Despite announcing the end to the curfew in Ferguson, MO tonight, police in the city continue to escalate the crackdown on demonstrators, trying to limit rallies to designated “free speech zone” and warning them, even in those areas, to keep walking or face immediate arrest.
Military vehicles and police in body armor took to the streets at night, attacking protesters with tear gas and incendiary grenades, trying to send the crowds scattering, but only fueling more anger.
The crackdowns were reported during the day, including the arrest of a photojournalist from Getty Images for trying to take pictures outside of the designated free speech zones.
A brief calm on Thursday now seems a distant memory, as police ditched the tactics of talking with the protesters and returned to their more comfortable, but decidedly less effective, strategy of attacking them on sight.
If it is American soil then it is a free speech zone.
have been hearing people argue that the autopsy results released prove Brown was not shot at while running away, but this eyewitness, whose cell phone was confiscated by the police (why don't people remember cameras/cell phones were confiscated?) clearly says the officer shot at Brown as he ran way &, after possibly having his arm grazed, he turns around & gets shot multiple times from the front. all the peripheral stuff should be ignored, & everyone should concentrate on demilitarisinge the police. don't get sucked into a race war.
New Video of Michael Brown Shooting Aftermath – Interview with Piaget Crenshaw – CNN – 8-18-14
Crenshaw said there was a struggle at the police car in which it seemed Wilson was trying to draw Brown in. Brown took off running, and Crenshaw said Wilson began firing; when Brown turned around, he was shot multiple times…
Premeditated execution — Instant death being standard law enforcement against contempt
Brown stood in the lane that the squad traveled, requiring the cop to steer around him and as that was an act of contempt that no black is allowed to live and brag about since the Civil War, first four shots were fired into Brown’s right arm to prevent a counter attack and to hold Brown dead still, like a matador in a bull ring,. then two quick shots to the head for a kill most sure and quick. For all the neighborhood must know for an absolute what happens when they fail to give a legalized killer his due respect.
What will happen is what always seems to happen, whether the cop was justified or not:
Officer Friendly gets away with it, because he was doing his job.
Unless this one time they choose to make an example out of him, for political concerns.
"We really AREN'T racists…and we don't put up with police brutality!"
LOL.
Empire USA, the richest nation the world has every known, so why is the working-class suberb of Ferguson suffering total poverty? Why are their young men under age 24 suffering a full 47% unemployment. Surely the root cause of this uproar, yet mainstream corporate media says not one word about it.