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General (i.e. not blaming Boomers) #Ferguson discussion here.
Here is a sentence that will be immediately familiar to anyone who has ever followed even a little news out of the Middle East:
Journalists from the Qatari news outlet Al Jazeera were attacked by state security forces today and blanketed in tear gas, as they attempted to film an ongoing protest; this is the latest in a string of attacks on journalists by security forces.
Now see if you can guess the country. It's not Egypt. Not Tunisia.
Nope: this happened, exactly as described, in the United States of America on Wednesday night, in the Missouri town of Ferguson. Here is the video of Al Jazeera America journalists in Ferguson being clearly targeted with tear gas by Ferguson police.
That's not a picture from Ferguson, that's the Russian "OMON" - the feared, hated and violent special police force inside the country.
I would love someone to tell me exactly how they would look out of place in Ferguson though, that might as well have been snapped from the same camera. And that frightens me very much. Militarized internal security forces are an absolutely scary thing to be around.
During this time, we asked the officers for badge numbers. We asked to speak to a supervising officer. We asked why we were being detained. We were told: trespassing in a McDonald’s.
“I hope you’re happy with yourself,” one officer told me. And I responded: “This story’s going to get out there. It’s going to be on the front page of The Washington Post tomorrow.”
And he said, “Yeah, well, you’re going to be in my jail cell tonight.”
Well both those things are pretty accurate.
My question is where the hell is AG Holder ?(along with pretty much all of MO's public officials) The tanks and snipers need to be put away at the very least is step number one. Step number 2 is the police should talk to mr unnamed shooter and say it's time to turn yourself in.
Remember Holder is the same man who said America is a nation of cowards when it comes to race. I'd be shocked if the JD doesn't make some actual moves today. Just seems like a layup for him.
FBI/DOJ is running a parallel investigation on the shooting of Michael Brown.
The list of "investigations" being done by the FBI/DOJ into controversies that get public eyeballs is quite long. Standard Op procedure is announce an investigation. That's the ultimate of baby steps.