Military Veterans Speak about Ferguson Missouri

Apparently the police in Ferguson are more equipped then the veterans were during Iraq.

http://boingboing.net/2014/08/14/us-veterans-ferguson-police-d.html?fk_bb

http://boingboing.net/2014/08/14/a-sample-of-us-military-vetera.html

https://storify.com/AthertonKD/veterans-on-ferguson

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2014/08/14/military-veterans-see-deeply-flawed-police-response-in-ferguson/

Fun doings in Ferguson, Missouri!

New Your Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/14/us/missouri-teenager-and-officer-scuffled-before-shooting-chief-says.html

Gawker

http://gawker.com/washington-post-huffpo-reporters-arrested-in-ferguson-1621284034

Raw Story

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/14/ferguson-police-fire-tear-gas-as-missouri-protesters-thrown-petrol-bombs-at-officers/

Reporters taken in to police custody.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/13/they-said-lets-take-him-wapo-reporter-lowery-describes-being-seized-by-cops-in-ferguson/

It's gotten so bad out there that the police even tear gassed a State Senator.

Boston.com

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/2014/08/13/chief-more-than-arrested-ferguson-missouri-unrest/zROg06mluKV8g0HrScTmYK/story.html

Looks to me neither side is going to win this one and a lot of people are going to suffer. Especially when you have police snipers leveling their weapons on crowds with children in them.

Raw Story

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/13/overkill-images-from-ferguson-protest-show-cops-treating-city-like-a-war-zone/

This whole thing brings up an interesting discussion about the continued militarization of America's police forces. Especially when you have arguments for and against it that are valid.