FBI Will Now Oversee Ferguson Protests, Operations - Update: FBI Says KSDK Report is Wrong

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In a pretty obvious indictment of the heavy-handed tactics of the St. Louis County and Ferguson police departments, the FBI will now be taking over the investigation into the shooting of Michael Brown, as well as overseeing all operations and protests. KSDK has the details:

FERGUSON, Mo. - NewsChannel 5 has learned the FBI will now take over a large part of the investigation into the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown.

The FBI will oversee all operations, protests and other activities in Ferguson.

Local police agencies, including St. Louis County police will now operate under the direction of the FBI.

UPDATE at 8/14/14 11:53:52 am by Charles Johnson

But hang on, folks — it looks like KSDK may have gotten this one wrong:

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237 comments
1 Bulworth  Aug 14, 2014 11:29:00am

Never heard of the FBI overseeing protests before…

2 bubba zanetti  Aug 14, 2014 11:30:06am
3 makeitstop  Aug 14, 2014 11:30:50am

Hopefully the FBI will tell the cops to stop swinging their dicks around and leave the auto weapons in the cruiser.

4 Charles Johnson  Aug 14, 2014 11:30:52am
5 wrenchwench  Aug 14, 2014 11:31:12am

Tonight will look different from last night.

6 b.d.  Aug 14, 2014 11:32:46am

OBAMA IS IN CHARGE, NOW COME TEH DRONEZ!!

7 Frenchy  Aug 14, 2014 11:32:49am

Thank gawd. We can only hope this will put an end to the ridiculous nonsense we’ve been seeing for days now.

8 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 11:33:04am
9 jaunte  Aug 14, 2014 11:33:12am

re: #4 Charles Johnson

Blechh.

10 Kragar  Aug 14, 2014 11:33:30am

re: #4 Charles Johnson

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Nope, nope, fuck no, just fucking no.

11 leftynyc  Aug 14, 2014 11:33:41am

Sorry to go off topic so early in a thread but I just got one of those breaking news alerts from the BBC on my phone that said Robin Williams was in the early stages of Parkinson’s when he died.

12 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 14, 2014 11:33:46am

Looking like Reconstruction……

13 Lidane  Aug 14, 2014 11:34:42am

Cue the RWNJs bleating about the local sheriff being prevented from enforcing the law in 3…2…1…

14 makeitstop  Aug 14, 2014 11:35:46am

re: #13 Lidane

Cue the RWNJs bleating about the local sheriff being prevented from enforcing the law in 3…2…1…

Yep, they’re breaking out the ‘states rights’ hymnal as we speak.

15 b.d.  Aug 14, 2014 11:36:18am

0BUMMER WILL CALL IN THE FEDS TO WATCH OVER FERGUSON BUT WHY NOT CALL THEM TO WATCH OVER THE BORDER?

16 Lidane  Aug 14, 2014 11:37:02am

Your liberal media at work:

Blitzer to Toobin: Why Can’t Police Just ‘Shoot to Injure’ Instead of ‘Shoot to Kill’?

17 wrenchwench  Aug 14, 2014 11:37:10am

re: #4 Charles Johnson

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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
—ML King Jr.

18 Varek Raith  Aug 14, 2014 11:37:36am

re: #16 Lidane

Good grief he’s dumb.

19 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 14, 2014 11:38:52am

I knew the problems were systemic yesterday when the local prosecuter said he would turn over responsibility for any indictments to the grand jury.

When a prosecutor does that in an investigation of police misconduct…it means he wants it buried without his fingerprints on it. Grand juries are overwhelmingly white and pro law enforcement. Often, retired LE serve as jury foreman.

20 Timothy Watson  Aug 14, 2014 11:39:06am

re: #16 Lidane

Your liberal media at work:

Blitzer to Toobin: Why Can’t Police Just ‘Shoot to Injure’ Instead of ‘Shoot to Kill’?

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Dammit, I wish I could find video of the Boston Legal episode where they made fun of Wolf Blitzer.

21 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 11:39:18am

WHAT RACISM? WE’RE JUST CONSTRUKTIVLY CRITICIZIN TEH PRESIDENT’S POLICIES!! DEMOCRATS IS TEH REAL RACIST!!!!!! SHARPTON!!!!

22 Kragar  Aug 14, 2014 11:39:27am

re: #13 Lidane

Cue the RWNJs bleating about the local sheriff being prevented from enforcing the law in 3…2…1…

“POSSE COMITATUS!!!1111!11!ELEVENTY!1111!”

23 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 14, 2014 11:40:26am

re: #14 makeitstop

Yep, they’re breaking out the ‘states rights’ hymnal as we speak.

Lips dripping with nullification. How very 1820’s of them.

24 simoom  Aug 14, 2014 11:41:47am

@Charles

KSDK may have this one wrong:

25 Feline Fearless Leader  Aug 14, 2014 11:42:23am

Has the Ferguson Police Chief reached the Kevin Bacon tantrum stage with the “Everyone remain calm. All is well.” screed?
//

26 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 11:43:09am

Wow so journalism, much investigatives

27 jaunte  Aug 14, 2014 11:44:05am

TFGRH

28 Dr Lizardo  Aug 14, 2014 11:44:22am

re: #25 Feline Fearless Leader

You mean this?

Meanwhile, in Ferguson, MO…….

29 Kragar  Aug 14, 2014 11:44:31am
30 jaunte  Aug 14, 2014 11:44:48am

Pangea.

31 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 14, 2014 11:45:16am

Youtube Video

32 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 11:45:20am
33 Dr Lizardo  Aug 14, 2014 11:45:23am

re: #27 jaunte

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TFGRH

That’s not a dogwhistle there, Steve-O. That’s a foghorn.

34 simoom  Aug 14, 2014 11:45:25am

Embeds with the Russian “aid” convoy:

35 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 11:45:41am

Larry Elder is such a fucking tool, just like Ben Shapiro

36 Bulworth  Aug 14, 2014 11:46:28am

I’m remembering the time when the feds fired tear gas into the Bundy Ranchers to get them to desist and obey the law.

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37 Feline Fearless Leader  Aug 14, 2014 11:47:42am

re: #28 Dr Lizardo

yep

38 Bulworth  Aug 14, 2014 11:48:06am

re:
#32

Yeah, why don’t they quit and get other jobs if it’s so bad???

39 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2014 11:48:50am

deleted

40 Jenner7  Aug 14, 2014 11:49:03am

re: #8 Pie-onist Overlord

But he was a Republican!!!!

41 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 11:49:15am

re: #34 simoom

Embeds with the Russian “aid” convoy:

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If it’s APCs and vehicles with military plates, then it’s not the part of the convoy.

42 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 11:49:37am

re: #39 Backwoods_Sleuth

Ferguson Chief of Police at his presser a couple of hours ago said “no one has been killed or injured.”

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Can you please put that in spoiler tags? Kthxbai.

43 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 14, 2014 11:50:19am

re: #39 Backwoods_Sleuth

Ferguson Chief of Police at his presser a couple of hours ago said “no one has been killed or injured.”

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That would have been fatal if he or she had been struck in the head.

44 S'latch  Aug 14, 2014 11:50:30am

“… FBI will now take over a large part of the investigation …:

I hate hedges like that. I hope the FBI takes over the entire investigation.

45 Timothy Watson  Aug 14, 2014 11:51:11am

re: #39 Backwoods_Sleuth

Ferguson Chief of Police at his presser a couple of hours ago said “no one has been killed or injured.”

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Was that person who was injured from the same continent as the one which Steve King spoke of?

46 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 11:51:41am
47 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 14, 2014 11:51:46am

re: #44 S’latch

“… FBI will now take over a large part of the investigation …:

I hate hedges like that. I hope the FBI takes over the entire investigation.

I am not sure that the have the jurisdictional power to do that.

48 BeachDem  Aug 14, 2014 11:51:54am

re: #20 Timothy Watson

Dammit, I wish I could find video of the Boston Legal episode where they made fun of Wolf Blitzer.

No need—just watch the highlights from Blitzer’s epic fail on Jeopardy.

Youtube Video

49 wrenchwench  Aug 14, 2014 11:51:55am

re: #24 simoom

@Charles

KSDK may have this one wrong:

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From Holder’s statement:

“At a time when we must seek to rebuild trust between law enforcement and the local community, I am deeply concerned that the deployment of military equipment and vehicles sends a conflicting message. At my direction, Department officials have conveyed these concerns to local authorities. Also at my direction, the Department is offering - through our COPS office and Office of Justice Programs - technical assistance to local authorities in order to help conduct crowd control and maintain public safety without relying on unnecessarily extreme displays of force. The local authorities in Missouri have accepted this offer of assistance as of this afternoon. [Emphasis added.]

“Department officials from the Community Relations Service are also on the ground in Missouri to help convene law enforcement officials and civic and faith leaders to plot out steps to reduce tensions in the community. The latest such meeting was convened in Ferguson as recently as this morning. Over time, these conversations should consider the role that increased diversity in law enforcement can play in helping to build trust within communities.

50 Timothy Watson  Aug 14, 2014 11:52:09am

re: #33 Dr Lizardo

That’s not a dogwhistle there, Steve-O. That’s a foghorn.

Without all the fun of Foghorn Leghorn.

51 simoom  Aug 14, 2014 11:52:12am

re: #41 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

If it’s APCs and vehicles with military plates, then it’s not the part of the convoy.

By embeds I meant the journalists, not the APCs that they witnessed. The actual white trucks convoy has been parked for a while, though the embeds have witnessed other military vehicles going by.

52 jaunte  Aug 14, 2014 11:52:31am
53 Bulworth  Aug 14, 2014 11:52:31am

So, I wonder what action, or what kind of investigation is taking place in the actual shooting case?

54 Charles Johnson  Aug 14, 2014 11:52:31am

re: #24 simoom

Hmmm.

55 klys  Aug 14, 2014 11:53:11am
56 Kragar  Aug 14, 2014 11:53:38am
57 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 14, 2014 11:54:16am

re: #54 Charles Johnson

Hmmm.

Can federal agents take over investigation of a state crime??

58 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 11:54:25am

re: #51 simoom

A pity they didn’t make pics, videos (for whatever reason). Independent confirmation by western journalists would have been much appreciated.

59 Bulworth  Aug 14, 2014 11:54:33am

re:
#56

She sounds nice

60 Timothy Watson  Aug 14, 2014 11:55:10am

re: #48 BeachDem

No need—just watch the highlights from Blitzer’s epic fail on Jeopardy.

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Video

God, I had never seen that. ROFLMAO

61 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 14, 2014 11:56:45am

re: #53 Bulworth

So, I wonder what action, or what kind of investigation is taking place in the actual shooting case?

Officer felt threatened…force used was within department guidelines…the system works…time to come together…recomendation for civic/police panel to discuss the future…

You know the drill.

62 EPR-radar  Aug 14, 2014 11:57:58am

re: #56 Kragar

“ABC contributor” Laura Ingraham is incorrect.

This should read “Right wing nut job” Laura Ingraham.

63 bratwurst  Aug 14, 2014 11:58:35am

Rush Limbaugh’s take is that the police in Ferguson, being only human, have been affected by the lawless nature of the Obama administration and the situation on the border is coloring their behavior.

I am not joking or exaggerating.

64 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 11:59:02am

The RT whore Phillips is at it again:

I won’t even say what I think of this.

65 simoom  Aug 14, 2014 11:59:17am

re: #58 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Not sure if this is the same one they’re talking about now, since it’s from ~2hrs back:

From a couple of the other embeds:

And even further back (11hrs):

66 KerFuFFler  Aug 14, 2014 12:00:00pm

re: #57 Aunty Entity Dragon

Can federal agents take over investigation of a state crime??

I’m kinda hoping there will be a federal investigation of the apparent obstruction of justice in this case. Since there is to be a federal investigation into whether Brown’s civil rights were violated, any cover-up becomes a federal crime.

At least I think that’s how that works.

67 Lidane  Aug 14, 2014 12:00:54pm

re: #63 bratwurst

Rush Limbaugh’s take is that the police in Ferguson, being only human, have been affected by the lawless nature of the Obama administration and the situation on the border is coloring their behavior.

I am not joking or exaggerating.

OBUMMER IGNORES THE CONSTITUTION SO OF COURSE THE COPS IN FERGUSON DID TOO! ELEVENTY!

Because that justifies Michael Brown’s murder and the bullshit cover-up tactics in Ferguson since. WTF.

68 EPR-radar  Aug 14, 2014 12:01:01pm

re: #63 bratwurst

Rush Limbaugh’s take is that the police in Ferguson, being only human, have been affected by the lawless nature of the Obama administration and the situation on the border is coloring their behavior.

I am not joking or exaggerating.

Charming. Let it be noted, once again, that this bag of filth is a major leader of the GOP and movement conservatives. Few others have the clout to make elected GOP officials apologize for deviations from wingnut orthodoxy.

69 thedopefishlives  Aug 14, 2014 12:02:12pm

re: #68 EPR-radar

Charming. Let it be noted, once again, that this bag of filth is a major leader of the GOP and movement conservatives. Few others have the clout to make elected GOP officials apologize for deviations from wingnut orthodoxy.

His mouth is moving, but the only thing that is coming out is noxious fumes.

70 darthstar  Aug 14, 2014 12:03:01pm
71 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 14, 2014 12:04:16pm

re: #32 Pie-onist Overlord

Of #Ferguson’s 53 cops, 3 are black. How many applied? Will media ask the 3 black cops why they work for this “apartheid” force?

Probably has to do with the black employment rate. How many other civic employees are black?

72 Danny  Aug 14, 2014 12:04:35pm

re: #57 Aunty Entity Dragon

Can federal agents take over investigation of a state crime??

Assuming the crime is murder (no charges have been brought yet, of course), the FBI cannot take over the investigation of that crime since it doesn’t involve interstate commerce, national security or a federal official.

73 EPR-radar  Aug 14, 2014 12:05:49pm

re: #69 thedopefishlives

His mouth is moving, but the only thing that is coming out is noxious fumes.

Correct. Said noxious fumes being RWNJ orthodoxy.

US political conservatism really is completely losing its veneer of civilization.

This veneer was always pitifully thin, but used to provide a few small crumbs of deniability etc.

74 BeachDem  Aug 14, 2014 12:07:12pm

re: #60 Timothy Watson
Glad to oblige.

And note that it’s Andy Richter who’s smoking him.

75 lawhawk  Aug 14, 2014 12:10:14pm

The DHS and federal grants to buy military gear goes back well before the Obama Administration, and there are good reasons to have the program, particularly for big cities that have repeatedly been the focus/target of terror threats (like, say NYC). It makes a lot less sense for rural communities to have this kind of gear, but Congress wrote the law to allow for these sales - because they all wanted a piece of the pie.

How to fix this situation? Resolve clear rules of engagement for their use. Civil public demonstrations is an invalid use. Aiming weapons at unarmed civilians. Improper and should result in investigations of the officers who ordered those actions.

No, this gear can serve a just and proper need. Like addressing hostage situations, active shooter situations, mass casualty events, disaster relief, terrorism response. Demonstrate need (number of incidents that would have required use but for its absence).

Tighten the rules. Reduce the size of the program. Reform the program and make sure that the agency making the request has met qualifications for need.

It shouldn’t be a roundabout way to update gear/equipment for a department that would end up seeing the gear sit in a garage except for parades.

76 darthstar  Aug 14, 2014 12:12:09pm

re: #48 BeachDem

No need—just watch the highlights from Blitzer’s epic fail on Jeopardy.

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The categories were skewed against him. If they’d been CNN friendly, Wolf could have said, “I’ll take Misplaced Capital Cities for $1000, Alex.”

77 Jack Burton  Aug 14, 2014 12:15:43pm

re: #75 lawhawk

They need to restrict this equipment to State police forces or at least County Sheriff Offices. There’s no reason every other little town police department needs a SWAT team and MRAPs.

There needs to be a massive demilitarization of law enforcement in general (and about a million other reforms to the way things are done as well), but baby steps here.

78 Lidane  Aug 14, 2014 12:16:07pm

The stupid is strong with this one:

Rick Wiles is pretty sure that President Obama is a “foreign plant” who was put in office by Saudi Arabia in order to destroy America. But maybe it wasn’t Saudi Arabia after all, as yesterday on “Trunews,” Wiles and right-wing documentary filmmaker Joel Gilbert wondered if President Obama — along with his entire family — secretly works for the CIA, Great Britain, or Russia, or maybe all three, who knows!

“This guy, he works for somebody,” Wiles insisted.

79 thedopefishlives  Aug 14, 2014 12:17:03pm

re: #77 Jack Burton

They need to restrict this equipment to State police forces or at least County Sheriff Offices. There’s no reason every other little town police department needs a SWAT team and MRAPs.

There needs to be a massive demilitarization of law enforcement in general (and about a million other reforms to the way things are done as well), but baby steps here.

The problem with that is, these guys in the armor and carrying the weapons are from the county. It’s not the Ferguson PD.

80 Kragar  Aug 14, 2014 12:17:09pm
81 Bulworth  Aug 14, 2014 12:18:37pm

re:
#78

Maybe President Obama actually works for ACORN. Or maybe he works for Bill Ayers. //

82 thedopefishlives  Aug 14, 2014 12:19:02pm

re: #81 Bulworth

re:
#78

Maybe President Obama actually works for ACORN. Or maybe he works for Bill Ayers. //

Nope, I got this. President Obama works for … PRESIDENT OBAMA.

/DUN DUN DUNNNNN

83 Rightwingconspirator  Aug 14, 2014 12:19:51pm

re: #75 lawhawk

Towns and counties that have recently acquired an MRAP:

Lyon County, Nev. (population: 51,000)
Watertown, Conn. (population 22,000)
Walla Walla, Wash. (population: 32,000)
Michigan City, Ind. (population: 31,000)
Mason City, Iowa (population: 28,000)
Madison, Ind. (population 12,000)
Willimantic, Conn. (population: 18,000)
Cape Girardeau, Mo. (population: 39,000)
Story County, Iowa (population: 91,000)
Manteca, Calif. (population: 71,000)
Jasper County, Iowa (population: 36,000)
Justice, Ill. (population: 13,000)
Dodge County, Wis. (population: 88,000)
Roanoke Rapids, N.C. (population: 16,000)
Nampa, Idaho (population: 83,900)
Merrillville, Ind. (population: 35,600)
St. Cloud, Minn. (population: 66,000)
Warren County, N.Y. (population: 65,500)
North Augusta, S.C. (population: 22,000)
Eureka, Calif. (population 27,000)

84 klys  Aug 14, 2014 12:21:22pm

Someone felt compelled to say …something.

“Today, I spoke with Attorney General Eric Holder about the continued investigation in Ferguson, and I continue to monitor what I believe is close coordination between county and federal authorities. It’s important to remember that this tragedy began when a young man lost his life, and I support local and federal officials in their efforts to conduct open, transparent, and parallel investigations into what happened here. Michael Brown’s memory, his family, and his community are not well-served by more violence.”

85 BeachDem  Aug 14, 2014 12:23:06pm

re: #71 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Probably has to do with the black employment rate. How many other civic employees are black?

Not a total answer, but from Rachel Maddow’s 8/12 show:

In Ferguson, which, again, is 2/3 black, 67 percent black, there`s no
black member of the school board. There were protests last year when that school board with no black people on it decided to suspend the superintendent of schools in Ferguson who does happen to be African- American.

Whole show was great—particularly the story about the fired lieutenant in St. Louis County (Lead story)

Here’s the transcript.

MSNBC Video

86 Bulworth  Aug 14, 2014 12:23:47pm

re:
#85

Still wondering how a town with those demographics got that mayor?

87 Jack Burton  Aug 14, 2014 12:23:55pm

re: #79 thedopefishlives

The problem with that is, these guys in the armor and carrying the weapons are from the county. It’s not the Ferguson PD.

I know that. I was speaking more generalized than this situation. There should be more of a chain of command to go through to request the use and deployment. In California (which is the size of like 6 Missouris) for example, the County LE office might be enough. In a low population state like Missouri, it probably should be at the state level.

88 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 12:25:00pm

re: #86 Bulworth

re:
#85

Still wondering how a town with those demographics got that mayor?

Voter ID?

89 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 12:26:22pm

Probably, because it’s bigoted, hateful bullshit

90 Dr Lizardo  Aug 14, 2014 12:27:16pm

re: #80 Kragar

91 Kragar  Aug 14, 2014 12:27:41pm
92 Bulworth  Aug 14, 2014 12:28:50pm

re:
#89

“I’m not saying it’s a conspiracy but it sure sounds like the kind of thing the homosectyull agenda lobby would make these companies do.”

93 Decatur Deb  Aug 14, 2014 12:29:28pm

re: #86 Bulworth

re:
#85

Still wondering how a town with those demographics got that mayor?

Because the decent folks have more people and the shitsticks have more voters.

Working to fix that here.

94 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 14, 2014 12:29:45pm

re: #65 simoom

Looks like self propelled artillery on that flatbed.

95 Jack Burton  Aug 14, 2014 12:30:06pm

re: #83 Rightwingconspirator

Towns and counties that have recently acquired an MRAP:

Lyon County, Nev. (population: 51,000)
Watertown, Conn. (population 22,000)
Walla Walla, Wash. (population: 32,000)
Michigan City, Ind. (population: 31,000)
Mason City, Iowa (population: 28,000)
Madison, Ind. (population 12,000)
Willimantic, Conn. (population: 18,000)
Cape Girardeau, Mo. (population: 39,000)
Story County, Iowa (population: 91,000)
Manteca, Calif. (population: 71,000)
Jasper County, Iowa (population: 36,000)
Justice, Ill. (population: 13,000)
Dodge County, Wis. (population: 88,000)
Roanoke Rapids, N.C. (population: 16,000)
Nampa, Idaho (population: 83,900)
Merrillville, Ind. (population: 35,600)
St. Cloud, Minn. (population: 66,000)
Warren County, N.Y. (population: 65,500)
North Augusta, S.C. (population: 22,000)
Eureka, Calif. (population 27,000)

No town with less than 1 million people should even have a SWAT Team, no less one of those to go along with it.

96 lawhawk  Aug 14, 2014 12:30:49pm

re: #77 Jack Burton

Not every state has an identical law enforcement structure, so the St. Louis County Police would be that “sheriff” for these purposes. They’re the ones who have been most involved in escalating the violence here.

I agree that not all local PDs don’t really need to have this gear; shared services would go a long way, but no one wants to give up their specialized departments, salaried employees, etc., to get rid of the ESU/SWAT tactical units. Rural departments would claim that by the time shared services show up, it’d be too late (an argument that makes some sense out West, where departments can cover large areas).

But there’s no room for common sense to win out here. There’s money to be made, divided up among departments, and rules of engagement to ignore.

That’s why I think the way forward is to start with uniform rules of engagement with the gear - setting conditions for when the equipment can be used. If it is used for other purposes, they’d lose it, face actions, etc. If the department can’t abide by the terms of use, they aren’t to get the gear.

97 Kilroy01  Aug 14, 2014 12:31:39pm

re: #94 Aunty Entity Dragon

Not an SP .. It is the same vehicle in the third shot. (Note the 330 on the side)

98 lawhawk  Aug 14, 2014 12:33:17pm

re: #85 BeachDem

Saw a post earlier about how Michael Brown was lucky to even graduate - the school system in Ferguson is totally fubar. And the county and state have contributed mightily to make a bad situation intolerable.

99 Lidane  Aug 14, 2014 12:33:23pm

Something for the legal eagles around here to look into:

Proposed MO Bill Would Let Police Withhold Names of Cops Involved in Shootings

The bill was introduced by Democratic state rep. Jeff Rooda back in January of 2014, and would legally allow Missouri police departments to withhold the name of any officers involved in police shootings, as well as redact documents and records “if they contain the name of any officer who did the shooting, unless the officer who did the shooting has been charged with a crime as a result of the shooting.”

100 Kragar  Aug 14, 2014 12:35:06pm
101 Rightwingconspirator  Aug 14, 2014 12:35:43pm

SMH.
littlegreenfootballs.com

102 Bulworth  Aug 14, 2014 12:36:29pm

re:
#89

“….but on the whole, my research on the subject has been very exciting…”

103 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 14, 2014 12:37:11pm

re: #97 Kilroy01

Not an SP .. It is the same vehicle in the third shot. (Note the 330 on the side)

Yeah, I just saw the third shot. What the hell is it? My copy of Janes Armoured vehicles is twenty years out of date. Doesn’t seem to be an MLRS, and it isn’t equiped as a recovery or engineer vehicle.

Tracked ammo carrier for SPA?

104 Kragar  Aug 14, 2014 12:38:39pm
105 klys  Aug 14, 2014 12:38:47pm

Referencing this.

106 Kilroy01  Aug 14, 2014 12:38:49pm

re: #103 Aunty Entity Dragon

Been trying to figure it out. My Janes is as old. :)

107 Bulworth  Aug 14, 2014 12:39:09pm

re:
#100

Fox News, Bryan Fischer, with their fingers on the pulse of the Black community.

/

108 gwangung  Aug 14, 2014 12:39:36pm

re: #107 Bulworth

re:
#100

Fox News, Bryan Fischer, with their fingers on the pulse of the Black community.

/

Their middle fingers.

109 lawhawk  Aug 14, 2014 12:42:10pm

re: #105 klys

LMAO. That’s some serious cognitive dissonance that rivals - we destroyed the village to save it.

The county police purposefully targeted that camera crew with tear/smoke grenade. Forced them to stop covering the events, and then tried to dismantle/stop the video from being made.

That’s not helping them to safety. That’s obstructing their right to report on events.

110 klys  Aug 14, 2014 12:42:59pm

re: #109 lawhawk

LMAO. That’s some serious cognitive dissonance that rivals - we destroyed the village to save it.

The county police purposefully targeted that camera crew with tear/smoke grenade. Forced them to stop covering the events, and then tried to dismantle/stop the video from being made.

That’s not helping them to safety. That’s obstructing their right to report on events.

I figured someone would get a kick out of that. The images are straight out of a Hollywood action movie where they expect to be in a shootout at any moment.

111 GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 14, 2014 12:43:09pm

re: #95 Jack Burton

No town with less than 1 million people should even have a SWAT Team, no less one of those to go along with it.

Small towns have hostage situations…

112 jaunte  Aug 14, 2014 12:43:29pm

re: #105 klys

So after firing tear gas directly at the Al Jazeera reporters, now the story is that the police rescued them from the gas.

113 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 14, 2014 12:43:46pm

re: #105 klys

Helping them into handcuffs and then helping them into a van to go to jail. Also helping Al Jazeera with late summer allergies by thoughtfully spraying nose clearing aerosols on them while helpfully shooting rubber bullets at the gnats in their vicinity.

Helpfully helpful.

114 klys  Aug 14, 2014 12:44:09pm

re: #112 jaunte

So after firing tear gas directly at the Al Jazeera reporters, now the story is that the police rescued them from the gas.

Well, you see, it was a different police department that fired the tear gas at them. These folks were just rescuing them!

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115 calochortus  Aug 14, 2014 12:44:14pm

re: #112 jaunte

So after firing tear gas directly at the Al Jazeera reporters, now the story is that the police rescued them from the gas.

I am awaiting the Al Jazeera reporters publishing their thanks.
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116 William Barnett-Lewis  Aug 14, 2014 12:44:39pm

re: #111 GlutenFreeJesus

Small towns have hostage situations…

The money is better spent on hostage negotiator training.

117 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 14, 2014 12:45:07pm

re: #103 Aunty Entity Dragon

Yeah, I just saw the third shot. What the hell is it? My copy of Janes Armoured vehicles is twenty years out of date. Doesn’t seem to be an MLRS, and it isn’t equiped as a recovery or engineer vehicle.

Tracked ammo carrier for SPA?

It’s an M992 Field Artillery Ammunition Support Vehicle
It is an ammo carrier for the M-109 series SPA, and uses the same chassis. It carries up to 90 conventional 155mm rounds and 3 guided projectiles.

118 jaunte  Aug 14, 2014 12:45:20pm
Howard University alumna Mya Aeten-White was shot in the head while protesting in Ferguson, Missouri Wednesday.

Aeten-White, a 2012 graduate of Howard, posted an Instagram photo of herself bloodied and bandaged in the back of an ambulance.
nbcwashington.com

119 Eventual Carrion  Aug 14, 2014 12:45:33pm

re: #78 Lidane

The stupid is strong with this one:

Looking for a Saudi link, I think the Bush family would be their best bet (bin Laden family too).

120 GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 14, 2014 12:46:36pm

re: #116 William Barnett-Lewis

The money is better spent on hostage negotiator training.

Perhaps. But not everyone can be negotiated with. Clear and concise rules for the deployment of such assets should be something every department has for all tools at their disposal.

121 ipsos  Aug 14, 2014 12:47:20pm

Nitpicky (but that’s what I do): “KDSK” is a radio station in New Mexico (and a pretty good one, too.) “KSDK” is the TV station in St. Louis that this thread is about.

122 lawhawk  Aug 14, 2014 12:48:00pm

OFFS

Big government isn’t the problem here. It’s an out of control local government agency that has decided to become a modern day Bull Connor.

123 Franklin  Aug 14, 2014 12:48:26pm
124 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 14, 2014 12:49:07pm

re: #109 lawhawk

LMAO. That’s some serious cognitive dissonance that rivals - we destroyed the village to save it.

The county police purposefully targeted that camera crew with tear/smoke grenade. Forced them to stop covering the events, and then tried to dismantle/stop the video from being made.

That’s not helping them to safety. That’s obstructing their right to report on events.

No. It is not cognitive dissonance.

It is bald face lying and daring the public to call it what it is. This is propaganda…right here and right now from men with guns who did whatever they wanted to do last night. We saw what it was, recorded on video, and they calmly say: Nope. You didn’t see that. We say that it was something completely different.

125 thedopefishlives  Aug 14, 2014 12:49:52pm

re: #123 Franklin Brewsevelt

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The photograph of that guy rethrowing that tear gas canister? It looks like a still that could’ve been captured in Gaza or Greece (if anyone remembers the protests and general kerfluffle there from last year).

126 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 14, 2014 12:50:02pm

re: #117 Shiplord Kirel

It’s an M992 Field Artillery Ammunition Support Vehicle
It is an ammo carrier for the M-109 series SPA, and uses the same chassis. It carries up to 90 conventional 155mm rounds and 3 guided projectiles.

Thanks. Nice to know I am not completely in the dark now about Russian armor… :)

127 brennant  Aug 14, 2014 12:50:26pm

Where is the Bundy-style militia standing up for citizens when their local government is out of control?

Oh wait.

128 FemNaziBitch  Aug 14, 2014 12:51:04pm
THE LEGAL RATIONALE for America’s system of public defense is simple and clear, and it originated in Florida.

Yeah, it’s Paged.

129 jaunte  Aug 14, 2014 12:51:13pm

Ryan Reilly:

“They basically just came through and were closing down the street. Everything was peaceful, the McDonald’s was tranquil before. It looked like any other McDonald’s and we just happened to be able to pack up our stuff quickly enough to their liking,” Reilly told MSNBC’s Joy Reid. “And, you know, a couple people who like playing dress up decided to lock us up. So, you know, it’s a situation that just was completely unnecessary.”talkingpointsmemo.com

130 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 14, 2014 12:51:14pm

re: #123 Franklin Brewsevelt

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I will be shocked if one of the Ferguson photos doesn’t win a Pulitzer.

131 simoom  Aug 14, 2014 12:52:58pm

Russian ‘volunteers’ in beige drive aid convoy to Ukraine border (paywalled)

When asked if they are serving in the Russian military, the mostly young men with crewcuts replied, with the occasional snigger and raised eyebrow, that they were “volunteers”. Their convoy is organised in “columns”.

Sergei, one of the more senior among them, said he was a Russian military veteran with 15 years of service, as were most of the older men in the operation. He said he had been asked by his superiors if he wanted to volunteer and decided to accept, hoping it would earn him credit at his “organisation”, an institution he would not name.

…

While none of the convoy personnel would confirm they worked for the Russian military, many appeared to have finished their military service not too long ago.

One young man bore a large elaborate tattoo of a parachute and a leopard of a type occasionally worn by Russia’s elite VDV paratroopers. The leopard is the mascot of the VDV’s 76th regiment. Earlier images of the convoy as it was preparing to leave Moscow were geolocated by bloggers to a sprawling military base which includes the VDV’s headquarters at Kubinka.

Meanwhile, the number of military vehicles flanking the convoy has grown in number, as the trucks get closer and closer to the Russian border.

Among the dozens of military vehicles seen by the Financial Times were two Ranzhir armoured command units being transported on the back of flatbed trucks. Images of the vehicles were shown to military analysts who corroborated the identification.

Such vehicles are used to co-ordinate multiple high-powered anti-aircraft batteries - including those of the type allegedly used to shoot down a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet last month - and are designed to help ground forces beat off large-scale air attacks.

Pictures of other sophisticated anti-aircraft systems including a 9K22 Tunguska missile launcher were also photographed by journalists following the convoy and spread on social media.

132 Kilroy01  Aug 14, 2014 12:53:23pm

re: #117 Shiplord Kirel

It’s an M992 Field Artillery Ammunition Support Vehicle
It is an ammo carrier for the M-109 series SPA, and uses the same chassis. It carries up to 90 conventional 155mm rounds and 3 guided projectiles.

Sorry to disagree but it is a Buk Missile Command vehicle. It is the vehicle on the left without its antenna up. (The vehicle they didn’t use when shooting down the airliner)

133 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 14, 2014 12:54:16pm

re: #118 jaunte

When the chief said nobody was injured…he meant No god fearin’ decent white folks were injured by those darkies.

134 Kragar  Aug 14, 2014 12:55:19pm
135 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2014 12:55:55pm

Maliki has just stepped down.

136 Kragar  Aug 14, 2014 12:57:42pm

You want to talk about other issues fine, but a fucking shark week joke when you’re the god damn Speaker of the House and a major incident is occurring?

WTF Boner?

137 klys  Aug 14, 2014 12:58:02pm

re: #136 Kragar

You want to talk about other issues fine, but a fucking shark week joke when you’re the god damn Speaker of the House and a major incident is occurring?

WTF Boner?

He’s jumped the shark.

138 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2014 1:00:10pm
139 Bulworth  Aug 14, 2014 1:00:19pm

re:
#134

That, Boehner, he’s such a jokester.

140 Lidane  Aug 14, 2014 1:01:23pm

re: #127 brennant

Where is the Bundy-style militia standing up for citizens when their local government is out of control?

Oh wait.

EXACTLY.

The protesters have the “wrong” skin tone, so the Bundy yahoos are cheering teh ebil tyrannical gubmint for going after the blahs.

142 A Mom Anon  Aug 14, 2014 1:02:27pm

re: #134 Kragar

Dear god, did you click on that link and see that shit? What a fucking bunch of middle school bullshit (my apologies to middle schools kids) that is.

This is part of why we can’t have nice things. Thanks Speaker Boehner.

143 Kragar  Aug 14, 2014 1:02:31pm
144 lawhawk  Aug 14, 2014 1:03:52pm

There’s too much money involved, and too many people who stand to make money for the 1033 program to be eliminated, let alone reined in.

145 Lidane  Aug 14, 2014 1:04:42pm

Today has been a weird day. I slept right through my alarm, barely made the train this morning and have been dragging ever since. I’ve been hitting my calls at least, but it still feels weird in the office today. I don’t know why.

146 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 1:05:16pm

Oh my, if you could only listen to this new SBU intercept…

Youtube Video

147 FemNaziBitch  Aug 14, 2014 1:05:20pm

Feral Girl and I took a 3 hour morning nap (on the floor-together). After we got up we met Junior Handler at the Park. Feral Girl got to run a trail, do obedience work, walk the bleachers and go down the slide.

She came home, went in her crate and didn’t even rouse when I got ice from the refridgerator door.

Nice . Tired . Puppy!

148 Jack Burton  Aug 14, 2014 1:07:40pm

re: #111 GlutenFreeJesus

Small towns have hostage situations…

They also have phones to call the county or state law enforcement office and request the SWAT if needed.

149 lawhawk  Aug 14, 2014 1:08:07pm

This was a pastor trying to keep the peace, and she got shot with a rubber bullet by the county police for her efforts.

Indiscriminate use of force. But somehow it’s the protester’s fault? Sorry, but that’s simply not the case here. These protests were peaceful until the cops opened fire.

150 GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 14, 2014 1:10:07pm

re: #148 Jack Burton

They also have phones to call the county or state law enforcement office and request the SWAT if needed.

Well. We see how St. Louis County is handling things.

151 darthstar  Aug 14, 2014 1:10:23pm
152 Stanley Sea  Aug 14, 2014 1:11:06pm

I missed that Antonio French got arrested last night. For what?

153 darthstar  Aug 14, 2014 1:11:38pm

re: #149 lawhawk

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This was a pastor trying to keep the peace, and she got shot with a rubber bullet by the county police for her efforts.

Indiscriminate use of force. But somehow it’s the protester’s fault? Sorry, but that’s simply not the case here. These protests were peaceful until the cops opened fire.

Rubber bullets are harmless.

154 klys  Aug 14, 2014 1:11:41pm

re: #152 Stanley Sea

I missed that Antonio French got arrested last night. For what?

“Unlawful assembly.”

Otherwise known as reporting while black.

155 Kragar  Aug 14, 2014 1:11:58pm

re: #152 Stanley Sea

I missed that Antonio French got arrested last night. For what?

“Unlawful assembly”

Seriously

156 Kilroy01  Aug 14, 2014 1:12:01pm

re: #152 Stanley Sea

Unlawful Assembly

157 darthstar  Aug 14, 2014 1:12:10pm

re: #152 Stanley Sea

I missed that Antonio French got arrested last night. For what?

Breathing. They charged him with “Unlawful assembly” and let him go.

158 GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 14, 2014 1:12:13pm

re: #105 klys

twitter.com

159 klys  Aug 14, 2014 1:12:26pm

Could we please put graphic images of injuries behind a spoiler tag? I don’t think anyone here is actually disputing that rubber bullets do harm.

160 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2014 1:12:30pm

Gov. Nixon having another presser right now.

161 Decatur Deb  Aug 14, 2014 1:12:30pm

re: #152 Stanley Sea

I missed that Antonio French got arrested last night. For what?

Aldermaning while black.

162 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 14, 2014 1:12:33pm

re: #144 lawhawk

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There’s too much money involved, and too many people who stand to make money for the 1033 program to be eliminated, let alone reined in.

Yep. Next to impossible to rein in something that has been ratcheting one way for 35 years. Every police chief in the country will make statements, with a wall of grim faced cops in uniform standing behind, on how liberal poiticians are trying to get hard working cops killed in the line of duty.

No doubt, there will be some black framed and wreathed portraits of officers killed over the past few years also, just to rub it in.

163 darthstar  Aug 14, 2014 1:12:34pm

re: #155 Kragar

“Unlawful assembly”

Seriously

I got kicked out of Ikea for that once.

164 aagcobb  Aug 14, 2014 1:13:28pm

re: #152 Stanley Sea

I missed that Antonio French got arrested last night. For what?

I think existing while black.

165 GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 14, 2014 1:13:28pm

re: #149 lawhawk

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This was a pastor trying to keep the peace, and she got shot with a rubber bullet by the county police for her efforts.

Indiscriminate use of force. But somehow it’s the protester’s fault? Sorry, but that’s simply not the case here. These protests were peaceful until the cops opened fire.

Tea Party Christians are conflicted now. Do they love God or hate blacks more? My bet is on the latter as they attack this woman too.

166 Stanley Sea  Aug 14, 2014 1:14:36pm

Thanks.

Jeeze. I saw his tweet that the people in the jail were nice as hell, the ones that took him there, not so much.

167 simoom  Aug 14, 2014 1:14:58pm

re: #146 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Is it related to this?

BBC: Ukraine crisis: Rebel military chief Strelkov ‘quits’

The military leader of pro-Russian rebels in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, Igor Girkin - known as Strelkov - has resigned.

Alexander Borodai, the former PM of the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic, confirmed the news but denied reports Mr Strelkov had been wounded.

…

He said reports that Strelkov, a Russian citizen, had been injured were “total rubbish”.

“You probably already know that he, like myself, has left his post,” Mr Borodai said in a video posted by Russia’s pro-Kremlin Life News website.

168 aagcobb  Aug 14, 2014 1:15:00pm

re: #165 GlutenFreeJesus

Tea Party Christians are conflicted now. Do they love God or hate blacks more? My bet is on the latter as they attack this woman too.

Libruls aren’t troooo Christians./

169 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2014 1:15:11pm

Missouri State Highway Patrol is taking over in Ferguson.

170 Jack Burton  Aug 14, 2014 1:15:48pm

re: #150 GlutenFreeJesus

Well. We see how St. Louis County is handling things.

The tl;dr version of my comments on the subject which you missed or ignored is: Missouri would be a state where all the military “toys” would be controlled by the state and not the LE agencies of counties or cities.

171 klys  Aug 14, 2014 1:17:01pm
172 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 14, 2014 1:17:58pm

re: #132 Kilroy01

Sorry to disagree but it a Buk Missile Command vehicle. It is the vehicle on the left without its antenna up. (The vehicle they didn’t use when shooting down the airliner)

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Do they use the same chassis?

173 Skip Intro  Aug 14, 2014 1:18:01pm

re: #165 GlutenFreeJesus

Tea Party Christians are conflicted now. Do they love God or hate blacks more? My bet is on the latter as they attack this woman too.

There’s no conflict there. God hates blacks too. That’s why he made them black.

174 darthstar  Aug 14, 2014 1:18:35pm

Missouri Highway Patrol taking over in Ferguson.

175 darthstar  Aug 14, 2014 1:18:54pm

Soldier dress-up time is over.

176 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 14, 2014 1:19:34pm

re: #132 Kilroy01

Interesting that the missile erector looks similar to old British tracked Rapier system.

177 darthstar  Aug 14, 2014 1:20:16pm
178 Kilroy01  Aug 14, 2014 1:20:58pm

re: #172 Aunty Entity Dragon

It is built on the GM chassis (no not that one)
All three have the same basic hull and tracks.

179 becominginvisible  Aug 14, 2014 1:21:12pm

re: #169 Backwoods_Sleuth

Governor Nixon just made it offical in live broadcast.

180 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 14, 2014 1:21:26pm
181 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2014 1:21:36pm

re: #179 becominginvisible

Governor Nixon just made it offical in live broadcast.

That’s where I heard it.

182 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2014 1:22:30pm

Gov. Nixon noted that Captain Johnson was raised in the Ferguson area.

183 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 14, 2014 1:22:32pm

re: #178 Kilroy01

Unlawful Assembly

It is built on the GM chassis (no not that one)

That’s why I didn’t recognize it.

184 leftynyc  Aug 14, 2014 1:22:47pm

re: #171 klys

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That looks to me of the same guy from a different angle. Where are the other two?

185 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 1:22:54pm

re: #167 simoom

No. It’s a talk between an FSB agent in “Abwehr“‘s group and his handler. The FSB agents are being pulled out from DNR and LNR. The interesting thing is the brutal description of what happens there through the eyes of this FSB agent. Main points:

1. Strelkov is an Orthodox fanatic.
2. DNR is a big “business” divided into spheres of influence, the money is from stealing everything (e.g. cars and people).
3. Average folks began to hate DNR. E.g. a woman cursed this guy as he was walking around in camo. “What kind of liberators are we?”, he asks.
4. But it’s not like he has a huge bout of conscience, he thinks that various diversions, e.g. explosions should be planned.

186 becominginvisible  Aug 14, 2014 1:23:29pm

re: #181 Backwoods_Sleuth

My link is waayyy slower than yours. Okay and I’m feeling a bit guilty about laughing that the Captain is black.

187 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 14, 2014 1:24:09pm

Bio on Ms Peinada above:

Chicago transplant, educator, student advocate, #TFA 2012, Director of After-School Programming for @North_Campus

I hope to God this doesn’t impact her job.

188 klys  Aug 14, 2014 1:24:22pm

re: #184 leftynyc

That looks to me of the same guy from a different angle. Where are the other two?

I have no idea.

I should probably add my disclaimer that the posting of tweets here is not endorsement of their claims but an attempt to bring at least somewhat reasonably sourced information and/or statements from officials to the attention of the Lizard community.

189 klys  Aug 14, 2014 1:24:56pm

re: #187 Aunty Entity Dragon

Bio on Ms Peinada above:

Chicago transplant, educator, student advocate, #TFA 2012, Director of After-School Programming for @North_Campus

I hope to God this doesn’t impact her job.

Given that Antonio French founded North Campus, I suspect she’s ok.

190 Bulworth  Aug 14, 2014 1:25:21pm

re:
#175

but, but thay luted four days AGO!!!!!1111

191 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 14, 2014 1:26:17pm
192 darthstar  Aug 14, 2014 1:26:22pm

re: #182 Backwoods_Sleuth

Gov. Nixon noted that Captain Johnson was raised in the Ferguson area.

Captain Johnson said he still lives there.

193 klys  Aug 14, 2014 1:26:33pm

Oops.

194 Floral Giraffe  Aug 14, 2014 1:28:54pm

re: #177 darthstar

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Well, somebody has got to get this under control. Sounds like a good choice to me.

195 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 14, 2014 1:29:15pm

re: #193 klys

Oops.

Which idiot left a water bottle on the mantle place in the series 5 @DowntonAbbey press photos? hahaha

this is what you get for relying on unpaid interns and underpaid freelancers

196 Floral Giraffe  Aug 14, 2014 1:30:06pm

re: #193 klys

Well, the water bottle is funny, the pretentious posing, not so much….

197 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 14, 2014 1:30:33pm

re: #193 klys

Oops.

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That is what we call a FARBism in re-enacting. Nobody knows exactly what FARB originally meant…but it applies to any inappropriate anachronism in public view.

198 FemNaziBitch  Aug 14, 2014 1:30:43pm

re: #196 Floral Giraffe

Well, the water bottle is funny, the pretentious posing, not so much….

gotta love the decor —that fireplace!!!

199 Lidane  Aug 14, 2014 1:31:08pm

BOOM:

Missouri State Senator Calls Governor a ‘Coward’ on MSNBC

“Our governor, Governor Nixon, has been absent from the minority community, not for a few years, but for a few decades, and this is inexcusable. And he only comes to the minority community when it’s politically expedient. And now that the world’s eyes are on Missouri… the governor is now here. But he’s not really at Ground Zero. He’s never come to Ground Zero… For that, I call him a coward.”

She’s right. Nixon has been an abject failure at his job during all this mess. And yes, he’s a coward. He had to be publicly shamed into doing anything at all. If he had his way, he’d just be at the State Fair eating fried Twinkies and taking photo ops.

200 FemNaziBitch  Aug 14, 2014 1:32:15pm

bbl

201 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 14, 2014 1:32:35pm

re: #199 Lidane

BOOM:

Missouri State Senator Calls Governor a ‘Coward’ on MSNBC

She’s right. Nixon has been an abject failure at his job during all this mess. And yes, he’s a coward. He had to be publicly shamed into doing anything at all. If he had his way, he’d just be at the State Fair eating fried Twinkies and taking photo ops.

The governor, the mayor and the police chief all need to go. ASAP.

202 Decatur Deb  Aug 14, 2014 1:34:19pm

Chap. 2: Open Carry Texas and the New Black Panthers (maybe) fail to agree.

HOUSTON -
Members of the gun rights group Open Carry Texas met with Fifth Ward community leaders Wednesday, hoping to explain why they chose an historic African-American community to hold a demonstration.

Members of the group were met by a chorus of voices telling them to stay out of the neighborhood and warned they will be “matched gun-for-gun.”

click2houston.com

203 klys  Aug 14, 2014 1:34:30pm

Just a heads up, some folks are attributing the first shooting on Tuesday night to the police. I looked into that some and the sourcing seems unclear.

204 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 14, 2014 1:34:45pm

Is this true??

205 lawhawk  Aug 14, 2014 1:35:22pm

re: #201 Aunty Entity Dragon

A full and complete list of who needs to be fired, demoted, or resign:

Gov. Nixon
Ferguson Mayor
Ferguson Police Chief
Police chief of the St. Louis County Police
Head of the tactical unit of St. Louis County Police

Firing the police officers mentioned above would be a good first step. The mayor and governor should resign, but knowing that they will resist all calls to do so, should be voted out of office.

206 becominginvisible  Aug 14, 2014 1:36:26pm

re: #201 Aunty Entity Dragon

Republican Lt. gov. Kinder is much worse than Nixon.

207 Ian G.  Aug 14, 2014 1:36:54pm

re: #46 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

I don’t know what is says about our country right now that it took me a second to realize that this tweet was about the Ukraine situation, and not Ferguson, MO.

208 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2014 1:36:56pm

re: #204 Aunty Entity Dragon

Is this true??

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I’m watching this live right now on MSNBC. Feed has not been cut.

209 Bubblehead II  Aug 14, 2014 1:36:58pm

re: #204 Aunty Entity Dragon

Is this true??

[Embedded content]

Not that I have seen, but then I missed the start of the presser.

210 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2014 1:37:07pm
211 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 1:37:29pm

I wonder whether Strelkov is even alive. Alive, he’s more dangerous to Putin than the Ukrainians.

212 Dave In Austin  Aug 14, 2014 1:37:38pm

Just asked my bride to contact her brother. He’s a MO. State trooper out of St. James/Rolla. This should be interesting….

213 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2014 1:38:05pm

re: #208 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’m watching this live right now on MSNBC. Feed has not been cut.

Also, no one (reporter or otherwise) said the name or any name.

214 Lidane  Aug 14, 2014 1:38:50pm

re: #202 Decatur Deb

Pro Tip to the Open Carry Texas nitwits: A bunch of white guys with long guns going into a black neighborhood to wave them around is not just racist as all fuck, but it’s stupid.

You’re all a bunch of shitheads for doing this.

215 Bulworth  Aug 14, 2014 1:39:26pm

Saw a tweet saying that Gov. Nixon doesn’t know name of the shooter.

216 becominginvisible  Aug 14, 2014 1:40:26pm

re: #204 Aunty Entity Dragon

Don’t know about a reporter talking about it. I have seen photos and name on several twitter feeds claiming that people in neighborhoods have outed him and he has a reputation of starting conflicts. I didn’t pay much attention as the entire department is so poorly trained.

217 Decatur Deb  Aug 14, 2014 1:40:26pm

re: #214 Lidane

Pro Tip to the Open Carry Texas nitwits: A bunch of white guys with long guns going into a black neighborhood to wave them around is not just racist as all fuck, but it’s stupid.

You’re all a bunch of shitheads for doing this.

One nutjob has called for the B&W to join against the Blue.

218 Bulworth  Aug 14, 2014 1:40:28pm

re:
#214

I bet Laura Ingraham will say the open-carry nutters are “freedom riders”.

219 leftynyc  Aug 14, 2014 1:42:25pm

re: #188 klys

I have no idea.

I should probably add my disclaimer that the posting of tweets here is not endorsement of their claims but an attempt to bring at least somewhat reasonably sourced information and/or statements from officials to the attention of the Lizard community.

Really no need for the disclaimer but thanks. I think it’s the tweeter that’s trying to pull a fast one on his followers. (Tweeter? Is that right? I’m not on twitter).

220 Lidane  Aug 14, 2014 1:42:26pm

re: #218 Bulworth

re:
#214

I bet Laura Ingraham will say the open-carry nutters are “freedom riders”.

Laura Inghram’s world:

Bundy Ranch = Freedom Riders

Ferguson = teh ebil angry lynch mob that needs killing

221 Shvaughn  Aug 14, 2014 1:42:27pm

Antonio French is America’s alderman now. He’s the elected official we all wish we could have.

222 TedStriker  Aug 14, 2014 1:42:49pm

re: #169 Backwoods_Sleuth

Missouri State Highway Patrol is taking over in Ferguson.

Which Governor Nixon (D-Feckless) should have had them do days ago, but the simpering coward was too busy with fucking photo ops as late as yesterday.

Absolutely shameful.

223 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 1:43:09pm

re: #132 Kilroy01

Sorry to disagree but it is a Buk Missile Command vehicle. It is the vehicle on the left without its antenna up. (The vehicle they didn’t use when shooting down the airliner)

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Someone agrees:

224 Shvaughn  Aug 14, 2014 1:44:22pm

I’m worried about Ukraine. With that much military hardware rolling in, I’m afraid it could soon start to look like … Ferguson.

225 wrenchwench  Aug 14, 2014 1:44:51pm

re: #210 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Sure sign of a lawless, out-of-control neighborhood full of looters and stuff.

226 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2014 1:44:54pm

That moment last night when Antonio French was pulled out of his car and arrested:

227 Floral Giraffe  Aug 14, 2014 1:44:55pm

re: #205 lawhawk

A full and complete list of who needs to be fired, demoted, or resign:

Gov. Nixon
Ferguson Mayor
Ferguson Police Chief
Police chief of the St. Louis County Police
Head of the tactical unit of St. Louis County Police

Firing the police officers mentioned above would be a good first step. The mayor and governor should resign, but knowing that they will resist all calls to do so, should be voted out of office.

Bunch of scared ass pussies.
I do hope the residents of their jurisdictions vote them all out.
Oh, and have better men & women to replace them.
Like…Antonio French!

228 Floral Giraffe  Aug 14, 2014 1:45:49pm

re: #215 Bulworth

Saw a tweet saying that Gov. Nixon doesn’t know name of the shooter.jack shit

229 becominginvisible  Aug 14, 2014 1:46:01pm

re: #224 Shvaughn

I’m worried the relief convoy from Putin is just more weapons.

230 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 1:47:55pm

re: #229 becominginvisible

I’m worried the relief convoy from Putin is just more weapons.

Or not weapons as such, but a bait (with a possible false flag at the ready), a potential casus belli.

231 simoom  Aug 14, 2014 1:48:35pm

Russian military vehicles enter Ukraine as aid convoy stops short of border

The Guardian saw a column of 23 armoured personnel carriers, supported by fuel trucks and other logistics vehicles with official Russian military plates, travelling towards the border near the Russian town of Donetsk.

After pausing by the side of the road until nightfall, the convoy crossed into Ukrainian territory, using a rough dirt track and clearly crossing through a gap in a barbed wire fence that demarcates the border. Armed men were visible in the gloom by the border fence as the column moved into Ukraine. Kiev has lost control of its side of the border in this area.

The trucks are unlikely to represent a full-scale official Russian invasion, and it was unclear how far they planned to travel inside Ukrainian territory and how long they would stay. But it was incontrovertible evidence of what Ukraine has long claimed - that Russian troops are active inside its borders.

…

Separately, there were several military transporters loaded with artillery and tanks visible on the main M4 road during the day. Locals say the sightings have been ever more frequent in recent months, with Ukraine accusing Moscow of shelling its territory from inside Russia, and transporting heavy weaponry across the border, including perhaps the BUK missile system which is believed to have been used to shoot down a Malaysian Airlines passenger jet last month.

The armoured column seen by the Guardian appeared to be further evidence of Russia’s incursions, which the Kremlin has repeatedly denied.

232 Kragar  Aug 14, 2014 1:49:45pm
233 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Aug 14, 2014 1:51:02pm

re: #210 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Wow what a lawless neighborhood.

234 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 14, 2014 1:51:53pm

And more butthurt from law enforcement at polceone:

Posted by esu5 on Thursday, August 14, 2014 12:01 AM Pacific Report Abuse

Whats even worse is all the Army poags commenting about how the police are wrong. Just where the fcuk do these army dickheads get off commenting on police operations. Like me commenting on patrol tactics in Iraq or Afghanistan, they should just have a cup of shut the fuk up.

Posted by Kenstah on Thursday, August 14, 2014 11:48 AM Pacific Report Abuse

I say we do a massive blue flu in this country for a week and see what all these whiny little turds say then when it’s their houses and businesses and their daughters getting burned and raped and killed.

Posted by Kenstah on Thursday, August 14, 2014 11:48 AM Pacific Report Abuse

CNN is disgusting and are DEFINTELY part of the problem in this instance and NOT part of any solution. To keep floating the idea that POLICE are CAUSING and ESCALATING the civil unrest due to their military gear and rubber bullets and batons is absolute LUNACY. Even some libitard Dem Senator just went on talking about demilitarizing the police.

So let’s see if I got this right….MORONS and those who would do violence and property destruction should just be LEFT ALONE IN THE STREET and we are to talk with them with kindness and NO riot gear? WTF is that? Do these morons really think the idiots standing around in the middle of the street in the middle of the night, pacing around in front of the police, are there for peaceful and justice resolutions? Give me a break! Will please someone that is not insane and not trying to keep the whole “breaking news” hype alive on CNN PLEASE GO ON RECORD SOMEWHERE?!!!!

CNN HAS GOT TO STOP MAKING THIS WORSE. Common sense is quickly evaporating in the country in favor of whiny spineless a-holes who claim THEY are the majority of this country and are so fragile they can’t bear to see a cop in tactical gear or face the facts that some “communities” just are happy being “ingnant” and full of hatred at the wrong people and issues, and are happy to raise their kids that way.

235 Kragar  Aug 14, 2014 1:53:02pm

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236 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2014 1:53:06pm

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237 Stanley Sea  Aug 14, 2014 2:04:25pm

re: #206 becominginvisible

Happy 1 year LGF Birthday.


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