Ferguson: Police Kill 18yo Black Male; Fire Gas/Rubber Bullets Into Protesting Crowds

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I don't think there will be, either. I've been watching the Fox2 stream for a while, and everything looks great (minus the ridiculous police force).

Fox2 stream is VERY relaxed compared to Alex Jones'. Night and day.
 
Man you can always tell when some crazy infowars dude grabs a megaphone though...
 
"@MJPlitnick: #Ferguson got a fed grant for dashcams two years ago, but magically, they have not been installed. Gee, I wonder why http://t.co/SFebzbAJSL"
 
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Blacks get released?
MATT TAIBBI: ... I was actually in a—I was in a law office in Brooklyn, and I was actually waiting to speak to a lawyer about another case, when I met this 35-year-old African-American man, a bus driver. And I asked him what he was there for, and he told me that he had been arrested for, quote-unquote, "obstructing pedestrian traffic." And I thought he was kidding. You know, I didn’t know what that meant. And I asked him to show me his summons, and he pulled out a little—little piece of pink paper, and there it was. It was written, you know, "obstructing pedestrian traffic," which it turns out it meant that he was standing in front of his own house at 1:00 in the morning, and the police just didn’t like the way he looked and arrested him.

And this is part of the disorderly conduct statute here in New York, but this is one of these offenses that people get roped in for. It’s part of what a city councilman in another city called an "epidemic of false arrests," basically these new stats-based police strategies. The whole idea is to rope in as many people as you can, see how many of them have guns or warrants, and then basically throw back the innocent ones. But the problem is they don’t throw back everybody. They end up sweeping up a lot of innocent people and charging them with really pointless crimes.
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Even more from Taibbi.
 
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