So this is going down now:
Ferguson Police Department from interim chief’s point of view

We got a lot of negative notoriety and it all stemmed from Michael Brown’s body having to [lie] on the parking lot for 41/2 hours. The reason he was there for so long was because of hostile fire against our officers. We could not get to Michael Brown’s body.

Twitter is most predictably erupting:

If you want to understand modern-day propaganda, you must read that interview with the Interim Ferguson Police Chief.

— deray mckesson (@deray) June 7, 2015

A pretty outrageous situation that doesn’t seem to get any better.