:sign_yeah: Points out a lot of problems.

Well, I think we all know in towns like this and overall police profile, create cause to check into individuals, etc. I think they feel in towns like this the constitution doesn't matter.

Have they released anything on the officers incident report or a copy of it? That is usually done the same day. Just wondered if the officer thought if he was armed, mentioned charging him, etc....Also, what if a person made an attack on a officer, went for his gun.....is that cause enough to shoot a fleeing person. Heck, youtubes full of fleeing people getting shot or shot at, but overall the officer has to feel they endangered a life or too dangerous to let them escape.....just not sure how rules apply here

See no curfew tonight....Showing Walmart barricading their doors with carts and water jugs...as other businesses are doing. Then the national guard coming in....interesting.

Seems to be a game, how to blame....at the expense of businesses.

Forensic results have been published, does not look good for the police.
I leave it at that.

There does seem to be a distinct lack of organisation on the side of the state government and police. It swings from crackdown to softly-softly at random.
Earlier this morning Capt. Johnson said that he was not going to call in the National Guard, then less than an hour or two later, the National Guard was called in by Nixon. First there was a curfew, then the police started riot control measures three hours early, and then the curfew was called off and the National Guard called in. I mean...tonight are they going to hand out candies and then tomorrow night enforce martial law?

Really does seem to be a case of the left hand not knowing what the right is doing... :hmmm:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BvXDhJFCEAAogsS.jpg:large

http://www.silverdoctors.com/wp-cont...4/08/kent1.jpg

http://quotes.lifehack.org/media/quo...cted-89237.png

You do wonder what the plan will be if even the National Guard + Police can't quell the rioting. Take off and nuke the site from orbit? (it's the only way to be sure---that lawyers crawl from the rubble and clean up.)

So far, the "Show-Me State", ain't shown me much.

You've maybe heard the video where witnesses in background comment that Mike ran at him. Seems that video on CNN left out a lot. Here is one maybe with more info, but witness that saw it states Mike rushed the cop and the cop started shooting.

Also out, the officer that arrived on scene after the shooting said the officer that shot said.....he was bummed rushed....

Anyway, my guess is the officer will be made a scapegoat so cities won't burn.....course, they'll drag it out for a long time hoping people will forget.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mAaJMBxKA4

Was saying to myself before I saw that why on earth would the police be equipped with Military grade equipment it's both excesive, unnecessary and has a serious problem.

First of all it's simply not the Police's job to act like a Military Force you throw the concept of being Police straight out of the window. Police and Military are two things that should well be kept away from eachother unless you want to pose an opressive stance towards your own people.
They're to serve and protect not to oppress and control.

Second is that the police as obviously demonstrated the past few days are not trained to use this kind of equipment and handle it carelessly like kids that just got bigger toys then they had before. This is equipment that only should be used on your own soil by the National Guard in case of a serious emergency which threaten the whole Nation and used by some specialized trained forces like Swat.

MRAP's used by local Sherif, really talk about excesive I wasn't aware that neighbourhoods where heavily littered with IED's and Mines in the states. :nope:

Third is that isn't this a nice sign towards the general population? I would be worried if my Police was armed to the teeth like that. They're not yet wearing red coats and marching under Rule Britannia imposing new rules and demand that you'd obey their orders under threat of violence but give it time and you'll start to see some worrying stuff as imo the Police should handle cases like this with extreme care instead of carelessly with big imposing toys. I as a civilian would no longer feel protected by the Police but I would fear them...and that's a bad sign.

GERMAN LANGUAGE

http://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/a...ind-wurde.html

Ansgar Graw, correspondent for German newspaper Die Welt, was arrested and held prison for three hours because he did his job. In this GERMAN editorial he describes how he arrived in Ferguson, first had good experiences with the helpful police, noticed how very different both side'S description of the events at night are, and then got hazed and finally arrested over essentially nothing else than doing his job.

Graw put it in clear words in a nightblog message in the same paper, saying that there was clear intent by the police to prevent any further reporting. Several other journalists got arrested even when reporting from currently peaceful scenes where only traces of past violence were to be seen.

Assessing the claimed reason for Graw's arrest - he was told that they would not limit the right of free speech but that he would not be allowed to stand still when shooting pics, but needs to constantly walking (making photographing somewhat difficult and low-quality), and when he did and shot poics and ,moved and moved, tge nevertheless got arrested - I think there are questions to be asked that lead beyond the issue of racism and police toughness (lets face it, internationally the reputation of the US police is not really the best, to put it this way: too easy to shoot, and too easy to tazer, and too many incidents of excessive use of firearms as well as racism time and again).

Needless to say that Graw says his trust into the police with which he has grown up in the US from childhood on, has been destroyed.

I also found this on tumblr, it is perhaps a little conspiratorial, but to be honest with some of the things I've seen and heard coming out of Ferguson it would not entirely surprise me. :nope:

Media blitzkrieg is the preferred method for pulling wool these days. They'll do or say anything to exonerate a murderous cop.:-?

If they're such scared wittle wabbits, maybe they should find another line of work.

More bad news, another German jounalist, this time from German tabloid "Bild", has been arrested as well , and since then is unable to be found, his personal data however already are shown within the data network of a federal prison, so it seems he is to be shuttled in for a longer stay in the US justice system. :-?

Multiple US and other international journalists have been caught off the street as well. The intention to suppress independent reporting of what is going on in Ferguson apparently can no longer be denied. US reporters and itnernatiuonal journalist associations speak of another frontal assault on the free press in the US.

Amnesty International (on their first mission in the US) also got guns pointed at them and told to move off. Journalists have been shot at with bean bags, threatened to be shot or maced and generally harassed by the police.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7A0TJMAP5E

Turning into a right royal mess :nope:

That's somewhat of an understatement Jim. :03:

Meanwhile, there's been some doubt cast on the accusation of Michael Brown being a shoplifter, for starters the store has denied that any of its staff run the police, indicating that it was likely a customer who rung the police and reported what they thought was a robbery.

http://fox2now.com/2014/08/15/store-...ance-released/

There's also an unconfirmed video circulating that seems to indicate that Brown paid for the cigars, even putting some back after he realised he didn't have enough money for all of them. However since the video is quite unconfirmed and only circulating on various disputable websites then I can't be certain of its veracity.
One thing that has definitely been shown in this mess is how on the back foot the mainstream media has been when compared to citizen reporting and information gathering. A handful of volunteers on a reddit feed have been able to gather more information, links and videos than any of the main US media outlets. Furthermore, they've been careful to filter out any left or right wing bias and precede any potential controversial links with a disclaimer rather than presenting it as a hard fact.
The likes of CNN and Fox could learn a thing or two from Reddit. :yep:

News said forensic study showed that Mr. Brown has been shot six times in the front, four in arms and body, two in the head. One of it from above.

Are they declaring war to themselves ? :nope:
It hurts to see that happening just of all in the US :shifty:

Heck, think there were 30 murders in Chicago this past week or even weekend....this just has the media

and here we have another eyewittness with ...his version of the story. Basically that Mike got shot, got on his knees and gave up, cop came up and shot him several times basically point blank, Mike fell, cop shot him a few more times.

Be prepared for Mofo bout every other word.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfy5FiqzWHI

Reports, more confirm officers story....don't know how true or not, looks like more rumors.

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/08/1693...es=og.comments

More, again true or not, don't know, officers eye orbit was fractured as Brown attacked him. http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014...th-mike-brown/

From what I've read, the forensic pathologist the family called in to autopsy this kid found no gunshot residue on his person to indicate a point blank shot. YMMV But, the media is so busy tripping over themselves and the authorities are so busy with their brooms and rug, it's hard say exactly what happened with any certainty. Except, maybe jaywalking is now a crime that requires the use of deadly force.:-?