Missouri police 'shoot second man'

[Origanalist]

Missouri police 'shoot second man' in city where teenager was killed
Man is said to be in critical condition in hospital after fresh demonstrations over police shooting of Michael Brown, 18

theguardian.com, Wednesday 13 August 2014 05.03 EDT

A second man has been shot by police in the Missouri city where an unarmed black 18-year-old was shot dead last weekend, according to multiple reports.

Police officials told local reporters that the man was shot in Ferguson by a St Louis County officer after pointing a handgun at him soon after 1am on Wednesday, following fresh demonstrations over the death on Saturday of Michael Brown.

The officer was responding to reports of shots being fired and men wearing ski masks carrying shotguns. The man was in critical condition in hospital, a police spokesman told the St Louis Post-Dispatch, Fox 2 and KMOV, and his gun was recovered at the scene.

A woman was separately being treated in hospital after being shot in the head during a drive-by shooting in the city. The incidents followed the peaceful end earlier to a tense standoff between protesters and police, prompting hopes of avoiding a third night of violence.

A raucous convoy of about 250 young demonstrators, marching along a main route into downtown Ferguson, was halted about 30 yards from a wall of police assembled at the entrance to the street where Brown was killed by a still-unidentified officer on Saturday.

Officers in military-style uniforms, some carrying high-powered rifles and wearing balaclavas, formed a line at least two men deep and blocking the entire width of Florrisant Street, the main drag where angry protests over Brown's killing had flared for the previous two nights.

Pitched behind two large armoured trucks, they repeatedly warned the demonstrators through a Tannoy system to "get out of the road or face arrest" – the same warning delivered on Monday night before officers fired teargas, rubber bullets and wooden baton rounds into the crowds.

But for 40 minutes, the protesters defied the threat. Some hung out of car windows, while others raised their arms aloft and repeated what has become their defining slogan: "Hands up, don't shoot." A police helicopter swooped around the dark sky above, shining a bright spotlight on the faces of the almost entirely African American crowd.

"Heavenly father, help us as we continue on this journey of justice," Rasheen Aldridge, a 20-year-old self-appointed leader of the group, told them through a megaphone. "The people behind us, they will do what they will do. Only you can judge us; only you can protect us."

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[Origanalist]

Sooner or later a leader will emerge and things will take a different turn

 

[AuH20]

Sooner or later a leader will emerge and things will take a different turn.

And try to wage war against all white people, both authorities and those with no dog in the hunt. You have to see some of the Marxist literature being passed around. It's depressing.

 

[Origanalist]

And try to wage war against white people. You have to see some of the marxist literature being passed around. It's depressing.

I have. The amount of missing the boat going on here is astounding.

 

[AuH20]

I have. The amount of missing the boat going on here is astounding.

Think about it. If you had someone telling you 24/7 on the boob tube that all white men promote inequality and hate you, given one's limited education, you're probably going to fall for it. Our dishonest political environment promotes this entire entitlement model which makes it so dangerous in times like this. So some are inevitably going to skip the IRS as the middle man and make their own withdrawals from the so-called "Rich". LOL

 

[presence]

In the early hours of Wednesday it was reported that a small skirmish had resulted in police again using teargas and a young woman being struck in the head with a projectile.

"We have a right to assemble, a right to freedom,"

"But here we are facing what looks like a military imposing martial law. It is not acceptable."

Another headshot:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...erguson-missouri-police-crack-down-protesters

Two demonstrators said that they saw people struck with cylinder-shaped pellets of about two inches in length, made of what appeared to be compacted woodchip. “I saw a man get hit on the side of his face,” said Damon Bevly, 19, who works for a recycling company. “He had a fat bruise.”
Dolly said he did not recognise the description of pellets. Chief Thomas Jackson of the Ferguson city police told reporters on Monday night that officers had been using “beanbag rounds”.
Derek Chappel, 21, offered a view of two small lumps – one on the lower right-hand side of his abdomen, the other on his right thigh – as proof that he had been shot with some kind of non-lethal projectile.