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Massive SWAT Presence In Ferguson Unleash Tear Gas & Rubber Bullets: "Go Home Or Be Subject To Arrest - This Is Not Open For Discussion" - Live Feed
2150ET - Things just got ugly:
BREAKING PHOTO: FERGUSON RIGHT NOW. pic.twitter.com/CZRwMSLbvr
— PzFeed Top News (@PzFeed) August 14, 2014
RIGHT NOW: TEAR GAS AND RUBBER BULLETS FIRED AT PROTESTERS IN FERGUSON. Via @PaulSzoldra pic.twitter.com/OA12oKNB3a
— PzFeed Top News (@PzFeed) August 14, 2014
.@BmoreConetta:In a matter of seconds police set off tear gas declares this is no longer a peaceful protest pic.twitter.com/ujrZ94rmjH #Ferguson
— Kasey Henton (@rainekasey) August 14, 2014
"Here is gas fired moments ago:" #Ferguson pic.twitter.com/GNGROIz2fW
— ? (@natedrug) August 14, 2014
"This is no longer a peaceful assembly. Go home or be subject to arrest," says the loudspeaker. "
— Antonio French (@AntonioFrench) August 14, 2014
UPDATE: Live Feed from Ferguson:
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SWAT overlooks protestors in #Ferguson. They've all moved to sidewalk. pic.twitter.com/peY5cOVBZl
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) August 13, 2014
"This is not open for discussion." -- cop on loudspeaker, telling crowd to leave the area pic.twitter.com/KYaNaFbvzw
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) August 13, 2014
The #STL SWAT team has weapons drawn in #Ferguson at a protest in broad daylight with media attending pic.twitter.com/z6zIVuCM6D
— FOX2now (@FOX2now) August 13, 2014
Here's the scene in #Ferguson. http://t.co/IteNsOpHfA pic.twitter.com/5E5FzCaZfR"
— LuAnne Sorrell (@luannesorrell) August 14, 2014
2 reporters arrested...
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Don't say we didn't warn you...
while we already documented America's conversation to a turnkey totalitarian banana republic (confirmed over a year later by Edward Snowden), behold America's conversion to a police state:
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Despite Police best efforts to force Ferguson residents off the streets, tensions reignited once again as night fell last night and, as The Guardian reports, a second man has been shot by police. Police officials told local reporters that the man was shot in Ferguson by a St Louis County officer after pointing a handgun at him soon after 1am on Wednesday. A crowd of around 250 young protesters were halted by police and separately a woman is being treated in hospital after being shot in the head during a drive-by shooting in the troubled city. Protesters exclaimed, "we have a right to assemble, a right to freedom," said Paul Muhammad. "But here we are facing what looks like a military imposing martial law. It is not acceptable." Interestingly, President Obama's official response "urging reflection" has been rejected as insultingly inadequate by many African American residents of Ferguson.
As The Guardian reports, a second man has been shot by police in Ferguson...
Police officials told local reporters that the man was shot in Ferguson by a St Louis County officer after pointing a handgun at him soon after 1am on Wednesday, following fresh demonstrations over the death on Saturday of Michael Brown.
The officer was responding to reports of shots being fired and men wearing ski masks carrying shotguns. The man was in critical condition in hospital, a police spokesman told the St Louis Post-Dispatch, Fox 2 and KMOV, and his gun was recovered at the scene.
But chaos reigns in the city it would appear...
A woman was separately being treated in hospital after being shot in the head during a drive-by shooting in the city. The incidents followed the peaceful end earlier to a tense standoff between protesters and police, prompting hopes of avoiding a third night of violence.
A raucous convoy of about 250 young demonstrators, marching along a main route into downtown Ferguson, was halted about 30 yards from a wall of police assembled at the entrance to the street where Brown was killed by a still-unidentified officer on Saturday.
As SWATified Police tried to keep control...
Officers in military-style uniforms, some carrying high-powered rifles and wearing balaclavas, formed a line at least two men deep and blocking the entire width of Florrisant Street, the main drag where angry protests over Brown's killing had flared for the previous two nights.
Pitched behind two large armoured trucks, they repeatedly warned the demonstrators through a Tannoy system to "get out of the road or face arrest" – the same warning delivered on Monday night before officers fired teargas, rubber bullets and wooden baton rounds into the crowds.
But for 40 minutes, the protesters defied the threat. Some hung out of car windows, while others raised their arms aloft and repeated what has become their defining slogan: "Hands up, don't shoot." A police helicopter swooped around the dark sky above, shining a bright spotlight on the faces of the almost entirely African American crowd.
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As the police declined to follow through with arrests, furious members of the crowd screamed obscenities at officers and urged them to "shoot those rubber bullets". But after 40 minutes in which it seemed that a repeat of Monday night's clashes would happen at any moment, the protesters abruptly melted away.
"We have a right to assemble, a right to freedom," said Paul Muhammad. "But here we are facing what looks like a military imposing martial law. It is not acceptable."
President Obama is not making any friends...
In a statement on Tuesday, Barack Obama described Brown's death as "heartbreaking". Noting the FBI investigation, the president appealed for calm. "I know the events of the past few days have prompted strong passions, but as details unfold, I urge everyone in Ferguson, Missouri, and across the country to remember this young man through reflection and understanding. We should comfort each other and talk with one another in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds."
The official response to Brown's death has been rejected as insultingly inadequate by many African American residents of Ferguson, a city of about 21,000 people where 67% of the population is black, yet 94% of the police force – and prominent figures in local government, such as the mayor – are white.
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Of course, all we have is Tweets and YouTube evidence since US airspace was closed to news choppers... welcome to Free America.
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Reflection would work, darn it, if people would just do it.
So now they are harrassing the press. The police state is alive and well. If you are not doing anything wrong why are they trying to stop the media from reporting?
Folks need to do more reflecting and less shooting and arresting folks.
The government wanted this same fight with the Cliven Bundy clan. The seeds have been planted.
Yet the protestors in Ferguson cheered "Drone them" at bundy ranch.
This shitshow bears little resemblance to a real deal SHTF scenario would look like.
Watch the ending scenes of Red State to get an idea of the kind of *unsustainable losses* the bad guys would take when they mess with people that are a step up from rioting peasants.
By the way cops shot the guy who "pointed a gun." Might there happen to be anybody other than cops who saw it that way?
I live in St. Louis county... things are pretty tense all over. Initially this seemed like another scenario of the FSA mouthing off to their masters over another cop shooting. But watching the police state constrict and violate civil liberties is starting to get pretty fucking disturbing.
They claim the airspace was closed due to shots being fired at a police chopper. But the "media" is being pretty damn cooperative... too cooperative with this no fly zone AND by vacating areas where protests and stand offs are happening.
The volume of the military-like police troops increase and the uniformed black and whites are pretty much non-existant - that's causing some of the problems... and it's going to end up drawing a lot of freedom luvin' gun totin' Missouri folks into this fight.
Did you miss the NDAA?
And you are surprised by this?
Gee, this fascist militarized police force has not injured a single protester. No hospitalizations for rioters and/or thieves caused by police action. A cop did suffer an ankle injury from a thrown brick and a helicopter was hit by gunfire. Sounds like the liberal/anarchist rioters may be the real nazis here.
If you want to stop a MRAP just throw Molotov cocktails on it. They will come out like ants on fire or end up like popcorn. For those of you that say these are just monkeys going off the reservation. At least they have the BALLS TO PROTEST. Sorry for the racial overtones.
Rules for Radicals
Two Department of Justice “protest marshals” are in Ferguson, Missouri to help train people taking part in demonstrations over the fatal police shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
That’s according to Ferguson mayor James Knowles, who spoke with The Daily Caller Wednesday evening.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/14/ferguson-mayor-two-doj-protest-marshals-in-town/#ixzz3ANb3elGN I told ya it was organized, same signs as union strike in SF bayarea BART. Same people who organzied Occupy.Trolls are out in force today. Pushing racism. Divide and conquer. Sure, use the military war machine on blacks, then they can turn it on you. Smh............. some of you people do not learn from history. They will eventually come for you as well.
Been on Zero hedge for about 4 yrs now and I have never seen so many racial postings. Nothing but a bunch of dot gov paid trolls on here posting. Most of these people ive never seen post before. They do this on any site that people in the know tend to congregate. Not falling for the divide and conquer. This is actually kind of funny. The government is actually worried about this site or they wouldnt waste thier time doing this BS. LMAO...........trolls.
Sad and true Wtfcity. Somebody tell luckystars to meet me behind the supermarket at 3:00 O'clock high.