Ferguson: Militarized police use force against protesters, arrest journalists
I counted 70+ SWAT officers. Guns trained on crowds. Insanity. pic.twitter.com/stev2G6v4b— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) August 13, 2014 Demonstrators in Ferguson, Missouri held protests today in the...
View ArticleFerguson: live video streams of SWAT team assault on protesters
Just saw teargas land right at feet of al-Jazeera America camera crew. They say they were also shot at pic.twitter.com/tbMSlENDlV— Jon Swaine (@jonswaine) August 14, 2014 Live web video streams of the...
View ArticleVideo of Ferguson police gassing news crew and dismantling their equipment
A news crew, clearly no threat or impediment to the cops, films from a verge in Ferguson, Missouri. A pop and a cloud of white smoke marks the arrival of a tear gas canister at their feet, and the...
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A sample of US military veterans' reactions to Ferguson police crackdown
"The general consensus here: if this is militarization, it's the shittiest, least-trained, least professional military in the world, using weapons far beyond what they need, or what the military would...
View ArticleMissouri, Goddamn
The great diva Nina Simone, as timely as ever. Alabama's got me so upset, Tennessee made me lose my rest and everybody knows about Missouri, goddamn.— Saeed Jones (@theferocity) August 14, 2014
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Ferguson police: Officer doxed by Anonymous isn't the one who shot Mike Brown
CNN is reporting that Missouri police say neither of the two officers whose names, photographs, and personal data were released this morning by Anonymous are the officer who shot and killed unarmed...
View Article10 facts about the SWATification of the US
SWAT team raids in the US have gone up 25-fold since 1980. Time's recent article about the militarization of the police reports that "the federal government has funneled $4.3 billion of military...
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Ferguson police response 'a municipal version of shock and awe'
Eyewitness Jelani Cobb, reporting for the New Yorker: "What transpired in the streets appeared to be a kind of municipal version of shock and awe; the first wave of flash grenades and tear gas had...
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'Mike Brown was a man.'
Anil Dash, at Medium: "It’s plain as day that the cops have no strategy, no end goal in Ferguson. There’s no leadership. They don’t even understand the situation that they’ve found themselves in."
View ArticleVideo: GOP congressman says Ferguson protesters of 'a single continental origin'
Speaking on conservative internet TV show NewsMax, Rep. Steve King said that he was not concerned that police in Ferguson, Missouri were racially profiling protesters, because all of these protestors...
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Meet 3 other unarmed black men killed by US police in recent weeks
Amid the outrage in Ferguson, Missouri over the police shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, a reminder that Brown is not the only unarmed black man killed by police in recent weeks....
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Net Neutrality, Algorithmic Filtering and Ferguson
Zeynep Tufekci on Medium argues that the reason the world knows about Ferguson is because Twitter is such a powerful, unfiltered channel for real-time eyewitness reports.Facebook isn't, and that...
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US veterans: Ferguson Police Department’s response is a clusterfuck
Image from Ferguson. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni More on responses to the police crackdown in Ferguson by U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that the police actions so closely resemble. Many...
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US AG Holder on Ferguson: Police must 'seek to reduce tensions, not heighten...
“At a time when we must seek to rebuild trust between law enforcement and the local community, I am deeply concerned that the deployment of military equipment and vehicles sends a conflicting message,”...
View ArticleVideo: Standoff in Ferguson, a New York Times short online documentary
"They're mad. I'm mad. We should all be angry because of what's going on right now." (more…)
View ArticleVideo and full text of President Obama's remarks on Ferguson
President Obama addressed the nation today on the racially charged and violent response by police in Ferguson, Missouri to protesters gathered to express outrage over the police killing of Michael...
View ArticleThe Ferguson Army: A song by Jonathan 'Song a Day' Mann
Why’s a small town in Missouri Need a great big fucking army? They’re not enemy combatants They live there, that’s their home When you’re holding an assault rifle Every human looks like an enemy When...
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More Ferguson press bullying: 2 National Journal reporters threatened with...
Al Jazeera reporters attempting to report on the protests were attacked with tear gas by police.Another tale of police harassment of the press in Ferguson, Missouri: "Two National Journal reporters...
View ArticleWhole new vibe at today's Ferguson protest. And by vibe we mean less tanks,...
There's a new sheriff in town. pic.twitter.com/nDy81apYuN— Antonio French (@AntonioFrench) August 14, 2014 After broad condemnation for heavy-handed, violent response to mostly peaceful...
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Name of Ferguson police officer who shot Mike Brown revealed
Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson announcing the name of the officer. [REUTERS/Lucas Jackson] Missouri Governor Jay Nixon today reveled the name of the police officer who shot and killed 18-year-old...
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Ferguson: behind police lines helmet-cam video of tactical team teargassing...
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has published GoPro video footage by staff photographer David Carson "during his embed with the St. Louis County Police tactical team on Monday night." At about 2:45 in,...
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Norman Rockwell does Ferguson, by illustrator Anthony Freda
A riff on Rockwell's "Runaway," from 1958, done in 2014 by Anthony Freda. [HT: @stevesilberman]
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