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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2015, @11:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2015, @11:04PM (#220961)

    I agree with the OP.

    Rioting is a case when society has failed to do its job. Business owners dutifully pay protection money to the government for... protection.

    Irrespective of how you want to define a social contract, if you suppose that one exists, a mob of people who are rioting and destroying the livelihood of an uninvolved bystandard are clearly in violation of that contract. Additionally, if the police do NOTHING to protect the innocent from mob violence, what the fuck good are they?

    Both the rioters and the police forces have dropped the ball on their respective ends of living in a civilized world.

    If people want to exit civilization, I'm happy to use my superior intelligence and firepower to help them, especially if it comes down to my continued comfort or their continued feral wilding.

    Society isn't going to go and rebuild the businesses that were destroyed by the rioting. If society gives up on me, I'm happy to give up on society.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2015, @12:18AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2015, @12:18AM (#220996)

    Ah, the cold calculus of authoritarianism.
    So seductive to the empathy impaired.

  • (Score: 2) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Tuesday August 11 2015, @06:56AM

    by Jeremiah Cornelius (2785) on Tuesday August 11 2015, @06:56AM (#221141) Journal

    This is how disinfo works: THERE IS NO RIOTING IN FERGUSON.

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    You're betting on the pantomime horse...