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posted by CoolHand on Monday August 10 2015, @04:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the nothing-funny-about-it dept.

From Yahoo News:

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.


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Monday August 10 2015, @07:39PM

    by Jeremiah Cornelius (2785) on Monday August 10 2015, @07:39PM (#220850) Journal

    Breitbart?

    Why not just go to David Duke or Stormfront?

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Monday August 10 2015, @07:50PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday August 10 2015, @07:50PM (#220864) Journal

    It's not my problem that you refuse to read information that is easily found from any number of other sources. Do a google search for "insurance" and "riot". I had a couple million hits, and the articles I cited came up on the first page. Do you suppose that every one of those couple million hits were written by racists, in response to Ferguson?

    You're ranting, man. Take a chill pill.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2015, @12:15AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2015, @12:15AM (#220994)

      > I had a couple million hits, and the articles I cited came up on the first page.

      Because all of the other hits that were even relevant were bloggers citing the breitbart pages. That's how google's pagerank algorithm works.

      I get it, reading breitbart gives you a hard-on and posting links to their shit is like public masturbation. But, just like public masturbation, nobody wants to see that shit. If all you want to do is stimulate your pleasure neurons, keep doing what you are doing. If you want to convince anyone else reading along, cite better sources.

  • (Score: 2) by albert on Tuesday August 11 2015, @12:50AM

    by albert (276) on Tuesday August 11 2015, @12:50AM (#221010)

    You're living in your own little echo chamber, isolated from opinions that might challenge your own opinions. Are you opinions really so fragile? If they are so fragile, might that imply something about correctness?

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2015, @06:33AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2015, @06:33AM (#221129)

      The problem with breitbart is that it is entertainment, not journalism. They don't do fact checking, they don't do background research. They have a POV and they are happy to only report the half of the story that promotes their POV. I wouldn't cite them any more than I'd cite something from huffpo.

      Use them as a starting point and follow-up on the sources if you are so inclined. But if you aren't going to do that research yourself and post the direct sources, don't expect anyone who doubts you to do it for you. You can post to make yourself feel good or you can post to inform other readers. Citing breitbart is only good for the former.