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Peaceful Rallies in Ferguson Give Way to Violence, Gunfire

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

"exec" writes:

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: 2) by hemocyanin on Tuesday August 11 2015, @01:13AM

    by hemocyanin (186) on Tuesday August 11 2015, @01:13AM (#221022) Journal

    I think this is one of the best comments I've ever read on pedantry: https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=8584&cid=213287#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] (by ikanreed)

    Two pedants walk into a bar.

    Okay fine. To be more precise: two pedants get beaten to death with a bar.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday August 11 2015, @02:06AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday August 11 2015, @02:06AM (#221053) Homepage Journal

    LOL @ myself. I reacted rather strongly to YOUR post, because, somehow, I thought that Cornelius had made that post. Sorry, man - you aren't as militant as he is. Take my above response with a couple grains of salt, alright?

    All the same, massecres and mass graves go hand in hand. A single, individual funeral does not a massacre make. To help put things in perspective, you might look at the mideast, or Mexico. Yes, Mexico enjoys the odd massacre rather frequently - http://www.borderlandbeat.com/ [borderlandbeat.com]

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