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Photo: St. Louis SWAT Police Train High-Powered Rifles on Unarmed Protesters in Ferguson

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wrenchwench8/13/2014 5:45:56 pm PDT

re: #140 EPR-radar

Thanks for the link. A while back I looked into the Kent State shootings more closely, and the main impression that has lingered is that Kent State made a big impression because the people killed weren’t the kind of people ordinarily killed by police for protesting (i.e., they were white and not poor/homeless/mentally ill).

Eleven days after Kent State, two were killed and 12 were wounded at Jackson State. Somehow not as well remembered….

A group of around a hundred African-American students had gathered …..