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Another bad night in Ferguson, Missouri. The Governor announced yesterday that the official curfew was lifted. But just before midnight the tanks and heavily armed police rolled onto the scene out of nowhere. Suddenly shots were being fired, rocks were thrown, and tear gas filled the air. A few more journalists were roughed up or arrested, but hey - they are keeping the peace, right? Are we Russia now? No - eventually this mayhem has to end. The President is sending Eric Holder to Ferguson today, and hopefully the murderer of Michael Brown will be arrested, or they will at least explain WHY he hasn't been arrested yet. Is Darren Wilson even in Missouri at this time?
Stunning Scenes from Yesterday:
“@CoolTableTweets: This is too real. #Ferguson #MikeBrown pic.twitter.com/EbU5n9sRC1” #ARRESTDARRENWILSON
— Sonja (@seolatta) August 18, 2014Just one of many signs in #Ferguson. via @JeffBernthal pic.twitter.com/vRCMWuguv6
— FOX2now (@FOX2now) August 18, 2014Hundreds of protestors face to face w/ police W Florissant & Ferguson @michaelcalhoun #Ferguson pic.twitter.com/AH6XolvGTS
— Maria Keena (@kmoxmaria) August 19, 2014Screencap of @msnbc right now - Cops lining up on street @chrislhayes #lastword #inners pic.twitter.com/W20vUtuMzQ
— Jeanne K. (@SnarkAmendment) August 19, 2014#Ferguson Cops holding Big Sticks - Freud, anyone? #Brutality #NotTrying #inners @chrislhayes pic.twitter.com/aUvMr9UqQN
— Jeanne K. (@SnarkAmendment) August 19, 2014UPDATE: All were handcuffed. RT @iamsakuma: Car offered to drive protesters home. Police drew guns pic.twitter.com/dJfKf9OHBf
— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) August 19, 2014~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
President Obama Made a Statement Yesterday
President Obama: "Clear vast majority peacefully protesting. It's also clear a small minority is not."
— ksprnews (@ksprnews) August 18, 2014@BarackObama on #Ferguson : "the Atty. Gen. Himself will be traveling to Ferguson Wednesday"
— Andy Banker (@andybankertv) August 18, 2014President Obama With U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Discussing The Situation in #Ferguson @AP Photo pic.twitter.com/WYlQrw7Mut
— Lnon (@Lnonblonde) August 18, 2014This morning Tamron Hall Grilled the Mayor of Ferguson
on his BS statement "There's no Racial Divide Here"
The Press had another Hard Day's Night
Getty Images photographer arrested #Ferguson pic.twitter.com/ScOaHO8bjY
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) August 18, 2014THIS pic is why Getty Images photographer was probably arrested.. pic.twitter.com/CdEOteZ7Ih
— Linda Husser (@LindaHusser) August 19, 2014I'm in the middle of a live shot and the officer came and pushed me and the other people - @donlemon on reporting from #Ferguson
— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) August 19, 2014#ferguson #CNN Errol Barnett's reaction to his cohort suggesting the use of water cannons against protesters https://t.co/w9uDgBHesH
— B.J. (@BastanteAlto) August 19, 2014Jake Tapper of CNN Denounced the Police Overkill
Via Mediaite
“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.”
CNN's Jake Tapper Going In by 3030fm
And There Was Don Lemon
Police in Ferguson Try to Shut Down Don Lemon's Live Broadcast http://t.co/H8YrKNzWmS dumbest cop department in america?
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) August 18, 2014Don Lemon getting pushed around which caused some levity on Twitter. Not because the situation with police in Ferguson is funny, but because in the past Lemon made speeches that seemed to blame innocent kids like Trayvon Martin for attracting the ire of white people by wearing baggy pants and using Black slang. He had even mocked the protesters the night before as "these people." It somehow seemed poetic justice that the clueless Lemon got a taste of police brutality.
Oh Jesus! RT @femmeminem Don Lemon said that the looting and fires are the way "these people" were raised to react.
— Jeanne K. (@SnarkAmendment) August 12, 2014Don Lemon has the juice now. That shove changed his whole gat damn life.
— Pound Cake (@WhoIsYves) August 19, 2014Don Lemon has learned a hard lesson: Even a well fitting Ralph Lauren polo isn't enough to keep you out of trouble in #Ferguson if UR black
— Bill (@tomservo10) August 18, 2014I fear that Don Lemon will see a single shove from #Ferguson cop as Street Cred. No, Don Lemon. No.
— Jeanne K. (@SnarkAmendment) August 18, 2014I'm having a shitty day but the prospect of seeing Don Lemon arrested has me giddy!!
— princss6 (@princss6) August 18, 2014Free Don Lemon
— Majah_Navy (@Fenndiii) August 18, 2014.@donlemon was shoved by a cop. Oh, the humanity! #Ferguson
— Harold Itzkowitz (@HaroldItz) August 18, 2014Lmfaooo "@SoloChills: Don Lemon gonn come out of jail looking like this pic.twitter.com/OiPmluScOv"
— #ProtectOurChildren (@BeuTfulStranger) August 18, 2014Meanwhile on MSNBC - Rocks Were Thrown
Chris Hayes getting pelted with rocks during live report on MSNBC. “We’re alright.” #Ferguson
— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) August 19, 2014
Chris Hayes just had to duck rocks thrown by people in masks shouting, "tell the true story." He says, "we are."
— Greg Mitchell (@GregMitch) August 19, 2014#Ferguson Men in masks just threw ROCKS at Chris Hayes and Craig Melvin @msnbc "Lotta Anger Out Here" pic.twitter.com/zDEbrjHXgf
— Jeanne K. (@SnarkAmendment) August 19, 2014@SnarkAmendment @DanteB4u @msnbc and unlike #Ferguson cops, @ChrisHayesTV has stayed cool as a cucumber.
— Anne Smith (@smishychat) August 19, 2014Great reporting by Yamiche Alcindor:
Protesters refusing to leave as police say everyone but media must leave https://t.co/MeEDwBoiqh
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) August 19, 2014Amnesty International representative tells me she is concerned that she doesn't know when police will throw tear gas
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) August 19, 2014Tonight, if you didn't have a gas mask and goggles you felt the full effects of tear gas. I saw so many crying and choking on the stuff
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) August 19, 2014Police have told this woman to put down street sign several times https://t.co/gJD9IZ3OKm
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) August 19, 2014Tear Gas #Ferguson @maddow @chrislhayes pic.twitter.com/nkJH9KMxOh
— Jeanne K. (@SnarkAmendment) August 19, 2014Johnson asks members of the media to move when asked. "Let's not glamorize the acts of criminals."
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) August 19, 2014Johnson: 31 people were arrested --including people from New York and California #Ferguson
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) August 19, 2014
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