I'd have to find the website but a tazer company's selling point was that recording the 5 minutes before using a tazer reduced lawsuits by a pretty large number.

CP wrestles with Rand Pauls' comments:

Also apparently this woman got hit with a rubber bullet while trying to calm down the crowd. OUCH

PrisonBitch is an absolute gem:


Yup. Elastic collisions are great at transferring energy.

And apparently shes some kind of priest based on the shirt... nice PR dicks.

Real or Onion?

How Many More Black Teenagers Have To Die Before Racism Just Sort Of Goes Away On Its Own?

So there's some sort of streamed demonstration going on in NYC. 2p2 won't let me link, but you can google it.

Was a large crowd out in DC today as well.

If you're trying to drive home through Manhattan, you're going to have a bad time.

lol what a goalpost shift. We were specifically talking about Obama's response.

Can't be right, goofyballer assured me racists would eat up whatever he says.

Cops breaking out the zipties, looks like they're all going to jail.

Edit: maybe not, looks like they're letting them out in groups.

Oh, guess what? Michael Brown sometimes flipped the bird, so hey he probably got what's coming to him, right?

http://youngcons.com/new-photos-of-m...hat-weve-seen/

His parents conveniently didn't tell us about his camera-flipping-offing, WHAT ELSE ARE THEY HIDING???

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I rather like the shirt. Raphael's School of Athens is some deep gangsta ****.

Just saw it, some dip**** on Facebook commented on the link to it that rush Limbaugh posted (with "this changes EVERYTHING" link text)

Bet they hated that thug and jailbird johnny cash.

People have been typing time for a civil rights movement. Civil rights movements are non-partisan as they address a common civil problem. Individuals participating matter more than those that don't.

On a sidenote Obama wins the 'race' for civil rights leader of our time from the current leader crop. Complete with status as POTUS.

It's a gay old time for civil rights, people and that is the silver lining the grab on to. It's really all about human rights as well and that means everyone is invited.

One key notion is again the military state fails to control freedom to share information. Achilles heel and let's keep hitting it.

Military veterans see deeply flawed police response in Ferguson

JFC. Doesn't seem like a good way to calm things down.

State troopers doing a much better job of de-escalation here. Hopefully we've seen the worst of this particular phase.

Highway Patrol takes over security. Tones down the show of force. And everyone's tensions ease.

Really shocking results there, I don't know how anyone could've anticipated this.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/p...s-in-ferguson/

The heavy riot armor, the SWAT trucks with sniper posts, the hostile glares: tonight in Ferguson they were gone.

A stunning change in tone radiated through the suburban streets where protests had turned violent each of the last four evenings following the police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown.

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Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (D) announced Thursday afternoon that Johnson would take over security, and vowed that officers would take a different approach to handling the massive crowds that have taken to Ferguson’s streets each night.

Not only did Johnson march with the protesters, but he vowed to not blockade the street, to set up a media staging center, and to ensure that residents’ rights to assemble and protest were not infringed upon. Officers working crowd control, he said, have been told they must take off their gas masks.

“When I see a young lady cry because of fear of this uniform, that’s a problem.” Johnson said. “We’ve got to solve that.”

And the difference from protests at similar times in the evening on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday was massive. By this time on Wednesday, police had detained protesters, by this point on Monday officers had begun deploying tear-gas canisters at residents who would not disperse.

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Protesters said they were still angry, demanding justice for Brown and answers from local police about why he was shot and who the offending officer was.

But, they said, Johnson’s willingness to physically interact with them, rid the streets of heavy police equipment, and help them coordinate protests was a welcome change in tone.

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“They respect us,” referring to police. “ So let’s respect them. They’ve given us the sidewalk so lets stay out of their street.”

Across town, as dozens of protesters continued their demonstration, the mood struck was less enraged and more defined.

That t-shirt is cool.

I was watching cnn coverage and decided to switch to fox. Almost 40 minutes of the Kelly file and they havent covered it yet! They just now went to a guy there and the Fox reporter says, "if there's gonna be violence tonight it's in the hands of this crowd."

Not a big enough story to cover in the first three quarters of the show I guess. Edit... Err, 2/3rds of the show

I'm guessing the fact a lot of the trouble makers will have been locked up by now also has something to do with diminishing tensions.