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Anger Simmers in Ferguson, Missouri; : After a fifth night of unrest in this St. Louis suburb, Gov. Jay Nixon said, “While we all respect the solemn responsibility of our law enforcement officers to protect the public, we must also safeguard the rights of Missourians to peaceably assemble and the rights of the press to report on matters of public concern.”
Ferguson Police Use Tear Gas On Al Jazeera America Team: The team was reportedly setting up their equipment for a report on the rising tensions when police threw tear gas and fired rubber bullets towards them. Surrounded by a cloud of tear gas, the crew abandoned their cameras and ran to safety.
Video 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 newscrew is forced to flee. Moments later, police pull up in an armored van and hurriedly try to break down the film equipment--until they notice that another crew is still filming them from across the street.
Reporters arrested in Ferguson: Reporters from The Washington Post and The Huffington Post were arrested in Ferguson, Mo., on Wednesday night while covering the protests that have rocked the St. Louis suburb.
St. Louis County police will no longer be involved in policing Ferguson: The governor of Missouri will reportedly relieve St. Louis County law enforcement from policing the ongoing demonstrations in the town of Ferguson, paving the way for possible state or federal intervention.
What's going on in Ferguson, Missouri: Watch these 10 videos to get a glimpse of what Ferguson is going through.
How America’s Police Became an Army: The 1033 Program: As many have noted, Ferguson, Missouri, currently looks like a war zone. And its police—kitted out with Marine-issue camouflage and military-grade body armor, toting short-barreled assault rifles, and rolling around in armored vehicles—are indistinguishable from soldiers.
The Pentagon Gave the Ferguson Police Department Military-Grade Weapons: The local community of Ferguson, Missouri, may not look like a war zone, but the Pentagon has helped the police treat it like on
Not Just Ferguson: 11 Eye-Opening Facts About America’s Militarized Police Forces: August 13, 2014: The “war on terror” has come home — and it’s wreaking havoc on innocent American lives. The culprit is the militarization of the police.
Rand Paul: We Must Demilitarize the Police: Anyone who thinks race does not skew the application of criminal justice in this country is just not paying close enough attention, Sen. Rand Paul writes for TIME, amid violence in Ferguson, Mo. over the police shooting death of Michael Brown
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