This afternoon, several hundred citizens who gathered on a public street, in broad daylight, to air their grievances over Browns killing were met with a massive SWAT team, an armored personnel carrier, and men in camouflage pointing heavy artillery at the crowd. Two prominent credentialed journalists who tried to report on the event were arrested for a time, and there was a report that a state senator who questioned authorities about tear gas earlier was also in custody. All this as authorities continue to cover up the most basic information about what happened on the night Mike Brown was murdered. The people in charge of a large American community are systematically shredding the United States Constitution tonight. It is nothing less than a police coup. The Bill of Rights guarantees that all citizens have the right to assemble peacefully. And yet residents of Ferguson who gathered to protest under the bright August sun were met with a mid-sized Army of militarized cops, ordered off the public right-of-way, and ordered to go home, under the glare of a rifle mounted on a tripod. In a move that even George Orwell would not have believed, cops with loudspeakers insisted to the crowd, You have the right to peacefully assemble - from 25 feet away.
Posted on: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 14:08:20 +0000
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