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originally posted by: kosmicjack
a reply to: Mikeultra
I don't fully understand the details but supposedly(?) it's a communist organization. I'm sure someone will come along and provide more info.
The arrest of two reporters from the Washington Post and Huffington Post on Wednesday, as well as the tear gassing of an Al Jazeera news crew, generated a tremendous amount of negative publicity for police in Ferguson, Missouri, and it seemed, briefly, that authorities there had concluded that cooperating with the media was a smarter tactic. However, on Sunday night tensions flared again between cops and reporters. Just before 11 p.m. three journalists reported on Twitter that they had been handcuffed and detained by police. Others said cops were threatening to mace them, and then on a livestream with more than 45,000 viewers, an officer was caught on tape yelling at a reporter, "Get the # out of here. You get that light off, or you're getting shot with this."
The National Guard is being sent to Ferguson, MO. When was the last time this happened for a protest?
This community would have been much safer and protected their own if the occupying army (police) had withdrawn completely.
originally posted by: kosmicjack
Chris King editorial director of St Louis American told CNN that Nixon's executive order for the Guard was written with "broad power and vague objectives."
He mentioned the outside groups, Chicago specifically. Said a woman complained to Nixon at a presser on Thursday about the outside elements but was dismissed.
King, who is white BTW, said that last night's protest was completely peaceful until police escalated it.
originally posted by: roadgravel
From obs-onthemove,org
There are 52 police and only 5 are Black. That’s 6% Black representation.
Actually it's almost 10%. Someone should have stayed in junior high another year or two.
Although about two-thirds of Ferguson residents are black, its mayor and five of its six City Council members are white. Only three of the town’s 53 police officers are black.
originally posted by: kruphix
Why do you, and others, continue to ignore the crime spree that is going on after dark in Ferguson? How many businesses have been looted? How many buildings have been started on fire? How many people have been shot by these "peaceful protestors"?
originally posted by: TheBlackTiger
a reply to: kruphix
Let's not pretend that the whole city is burning here.
Yes, some property damage has occurred. And no, I don't think that's okay, in fact it's really stupid because private business owners are being hurt rather than the actual targets. They should try to burn down the police station or city hall or something if they want to burn something.
That said, small to intermediate rioting resulting in fires and damage to vehicles is not uncommon. Here in MN, college kids and adults periodically riot, setting fires and damaging vehicles. Their cause? Hockey games. The National Guard has never been deployed to deal with it.