re: #25 Eclectic Cyborg

And why does part of me think the show of military style force was just the Ferguson PD using this incident as convenient excuse to show off their new toys?

A whole bunch of that gear, including the armored vehicles, wasn’t Ferguson PD. It was the St. Louis County police. Not the Ferguson PD. Watch the videos and photos closely. It’s the county police who are the most heavily armed, have the armored vehicles, and they’re the ones who were going after the journalists, including the AJ video crew.