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68. Outside agitators DID become involved in Ferguson. It doesn't make her a nutcase

to think that Russia was behind some of them -- or for anyone to question how many of the violent anarchists and others that invade peaceful protests here might be supported by Russia.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/19/ferguson-outsiders-protesters-riots-peaceful-unrest

For more than a week the people of Ferguson welcomed the outside activists who flocked here to show solidarity after police killed an unarmed teenager. By day 11, some residents were having second thoughts.

The intensified mayhem of recent nights, apparently initiated by a small, organised group of agitators, has raised a question mark over the strangers who join the nightly demonstrations.

“Who the hell are you people?” one woman shouted early on Tuesday morning as youths surged towards a phalanx of police, hurling insults, water bottles and, later, molotov cocktails.

With the national guard deployed to quell civil unrest in the US for the first time in over a decade, amid a night of gunshots, teargas, chaos and 31 arrests, it was an urgent question.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/20/world/europe/in-russia-scenes-from-ferguson-are-played-as-nothing-shocking-its-america.html

In Russia, Scenes From Ferguson Are Played as Nothing Shocking: It’s America

MOSCOW — At least once an hour, sometimes more frequently, images of battalions of riot police officers in helmets clashing with demonstrators fill the screen of Rossiya 24, one of Russia’s major government-controlled television channels, and newscasters speaking in grave tones inveigh against the injustice and violence by the authorities.

The images are not from Kiev, Ukraine, or from here in Moscow, where such scenes have been more than familiar in recent years. They are from Ferguson, Mo., where the shooting death of Michael Brown and the crackdown by the authorities against protesters have provided the latest opportunity for Russia to portray its detractors in America as hypocrites.