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- Updated --- Spate Of Hammer-attacks And Apparent Racially-motivated Murders In St. Louis/ferguson Area
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File under: bite me jackasses Ferguson bakery vandalized during unrest receives $200,000 in donationsFERGUSON, MO (KTVI)- We have some uplifting news out of Ferguson this morning. Help is on the way for the owner of Natalie’s Cakes and More!...
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Obama Admin Takes Over #Ferguson Townhall: Orders ID Check, Shuts Windows, Ejects Reporter Local media is reporting that the Obama administration has taken control of access to two Ferguson, Missouri townhall meetings on the Mike Brown shooting...
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Military Vets Weigh In On The ‘Militarization’ Of The Ferguson Police Force
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It seems like everyone has something to say about the Ferguson case, but a particular group of people have been weighing in on the police tactics, and their response has been fascinating.
The Huffington Post reports that many are outraged about the “militarization” of the Ferguson Police Department – from their actions, to the weapons they have been using. “…upwards of 70 officers decked out not just in riot gear, but in equipment suited for foreign battlefields, took to the streets Wednesday night in an attempt to disperse the largely peaceful demonstrations organized to protest Brown’s death.
If the nation needed a poster child for the militarization of its police forces, it just got one.”
And speaking out loudest about the negative effects of the police “playing Army” are veterans themselves. Kelsey D. Atherton, a writer for Popular Science, has collected tweets of members of the military who have commented on the effectiveness (of lack thereof) of the military-style tactics used by the Ferguson Police Department in the days since the violence and looting has broken out through the St. Louis suburb. Here is a selection of some of those tweets, with a few others that have.GO GET THE REST.
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- Updated --- Spate Of Hammer-attacks And Apparent Racially-motivated Murders In St. Louis/ferguson Area
11/30/2014 Ferguson/St. Louis: Bosnian community in St. Louis outraged over fatal hammer attack in Bevo Mill neighborhood video report reveals there were multiple assaults using hammer(s) in St. Louis/Ferguson that night and confirmed by this print...
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From the Inquisitor: A group of black Ferguson residents armed with high-powered rifles stood outside a white-owned business in the city during recent riots, protecting it from rioters that looted and burned other businesses. After a grand jury...
- Somewhere, Frank Capra, Jimmy Stewart And Donna Reed Are Smiling
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Obama Admin Takes Over #Ferguson Townhall: Orders ID Check, Shuts Windows, Ejects Reporter Local media is reporting that the Obama administration has taken control of access to two Ferguson, Missouri townhall meetings on the Mike Brown shooting...
- I See Christines Police Behaving Badly Story And Raise It One Dead Ww2 Hero Grandpa Killed By Police
police shoot and kill 95 year old man from jawa report comes this disturbing and shameful story. and the militarization of our police from peace officers to merciless death dealing arms of the state continues. some one in the...