Fearmongering regarding Ferguson continues apace. Drudge highlights this, but local media outlets are doing their worst too.

CBS News claims that online police forums are warning that the police wont be able to protect families from violence if there’s riots.

Let’s just ignore that the whole Ferguson protest and need for a grand jury commenced with law enforcement officer killing an unarmed black man, and the community demanding answers. The law enforcement response? Get your firearms ready (though the audience that’s being directed to have firearms at the ready isn’t the one actually affected by the shooting itself; that community continues to have its rights systematically undermined).

MO Gov. Nixon’s response thus far has been to be more concerned about property damage and to preempt with calling up the national guard and making warnings about potential violence, and not spending enough time actually going and fixing the problems with a law enforcement system that treats minorities and minority communities as a piggy bank and systematically keeps them subjugated and unable to rise out of poverty (complete with fleecing the education system, rigging the election system, and engaging in illegal policing tactics). That hasn’t gotten nearly as much attention as the focus by a media hellbent on clickbait is about ratcheting up tensions and warning of deadly violence, even though the only deceased victims are at the hands of law enforcement thus far - and that peaceful protests turned into something ugly only after the FPD and county police engaged in heavy handed tactics (some of which was illegal and/or unconstitutional).