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Tear Gas, Automatic Weapons, Molotov
Cocktails
Protests turn violent in St. Louis suburb - More Tear gas - shots fired - Molotov cocktails thrown at police overnight Police used tear gas and smoke bombs to repel crowds who threw Molotov cocktails during another violent night on the streets of a St. Louis suburb in the wake of the shooting of the unarmed 18-year old Michael Brown. Instead, officers from multiple departments in riot gear and in military equipment have clashed nightly with protesters, who chant, "Hands up, don't shoot." Wednesday saw more tense confrontations and further volleys of tear gas from police — this time paired with smoke bombs in response to flaming projectiles and other objects lobbed from the crowd. Protesters faced heavily armed police who at times trained weapons on them from armored trucks. Two reporters said they were detained by police for not clearing out quickly enough from a McDonald's where they were working, near the protests but away from the more volatile areas. The two, who work for The Washington Post and The Huffington Post, were released without any charges. Both say they were assaulted but not seriously hurt. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that about 10 people had been arrested, including St. Louis Alderman Antonio French, who has been chronicling the protests on social media. Police had said earlier they would not have arrest information until early Thursday. (Source yahoo.com)
Sonic cannons - armored vehicle - high-caliber automatic weapons on tripods
trained on the crowd - tear gas shot The animosity for
the most part was verbal Wednesday until a thrown bottle prompted police to fire
smoke bombs at the crowd shortly before 9 p.m. Police a short time later chased
protesters into nearby neighborhoods after dispersing the crowd for the third
straight night with tear gas grenades. On Wednesday, police also used
piercing-sound sonic cannons to scatter the crowd. As they have since Saturday,
demonstrators throughout the evening taunted and threatened police. A county
police tactical operations armored vehicle was deployed at the demonstration
site for most of the night. As of midnight there were reports of sporadic
gunfire. At 2 a.m., several dozen police officers riding inside and on three
armored tactical vehicles pulled up in front of the Ferguson police station.
Forming a skirmish line, they faced the last of the night's protesters, a group
of about 100 gathered across the street on the parking lot of the Andy Wurm Tire
& Wheel shop. A booming voice from a police loudspeaker ordered the crowd to
disperse and the protestors complied after cursing them. (Source
stltoday.com) Anonymous gets involved - release 911 calls - and names of department personnel As to the actions of Anonymous in releasing the names of department personnel, Chief Jackson said protection had been assigned to some and others had taken vacation. Anonymous also released on Wednesday what it said were county 911 tapes from the time of the shooting on Saturday. Most initial calls seemed to be about crowd control, but the tapes also suggested that dispatchers learned from an early call that a police officer was involved. Chief Jackson said he had not heard the tapes. (Source nytimes.com) FBI warns New Black Panther leader in Ferguson inciting violence The FBI is concerned members of the New Black Panther Party are in Ferguson and advocating violence against police. According to an alert from the St. Louis Division of the FBI the National Chief of Staff of the New Black Panther Party is in Ferguson. Chawn Kweli and other members of the NBPP are in town to respond to the shooting of Michael Brown. This is part of a Facebook status posted by Kweli , “This is the hour all the greats promised. If you die, die like a warrior. I’ll see you on the ground.” (Source fox2now.com)
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