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

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Nerdy Fish8/13/2014 7:22:54 pm PDT

re: #397 klys

You might point out to her that firing rubber bullets into a crowd that was peacefully demonstrating does not protect them from turning violence.

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I am doing my small part to try and push back from the spread of misinformation on Twitter by trying to point out bad sources (like Anonymous) and direct a friend to a better source (like Antonio French). That …mostly got the “but it’s accurate” response. Sigh.

Mrs. Fish’s next-oldest brother is a police officer, so her sympathies are understandable. The problem is, her brother is a totally different animal from the assholes running the show down in Missouri. I tried telling her about the things the police have said and done that makes their motives suspect, but she handwaved it away.