Detention without charges and intimidation was the order of the day for Ferguson police again, with a heavily militarized force continuing to push the protesters around and try to intimidate both demonstrators and reporters.
The situation on the ground remains relatively calm, with demonstrators continue to organize peacefully despite the threats from the police, and coverage of the protests continued despite police vowing to continue to arrest reporters “because of safety concerns.”
Around 100 protesters also rallied at the site of a second shooting today in St. Louis, though the majority continued to be in Ferguson, where the 11th night of protests took place without serious incident.
Details on the St. Louis killing remain scant, but police claimed the unnamed 23-year-old man was a “suspected shoplifter,” and that they had to shoot him because he was “brandishing a knife.” The killing added to anger in the region, though the St. Louis police chief defended the killing as “about officer safety.”
The demonstrations in Ferguson centered, as usual, around both the killing of Michael Brown and the many days of violent police crackdown that followed, and there appears to be little faith that local officials will actually do anything about the killing, and many are hoping that Attorney General Eric Holder, sent to the region today, will take some action on charges against the shooter.
Looming over the protests is not only growing anger about the crackdowns, but the constant fear of a new crackdown, as previously the police have launched attacks without notice, hurling tear gas and incendiary grenades into the crowds to try to send them scattering.
No one ever thought cops were particularly bright, but here they go again, killing someone. I guess they can't help it.
Ferguson is just the start. It is just a matter of time for the demonstration of discontent to spread to other towns. Something for this country's oligarchy to think about.
Seriously though… a over -militarized police force and ham-handed application of force is not enough, despite wall-to-wall coverage by the cable media, to wake the American people up enough to carry it into other towns. If it was going to happen it would have happened by now.
The American people may be outraged but they're not about to put their complacency in jeopardy by raising their heads high enough to show up on the authorities radar.
This is the New World Order, and (legal) under the so-called Patriot Act,
which gives thug cops the excuse to detain peaceful citizens exercising
(our) First Amendment Rights, and intimidate members the press.
If people of Ferguson are (waiting) for any kind of justice from Oboomer,
looking at this guy's track record in Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Afghanistan,
Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, and Ukraine, I wouldn't hold my breath for anything
of substance. He'll sooner have another beer hall summit with racist cops.
RickR30
“No one ever thought cops were particularly bright”
Quite the reverse, for it takes one more intelligent then a crook to catch a crook.
For Empire USA was created by the slave owners to be a paradise for High Society, namely the rich nobility who are the gifted high achiever who have always owned 80% of all our wealth.
So, the name of the game is to give the educated upper half of society 20% of all the wealth in our brutal and imperial Empire, plus give all of the laboring-class lower half of society to the intelligent middle-class as slave labor to gratify all their desires self-glorification.
And so, all of law enforcement is of the intelligent middle-class and they spend 95% of their time protecting all that hoarded wealth by establishing a police state for laboring men. Comes now all of our jails and prisons to be filled with 95% laboring men and to incarcerate over 25% of all the inmates on earth.
Therefore, if your waiting for my slow of thought and non violent laboring-class to give you a rebellion, you wait in vain, as that be your job. You of education, you of the upper half who claim to know the right and have the guts to do the right.
What shameless propaganda. Media-goaded looters & rioters are trashing Ferguson right now.
What else have expected? Most libertarians live in a bubble.
Simply put, the people of Ferguson, the unknown numbers of looters and other provocateurs aside, are entirely justified in rising up. The cops have no right under our constitution to oppose or disperse them, or to be there to repress them in the first place.
All the rumor mongering by the media against Mike Brown is irrelevant. Those who come to this national crisis as usual with an agenda of justifying police violence (and push it with extra zeal when the victims are working class blacks) are on the wrong side of history. Simple as that. The people, starting with the people of Ferguson, will prevail over those tyrants great and small who will find themselves without a badge or a seat in Congress.