Police threaten to shoot reporter taping Ferguson protest and Chris Hayes threatened (video)
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http://www.vox.com/2014/8/17/6029739/video-police-threatens-to-shoot-reporter-taping-ferguson-protests?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=voxdotcom&utm_content=sunday#ooid=5sZ2Nwbzoa54nQHPRIpGI8H5XzPNiRPvA police officer threatened to shoot a reporter taping a live stream of protests in Ferguson, Missouri. The moment was caught on tape by KARG Argus Radio in St. Louis at Livestream.com:
In the video, a police officer can be heard yelling to a reporter, "Get the fuck out of here or I will shoot you."
Chris Hayes being threatened (video)
Also threatened by police Sunday night was MSNBC's Chris Hayes, who was filming when police told him, "Media do not pass us, you're getting maced next time you pass us."
http://gawker.com/ferguson-police-threaten-to-shoot-reporter-and-mace-chr-1623125660/+gabriellebluestone
Video of the reporter too
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like calling out the National Guard??? 
8/18/14 12:06am
Sooooo . . . . what exactly are the police and the governor trying to accomplish with the curfew and this show of force? They aren't making the protest or protesters go away, and they haven't succeeded in protecting property. They have made everyone disdain them, and they have succeeded in making themselves look violent, racist, cruel, and near psychopathic. If their mission was to demonstrate to the world how a police officer could have the mindset that would allow him to shoot an unarmed man, then MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/06/aclu-police-militarization-swat_n_2813334.html
It's almost certain that if the police agencies cooperate, the ACLU will find that the militarization trend has accelerated since Kraska's studies more than a decade ago. All of the policies, incentives and funding mechanisms that were driving the trend then are still in effect now. And most of them have grown in size and scope.
The George W. Bush administration actually began scaling down the Byrne and COPS programs in the early 2000s, part of a general strategy of leaving law enforcement to states and localities. But the Obama administration has since resurrected both programs. The Byrne program got a $2 billion surge in funding as part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, by far the largest budget in the program's 25-year history. Obama also gave the COPS program $1.55 billion that same year, a 250 percent increase over its 2008 budget, and again the largest budget in the program's history. Vice President Joe Biden had championed both programs during his time in the Senate.
The Pentagon's 1033 program has also exploded under Obama. In the program's monthly newsletter (Motto: "From Warfighter to Crimefighter"
, its director announced in October 2011 that his office had given away a record $500 million in military gear in fiscal year 2011, which he noted, "passes the previous mark by several hundred million dollars." He added, "I believe we can exceed that in FY 12.”
Then there are the Department of Homeland Security's anti-terrorism grants. The Center for Investigative Reporting found in a 2011 investigation that since 2001, DHS has given out more than $34 billion in grants to police departments across the country, many of which have been used to purchase military-grade guns, tanks, armor, and armored personnel carriers. The grants have gone to such unlikely terrorism targets as Fargo, N.D.; Canyon County, Idaho; and Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Link to the final ACLU report on militarization of police in America
https://www.aclu.org/criminal-law-reform/war-comes-home-excessive-militarization-american-police-report
And what will hawk Hillary do?
which was deadly for a great number. In many states with voting taken away for another hundred years and the sharecropping system which guaranteed control by the white majority, the only threat was in the minds of the people who used to profit from slavery.
Imho, freed slaves only act like that on t.v., where the quote came from
The Malcom X quotelet, on the other hand, was from a speech he gave after he came back and disavowed racism and embraced cooperation. A lot of context that makes it sound a little different than it does alone, by itself, I think. But that's just me.
I think, if Malcom X had not been murdered the most interesting part of his life was yet to come. His most fiery rhetoric, intended to wake people, leaned on that "if they touch you put them in the cemetery" as a reasonable alternative in the day of being killed by white people with no consequence to them. (Maybe more than today.).
Most of what people remember was his reactive behavior, his fiery speech. Like throwing a rock or a burning a building, ot wasn't really part of a long-term strategy - as he said, he was a "zombie". More a tactic born of the moment. And as people know there were white people in the movements here in his time, before and after, but in some groups their efforts were not acknowledged, seen as being part of what people were trying to let go, regardless of what one thinks of that, since that's not the point.
But after Malcom X came back from South Africa where he experienced white and black people working together he seemed to have realized that we were in this together, and our opponents were the wealthy. That would have been a much more interesting fight, and his killers may have changed history for the worse for a lot of people. He dropped the racism, and created an institute for cooperation in this arena.
So that "by any means necessary" was at the beginning of what may have been his developing real strategy, looking further than the moment.
as others were on other fronts.
I think, if he were alive today, he would gather the looters and rioters together and quit playing into the organized police force, and instead find a way to dis-organize the racist town and police force. If he and Saul Alinsky had worked together... And humor. Humor would be good.
Maybe get them and tens of thousands of people press passes and watch the fun
Maybe start manufacturing balloons of a pair of raised hands so that black people can carry them where the police have some advance notice they are coming? Make the whole country look foolish.
Oh, and they have to pick them up in Ferguson. They could bring buses. Lots of buses. And have ice cream socials. Prove that black people aren't scary.
Maybe tens of thousands of naked people with our hands up to prove they aren't a threat. Want to see how it looks teargassing those people? 
Humor. Dis-organizing what is already organized against you. Long-term thinking that really changes things
Not looting, burning. Those are things done by people in prison when they get pissed off and they have no hope and KNOW the change will be minimal if any. Which is the same as these people can expect.
They get hope, however, look out, because they will bring that same commitment, and change shit. And that would be a very good thing. (Some of those reports sound like there are some orgs stepping up to do that).
Giving lots and lots of weaponized DRONES
to local police depts in America.
I'm sure they'd use them responsibly
to protect and serve our freedoms.
