An Army in Ferguson tonight! Sporadic Twitter/Facebook censoring of #Ferguson hashtag

The reporters were not only arrested, they were assaulted.

According to a tweet sent out by The Huffington Post’s Ryan Reilly, he and the Washington Post’s Wesley Lowery were arrested for “not packing their bags quick enough” after officers swarmed a McDonalds and demanded they leave.

“Officers decided we weren’t leaving McDonald’s quickly enough, shouldn’t have been taping them,” Lowery tweeted, adding the two were “released without any charges, no paperwork whatsoever.”

Lowery said police also assaulted both of them. The two reporters were using the McDonald’s as a hub to publish live-updates to social media about the unrest in Ferguson.

“Officers slammed me into a fountain soda machine because I was confused about which door they were asking me to walk out of,” he said.

The Ferguson Police Department did not immediately respond to TheBlaze’s request for comment Wednesday evening.

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The authorities have shared nothing they are obliged to share. They brought this fight to the streets with total disregard for due process in this investigation and in every step since this boy was gunned down.

Do they actually believe they can control what they are in danger of unleashing? They cannot. The military surplus police force needs to back up more than 25 feet and rethink these deliberate coverups that have already brought us to the brink.

What a nightmare they are creating by turning streets into battlegrounds.

A real and open investigation would have saved us from all of this, most likely. They chose force instead of justice. Authority will lose. Ultimately these obfuscations will lead to their own demise. The authority bestowed on them will be revoked by the American people, if....

What a horrible moment in time we are witnessing.

There are still a large amount of protesters, protesting.

originally posted by: kruphix

originally posted by: Kangaruex4Ewe

originally posted by: Gumerk
a reply to: Yurimaster

A car wash is on fire

wow...why aren't they putting it out?

They are too busy intimidating and scaring everyone to focus on anything else right now I think.

Or it could be that they don't want to let firefighters into an area where people are throwing bottles and molitoves?

Police don't put out fires...and if I was a firefighter, I wouldn't be too thrilled going into an area where people might equate firefighters with authority figures.

Last report said the fire went out on it's on.

a reply to: Thefarmer

I have thought about that and it's a good point. I just wonder if the dash cam footage is inconclusive?

Please turn off video from police

Infowars reporter said they were just told through bullhorn to turn off their recording equipment??

a reply to: Klassified

I'm glad you are not there presently my friend. And I hope that you haven't any family or friends there either.

Trying to arrest people in their own neighborhood for not leaving their own neighborhood isn't going to work out well. And what can the police do? Back down? No. They (the police) know exactly how this will go down. And they won't be the ones going down.

a reply to: Kangaruex4Ewe

I heard the same thing as well. I also heard someone from the crowd yelling set up a road block.

Night vision cam from protester line. new.livestream.com...

wow... sounds like its going to be in the fan officially tonight..

Prayers to those peacefully assembling..

Sad day..

originally posted by: shrevegal The "cop" said, "That is what you get for bringing a kid to a demonstration". I heard the same comment on a documentary video recently of a drone worker that had just killed innocent people...children among them..."Shouldn't bring a kid to a war"

that brings to mind the infamous wilkileaks 'collateral murder' video, when one apache crew member, on being informed he had just shot up kids in a van (after shooting some photographers and reporters into pieces), said 'well they shouldn't bring kids to a battle'

originally posted by: ~Lucidity
Sorta kinda the same question some people here are asking...

Why aren’t libertarians talking about Ferguson?

Great article. Here it is for those who skipped the link.

The shooting death by police of Ferguson, MO teenager Michael Brown, and what has happened in the aftermath, has been blanketing the news for the past few days. It’s a story about race, but it’s also become a story about the power of the state and how it’s wielded, and against whom.

So my question is this: Where are the libertarians?

Libertarians are, after all, supposed to be having their moment, as a cover story in last week’s New York Times Magazine put it. The foundation of libertarianism is skepticism toward government and a belief in individual freedom. There aren’t many freedoms more fundamental than the freedom to walk to your grandmother’s apartment, as Brown was doing, without getting shot by a representative of the government. So you might have thought that libertarians would be all over the media raising pointed questions about the misuse of police power.

You would also have thought that libertarians would be using the police reaction to the protests over Brown’s killing as a case study in the needless and dangerous militarization of the police. Like many police forces around the country, the one in Ferguson is bristling with military equipment, which they brought out to confront protesters. Though we’re talking about a town with 21,000 residents and a police force with 53 officers, they apparently have acquired the means to repel an invasion by any commando teams that decide to invade Ferguson. Driving up in their armored vehicles and decked out in gear appropriate to a Marine patrol in Helmand province, the police used tear gas, rubber bullets, and wooden pellets against protesters, including some who were standing in their own back yards.


But there has been a near-total silence from prominent libertarians on this issue. Senator Rand Paul, right now America’s most prominent libertarian (yes, I know, some don’t consider him a real libertarian), hasn’t said anything about the case — no public comments, no news releases, nothing on Twitter, nothing on Facebook. I contacted his office just to make sure that I hadn’t missed anything, and a press staffer told me they have no statement at this time. I also called the office of Rep. Justin Amash, known as the purest libertarian in the House, and got the same answer: he hasn’t said anything about it, and they have no statement to make. How about mustachioed libertarian TV personality John Stossel? Just a couple of weeks ago he was writing about the militarization of the police. He hasn’t said a peep about Ferguson.

You can find articles about Ferguson on the website of Reason, the libertarian magazine. But the politicians and conservative media figures who claim to be the most fervent advocates of individual freedom and to care the most about misuse of government power have been silent. One might be tempted to conclude they believe that when somebody’s grandson has to pay taxes on their inheritance, it’s a horrifying injustice that demands redress, but when somebody else’s grandson gets shot walking down the street, that’s just how things go sometimes.

a reply to: weirdguy

Night vision video feed here
new.livestream.com...

Here is another live stream.

new.livestream.com...

This group looks a lot less "peacefull"...since they are chanting "This is a warcry" and a lot of them are wearing masks.

They are all gathered and blocking the entire street that they are on.

I'm sorry, I can't back these people's tactics...they are going about it the wrong way...this is not a peaceful protest.

Turn off cameras?

Are they stupid?

There is no way they could think that even asking that is realistic or even within their rights.
This could be very bad for the police department at the rate they are going.

More tear gas and rubber bullets you can here the popping

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Next time people need to bring ear protection!

Sound weapon deployed

Sounds like they just turned on those sound weapons.

You can hear it on livestream.