Jake Tapper Goes Off on Police Reaction in Ferguson: ‘This Doesn’t Make Any Sense!’

[cui bono]

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Looks like even CNN is getting sick of this shit. Video at link.

Jake Tapper Goes Off on Police Reaction in Ferguson: ‘This Doesn’t Make Any Sense!’
by Matt Wilstein | 11:20 pm, August 18th, 2014 VIDEO

Just after 10 p.m. local time in Ferguson, Missouri Monday night, CNN’s Jake Tapper asked his cameraman to take a step back and zoom out so he could highlight what he clearly thought was the absurdity of the situation on the ground. With the National Guard and police sent in to disperse what appeared to be almost entirely peaceful protesters, an incensed Tapper told viewers what was really going on here:


Below are his full remarks:

“I want to show you this, okay? To give you an idea of what’s going on. The protesters have moved all the way down there… they’re all the way down there. Nobody is threatening anything. Nobody is doing anything. None of the stores here that I can see are being looted. There is no violence.

Now I want you to look at what is going on in Ferguson, Missouri, in downtown America, okay? These are armed police, with — not machine guns — semi-automatic rifles, with batons, with shields, many of them dressed for combat. Now why they’re doing this? I don’t know. Because there is no threat going on here. None that merits this. There is none, okay? Absolutely there have been looters, absolutely over the last nine days there’s been violence, but there is nothing going on on this street right now that merits this scene out of Bagram. Nothing.

So if people wonder why the people of Ferguson, Missouri are so upset, this is part of the reason. What is this? This doesn’t make any sense.”

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/jake-tapper-goes-off-on-police-reaction-in-ferguson-this-doesnt-make-any-sense/

UPDATE:

Retaliation??? I post, you decide...
(Twitter timestamp is Pacific time)




UPDATE #2

Now they are reporting with gas masks on:




SOMEBODY STOP THIS SHIT NOW!!!

[daleanime]

1. K&R....

[billhicks76]

25. It Does To Any Real Activist

This is the same shit they have been doing for 20 years or more.

[daleanime]

32. There a grave difference between.....

being constant and making sense.




It may serve their purposes, but let's see if they have the courage to come out and say it.

[steve2470]

2. k&r ! nt

[conservaphobe]

3. Bout time they got out of their NYC/DC bubble. nt

[cui bono]

4. Hopefully all the news stations will start saying this. n/t

[ReRe]

16. Hopefully...

... but I wouldn't bank on it.

[nolabear]

5. I was watching that. He just broke. And spoke truth.

CNN has seen the light, it would seem. Tonight's coverage has been much angrier and less "fair."

[Beartracks]

42. More actual fairness, less artificial fairness. n/t

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[countryjake]

6. I'll rec this even tho I cannot stand Jake Tapper

He's right.

[ancianita]

7. Haha. Even to the media, some truths become self evident. Nothing like first hand witnessing.

[cui bono]

10. Yeah, and now he got hit by tear gas! Talk about "first hand witnessing.

I think it was him. That's him in the pic, right? Wearing that maroon shirt... (Twitter timestamp is Pacific time)

[countryjake]

12. Yah, looks like him...

CNN talent....bwahahahahaha!

[AlinPA]

43. Calling CNN people "talent" ??!

[kath]

8. Sing it, Jake, sing it! makes absofuckinlutely no sense at all.

[MrMickeysMom]

9. That is step one...

Keep it rolling…

[hibbing]

11. CNN Talent...ha ha ha

Kind of like jumbo shrimp.

Peace

[cui bono]

13. Yeah, there was a reply to that tweet that simply said... "talent?"

Still, if he's going off and saying this, maybe we've hit a tipping point. Hope so.

[progressoid]

31. At least they weren't called "journalists".

[daleanime]

33. +1

[blkmusclmachine]

14. Police State.

Meanwhile, Obama gives another canned speech.

[sabrina 1]

15. Where is the political leadership? Ferguson is under seige! Or could it be that our leadership

is RESPONSIBLE for this outrage?

I feel like I'm watching a war zone. It is a disgrace.

We watched the same tactics during OWS.

This IS America. Like any oppressive nation, you'll be fine so long as stay quiet and go about your business, but they have amassed a huge ARMY which is NOT there to protect the people, it is there to OPPRESS the people, to keep them under control, to make sure they NEVER threaten even by telling the truth, the Rulers of this so-called democracy.

I'm glad the media is finally showing some resistance but it may be way too late.

[cui bono]

17. So bizarre.

Still stunned at the images, saw this tweet tonight and that MRAD or whatever it is with all those "soldiers" was frightening to see:

[sabrina 1]

18. It WAS frightening to watch. I was stunned when I saw the ARMY moving in. I was even more stunned

when I saw this 'military unit' aim their weapons at unarmed, peaceful people. I did notice that a few of them kept their guns pointed slightly down, probably ashamed to be participating in such a display of utter moronity.

[cui bono]

19. Yeah, I just saw a picture of a line of them moving in on the protesters with their rifles pointed

at them!

WTF? So insane. I don't know what can be done. I wonder what the Amnesty International crew is up to there tonight. Will be interesting to see what they have to say tomorrow.

[Tommymac]

26. Amnesty Int was asked (told) to leave too.

http://twitter.com/sdkstl/status/501592381473308672/photo/1

[link:http://twitter.com/sdkstl/status/501592381473308672/photo/1|]

[kath]

27. Wow. That's appalling.

[kath]

21. OMG, that's a horrifying photo. chills me to the bone.

[blackspade]

39. It's like a picture from South Africa in the 80s

Repulsive.

[SoapBox]

20. The Police Terrorist Militias, are out of control.

And to think...paid for and acting like this, with tax dollars.

[ReRe]

22. K&R

that second tweet pic there is quite hilarious.

But I just heard Tapper and Lemon get invited by Capt Ron Johnson to hang with him tomorrow night.

[Uncle Joe]

23. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, cui bono.

[cui bono]

34. You're welcome Uncle Joe.

[No Vested Interest]

24. Send in General Honore' - he of Katrina fame.

(Yes, I know he's retired, but I bet he'd step right up and make the right things happen.)

Ron Johnson is doing a good job, as best he can, but he may have been outranked by the National Guard, Ot , at least, it may feel that way.

[roscoeroscoe]

28. Reminds me of the "Cronkite moment"

...When you've lost Cronkite, you've lost the war.

Well, Jake Tapper has been pretty mild & CNN for years, but in the years when he wrote for Salon I followed his writing and he was pretty damn good. I hope he's waking up to what's what, and stays awake once he gets back to the Washington-New York bubble.

[get the red out]

29. This is actual reporting!

The police out there are drunk on their power! Retaliation on journalists shows that they don't even feel the need to hide anything; they feel all powerful. All that military shit to use against Americans sure boosts their invincibility complex. Totalitarianism and authoritarianism in full force.

[southern_belle]

37. +1 n/t

[woo me with science]

30. K&R

[calimary]

35. I feel like that young black woman with the protest sign did -

"I Cannot Believe I STILL Have To Protest This Shit!"

[dawn frenzy adams]

36. Please! Don't be fooled by the coroporate media!

They are covering the protests in the manner they typically do-which is to take a few incidents of civil disobedience, and call it violence. They will echo and reiterate the violence, while ignoring the fundamentals of the protest. They use the split screen tactic. This is how they can pretend to be reporting the concerns of the protestors in one screen, while showing images of violence and looting in the other. In the end the viewer, who doesn't understand media manipulation, will side with the police. It works every time. Before you give Jake Tapper the Nobel Peace Prize, this is the same man that went screaming foul because President Obama was not going to recognize Fox News as a legitimate news organization. He created an alliance with CNN, NBC and CBS to not cover the White House unless President Obama accepted Fox as a news organization.

Please, be reminded of this before you think the media is on our side:

[truedelphi]

41. Your post and the accompanying video show us how very conservative the nation's

Media has become.

I had no idea that a person can be called an anarchist for wearing an item of clothing! And which colors exactly are "anarchist colors?"

[valerief]

38. Tapper's forgetting one thing. The protesters, for the most part, are black.

That qualifies murder in the US. Just ask Florida.

[pansypoo53219]

40. welcome to the hood goldilocks.