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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/18/2014 19:01 -0400
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/18/2014 17:35 -0400
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/18/2014 14:15 -0400
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/18/ferguson-missouri-michael-brown-national-guard-deployed
( Comments from residents ominous.. )
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http://gawker.com/ferguson-police-threaten-to-shoot-reporter-and-mace-chr-
Evening tweets.... A far Different Night !
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Nathan Grant
Man says when police shut down roads, it's sorta like "Being kidnapped" LIVE via @vicenews; https://news.vice.com/article/live-from-ferguson-missouri …
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Alice Speri 
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"Everybody's been kind of peaceful": @Timcast is now talking to #Ferguson residents: http://bit.ly/1oLpBeG
Protesters Storm Governor's Office In Downtown St. Louis, Demand Removal Of National Guard
At first the rioting was only in the "sleepy" St. Louis suburb of Ferguson. Now, the angry crowds have moved on to downtown St. Louis where moments ago a group of angry protesters rallied at Kiener Plaza.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-18/obama-deploys-eric-holder-ferguson-speaks-about-race
Obama Deploys Eric Holder To Ferguson; Speaks About Race
Moments ago while taking a break from his vacation, the president announced that he would drag away the US attorney general Eric Holder neck deep in workload (which involves if not prosecuting criminal bankers, who as we know as too systemic to prosecute, then certainly punishing them by demanding their shareholders pay legal charges that amount to pennies on the dollar from the crime proceeds) to Ferguson on Wednesday, where he will meet with federal law enforcement authorities.
So to preview tonight's Ferguson highlights: every TV network present, no curfew and the national guard, with Eric Holder en route.
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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-18/ferguson-curfew-cancelled-national-guard-arrives-holder-demands-remove-damn-tanks
Ferguson Curfew Cancelled As National Guard Arrives; Holder Demands To "Remove The Damn Tanks"
The Missouri Governor Jay Nixon gave "no heads up" to the White House before deploying The National Guard and has now made another abrupt decision as The National Guard closes in on Ferguson:
- *NIXON'S CALL TO HALT CURFEW TONIGHT MADE IN E-MAILED STATEMENT
We presume when there are military tanks rolling through the streets of a town, there is no need for the actual implementation of a curfew... This once again rubs the administration's nose in it as AG Holder's comments from last week hang in the air: "get those damned tanks out of there."
The neighborhood has been under a midnight-to-5 a.m. curfew the past two days, after Nixon declared a state of emergency. That has now changed...
Authorities on Monday lifted the overnight curfew for Ferguson, Missouri, after two nights.The announcement came from Gov. Jay Nixon, who earlier in the day ordered the National Guard to the St. Louis suburb after a week of clashes between police and protesters over the police shooting death of an unarmed black teenager.Nixon said that the National Guard would have a limited mission and that overall command would still be the responsibility of the Highway Patrol, which took over security in Ferguson on Thursday.The National Guard, under the command of Brig. Gen. Gregory Mason, will “provide protection, and ensure the safety of our Unified Command Center, which was the target last night of a coordinated attack,” Nixon said.Nixon said that law enforcement officers were the target of gunfire on Sunday. The violence also included firebombs, looting and “a coordinated attempt to overrun the unified Command Center,” Nixon said.
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And as WSJ reports, locals and Feds are not in agreement...
Mr. Holder, the attorney general, rewrote a statement about Ferguson he was planning to issue to emphasize he expected local authorities "to complete a thorough, fair investigation in their own right,'' even though the FBI had opened its own case into whether Mr. Brown's civil rights had been violated, a law-enforcement official said.The two sides also clashed later in the week over the Ferguson Police Department's plan to release the surveillance tape of the convenience-store robbery.Lawyers in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division objected, saying it would anger the community and intensify protests by those who felt it was an attack on Mr. Brown's reputation rather than an evenhanded disclosure of information, law-enforcement officials said.The police department decided to release the video Friday, over the continued objections of federal officials. Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson said last week the move came in response to numerous media freedom-of-information requests.Federal, state, and local authorities also have disagreed publicly over the tactics and equipment deployed to deal with protests...."Tell them to remove the damn tanks," Mr. Holder told his deputies on Thursday, according to a law-enforcement official, referring to heavily armored vehicles the local police had used. That day there were discussions among local officials about how to scale back the armed presence, officials said.
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/18/ferguson-missouri-michael-brown-national-guard-deployed
( Comments from residents ominous.. )
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Protesters said they had no intention of backing down. “This is a revo-fucking-lution,” said DeAndre Smith, a 30-year-old barber. “Plain and simple, this is the revolution. The one everybody was waiting on. It happened like this. It’s the gain in culture by a people who want respect. African American people in this country.
“I been out here since day one. I was on the frontline. Mike Brown was the straw that broke the camel’s back. That’s when we said this is enough. That’s it.”
Following a standoff at the petrol station, police sent remaining demonstrators scrambling into side streets by speeding at them in armoured Swat trucks, firing yet more gas and smoke at people running away. The trucks continued driving up and down the main street doing this until it was cleared. As some reached a branch of Domino’s pizza, there were two more bursts of gunshots.
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The disclosure only looked likely to intensify the protests during their second week . “If they keep coming out here and doingthis shit, then we’re gonna keep coming out here too,” said Smith. “They’re not gonna kill us off.”
http://gawker.com/ferguson-police-threaten-to-shoot-reporter-and-mace-chr-
Ferguson Police Threaten to Shoot Reporter, Mace Chris Hayes
Ferguson police were caught on camera Sunday night threatening to mace one reporter and shoot another. At least two other journalists also claim they were arrested while following police orders.
Shortly after 10 pm Sunday night, police began launching tear gas at protesters and demanded that reporters turn their cameras off.
In a confrontation caught on the KARG Arugus Radio livestream, a cop noticed Mustafa Hussein filming with his camera lights on—which police claim makes it hard for them to see—and confronted him, allegedly pointing a gun at him.
"Get down, get the fuck out of here and get that light off, or you're getting shot with this," the officer yells at Hussein.
Another journalist was reportedly shot with a beanbag.
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At least two reporters were also briefly arrested and quickly released Sunday night—apparently while following police orders.
Neil Munshi, of the Financial Times, wrote on Twitter that he was ordered to leave a parking lot being used as a staging area. But hen he did, he was handcuffed and briefly held by Capt. Ron Johnson.
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Tweets.......
Understand the world is watching this closely .........
DETAILS: Missouri governor sends National Guard to Ferguson 'to restore peace and order' http://on.rt.com/x4m32q
#Missouri governor deploys National Guard to suppress protestors http://bit.ly/1v78PGs
#Missourishooting
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Julian Darius
Capt. Johnson said they "had no alternative" but to... gas little kids? Threaten to shoot reporters? Mace people in handcuffs? WTF.
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Shannon Cunningham
Again, county police themselves admitted that none of the people arrested at Dellwood Market were from the area. #Ferguson
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Nadia Kayyali
The governor is calling what's happening "coordinated attacks." that's citizen protestor=terrorist language. fucked. https://governor.mo.gov/news/archive/following-coordinated-attacks-civilians-and-law-enforcement-governor-nixon-signs …
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Rob
While #Ferguson police lie to media, troopers refuse to let anyone near bus full of people arrested for no reason. pic.twitter.com/4ZpV8y3WhR
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Note: indefinite. Sick fucks. #Ferguson
RT@mattdpearce Here it is. The National Guard. https://governor.mo.gov/sites/default/files/Executive%20Order%2014-09.pdf … pic.twitter.com/yFF9eBdjcT
Matt Pearce
Here it is. The National Guard. https://governor.mo.gov/sites/default/files/Executive%20Order%2014-09.pdf …
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cita jericho
I'm still in shock that if we didn't have Twitter we wouldn't know shit.
@citazworld It's insane! I'm reading multiple matching first hand accounts and then they say the opposite on msnbc and cnn! WTF!!
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Report of woman in #Ferguson, quoted by her sister: "I was in the military, and I never saw something like this in the military."
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New Day 
Citing "coordinated and intensifying violent attacks," Jay Nixon sends in the National Guard https://news.vice.com/article/missouri-governor-orders-national-guard-to-ferguson …
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Dante
Victims of the cops unwarranted attack! Is anybody steering the fucking ship? #Ferguson #Anonymous #OpFerguson pic.twitter.com/OShp3Z4Ql3
Perceptively
@MMFlint most of them already know thnx 2 twitter - seems like just an excuse for martial law
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Michael Moore
BREAKING: MO. gov just signed executive order 2 deploy National Guard 2 Ferguson. He fears response in morn when ppl wake up 2 autopsy news.
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