St Louis Police Try to Boost Community Relations by Fingerprinting Ferguson Children [View all]
seriously wtf?
In an effort to improve public relations in Ferguson, the St Louis Police Department set up finger printing stations in the area and offered to fingerprint children. The police announced that they would be doing this as a service to the community, in order to help parents keep better track of their kids.
The police say that the children will be placed into a database that will make them easier to track down if they ever happen to get lost one day, but many people are seeing this as another example of a growing police state.
However, with the recent controversy surrounding the militarization of police, lining children up on the roadside for fingerprinting was probably a poor public relations strategy.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/st-louis-police-fingerprint-children-side-road-ferguson/#jrAuKfHsvp3OmmoF.99
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