[Jabberwalker]

It's highly democratic, in a way and it gives us the opportunity to really see what is going on without having it filtered through partisan news reportage. It may take years to sort out these rioters and police but there is a hope that some sort of "truth" will come out of it.

[martin14]

BRAH BRAH:

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The store gentle Mike was caught robbing was trashed last night during the looting, these people want to act like savages then treat them like savages bring out the tear gas and rubber bullets. As for Michael Moore he's an opportunist who never lets a crisis go to waste.

Guess that means Brown never went into the store, never stole nuthin', and didn't
throw his weight around.

Cuz if he wuz innocent, there would be no need to trash the store.

[xerxes]

FWIW, there were people trying to block the looters.

[N_Fiddledog]

$1:

Web Sleuths Get It Wrong Again in Ferguson



The hacker group Anonymous blew it—and tormented a woman not connected to the shooting of Michael Brown. Victims of careless ‘dox’ attempts say the consequences are miserable.

Although the Web carries with it great collaborative potential, mistakes can be made in the heat of a crisis, especially when research is being led by amateurs. It is even worse when online actors “dox”—or publicly release the private information of—the incorrect person. As online social communities grow, bands of well-meaning users are increasingly trying to play detective to enforce a type of street justice—and about as often, they get it wrong.

The consequences can be miserable, as those affected tell The Daily Beast in interviews.

The misidentified Ferguson shooter

This week the nebulous hacker collective Anonymous released the name of a man they believed to be the shooter of Michael Brown, the teen killed in Ferguson, Missouri, last Saturday. They were flat out wrong. Not only did Anonymous issue the incorrect name, posting the information of a man who had never been a St. Louis police officer, but the vigilante hackers also acquired a false address. They posted the address of the man’s 48-year-old stepmother, Stephanie Warnack.

“Wow, this is not good,” she said, when informed by a national reporter. She began to weep. “Now I have to defend myself and I didn’t do anything wrong.”

A harried-sounding woman answered the phone at a publicly listed number for Warnack on Friday. The phone had been ringing off the hook all morning, the woman told The Daily Beast, refusing to identify herself.

“Don’t call back again,” she warned.

Twitter messages show there was some internal dissension among Anonymous hackers as to whether they had the correct name. Despite misgivings, some decided to release it anyway—with unfortunate results for those wrongly fingered as responsib...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... guson.html

[martin14]

xerxes xerxes:

FWIW, there were people trying to block the looters.

Aww, ain't that nice, a couple of normal people in a sea of animals.


And the reward ? Cookies ? nope..



Curfew tonight, midnight til 5am.

[N_Fiddledog]

$1:

Ferguson rioters harass, threaten reporters



FERGUSON, Missouri — Reporters trying to cover the renewed chaos in this town faced a new threat on Friday: the demonstrators themselves.

Print, video and photo-journalists were all repeatedly and aggressively threatened and harassed when attempting to photograph or videotape any of the looting or property destruction. Many of the demonstrators expressed concern about being identified by police or told reporters that the looting was none of their concern.

Police largely remained on the sidelines on Friday and into the dawn hours of Saturday morning as demonstrators descended on a number of businesses in Ferguson — pulling alcohol, lottery tickets, and merchandise from the vandalized stores.

Reporters were repeatedly and forcefully told to move away, turn around, put down their cameras or simply to leave the area when trying to get close enough to film the scenes of destruction and theft. Most reporters on the scene were simply recording the events as they unfolded — making no effort to interfere or interview participants in the rioting.

Many of the looters carried molotov cocktails and wore bandanas over their faces to conceal their identity. Multiple reporters said demonstrators made repeated threats about being armed or returning with weapons — but no journalist on the scene that POLITICO spoke with reported seeing a weapon.

The Washington Post’s Wesley Lowery reported on Twitter that one looter “just threatened to pull knife” on him and other reporter outside a liquor store that was being cleaned of inventory...

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/f ... 10080.html

[Goober911]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posttv/na ... ml?hpid=z6

[xerxes]

$1:

Sharpton urges Ferguson protesters not to aid 'smear campaign' by rioting

Following a night of continued unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, Reverend Al Sharpton on Saturday implored protesters to stop the violence and looting, saying such actions strengthened a “smear campaign” against Michael Brown, the teenager who was shot dead by a police officer last weekend.

“You mad and you angry and you have every right to be,” Sharpton said during a rally held by his National Action Network in New York. “But because you can’t control your anger, they’ll use your lack of control to control the process to rob [Brown’s family] of justice.

“They want us to lose our minds so we can lose the cases.”

The National Action Network is holding back-to-back rallies in New York and Missouri over the weekend, to demand justice for two African-American men killed by police: Eric Garner, a 43-year-old Staten Island man who died last month after being put in an illegal chokehold by an NYPD officer, and Brown, 18, who was fatally shot last Saturday.

Sharpton was joined at the rally by Garner’s family and the US representative Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat from New York.

Sharpton questioned the decision by police in Ferguson to release surveillance footage that allegedly showed Brown stealing cigars from a convenience store shortly before he was shot. Police on Friday gave conflicting accounts of whether the two events were connected.

“You put [the video] out because you wanted to smear the name of the victim and there’s nothing more contemptible and offensive to the people of this country than for law enforcement to try to smear a dead man or dead child that can’t speak for themselves,” Sharpton said. “… Like that in any way mitigates what was done to him.”

Sharpton said police tried to taint Garner’s image after his death by quickly releasing his arrest record.

Garner was being taken into custody for selling untaxed cigarettes, known as “loosies”, when an officer put him in a chokehold and refused to let up, even as he gasped: “I can’t breathe.” He had been arrested more than 30 times.

Sharpton said: “Both of them were victims of this aggressive policing of alleged low-level crimes and you cannot have a nation where people lose their lives because [of this].”
.......

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/16/sharpton-ferguson-protesters-smear-campaign-rioting

[Strutz]

Holy shit. This has been going on for a week now.

It seems much of the disruption is now coming from people who don't even live there. How in hell are the residents of this town coping? I'm thinking in terms of day-to-day life... work, shopping etc. Obviously there is a large area where normal routine is simply not happening.

What has to happen to bring this to an end?

[xerxes]

From what I've read the protests are taking place mostly in the block where Michael brown was shot. It's not the whole town over.

[saturn_656]

$1:

Is the media trying to get Ferguson police office Darren Wilson lynched?

CNN broadcast a report Friday that showed the house, including the street number, of the Ferguson police officer who police say shot Mike Brown. The officer has been in hiding due to death threats since the shooting last Saturday. His name, Darren Wilson, was just released Friday morning.

Another news outlet apologized for broadcasting video of Wilson’s home while others have virtually drawn a map to Wilson’s house for those bent on vengeance.

Yahoo News named the community Wilson where Wilson resides and published a photograph of the officer.

The UK Daily Mail also named the community, posted photos of the officer and gave a description of the house.

USA Today also named the community and reported a local police presence.

The Washington Post named the street where Wilson lives.

In the video report, CNN reporter Ed Lavandera is seen walking in the street where Wilson lives. The CNN video shows a wide view of Wilson’s house and then pans around the street to show its relative position in the neighborhood. While Lavandera does not name the street, he gives its approximate location.

Every news report says neighbors told them Wilson has not been home for several days.

A version of the video being aired by CNN affiliate Newschannel 13 in Orlando, Florida (and likely other affiliates around the country including the St. Louis market) shows a brief close-up of the house number by the front door such that someone could freeze and enlarge the image to get the address.

The version of the report available online at CNN has that footage edited and replaced with a close-up of a front window of Wilson’s house.

St. Louis TV station KSDK, which like USA Today is owned by Gannett, issued an apology Saturday afternoon for broadcasting video of Wilson’s home.



“Yesterday KSDK showed the video of the Ferguson Police Officer’s home in our 5 p.m. news but did not mention the address of the home. KSDK immediately felt using that video was a mistake and pulled the video of the home from future newscasts and from our web site. We have not used the video since then and do not intend to do so. We apologize to our audience, to the surrounding neighborhoods, to the greater St.Louis community and to the officer for our mistake.”

CNN’s video is still available online while Newschannel 13 is repeating the report on the hour as of this writing.

A local newspaper named the street where Wilson lives, adding that the area high school closed and sent students home when Wilson’s name was made public. Local police reportedly monitored the streets to ensure the safety from any potential lynch mob of the school kids heading home.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/08 ... ike-brown/

[BRAH]

Speechless!’ You won’t believe what Huffpo journo arrested in Ferguson thought were rubber bullets
http://twitchy.com/2014/08/17/speechless-you-wont-believe-what-huffpo-journo-arrested-in-ferguson-thought-were-rubber-bullets-photo/?utm_source=autotweet&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=twitter
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There are no words!

[PublicAnimalNo9]

I believe Ryan J. Reilly is a moron. Can anyone confirm?

[BeaverFever]

Rubber bullets tipped with earwax! These are Biological weapons...can anyone confirm?

[PublicAnimalNo9]

I believe the US Army is recruiting children, can anyone confirm?