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
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.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Thursday, 14 August 2014 12:36 (nine years ago) link
Longer clip from yesterday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO1SKC6dK7o
― 龜, Thursday, 14 August 2014 12:40 (nine years ago) link
xpost Not skeptical, per se, but I've never seen one of those laser gun sight dots in anything but the movies. I know they exist, but I have no idea what they look like irl. Let alone pointed at someone's back in the dark.
The police behavior AND presence is a problem at this point. But if they are removed from the equation, I can't imagine this resolving itself quietly. This is what happens when they lose the public's trust.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 August 2014 12:42 (nine years ago) link
According to various tweets, Antonio French was pulled out of his parked car and arrested last night. He was just released.
― Andy K, Thursday, 14 August 2014 12:43 (nine years ago) link
"Illegal assembly" in a parked car.
― Andy K, Thursday, 14 August 2014 12:44 (nine years ago) link
Bet you've never seen a police officer in full tactical gear perched on an ATV with a sniper rifle before either but you weren't questioning that photo
― 龜, Thursday, 14 August 2014 12:44 (nine years ago) link
Man, those reporters and all the people with cameras in the middle of this ...
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 August 2014 12:46 (nine years ago) link
http://thatsenuff.com/index.php/2014/08/howard-alum-was-shot-in-the-head-in-ferguson-conflicting-reports-on-what-took-place-photovideo/
― 龜, Thursday, 14 August 2014 12:47 (nine years ago) link
what the fuck
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Thursday, 14 August 2014 12:49 (nine years ago) link
Was this posted upthread?
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/whistleblower-in-st-louis-county-police-racial-profiling-probe-alleges/article_3f52ec44-f9ab-5b06-b1f9-868cd63fc9ba.html
Absolutely damning.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 August 2014 12:52 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/A8mlmOY.jpg
Apparently the Ferguson police tear-gassed an Al Jazeera media crew
― 龜, Thursday, 14 August 2014 12:59 (nine years ago) link
Tom Tomorrow cartoon nails it: https://medium.com/the-nib/officer-friendly-28e8d9399bbb
― Welcome to my spooooooky carnival! Hope I don't... blow your mind! (Phil D.), Thursday, 14 August 2014 13:03 (nine years ago) link