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Police fire tear gas, stun grenades at protesters in Missouri

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The Land of the Free. More like a police state where citizens are treated like cattle and have less rights and redress against the law.

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Protesters, looters and mobs are all different. But American police only see targets.

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And riots, mass vandalism, and mass looting should be handled how? These protesters, including that great agitator Rev. Al Sharpton react emotionally and hinder investigations they delay the result when efforts are focused elsewhere. Stop being morons and wait to see what the investigation result is.

Nobody knows yet weather the shooting was justified or not! The public does not know the facts yet.

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Ferguson, Missouri could have been the site of another terrorist attack, but thanks to the paramilitaristic actions of the local PD, even terrorists would avoid that place (assuming they're not white). Anyway, it's good to see surplus military equipment from the Iraq war being recycled.

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Nobody knows yet weather the shooting was justified or not!

It was an unarmed kid. Seems pretty unjustifiable to me.

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So this town was mostly white and now it is mostly black but the POLICE are still mostly good old boys, red neck types HOLDING ON TO POWER AT ANY PRICE?? Kind of sounds like your typical REPUBLICANS! Anyway, all of these idiot corrupt racist police SHOULD BE FIRED!! The hell with all of these racist dogs! Arrest the bastards that need to be arrested and the rest SHOULD BE FIRED!! Get new cops that are willing to WORK with the good people of Missouri and these other KKK in Nazi US police uniforms, well let them be fired or to have fun in PRISON!! RIP poor black kid in the wrong place at the wrong time, Michael Brown killed in cold blood at only 18 years of age!!!

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No idea if Laguna is trying to be funny or sarcastic (young innocent BLACK guys getting shot dead by racist WHITE cops is so funny, hahaha???? NOT!!) and this other joker, Mark G?? What the heck are you going on about??? These racist WHITE cops have been harassing the BLACK COMMUNITY FOR YEARS!! You have the AUDACITY to come and spew your PROPAGANDA that a BLACK MAN, Reverend Al Sharpton is the AGITATOR???? What have you been smoking again?? Your underwear?? See Mark G, you wake up and say you ARE NOT WHITE, and that suddenly you are BLACK!! And you try and live like a black guy in some crummy, racist backwards place like MISSOURI and then come on JT again and tell us how fun it was to be DISCRIMINATED against just because of your SKIN COLOR?? Have fun Mark G! And go easy on smoking them banana peels etc...

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When something like this happened, everyone needs to calm down and let the Fed government handles this case. As a matter of fact, the Attorney General and the FBI are already involved for the further investigation.

All we need to do is to find the truth how it happened with the evidence and the witness testimonies. It takes time, but the justice will be heard and done. The objective of enforcement is to keep everyone in safety while the citizens are protesting the civil rights. There is no reason for the over reaction. Both sides need to calm down. Keep bad ones away who enjoy escalating this to a boiling point of more violence. CALM DOWN.

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Interesting data point:

"Even though the population of Ferguson is overwhelmingly African American, only three of the 53 officers on the force are African American."

-- http://www.ksat.com/content/pns/ksat/news/2014/08/13/mo-racial-makeup-of-ferguson-police.html

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Nobody knows yet weather the shooting was justified or not!

It was an unarmed kid. Seems pretty unjustifiable to me.

So, the kid was absolutely no threat to the police officer as I understand your logic. Feet and hands are no weapon? You haven't seen much in life if you believe that.

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So, the kid was absolutely no threat to the police officer as I understand your logic.

Apparently you don't understand the logic. First clue is this:

Feet and hands are no weapon?

You do know what 'unarmed' means, right? It doesn't refer to appendages, it refers to weapons. Feet and hands are not considered weapons.

Now, the kid may have been a threat to the officer, but the question here is in the degree of retaliation. Killing an unarmed kid as retaliation for an attack is a disproportionate response.

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MarkGAug. 15, 2014 - 08:16AM JST

Nobody knows yet weather the shooting was justified or not!

It was an unarmed kid. Seems pretty unjustifiable to me.

So, the kid was absolutely no threat to the police officer as I understand your logic. Feet and hands are no weapon? You haven't seen much in life if you believe that.

Let's leave it to the FBI and the General Attorney, they will be able to find how and what has happened with fact findings. Till then, we all need to stop doing speculations to make it worse. We need to respect a civil order. The angry voice will be heard, and the justice will be done. No more unnecessary speculations.

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Police in Ferguson, Missouri, fired tear gas, stun grenades and smoke bombs,

By the way in Russia during clashes between police and demonstrants police usually not used tear gas or stun grenades or smoke bombs

But during retaking Crimea from Ukraine stun grenades and smoke bombs were effectively used by Russian special forces to blockade and disarm Ukrainian military located in Crimea

For Russian it's a weapon for special operation ..

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