Video of Ferguson police gassing newscrew and dismantling their equipment

Come on people. They are just securing the “Home Land”, one tear gas canister and 450 million rounds of hollow point .40 caliber ammo at a time.

Just gonna toss this in here, as a perspective from ACTUAL military vets:

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Imagine if it had been Godzilla!

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wait so that was wishful thinking and not pro-police trolling?

confusing thread

PLEASE PASS ALONG BEFORE WE ARE TURNED INTO A POLICE STATE,VALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN AND SENATORS AND DEMADE THAT THYE SUPPORT THIS BIL!!

Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, introduced HR 4934, also called the Regulatory Agency De-militarization Act or RAD, in late June, and it has since gained more than 30 co-sponsors in the House
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/08/congressman-on-mission-to-disarm-federal-agencies/#BC5TL3qWkUjYD4Tb.99

Are the feds involved in Ferguson? How would this disarm the St Louis police? The Ferguson Police? The state authorities who are turning this town into a war zone?

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If you look at the SWAT van that pulls up, it’s clearly marked “St. Charles County SWAT.” Doesn’t mean that the police are from there. So far, the riot response has involved Ferguson Police, St. Louis County Police, City of St. Louis Police and, apparently, Missouri Highway Police. Not sure if the St. Charles County Police are involved too or if they just supplied the van, but this is showing that a lot of police from a lot of municipalities are running amok and intentionally blocking news coverage.

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Personally, at this point I’d recommend people exercise their 1st amendment rights behind their 2nd amendment rights.

There’s only 245 police for every 100,000 people in the US. That’s 2.45 per 1000. And we think they have the power why precisely?

2 against 1000. Those are really really bad odds if you are up against people that refuse to back down and will shoot back. The key being that people would need to stop letting the police walk all over them.

Interesting article
Why there’s no accountability for the police in Ferguson

… What that means is that at least four different people, from different police departments, have made the decision to tear-gas protesters: one for each night tear-gas canisters have been fired. That means that the problem isn’t just with the St. Louis County police, or with the Ferguson police. (Ferguson mayor Jay Knowles said on Thursday that the St. Louis County police had been in charge “tactically” since Sunday, which conflicts with Jackson’s account — but raises further questions about who is really in command of what’s going on.)

More importantly, it makes it impossible for one police chief to be held accountable for what officers are doing in Ferguson. It’s not clear what the relationship is between an “incident commander” who’s making decisions at the protest site, and the chief of his police department. But because the public doesn’t even know which agency the “incident commander” is with, it’s impossible to demand that that police chief restrain his officers. When Ferguson chief Jackson gave his press conference Wednesday, he was asked whether there would be tear gas used on Wednesday night. He said, “I hope not.” But he honestly couldn’t make any promises, because it turned out that the St. Louis County police were the ones in charge.

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They’d have to get charged with something to get a conviction, and that immunity they’ve got prevents that.

“We don’t want you here” “We don’t want you to get hurt”
How’s that for a very thinly veiled threat? I’m hoping to see some lawsuits from all the reporters.

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I find it interesting the armored vehicle in the video is from St. Charles County, not St. Louis County.

I see no reason for the press to be fired upon like that with tear gas and rubber bullets. If they wanted them to leave, they should have just approached them and asked them to leave if the subdivision they were in was so dangerous.

Welcome to the future of United Socialist States of Amerika. Unless the press does their real job an become journalists who are politically neutral and report the truth and the people start electing responsible politicians who will reign in the police, this will be repeated again in the future. It could be in Ferguson again, or neighboring Florissant, Hazelwood, Bridgeton, Spanish Lake, a town near you, or in your own home town.

You’ve never even met a real socialist in your entire life, man.

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The took the lights down because it interferes with their low light vision equipment. Bet they were asked to leave too. They probably had guys with rifles looking for Obama leeches with guns who are looking to shoot police. The media.s lights were a threat to the police officers safety.

Atlas yawned…

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Heh.

My in-law’s comment on an article about how Scandinavians have good maternity leave:

No society should pay its people to reproduce.

“Decency, security and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen. In a government of laws, existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the Government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that, in the administration of the criminal law, the end justifies the means … would bring terrible retribution. Against that pernicious doctrine this Court should resolutely set its face.” - Justice Louis Brandeis, dissenting in 277 U.S. 438 Olmstead v. United States, June 4, 1928

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That was my thought as well. “We don’t want you to get hurt” from the ones doing the hurting. Priceless.

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I can see the threat. I thought about the choice “We don’t want anybody to get hurt.” That would’ve have been a broader concern about safety, but that can sound sinister sometimes.