is so messed up.
Why the skepticism?
― 龜, Thursday, 14 August 2014 12:34 (nine years ago) link
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?
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Monday, 10 August 2015 17:21 (eight years ago) link
washington post has been doing some good reporting all year
― j., Monday, 10 August 2015 17:32 (eight years ago) link
deray, netta, cornell west arrested
http://gawker.com/state-of-emergency-declared-in-ferguson-as-protestors-a-1723175123
― j., Monday, 10 August 2015 19:46 (eight years ago) link
The place to look for news about all this btw is twitter.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Monday, 10 August 2015 19:52 (eight years ago) link
Really good essay by Darryl Pickney:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/08/18/black-lives-and-the-police/
― thrill of transgressin (Eazy), Saturday, 13 August 2016 17:17 (seven years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 18:31 (seven years ago) link