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The Ferguson Morning After: Police "Come Under Heavy Gunfire", Arrest 31 Including Photographer, Journalist
The local authorities have tried everything: aggressive police, appeasing highway patrol, curfew, no curfew, and last night, the national guard. Nothing seems to work. Because what until 9 pm was a peaceful protest, it quickly, as documented here extensively, spiraled out of control. And as the crowd advanced, police fired stun grenades and tear gas at protesters. This escalation allegedly happened after, as Reuters reports, the police came under heavy gunfire leading to the arrest of 31 people, including a famous Getty photographer and yet another journalist.
State Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson, briefing reporters on Monday's night's violence, said "our officers came under heavy gunfire" in one area.
The good news: an all out bloodbath was avoided: "Not a single bullet was fired by officers despite coming under heavy attack," he told a news conference. Riot police had confiscated two guns from protesters and what looked like a petrol bomb. Four officers had been injured. Others too:
Johnson separately told CNN that two people were shot within the crowd, but not by police, and were taken to hospital. There was no immediate word on their condition.
The violence has captured headlines around the world, raising questions about the state of U.S. race relations nearly six years after Americans elected their first black president.
"This has to stop. I don't want anybody to get hurt. We have to find a way to stop this," said Johnson, an African-American who grew up in the area and who took over security efforts after the mostly white local force was accused of using excessive force against blacks.
Unfortunately for the president who took some time off from his well-deserved 2-week vacation, his racial fire and brimstone speech, which took jabs at both the police and protesters, had zero impact on the local population. "While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving in to that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police, only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos," Obama told a news conference on Monday. "It undermines, rather than advancing, justice."
What's more troubling is that the Ferguson protest movement is beginning to spread to other cities. For now, it is peaceful.
There have been largely peaceful protests over Brown's killing elsewhere in the United States including in St. Louis, New York, Seattle and Oakland. Police commander Johnson said some of those arrested had come from California and New York.
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency in Ferguson on Saturday and a curfew from midnight to 5 a.m. He also mobilized the National Guard to back up state police.
Obama said he told the governor the use of the National Guard should be limited and called for conciliation in communities hit by the unrest.
And if the one man paragon of true justice, US attorney general Eric Holder, who is arriving in Ferguson on Wednesday, and is also taking time away from his busy schedule of arresting countless bankers for crimes conducted during the financial crisis and after, can't put the looting genie in the bottle, then all bets are off.
Finally, what is worst of all, is that in its scramble to put away any potentially threatening element, the local polica arrested not only Getty's famous photographer Scott Olson...
Getty photo of Getty photographer Scott Olson being arrested in #Ferguson (h/t @Walldo): pic.twitter.com/mAZpXWTPLS
— Neetzan Zimmerman (@neetzan) August 18, 2014
But also Intercept reporter, Ryan Deveraux, who too was apprehended while covering the riots. Below is the editorial published hours ago by Intercept Editor-in-Chief, John Cook:
Intercept Reporter Detained While Covering Ferguson Protests
Intercept reporter Ryan Devereaux was detained this morning while on the ground covering the protests in Ferguson, Mo. According to St. Louis Post-Dispatch photographer David Carson, who witnessed the apprehension, Ryan and a German reporter he was with were both taken into custody by members of a police tactical team. They were handcuffed and placed in a wagon, and Carson was told they were being taken to St. Louis County jail.
We haven’t been able to reach officials with the St. Louis County Police Department or Ferguson Police Department to find out if Ryan has been arrested or charged, or under what pretext he was detained. But needless to say, it’s an outrage that he was stopped and handcuffed by police in the course of lawfully doing his job on the streets of Ferguson. We are trying to contact Ryan now.
At a press conference early this morning, Missouri Highway Patrol Capt. Ron Johnson told reporters in Ferguson that 31 arrests had been made, including members of the “criminal element” from “as far away as New York.” When asked by a reporter if any of those 31 had been reporters, he immediately–and falsely–replied, “these people were not journalists that were arrested.”
But he quickly admitted that in the “chaos” of the protests, officers may not be able to distinguish between reporters and other bystanders: “So yes, we may take some of you into custody. But when we do take you into custody, and we have found out that you are a journalist, we have taken the proper action.” This begs the question as to why police would be compelled to arrest an otherwise law-abiding non-journalist simply for attending a protest. But we insist that the St. Louis County Police Department, Ferguson Police Department, and Missouri Highway Patrol take the proper action and release Ryan Devereaux immediately.
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Mike Brown was on THC. He could barely walk straight, maybe he floated at the officer?
This story is getting weirder by the day. Tomorrow we will hear that Wilson's mom screwed Brown's parents out of a lot of money in one of her scams. That would establish a motive for Brown's attack on Wilson and any jury would convict Brown post mortem to a life sentence.
Brown should be left to rot in jail. Sure. /sarc
Oh and please read the twitter responses on the link you've posted. Nobody is buying the story.
That last headline has made me very sad. After Wilson is acquitted there will be troubles. Fuck the Redskins!
The media and Amnesty International and all the rest of cultural Marxists are SILENT on this topic, gee I wonder why?
From an interview with Mike Tyson, in Maxim magazine, July 2001:
"The other day I saw a show on Court TV. There was this kid who got convicted of murder. A skinny Caucasian guy. He got 20 years, and he thought this was a good deal. He had no idea -- his life is over! They're gonna fuck him. I said to myself, They're watching this right now, and their mouths are watering!" He puts his head in his hands and screams so loud, the cups on the table rattle. "Owwww!"
No Amnesty International here, no FBI or DOJ investigating these "officers" gee I wonder why:
href="http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/01/22/memphis/?sid=1008487">The
jail from hell
The jail from hell
If you ever go to Memphis, you better walk right. A chilling report on one of the worst places in America.
The day after Thanksgiving, a Memphis, Tenn., resident named Joseph Liberto got into a fight with his wife. According to her, he chased her through the house with a knife. She called the police, who arrived at the couple's upper-middle-class home and arrested Liberto. (Memphis Police Department policy is to arrest suspects at the scene of a domestic violence call when weapons are involved.) Liberto had calmed down by that time, and the police did not handcuff him. They let him fetch a jacket and his antidepressant medication, which he takes four times a day. It was merely a precaution, Liberto assumed: His attorney, a prominent city litigator, would have him out of the Shelby County Jail in a matter of hours.
Liberto, who is the father of three teenage girls and had never before been arrested, was dropped off at the jail's intake area. It was a cramped, filthy space crowded with hundreds of inmates waiting to be classified, its floor covered in feces, urine and food. Liberto found himself sandwiched between two men, one who said he'd been arrested for beating and raping a 14-year-old girl, the other for shooting someone. Twice, according to Liberto, he asked guards for his medication: They cursed at him and told him to sit down and shut up. After hours, guards showed him what he thought were his bonding papers. Instead they were documents that would officially admit him into a cell within the jail. "I hadn't been able to call my lawyer," he says. "I knew I was in a bad place. I was really scared at that point."
Liberto was placed in a cell by himself. Sitting on the steel bed without a mattress, he watched a rat scurrying in and out from beneath his bed, where a pile of feces lay. Suddenly, his cell door was unlocked. (Every hour, all the cells in the jail are opened for five minutes so that inmates can enter a day room for a break.) At this time, a group of four men entered Liberto's cell.
A devout Catholic, Liberto had earlier prayed with two inmates in the intake room. "When they came in, I said, 'Do you want to pray?'" Liberto recalls. "They said, 'I don't think we want to pray.'"
Interviewed at his home, decorated with bright Christmas knickknacks, Liberto chokes back sobs as he remembers the scene.
Two men stood by the cell door. They ordered Liberto to shut up or they would slit his throat. Pull your pants down, they said. One of the men pushed a spoon into Liberto's mouth. "They told me to suck on this spoon, lick it real good," he says, barely able to talk through his sobs. "They bent me over and rammed that spoon in my rectum so hard, ramming it and turning it and shoving it and they said, 'We're getting you ready.' And then they took their penises out and put them in my face and rubbed them on my mouth. I could feel one of them back there. They put a handkerchief or something in my mouth."
The guards announced it was time to lock down the pod again. As the men who had orally raped and sodomized him left his cell, Liberto says that a guard yelled at his assailants, "Did you show that white boy a good time?"
From admission to when he finally posted bond and left, Liberto's ordeal in the Shelby County Jail had lasted more than 26 hours.
Liberto is still suffering psychologically and physically. He's attending therapy sessions with a rape crisis counselor. Medical records show that his rectum was torn. He used a sock to absorb blood immediately after the assault, but says he's still bleeding almost two months later. His thumb and shoulder may need surgery from being bent back by his attackers.
Hmmmm....my girlfriend said she really liked 'spooning!' (.)(.)
I'm very suprised at the critical thinking people here who can't understand how the "kid" was shot in the arms when if you think about it the answer is qutie simple. FWIW on the 8/15 i posted a scenario to a commenter and turned out to be correct. If anyone wishes to verify the comment ID 5098939 there you go. The nut of it is pasted below. Here it goes-
The "kid" with his hands up who then charges the officer pointing a gun at him brings his hands down and begins to run. arms move when running, and depending on the distance between the officer and the "kid", his arms come up to grab/block the gun about to be fired. If the "kid" brings his hands up to block the shots the bullet will enter, exit, and re-enter on other parts of the arm or his body.
As the "kid" is hit with each bullet he falls forward, maybe stubbling, and as he's is falling to the ground and forward at the officer, he takes the one in the cheek that re-enters into the clavicle and the final one being in the top because he was falling forward and to the ground. this would explain the injuries to the top of the head and the injuries to the arms and collar bone.
Like i said in the previous comment about the scenario I'm not saying this is fact but, think about it like you would when deciphering the unemployment numbers or the BLSBS or anything that comes from the Fed.
"Try this one out. Say the cop stopped the kid and tried to ask him if he was at this store where the robbery took place and he fit the description. Say the kid said fuck you and tried to grab the cops gun as the officer responded by say trying to get out of the vehicle and the gun goes off and pushes the officer back into the car.Then as the officer tries to apprehend the suspect by asking to stop and comply while pointing his gun at him the suspect doesn't stop but just walks away without compying with the officers commands. Say the cop tells him stop or i'll shoot. say the kid stopped and turned around with his hands up, but then tried to rush the officer. Remember this kid is 6' 4" 300lbs. Anyone, including an officer, would shoot more than once at someone that big charging them.
Not saying these is the facts, but when one asks why the police show these images is to be ignorant of the medias attempt to race bait the coverage and facilitate an agenda.
Divide and conquer. Learn it, love it, live it!"
He shudda waited until the cop said , 'Simon says ......'
Jacship: If you think this is about race your wroug its about class warfare progressive's summer training camp template 014.0
I respectfully disagree. It comes down to stupidity. Mikes mom is dumber than a bag of foetid dicks. She forgot to tell him not to break a cops face. Ya might get shot. Or even shot and killed.
Race got nuthin' to do with it. Economics got nuthin' to do with it. Just plain old stupidity.
Kinda like those jerk-offs who "run with the bulls" Ya might get gored.
How stupid do all these "protesters" feel now?
Assault a cop = felony.
Cops aren't paid to take a beatin' After breakin' the cops face if you run away you're a fleeing felon. Over a dozen witnesses now say he charged the cop. If you turn around and charge him....well, ya get what's comin' to ya. Skin color has nothing to do with it.
Pure unadulterated stupidity.
Duc, Investigation has not been concluded yet, but yeah, if your that unstable that your charging armed cops as a teenager perhaps better that your not here anymore than the trail of suffering and death your likely to leave in your wake as you go through life.
Yeah, I'm sure that everyone in Ferguson will agree with your view and go home now.
American cops never lie. Especially not to protect their own. Never.
Really! just like Aussie cops then, I understand there are a lot of witnesses who essentially all have the same story, non cop witnesses, of course you will always have the people who will say the police got to them all, just like there are some people I will never convince that the moon landings are for real, if it was just the cops story, I would be sceptical too,, but its not.
Ya know I already miss the good old days when the gangs of color just used to fight over drug turf & biatches! It jus ain't the same no mo'!
PD releasing piece meal new information to further aggrevate the masses. Either they have a terrible agenda or they're really really stupid. Not good.
"PD releasing piece meal new information to further aggrevate the masses. Either they have a terrible agenda or they're really really stupid. Not good."
Or maybe just being extra cautious to release that information which can be thoroughly backed up with hard evidence. Facts.
Just sayin'
Leaking out faulty info at this juncture would be even worse.
Wilson could have set this record straight the day of the shooting. Wilson didn't call it in as per the unmanipulated first accounts.
He could have easily hit himself in the face after or had a friend do it for him to create the story. By now the cops had time to coerce witnesses into telling whatever they're being told in exchange for a free pass on the looting. Don't think this hasn't happened before.
The law is not impartial. The law is making sure that it is saving face each and every time. The law doesn't apply equally to every American. ZH documented Wall Street fraud being the best argument for the injustice.
Maybe he plays hockey on his days off.
I think his wife hit him. Spouse abuse!
"... heavy gunfire." I'm calling bullshit on the cops. Everyone (protesters, media & police) all have video cameras running. Where is the audio track attached to a video? Should be people ducking or looking around when gunshots are heard.