Violent protest erupts in Ferguson, MO over deadly police shooting

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**Ensis Ferrae**

MOD EDIT: RULE #1 - ALPHARIUS

**Desubot**

SlaveToDorkness wrote:

Is that a bottle of cough syrup?

Dafaq?

**CptJake**

Desubot wrote:
SlaveToDorkness wrote:

Is that a bottle of cough syrup?

Dafaq?

Often used to make Lean/Purple Drank/Sizzurp type stuff. Or just chugged for fun on its own.

**daedalus**

Desubot wrote:

Is that a bottle of cough syrup?

Dafaq?

Drinking cough syrup along with booze makes it hit you harder. The rich kids do vicodin and booze.

It kills your liver hella bad though, unless you're lucky enough to get the oxycodone without acedominophen. Even then, probably really bad for you.

**d-usa**

The posting patterns in this thread are very revealing.

**daedalus**

d-usa wrote:
The posting patterns in this thread are very revealing.

I'm not sure what you mean by that.

**Jihadin**

Saying someone might be a under cover racist

**d-usa**

If that is what you want to take from it then that is on you, it is not my takeaway from this thread.

**Jihadin**

d-usa wrote:
If that is what you want to take from it then that is on you, it is not my takeaway from this thread.

Then clarify

**whembly**

Jihadin wrote:
Saying someone might be a under cover racist

By saying how expensive getting a weave? (Usually $100-300 and that price does not include the hair)

*shrug*

In my long-hair hippie days, I've been approached before to sell my hair for extension setups.

Unless its something else.

**Jihadin**

whembly wrote:
Jihadin wrote:
Saying someone might be a under cover racist

By saying how expensive getting a weave? (Usually $100-300 and that price does not include the hair)

*shrug*

In my long-hair hippie days, I've been approached before to sell my hair for extension setups.

Unless its something else.

or he might be referring to whatever Ensis said that got mod hammer

**whembly**

Jihadin wrote:
whembly wrote:
Jihadin wrote:
Saying someone might be a under cover racist

By saying how expensive getting a weave? (Usually $100-300 and that price does not include the hair)

*shrug*

In my long-hair hippie days, I've been approached before to sell my hair for extension setups.

Unless its something else.

or he might be referring to whatever Ensis said that got mod hammer

Oh! Didn't know that was mod-hammered. (it was something to do with that). See my post previous to that.

**d-usa**

Jihadin wrote:
d-usa wrote:
If that is what you want to take from it then that is on you, it is not my takeaway from this thread.

Then clarify

Why?

**Jihadin**

d-usa wrote:
Jihadin wrote:
d-usa wrote:
If that is what you want to take from it then that is on you, it is not my takeaway from this thread.

Then clarify

Why?

Why I no longer care about this situation

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whembly wrote:
Jihadin wrote:
whembly wrote:
Jihadin wrote:
Saying someone might be a under cover racist

By saying how expensive getting a weave? (Usually $100-300 and that price does not include the hair)

*shrug*

In my long-hair hippie days, I've been approached before to sell my hair for extension setups.

Unless its something else.

or he might be referring to whatever Ensis said that got mod hammer

Oh! Didn't know that was mod-hammered. (it was something to do with that). See my post previous to that.

Looters hitting a hair care salon. Over a candle setting the memorial on fire that a group of people assume someone set on fire

**cincydooley**

daedalus wrote:

Drinking cough syrup along with booze makes it hit you harder. The rich kids do vicodin and booze.

It kills your liver hella bad though, unless you're lucky enough to get the oxycodone without acedominophen. Even then, probably really bad for you.

Naw, rich kids snort coke.

**daedalus**

cincydooley wrote:
daedalus wrote:

Drinking cough syrup along with booze makes it hit you harder. The rich kids do vicodin and booze.

It kills your liver hella bad though, unless you're lucky enough to get the oxycodone without acedominophen. Even then, probably really bad for you.

Naw, rich kids snort coke.

St. Louis never had much of a coke scene, or I live under a rock (I'd believe it either way, really).

**Peter Wiggin**

Its interesting to me how in all of this Ferguson debacle, NOBODY has talked further about the late night incident that is archived on Tim Poole's page where both police and media are fired on by protestors. You can hear the bullets whizz by the heads of reporters as they hit the dirt, and even hear them bounce off the ground.

It was crazy to watch that live as it happened, and its even crazier to me that literally nobody has talked about it...including Tim and the rest of the VICE crew that actually experienced it!

**Scrabb**

Peter Wiggin wrote:
Its interesting to me how in all of this Ferguson debacle, NOBODY has talked further about the late night incident that is archived on Tim Poole's page where both police and media are fired on by protestors. You can hear the bullets whizz by the heads of reporters as they hit the dirt, and even hear them bounce off the ground.

It was crazy to watch that live as it happened, and its even crazier to me that literally nobody has talked about it...including Tim and the rest of the VICE crew that actually experienced it!

Don't you mean police shooting at protestors and media?

**Frazzled**

d-usa wrote:
If that is what you want to take from it then that is on you, it is not my takeaway from this thread.

I think he's saying that some people know way to much about illicit substances. Others call them... the life of the party!

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Peter Wiggin wrote:
Its interesting to me how in all of this Ferguson debacle, NOBODY has talked further about the late night incident that is archived on Tim Poole's page where both police and media are fired on by protestors. You can hear the bullets whizz by the heads of reporters as they hit the dirt, and even hear them bounce off the ground.

It was crazy to watch that live as it happened, and its even crazier to me that literally nobody has talked about it...including Tim and the rest of the VICE crew that actually experienced it!

Because that doesn't fit with the approved analog of this story.

**whembly**

This won't help at all...

Senator's staffer planning shutdown of MetroLink during MLB playoffs

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOV.com) – Commander Ron Johnson issued a plea Wednesday to political leaders and protest leaders to end the violent demonstrations. However, an elected leader's staff member has threatened to shut down the MetroLink during Cardinals’ playoff games.

News 4 went to State Senator Jamilah Nasheed’s office to see if a staff member was planning this civil disobedience while he was on the clock and getting paid with tax dollars.

The MetroLink station across from Busch Stadium is a busy place on game day; there are 4500 passengers boarding there on an average weekend game day compared to just 500 on other weekends. Riders don’t want to see a MetroLink shutdown.

“I think there are better ways to handle the Ferguson situation,” MetroLink rider Cornelius Armour said, “I don’t think everybody has to suffer in the St. Louis area just because of this Ferguson situation. There’s other ways the situation can be handled.”

Armour worries the shutdown could be harmful to non-Cardinals fans who need to get to work or home to their families.

Eric Vickers, a long-time civil rights activist and chief of staff for Senator Nasheed, said he sent a letter to Major League Baseball warning of a shutdown as leverage to get a special prosecutor in the Michael Brown case.

Vickers said if there’s an act of civil disobedience that fills trains with protesters to keep fans from getting to the game it would be legal and peaceful. For now it is just an idea.

**daedalus**

One thing that's impressed me (for lack of a better word) about this so far is that most of the hooliganism has mostly contained itself within Ferguson. There was maybe one or two outliers, and that was never even proven to be related. Might have just been a smash and grab. The only other one I can think of was that I heard reports of people throwing bricks off of overpasses at cars on the interstate, but I never read anything "official" on that, so I'm not sure if it even actually happened. Personally, I do not think anyone for a second is planning on interfering with their damned precious Cardinals games.

Shutting down MetroLink is a super-bad idea, and pretty much does everything the opposite of improving race relations, though the attitude is unsurprising. You could get away with murder here if you could show it was what was required to keep the baseball games running.

**mega_bassist**

daedalus wrote:
One thing that's impressed me (for lack of a better word) about this so far is that most of the hooliganism has mostly contained itself within Ferguson. There was maybe one or two outliers, and that was never even proven to be related.

I've also noticed this. There were rumors of people heading to the Illinois-side, but nothing ever happened.

And I don't see many people going through with the "protest" on the Metro...there are just too many diehard Cards fans

**Relapse**

And so it continues. Now a cop has been shot, but is happily, not dead:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/27/us/ferguson-police-officer-shot/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

**whembly**

Heard about that...

Most likely unrelated to the Mike Brown situation.

EDIT: the Ferguson officers was on routine patrol when they confronted two men breaking into a business, one pulled gun and shot the officer. Manhunt is onging...

**Relapse**

No doubt, "protestors". Word is circulating a suspect has been shot and killed, but at present, it's one of those unconfirmed stories.

**whembly**

Update:

There's still a sizable "protest crowd" outside of the Ferguson PD these days.
Here's some local news over that weekend...

I watched an interview on ksdk with St. Louis' County Prosecutor Robert P. McCulloch and he provided some updates on the whole process:

The decision won't likely happen till mid-November

McCulloch is not directly dealing with the Grand Jury... the oncall prosecuting attorney at the time is conducting the Grand Jury investigation

The Grand Jury component is secret, but the composition (gender, race, location, wealth) reflects the St. Louis population

The evidence is staggering and they're taking extra-special attention to interviewing potential witnesses

They're reviewing all possible indictments (1st degree murder, 2nd degree, homicide, etc...)

Officer Wilson actually testified in front of the Grand Jury, which is unusal, but not unheard of for what it's worth.

**Jihadin**

What's the staggering evidence?

**whembly**

Jihadin wrote:
What's the staggering evidence?

His words... not mine. I think it's mostly interviewing the witnesses.

The won't be released until either:
A) The do indict the officer, which the evidences will be made public as the case is conducted.

or

B) If the Grand Jury do NOT indict, the presiding judge as stated that the evidences will be made public (typically, they're not).

**Jihadin**

The Defense lawyer will tear up the eye witnesses accounts more likely being they conflict with each other

**Peter Wiggin**

Scrabb wrote:
Peter Wiggin wrote:
Its interesting to me how in all of this Ferguson debacle, NOBODY has talked further about the late night incident that is archived on Tim Poole's page where both police and media are fired on by protestors. You can hear the bullets whizz by the heads of reporters as they hit the dirt, and even hear them bounce off the ground.

It was crazy to watch that live as it happened, and its even crazier to me that literally nobody has talked about it...including Tim and the rest of the VICE crew that actually experienced it!

Don't you mean police shooting at protestors and media?

No, I do not. I mean "protestors" opening fire on police and the media pen at around 2 AM one evening. I watched as it happened on livestream and the archive is on here somewhere.

https://new.livestream.com/timcast