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Ferguson, Missouri Unrest Enters Second Night: Angry Mob Confronts Police with Tear Gas, Tanks
Top Right News ^
| 08-11-2014
| Brian Hayes
Posted on 08/11/2014 8:36:46 PM PDT by montag813
by Brian Hayes | Top Right News
UPDATE: LIVE VIDEO AND SOCIAL MEDIA UPDATES AT THE END OF THIS ARTICLE
Unrest has broken out for a second night in a St. Louis suburb where a young unarmed black man was fatally shot by police.
Authorities blocked off access to Ferguson on Monday night and KTVI-TV reported that police in riot gear were using tear gas to disperse a crowd of protesters. It said there were reports of rubber bullets being fired. KMOV-TV said the tear gas was being fired at people gathering near a major intersection.
This as Attorney General Eric Holder announced he was ordering Federal "monitoring" of the events in Ferguson.
Stunning Tweets from the area began to appear online around 9pm CST:
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: ferguson; police; riot; stlouis
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To: montag813
It is unclear from the headline just who has the tear as and the tanks. If the rioters have acquired these than the situation is, indeed, dire.
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posted on
08/12/2014 7:04:28 AM PDT
by
arthurus
(Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
To: montag813
It is unclear from the headline just who has the tear gas and the tanks. If the rioters have acquired these than the situation is, indeed, dire.
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posted on
08/12/2014 7:04:41 AM PDT
by
arthurus
(Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
To: blueplum
I would have guessed US Post Office delivery truck
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posted on
08/12/2014 7:22:45 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: GeronL
No one is using tanks there.
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posted on
08/12/2014 7:58:43 AM PDT
by
ansel12
(LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
To: ansel12
Maybe someone should be using tanks!
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posted on
08/12/2014 8:00:16 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: yldstrk
“wow, the angry mob has tanks and teargas?”
Wouldn’t that be fun.
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posted on
08/12/2014 8:00:31 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
To: ansel12; a fool in paradise; Kartographer
A real urban prepper will have tanks!!
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posted on
08/12/2014 8:01:43 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: AppyPappy
It would be popcorn time for most of us, who don’t live anywhere near there.
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posted on
08/12/2014 8:02:31 AM PDT
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GeronL
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To: GeronL
Do you want the police using tanks against us, or the military or both and for what reason?
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posted on
08/12/2014 8:03:15 AM PDT
by
ansel12
(LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
To: ansel12
I meant WE should have tanks, not the police or military
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posted on
08/12/2014 8:04:31 AM PDT
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GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: GeronL
That’s the way I look at it. Just selling more guns.
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posted on
08/12/2014 8:09:09 AM PDT
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AppyPappy
(If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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