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THere's the big assed Grand Jury Report:
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2014/11/24/ferguson-assets/grand-jury-testimony.pdf


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EDIT: if you twitter... follow @kmoxnews.

Lots of cop cars rolled, burnt and bricked. Police station was bricked, police were forced to pull back to secondary defense locations. Multiple fires, store being broken into. Lots of shots being fired, at least one person down and police are in route.

Via police scanner (radio).

On another note national guard are there and about to hit the streets in a few.

Stay safe all.



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Crowds in the 25-30s up to 200 armed with bricks and guns. People on roofs with molotovs burning buildings. Cops under heavy fire. An armed vehicle was broken into a bit ago and a rifle was stolen, (most likely full auto, my speculation).

Dammit people! These rioters are worse than the problem that started it!

I look forward to talking about this in my sociology class.

You know, for the most part I've been pretty ambivalent about all this, definitely leaned towards the pro-Wilson side, but I could definitely sympathize and empathize with the black community (and associated non-minority SJWs) and understand their perspective... but given the events of the past few days, whatever sympathy and empathy I had are gone.

Side note "Justice for Mike Brown" is not the same thing as "Justice". Saying "Justice for Mike Brown" means you've already picked a side and its the only outcome you'll accept regardless of whether or not its the correct outcome. I.E. - you're out for blood and want vengeance and there is literally nothing that can be done to convince you otherwise. Just some food for thought, as I've seen lots of people claiming 'justice has failed' with shirts or banners that read "Justice for Mike Brown".

Other than the loss of life of Brown... I have no sympathy.

This FUBAR.

 Ruberu wrote:

Crowds in the 25-30s up to 200 armed with bricks and guns. People on roofs with molotovs burning buildings. Cops under heavy fire. An armed vehicle was broken into a bit ago and a rifle was stolen, (most likely full auto, my speculation).!

How many rapes and murders in the Superdome?

Damn, im at work and cant get scanners or most things up. monitoring here for updates.

:C feel bad for the innocent people whose lives are going up in literal flames tonight

Michael Calhoun @michaelcalhoun · 8m 8 minutes ago
NOW: Looting at Toys R Us on W Florissant. Police have suspects laying on the ground. #Ferguson @kmoxnews

 whembly wrote:
Michael Calhoun @michaelcalhoun · 8m 8 minutes ago
NOW: Looting at Toys R Us on W Florissant. Police have suspects laying on the ground. #Ferguson @kmoxnews

wonder how many more people will end up shot over this >.>

If any rioters get shot, I wonder how long it'll take to see a picture of them when they were twelve.


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 gunslingerpro wrote:
Is it Irony or Tragedy that the original store where theft that started it all took place has been looted?

It also proves why they were scared to file a report against Brown.

All of this crap over a bully and a thief.

Relapse wrote:
If any rioters get shot, I wonder how long it'll take to see a picture of them when they were twelve.


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 gunslingerpro wrote:
Is it Irony or Tragedy that the original store where theft that started it all took place has been looted?

It also proves why they were scared to file a report against Brown.

man just like Treyvon Martin >.> I hate all that gak

heh...

Adam Baldwin ‏@AdamBaldwin 4m4 minutes ago
“I didn't build that!” ~

the police got chased away from the toys are us awhile ago. Now all police have been pulled from the area. They are leaving that part of town to the rioters.

Small groups of protestors now forming in other areas of the country including some in front of the White House.

So when is the National Guard getting sent in?

 Ruberu wrote:
the police got chased away from the toys are us awhile ago. Now all police have been pulled from the area. They are leaving that part of town to the rioters.

Small groups of protestors now forming in other areas of the country including some in front of the White House.

If the store owners were like the Koreans in the LA riots, the looters wouldn't have dared come near.

Whatd the Koreans do?


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From what I can find it seems the protests aren't as bad as people expected. Ferguson is easily the worst off of any area in the country, protests in other cities are relatively peaceful, and shockingly small (50-200 people average), even then violence in Ferguson is relatively contained to a small area.

chaos0xomega wrote:
Whatd the Koreans do?


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From what I can find it seems the protests aren't as bad as people expected. Ferguson is easily the worst off of any area in the country, protests in other cities are relatively peaceful, and shockingly small (50-200 people average), even then violence in Ferguson is relatively contained to a small area.

The Koreans were armed to the teeth and had built barricades which they manned. Rioters didn't dare mess with their buisnesses. Pretty much anyone else depending on the cops were told they were on their own and had their business looted and burned.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a6tmD0W5r4w


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ucjQUxViZgo

Edited due to being completely wrong.

 ImAGeek wrote:
I think people need to understand why people are protesting. A young black man was shot 6 times and killed for allegedly robbing a shop. Eyewitnesses have said he had his hands up and was surrendering, and there's also evidence that he didn't rob the shop at all. The White man who shot him hasn't even been put on trial. Yet there was a guy who went into a cinema and shot and killed 12 people, who was arrested peacefully. Guess what, he was white.

A 12 year old black boy has been shot and killed for playing with a freaking BB gun. I'm pretty sure he was in an open carry state.

If you aren't angry, you haven't been paying attention.

The riots started out as peaceful protests too, btw. Before police and SWAT came en force with their assault rifles and tear gas. Where was that when Mike Browns memorial was set on fire and pissed on.

I am disgusted.

That's an interesting take away from this. I'm totally fine with protesting whatever you want, although I think that maybe waiting a day so as you can't as easily be taken advantage of by outside instigators and/or random looters might be a good call. And you really highlight the core issue here.... do what the police say and you probably won't get shot. Walk out of a theater after killing a bunch of people and do what the cops say... you don't get shot out of hand. I don't think it was because Holmes was white, just like I don't think either of the other two were shot for being black. If Mike Brown had just got onto the sidewalk when told, he might still be alive. Certainly if that kid had put his hands in the air when ordered to at gunpoint instead of going for his 'toy' gun he'd still be alive.

Maybe we need a PSA or something, because people are just dumb when it comes to the cops.

As far as tonight - Twitter really didn't disappoint with the level of crazy, looters ought to be shot, and if people were actually taking pot shots at fire fighters....I have no words.

Lets take this down one by one.
There seems to be this straw man circulating that anyone who isn't outraged is some how ignorant to why there are riots and protests. That those who sought true justice are some racist hate mongers who hate black people and are over privileged blah blah blah. That is not the case. We understand why people are upset, I am upset someone died and it sucks, but its not worth destroying the community over,

Coroner proved the GSR on his hands, and the graze wounds he took are similar to wounds one would attain when trying to wrestle a gun away, robbery or not You don't get to do that and not be perceived as an immediate and deadly threat. Eyewitnesses are wrong all the time, its called flashbulb memory. Its a traumatic experience and its being blown up by media who knows what they really saw and what they think they saw?

You compare this one on one incident between a police officer and someone who attempted to steal his firearm to a mass shooting from an unstable psychopath just for gaks and giggles.....im not sure you know what it is you are doing here. The point you attempted to make here failed, and im unsure what even you hoped to gain by bringing this up.

As for the kid, its very unfortunate that a child was shot. However, open carry states don't allow you to handle your firearm out in public, wave it around willy nilly and endanger people. They just allow you to wear a fire arm on your person without concealing it. That BB gun had no orange tip, it looked real and while the officer may have overacted he acted in the way his training taught him.

I don't get angry when a marine or soldier shoot a kid who raises what looks like a gun that's what they are trained to do, and if anything the reaction tonight proves that the community is capable of anything and its sad to see that officers are now reacting this way to kids but getting angry only justifies their actions further.

LASTLY Im not sure where the information you have came from, parts of the protests may have started peacefully, but no they didn't all. and the police certainly didn't attack and provoke the early riots that's just foolish, look at the videos, the twitters those people were ready to riot one way or another.

Okay. It appears I was wrong on some points, so I do apologise, I did speak in haste. And not being from America, and not having working TV at the moment, all my info was from the Internet so that probably was less impartial than I realised.

That'll teach me to post when angry about social issues I don't know much about! Who knew...

 ImAGeek wrote:
Okay. It appears I was wrong on some points, so I do apologise, I did speak in haste. And not being from America, and not having working TV at the moment, all my info was from the Internet so that probably was less impartial than I realised.

That'll teach me to post when angry about social issues I don't know much about! Who knew...

I also apologize for becoming so hostile so quickly, it has been a long day spent battling for due process and justice to be recognized as legitimate not just hate.

It seems like deciding to announce this thing at 8pm (which ended up even later of course) was just another example of piss-poor planing and decision making by the people in charge around there.

 Grey Templar wrote:
Why would you loot a McDonalds?

Hey those sausage biscuits are good!

 Ruberu wrote:
the police got chased away from the toys are us awhile ago. Now all police have been pulled from the area. They are leaving that part of town to the rioters.

Small groups of protestors now forming in other areas of the country including some in front of the White House.

And y'know, feth people's right to bear arms and defend themselves because the police will save you.

Or not...

 ImAGeek wrote:
I think people need to understand why people are protesting. A young black man was shot 6 times and killed for allegedly robbing a shop. Eyewitnesses have said he had his hands up and was surrendering, and there's also evidence that he didn't rob the shop at all. The White man who shot him hasn't even been put on trial. Yet there was a guy who went into a cinema and shot and killed 12 people, who was arrested peacefully. Guess what, he was white.

A 12 year old black boy has been shot and killed for playing with a freaking BB gun. I'm pretty sure he was in an open carry state.

If you aren't angry, you haven't been paying attention.

The riots started out as peaceful protests too, btw. Before police and SWAT came en force with their assault rifles and tear gas. Where was that when Mike Browns memorial was set on fire and pissed on.

I am disgusted.

You should be. Your opinion is full of nonsense.
I saw people flipping a car before anything started.

 ImAGeek wrote:
Okay. It appears I was wrong on some points, so I do apologise, I did speak in haste. And not being from America, and not having working TV at the moment, all my info was from the Internet so that probably was less impartial than I realised.

That'll teach me to post when angry about social issues I don't know much about! Who knew...

Good for you. It isn't often on the internet people admit they spoke hastily. It's refreshing to read your post.

Your initial reaction is a good example of why these people are on the streets though. The media shows us slanted information and we get riled up and nothing said afterwards will change our minds. People literally think Wilson just rolled up and shot Brown. Which shows the depth of ignorance and mistrust in the community. gaks do dumb things and they get shot. There's no conspiracy.

Justice for Mike Brown happened on August 9th.

 d-usa wrote:
It seems like deciding to announce this thing at 8pm (which ended up even later of course) was just another example of piss-poor planing and decision making by the people in charge around there.

I'm not sure what the 'right' time to release the info would have been. You didn't want looting/rioting to kick off with folks stuck at work or on their commute home, so waiting until after all that makes sense from that perspective. Looting and burning an unoccupied store is better than hurting innocent folks who happened to be in there working or shopping. Blocking off roads and highways after end of day rush hour causes a lot less harm than doing so when the streets are full of folks just wanting to get home.

Good point. The schools had also asked that nothing be released while they were going on or buses were running.

I do wonder, though, if the sides had been flipped and Mike Brown was accused of shooting the cop, would Mike Brown have been asked to testify in front of the Grand Jury and would the DA present all evidence and not just evidence that looks worse for Mike?