Incredible image of protester engulfed by tear gas in #Ferguson tonight

[cui bono]

https://twitter.com/nycjim/status/499753724605386752/photo/1

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[L0oniX]

1. That is an epic picture!

[Mnemosyne]

2. K&R for more visibility. nt

[kath]

3. jeebus H. Christ on a Trailer Hitch

Speechless...

[cui bono]

5. Looks like a war zone!

Well, it has become one I guess.

[Union Scribe]

8. Yep, if you showed these pictures to people

and asked them to guess where it was happening I bet you'd get a lot of Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, etc etc.

[woo me with science]

4. Our Constitutionally Protected Right to Protest.

RIP America.

[jimlup]

9. you may know this already but as a long time protester

this kind of stuff has been going down since police forces came into existence I think. Certainly, I've seen violations of rights again and again. Not intending to argue - just suggesting this is nothing new. And is why we have to have checks on police and why cameras are so important. They sure as hell use them to their advantage. Now, the one difference from the past is that citizens are capable of recording them. So in a way the tables have been turned a bit in our favor. Now, more people see live how cops really act.

[awoke_in_2003]

22. when they started requiring permits to protest...

it no longer became a right, but a privilege, Constitution be damned.

[woo me with science]

23. +100000

[winter is coming]

6. I hope they survived. n/t

[Samantha]

7. Unbelievable

even though we have seen this movie before.

I hope the people of Ferguson join together and file a class action lawsuit against the police. They have a Constitutional right to gather peacefully and air their grievances. There was no curfew in place. All of the personnel elected by these people were silent while this happened. No one stepped out to protect them.

Sam

[Agschmid]

10. Wow... kick.

[littlemissmartypants]

12. ^ eom

[DallasNE]

11. Some Of The Footage I Saw

Showed the wind in the wrong direction so the tear gas was blowing back toward the police line (they obviously had gas masks) so it wasn't that effective in dispersing the crowd. But with the quantity of tear gas used if forced people out of their own homes and others had to abandon their cars to get away from all of the gas.

When I saw what was happening tonight in Ferguson, MO I was reminded of a small scale Chicago, circa 1968.

[U4ikLefty]

13. Ah, brings me back to the "glory days" of Occupy

and not in a good way. I have seen to much of this to think this is an "aberration."

How long until people get sick of this shit?!?

[Moostache]

14. A reminder to all...

Freedom of religion, speech, and the press; rights of assembly and petition

Amendment I (1):
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

I am white and I am sickened by the fact that if you are white, you can point assault weapons at the police and they will back down (see: Ranch, Cliven Bundy et. al.; April 2014); but if you are black, unarmed and hands in the air (see Brown, Michael; August 2014) or protesting within your constitutional rights (see Ferguson, MO.; August 2014), you will be met with flash bangs, tear gas, and jack-booted thugs AT BEST and met with lethal force and outright murder at worst. All based on the fucking melanin content of the epidermis...in the fucking 21st century...it makes the soul hurt and grieve, at the same time that it stokes outrage and righteous anger.

The people of Ferguson have every right to demand a redress of grievances and to assemble and protest the actions and in-actions of their government. The press has every right to film it, cover it, witness it and write about it. The police need to stand down and if they do not, the governor needs to call out the national guard TO PROTECT THE CITIZENS OF MISSOURI FROM THE POLICE OF FERGUSON!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

19. ^^^ n/t

[SammyWinstonJack]

26. +100000!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

15. feels not too far a leap

To photographs of little girls, engulfed in flames, running down a village road, away from the napalm, toward the lens of a journalist.

[cui bono]

16. Which is why the journalists are being swept away in Ferguson. n/t

[BlancheSplanchnik]

17. yep. that too.

[Blue_In_AK]

18. What country is this again?

[ReRe]

20. It ain't our country anymore...

... it's The Corporate States of America.

[Tsiyu]

21. This is the USA, World.

St. Louis is showing the world what life is now like in the USA.

Freedom.

[JCMach1]

24. Saw clip of Ferguson police chief last not from FOX interview blaming the protests on

'outside agitators'


Seriously flashed back to the 50's and '60's protests... same old bullshit...

[woo me with science]

25. kick