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Ferguson is now a free speech zone
The Verge ^ | August 14, 2014 | T.C. Sottek and Matt Stroud

Posted on 08/14/2014 9:20:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Police even tear gassed an Al Jazeera news crew, and arrested two journalists for no reason.

Baloney.

21 posted on 08/14/2014 9:50:52 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: kabar

That picture is NOT the guy who was shot.


22 posted on 08/14/2014 9:52:35 PM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

reddit feed:
Eli Rosenberg
@EliKMBC 8:34pm

A guy just walked up and punched my photographer in the face 4 times. People in the crowd rushed to help, the guy ran.

http://www.reddit.com/live/tdrph3y49ftn/


23 posted on 08/14/2014 9:52:58 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: kabar
This was taken on the day he graduated high school, after returning from church, and shows Brown sitting at his grandmothers table, planning out his college courses.
24 posted on 08/14/2014 9:53:12 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This event is both racism (both directions), as well as people being fed up with our paramilitary police forces (and government in general).

Just wait and see how things roll after they rig the midterms.

It’s coming. New alliances are forming between former enemies, with authority being the enemy it really is.

(R)evolution.


25 posted on 08/14/2014 9:53:27 PM PDT by datura (We have a 2 party system. Conservatives vs Uniparty)
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To: kabar

Browne didn’t deserve killin’ that day.


26 posted on 08/14/2014 9:53:36 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

Do you know where Big Mike and friends had been before they came walking down the middle of the road to the apartment complex?

Do you know why the police had to come to the apartment complex to begin with ?

Do you know why the ‘protesters’ attacked,looted, and then burned that particular QT ? Do you know what they wrote on the back wall of the QT ?


27 posted on 08/14/2014 9:54:05 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Tzimisce

There’s a day coming ... maybe a month from now, a year from now or five years from now, when people like you, me and tens of millions like us, get off the [expletive] couch, walk over to the gun cabinet and slam the screen door on the way to the pickup truck. I don’t know what will trigger it, but when it comes it’ll be like that scene in “Network” where everyone throws open their windows and screams along with the anchorman.


28 posted on 08/14/2014 9:54:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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“I am not defending shooting someone in cold blood. However, Brown was a big man, 6’4” and 300 pounds. I have no idea how big the police officer is. Why the officer felt it was necessary to shoot him needs to be investigated.”

One of the black witnesses said the white cop was slender, not very big (I’m paraphrasing here, as I can’t remember the exact wording, but the gist of it was the cop was not a large man).


29 posted on 08/14/2014 9:56:11 PM PDT by flaglady47 (The useful idiots always go first)
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To: UCANSEE2
"Do you know why the police had to come to the apartment complex to begin with ?

Do you know why the ‘protesters’ attacked,looted, and then burned that particular QT ? Do you know what they wrote on the back wall of the QT ?"

Nope. Let's get a time line constructed....

30 posted on 08/14/2014 9:57:52 PM PDT by Paladin2
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BREAKING: Ferguson’s Michael Brown PICTURED WITH A GUN – Flashing Gang Signs

According to Gateway Pundit, it is. Jim Hoft lives in St Louis and claims that it is Michael Brown. So how do you know that it is NOT Michael Brown? Is the picture below Michael Brown?


31 posted on 08/14/2014 10:00:06 PM PDT by kabar
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To: Paladin2; kabar

See post 31 and the accompanied Mike Brown crime scene video at the thread link. Ignore the audio and focus on the first half of the video.

This very well could have been a legitimate shoot.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3192974/posts?page=31#31


32 posted on 08/14/2014 10:01:57 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Paladin2

Let’s get all the facts before coming to a conclusion.


33 posted on 08/14/2014 10:03:10 PM PDT by kabar
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You have all the facts, I don't. From the reports I have read, Brown pushed the officer back into the patrol car and then tried to take his weapon away. A shot was fired inside the patrol car during the scuffle. Brown then tried to flee and was shot. The police officer was supposedly injured in the encounter

He was shot 35 feet from the vehicle, according to the StL Co. Chief of Police.

34 posted on 08/14/2014 10:09:07 PM PDT by Ken H
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"Let’s get all the facts"

Great idea. Those are likely to be increasing difficult to come by though.

35 posted on 08/14/2014 10:09:36 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Near perfect timing for November election day.

Expect the full circus.

Facts won’t matter one iota.


36 posted on 08/14/2014 10:14:01 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Hands up! / Don’t shoot!”

I wonder... has that ever worked for anyone facing some thug with a gun ?


37 posted on 08/14/2014 10:15:56 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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“One of the black witnesses said the white cop was slender, not very big (I’m paraphrasing here, as I can’t remember the exact wording, but the gist of it was the cop was not a large man).”

So a skinny cop can shoot a bigger man because he’s afraid? Is that your position?


38 posted on 08/14/2014 10:16:33 PM PDT by babygene ( .)
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To: Tzimisce
Is it because I’m white?

Yes. And because you are an American. And likely a heterosexual. And probably a Christian.

39 posted on 08/14/2014 10:19:05 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Paladin2
We have yet to hear the police officer's version. I did hear the account of a woman who claims to have witnessed it. She said that there was a shot fired inside the patrol car and that the police officer fired multiple times at Brown who she said was trying to surrender.

If the police officer felt his life was in danger faced by a much bigger man who had just tried to take his gun away and injured him, then he could claim he was firing in self-defense. I have heard no account of what words were exchanged or why Brown tried to prevent the officer from exiting the patrol car. Why would he take such an aggressive action? What precipitated it? Were there any drugs in Brown's system? Lots of questions, not many answers. I doubt that the police officer was seeking out black teenagers to kill in cold blood on a public street.

40 posted on 08/14/2014 10:21:23 PM PDT by kabar
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