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A man was gravely wounded in a gun battle with police in Ferguson, Missouri on Sunday night after a day of peaceful rallies to mark the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white officer one year ago. Several volleys of gunshots rang out as police in riot gear tried to disperse demonstrators blocking traffic and smashing storefront windows along a street that was a flashpoint of last year's unrest in the St. Louis suburb after Michael Brown, 18, was slain. Police later said the gunfire began with two groups of agitators apparently shooting at each other.
http://news.yahoo.com/ferguson-protests-mostly-peaceful-anniversary-brown-shooting-015555407.html
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Anniversary commemorations had begun hours earlier with a peaceful march through the St. Louis suburb. The scene changed dramatically after dark. Dozens of protesters converged on West Florissant Avenue, which bore the brunt of last summer's rioting, and chanted: "Shut it down" in the midst of a severe thunderstorm.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2015, @06:48PM
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Monday August 10 2015, @06:54PM
That's what they said in East Germany, too.
You're betting on the pantomime horse...
(Score: 1) by Francis on Monday August 10 2015, @07:19PM
We're not in East Germany or any other totalitarian state. You have the right to take things up in court if they've broken the law. But, if you're dead because you did something stupid or gave them an excuse to shoot you, then it doesn't much matter where you are. You're dead and there's nothing you can do about it.
Mistakes do happen, but there's no reason to inflame things even more just because you don't want to follow the rules.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Monday August 10 2015, @07:24PM
KEEP FOLLOWING ORDERS, CITIZEN!
You're betting on the pantomime horse...
(Score: 4, Insightful) by LaminatorX on Monday August 10 2015, @08:18PM
The judicial game is rigged against justice for victims of police violence, doubly so for black ones. That has been shown time again to be a completely ineffective means of recourse. The laws are written such that a policeman just has to say, "I was afraid." and he walks. The Prosecutors have an enormous conflict of interest when it comes to prosecuting the very police who provide them with their cases, evidence, and testimony, so they all too often softpedal the cases or arrange instructions gamed to result in a No-True-Bill or an acquittal.
Thus has there been no justice, and thus is there no peace. Sadly, in both cases.
(Score: 1, Troll) by albert on Tuesday August 11 2015, @01:39AM
I agree. This means you should try really hard to avoid being a victim of police violence. Step one is to obey the law. This is the most important thing you can do to avoid having your ass kicked by the police.
In virtually every case that makes the news, this simple advice has not been heeded.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anal Pumpernickel on Monday August 10 2015, @08:41PM
We're not in East Germany or any other totalitarian state.
Completely irrelevant. The point was that laws are often unjust and sometimes even outright unconstitutional. You can still be convicted for unjust and/or unconstitutional laws if you don't mount a good enough defense, and even without being convicted, just being harassed by government thugs can destroy your life. Then there are plea deals, which are basically a way to scare innocent people into confessing to crimes they did not commit. There is no "justice system".