Posted on 08/13/2014 4:52:35 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan
A large police SWAT team showed up to a peaceful demonstration in Ferguson, Missouri and the scene is getting increasingly tense, reports Huffington Post's Ryan J. Reilly, who is currently on the ground.
Soon after the team of more than 70 officers came on the scene, they told protesters they needed to leave the area and that "this [was] not open for discussion," Reilly tweeted. MSNBC reporter Trymain Lee tweeted that police told the crowd, "Go home, return to your vehicles. The protesters responded, "Mike can't go home!"
"Your right to assembly is not being denied," the police said later over a loudspeaker.
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Protection is a difficult game. Defense is more difficult than offense. (imho)
I have no idea what that means.
was using football terms
Some odd leadership of the police is in play. Orders to shoot rubber bullets at sign-holding protesters?!
What politician is going to take the fall?
I wonder why the investigation which triggered this event is taking so long?
They’ve had everything they need to complete it, including all the players and witnesses for days now.
BTW, ordering the media to turn off their cameras and get out is very odd IMO.
War zones are different because the 1st Amendment doesn’t apply. It does here on the streets of America.
Question is ... w/o press credentials prominently displayed how are LE in Ferguson supposed to know who is and is not a journalist? Used to be that the camera equipment was obviously professional-grade. Now, not so much. Anyone could be a journalist but look like a non-compliant protester.
Don’t enjoy gunfire ... and know not whom if anyone will take the fall in relation to it being a politician.
My agreement ... Police may have additional info the media and general public does not have.
They were spotlighting the crowd.
My thoughts..
I didn’t see one person rioting when they cut loose on them with gas and rubber bullets...
That news crew they gassed clearly had ID on them and their vehicle.
Begs the question:
If they're shooting at helicopters, why were law enforcement choppers flying tonight?
They were spotlighting the crowd.
What about being shot down? It's A-OK if they are shot down over neighborhoods but not news choppers?
Is typical in taking time. Both sides are taking time in this instance (imho).
Yeah, it looks bad.
I think law enforcement should just pack up and go home.
This thread has convinced me, rioters should have free reign to do as they please until their rage is dissipated, they already have stripped all the stores in area, or both.
What’s another few nights, perhaps a week of destruction and mayhem? These people’s right are obviously being abused.
What a sad day in American, when rioters and those who publicize the justification for what they do, can’t conduct their business without being interrupted.
You know folks, even if the officer is totally in the wrong, what’s taking place in this town is totally wrong. Rioting is never a solution. The press swooping in to show how justifiably outraged these people are. The impression that this is what the town deserves because of one rogue cop...
Man, there are times when it’s embarrassing to watch what some people buy into on threads like this.
Very little outrage for the rioters, but boy those cops armed for bear, now there’s an outrage.
I’m ashamed of you folks.
Exactly, but have you read how wrong the police are portrayed to be by many posters on this thread. Good grief!
Rioting is now okay, don’t you know. Just darn those police.
The police chief said today that he had turned the investigation over to another LE agency. Might be the FBI, who have officially opened a civil rights investigation into the matter. Anyway, that may explain the delay - that or toxicology results, which take weeks.
Yes it does.
When they start censoring what people can see, stopping news coverage of it, by force even, should be enough to make all Americans recoil...
That’s an extremely slippery road...
>> If they’re shooting at helicopters, why were law enforcement choppers flying tonight?
So shooting at helicopters - any helicopters - is ok?
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