4th night of Ferguson protests brings confrontation, arrests
Source: yahoo/ap
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) Police arrested nearly two dozen people in Ferguson during a fourth consecutive night of demonstrations marking the anniversary of the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
The gathering that stretched into early Tuesday morning came a day after a protest along West Florissant Avenue that was interrupted by gunfire and a police shooting that left an 18-year-old critically injured. The violence set the St. Louis suburb on edge and had protest leaders worried about whether tensions would escalate
St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger declared a state of emergency, which authorized county Police Chief Jon Belmar to take control of police emergency management in and around Ferguson.
The protesters chanted, beat drums and carried signs. When some in the group moved into a traffic lane, officers in riot gear forced people out of the street. Some demonstrators threw water bottles and other debris at officers.
Belmar told The Associated Press: "They're not going to take the street tonight. That's not going to happen."
Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/4th-night-ferguson-protests-brings-confrontation-arrests-075407613.html
It seems the police have elected to use aggression first aggression last and aggression always
delrem
(9,688 posts)There seems to have been nothing done, over a year where everyone everywhere knows that something ought to have been done.
No. That's not the fault of "white progressives", as has been portrayed in a certain "dirty tricks" primary campaign.
It's hard for me to wrap my mind around, but whatever the answer, it's certainly a problem for us all.
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)It's gonna take more than a year to eliminate them all.
St. Louis Todays editorial board writes: ... One year later, the lesson of Ferguson must be one word: forward. That is the only direction we can go. As a region we must comb through the 200 recommendations of the Ferguson Commission and build on those ideas that resonate in disparate crowds, such as increasing police training and improving social mobility opportunities among the poor and middle classes.
Huffington Post reporters Julia Craven, Ryan J. Reilly, and Mariah Stewart write, The protests, in many ways, worked. Those abusive municipal court practices, which many residents said had fueled widespread disrespect for authority, are being reined in. And the outcry spread far beyond the Midwest. In many ways, the Ferguson protests changed America.
Al Jazeera America's Khaled A. Beydoun writes: The post-race American myth was dismissed on Ferguson's streets.
On the The New Yorker's recent Darren Wilson profile, the New York Times' Charles M. Blow writes: Wilson and his attorneys must have made the calculation that a profile would humanize and rehabilitate him in some way, that the image that emerged of an isolated man being rebuffed by reticent police forces and barraged by threats would be empathetic and restorative. That effort, it seems to me, has backfired.
The Los Angeles Times' Matt Pearce writes: "A year later, Brown's death and the ensuing protests that engulfed the predominantly black St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Mo., have changed hundreds of lives and unleashed a national debate on race and policing that continues to dominate headlines today, while Ferguson quietly struggles forward.
The Daily Beasts John McWhorter writes: The idea that Ferguson needs to teach America a lesson is a distraction anyway. At the end of day, getting cops to stop killing black people for no reason is a separate mission from getting white people to understand the nuances and power of racism.
Time details the changes to policing and politics in Ferguson: Thomas Jackson, the Ferguson Police Chief, resigned following a scathing federal report. He said the city needed 'to move forward without any distractions.' Other Ferguson police officers and city officials also resigned after the Justice Department report found they had sent racist emails."
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/08/ferguson-one-year-later-what-has-changed.html
delrem
(9,688 posts)There has been in other places. It isn't impossible. It isn't even excusable that it hasn't even been tried, before.
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)delrem
(9,688 posts)notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)A lot of us like to pretend there isn't but there is.
Supersedeas
(20,630 posts)from those in positions to reach out
Wuddles440
(1,127 posts)are now "patrolling" the area with the police. Despite statements from the police that members of this extremist, right right group were not "invited" or "needed", no one seems to be taking action to have them removed from the area. I'm certain if a paramilitary group of black citizens attempted such a brazen action, the police would dispense with making such verbal statements and respond with physical force.
Supersedeas
(20,630 posts)Taitertots
(7,745 posts)It's the PD's unofficial domestic terrorism troop. They are on the right side of the thick blue line.