Posted on 08/16/2014 7:14:30 AM PDT by reaganaut1
FERGUSON, Mo. — Unrest returned to the streets of this St. Louis suburb early Saturday as hundreds of demonstrators, angered by the shooting death of an unarmed African-American teenager by a police officer, engaged in a standoff with the police that was punctuated by threats and a new round of denunciations of law enforcement practices.
The confrontation, the first serious one since the Missouri State Highway Patrol on Thursday assumed responsibility for security operations here, ended at about 4 a.m. when the authorities, prompted by the gradual dispersal of demonstrators, pulled back to their nearby command post. The Associated Press reported that one law enforcement official had been injured overnight.
The unrest capped an extraordinary day of events that has roiled this community since the teenager, Michael Brown, 18, was fatally shot by a police officer last Saturday while walking home from a convenience store with a friend.
On Friday, the police chief of Ferguson, Thomas Jackson, said at a news conference that the officer who shot Mr. Brown was Darren Wilson, who has served on the Ferguson force for four years and in another local department for two years and who had no disciplinary charges. Officer Wilson, who is white, has been placed on leave, and his location is unknown.
But the release of his name was overshadowed by the simultaneous announcement that Mr. Brown was a suspect in a robbery at a convenience store shortly before his death, leading to questions about the timing of the announcement and the motives behind it. Surveillance videotapes released by the Ferguson police appeared to show Mr. Brown shoving a store clerk aside as he took a box of cigarillos.
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If the Tea Party went on a rampage - looted and burned down buildings - does anyone think the New York Times would refer to us as ‘protesters’
So much for the air headed narrative that all the looters needed was less police presence and more communication.
Wow. Was it a drive-by shooting? /s
All that's missing is the Skittles and a photo of Brown wen he was 10 years old.
Obama and the libs love this. It takes the media attention off the illegals entering the USA and the innocent being slaughtered in Iraq.
Looks like the page has already been taken down.
Police are being Trained to Ignore Black Crime
If they want to keep their jobs, yes. :)
Fed up with police, one Ferguson man welcomes the looting
From the posted article: "fire the police chief of Ferguson . . . "He's anti-black people and pro law enforcement.”
” i got everthing you need , tvs , pampers , whteva hml”.....
amazing just amazing
You are so right.
St. Louis County Police as well as other area officers were on scene last night. They were “ordered” by Missouri State Patrol to “STAND DOWN” and not to stop the looters last night. This is the truth and it is all over our local media here.
I think they want to take the heat off the cops and put it on the lawless looters. Flip the script.
It worked.
What insurance company would insure businesses in Ferguson, MO after this?
StL County prosecutor furious with Gov. Nixon. Claimed he has no right to do this. (Stand down other PDs).
Wow, at least some of us have the real answers that the rioters are nothing but criminal thugs who incite destruction and will travel all over the US to cause looting. Insane whites but majority blacks. Bring back the heavy armed police and bust heads. Jail hundreds and find out who they are and where they came from. Most could be hired by the far left.
They will still issue them.. the premium will make an obamacare policy look cheap.
That black guy from CNN was interviewing rioters and sympathizing with them, even with the evidence now that the criminal / robber that got killed was caught on camera stealing cigars and shoving the store owner. Disgraceful that the rioters are getting a pass, just like the illegal alien cockroaches crossing the border are. THIS is Obama’s America and this is what is making Michelle Obama proud to be an American for the first time. Strangely though she is living above the fray but I wonder if she would be saying this if she were rubbing elbows with the rioters on a daily basis.
Who was it Biden that was calling Tea Party patriots, “terrorists”?
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