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Video of Ferguson police gassing news crew and dismantling their equipment
http://boingboing.net/2014/08/14/video-of-ferguson-police-gassi.html ^ | Thu, Aug 14, 2014 | Rob Beschizza

Posted on 08/14/2014 11:33:38 AM PDT by the_boy_who_got_lost

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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.

Update: Kate O'Brian, president of Al Jazeera America, released a statement condemning the police.

Last night at 9:30 CDT in Ferguson, Missouri, an Al Jazeera America news crew was reporting behind police barricades. They were easily identifiable as a working television crew. As they were setting up their camera for a live report, tear gas canisters landed in their proximity and police fired rubber bullets in their direction. Police continued to shoot after crew members clearly and repeatedly shouted ‘Press’. Al Jazeera America is stunned by this egregious assault on freedom of the press that was clearly intended to have a chilling effect on our ability to cover this important story. Thankfully all three crew members are physically fine. We believe that this situation must be investigated along with those involving our colleagues at other media outlets.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: aljazeera; ferguson; policestate
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To: skeeter

Several groups of people are very unhappy about this turn of events in Ferguson. First, the looters and rioters. They had planned another long night of adventure and profit. Next, the leftist media and sensaationalist Alex Jones type blog camera units. Another all night riot would’ve made big bucks for them. The poverty pimps. Again, big riots = big bucks. And the Marxist Obama regime. They foment and capitalize on racial discontent. But, of course, they’re all going to milk it anyway for all they can get.

The winners: private property owners whose property was not destroyed.

But stay tuned. Another long night, another hot weekend coming.


61 posted on 08/14/2014 12:05:16 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: DJ MacWoW

“The site with the tape is run by lefty’s from NPR, CNN and the like. Do you trust their edited tape?”

Well now two images from that tape are on FR. Do you not trust FReepers? Why don’t you trust FReepers?


62 posted on 08/14/2014 12:05:44 PM PDT by CodeToad (Romney is a raisin cookie looking for chocolate chip cookie votes.)
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To: Oliviaforever

“It was simply a question.”

Will you hazard an answer to your own question, or are you afraid to answer it with your actual opinion?


63 posted on 08/14/2014 12:05:59 PM PDT by RFEngineer
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To: CodeToad

Sorry, on a cellphone and I can never get the HTML right on the thing.

Website is www.wtop.com if people don’t mind copying and pasting.

Thx.


64 posted on 08/14/2014 12:06:45 PM PDT by tanknetter
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To: DJ MacWoW

“I simply don’t want FReepers to be sucked in by the left. “

If the police are in the wrong and are acting on behalf of the left/communists, then what you are saying by telling people not to believe the video is to believe the cops.

Hmmmm, interesting viewpoint. Are you attempting to support the left?


65 posted on 08/14/2014 12:07:33 PM PDT by CodeToad (Romney is a raisin cookie looking for chocolate chip cookie votes.)
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To: tanknetter
Is this the image you wanted posted?


66 posted on 08/14/2014 12:08:17 PM PDT by CodeToad (Romney is a raisin cookie looking for chocolate chip cookie votes.)
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To: Oliviaforever

Sure do. Any media can spin public opinion. It is BECAUSE of that fact, not in spite of it, that freedom of the press exists.


67 posted on 08/14/2014 12:08:25 PM PDT by arderkrag (Chaste women, sober men, obedient children, and "sin laws" - the four horsemen of the apocalypse.)
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To: tanknetter
Truthfully I have no idea what's going on there and neither do you. I don't trust the press or a lefty website. I'm not jumping on any bandwagon from either side.

ANONYMOUS Calls for National Day of Rage – Nationwide Protests on Thursday 8-14

68 posted on 08/14/2014 12:08:57 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: CodeToad

I heard it,sounded more like a recorded woman’s voice.I was shocked.The live feed I was watching said on camera they heard it.


69 posted on 08/14/2014 12:10:40 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: CodeToad
It's an edited video from a lefty site and FReepers are embracing it. Not wise.

As I just told someone else, I don't trust the press or a lefty website. I'm not jumping on any bandwagon from either side.

70 posted on 08/14/2014 12:10:47 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: CodeToad

Those images are not from FR. You need to chill.


71 posted on 08/14/2014 12:14:14 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: DJ MacWoW

I’m curious, who recorded that video and who released it? (since you seem to know)


72 posted on 08/14/2014 12:14:15 PM PDT by the_boy_who_got_lost (Real men scare liberals)
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To: Oliviaforever
Now, do you really think that the framers of the Constitution intended to grant al Jazeera First Amendment protections?

Ah, the constitution is a living and dynamic argument surfaces. 1st amendment only applicable when government decides.

73 posted on 08/14/2014 12:14:36 PM PDT by School of Rational Thought
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To: CodeToad

Yup, thats it!

Thats how WTOP (news radio station in DC) is representing what’s happening in MO.


74 posted on 08/14/2014 12:14:46 PM PDT by tanknetter
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To: CodeToad

You’re the one posting stuff from lefty sites, not me.


75 posted on 08/14/2014 12:15:28 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: CodeToad

And thanks for posting it!


76 posted on 08/14/2014 12:16:40 PM PDT by tanknetter
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To: the_boy_who_got_lost

I didn’t say that I knew. I just know the site that edited it and posted it.


77 posted on 08/14/2014 12:16:51 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: DJ MacWoW
I simply don’t want FReepers to be sucked in by the left. The tape may or may not be accurate but it sure is stirring anger.................

Be careful about trying to correct disinformation. I tried to do the same with the bogus Michael Brown arrest record and picture of Joda Cain that is being passed as one of Michael Brown. I got a moderator smacking for my trouble. The folks posting known misinformation were left unscathed.

78 posted on 08/14/2014 12:17:42 PM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy (Settled science.)
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To: DJ MacWoW

But the left site didn’t edit the video as you claim.

NBC actually took the video and edited it. Not that they are not lefty themselves.

Just say’n.


79 posted on 08/14/2014 12:18:29 PM PDT by the_boy_who_got_lost (Real men scare liberals)
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To: Half Vast Conspiracy
I'm thinking they can whip themselves into an emotional frenzy without my presence. They want to believe it without question.

Thanks. And, nice talking to ya. :-)

80 posted on 08/14/2014 12:20:04 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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