Syrian terrorists being trained by US

Right now, the results of the autopsies seem to depend on who is paying for them.

Yes, Bonny, except as I understand it,  it is difficult to fudge the gun entrance and exit holes.  The ones around his eye and the top of his head are kind of suspect.....



ETA: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/18/us/michael-brown-family-autopsy/index.html?iid=article_sidebar

Well, that went well...

http://news.sky.com/story/1321023/scores-held-amid-heavy-gunfire-in-missouri

Scores Held Amid 'Heavy Gunfire' In Missouri
Police say they came under "heavy gunfire" and arrest 31 people in yet another night of racially-charged protests in Missouri.

Police have said they came under "heavy gunfire" and arrested 31 protesters in the latest flare-up of violence in Ferguson, Missouri.

Police fired tear gas and stun grenades as peaceful protests descended once again into chaos after nightfall.

The St Louis town has been beset by unrest since the August 9 shooting death of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black teenager who was killed by a white policeman.

"Not a single bullet was fired by officers despite coming under heavy attack," State Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson told a news conference.

He said bottles and Molotov cocktails were thrown from the crowd and two guns were confiscated from protesters. At least two people were shot.

The death of Mr Brown, who was unarmed, has sparked daily protests and nightly clashes with police.

Monday night's protests were the first since Missouri Governor Jay Nixon called in the National Guard to try and restore order to Ferguson, a town of about 21,000 people that is overwhelmingly African-American.

But the National Guard appeared to keep their distance and remained at a police command centre.

Instead, most streets were patrolled by officers in riot gear, supported by an armoured SWAT vehicle and a helicopter.

They repeatedly ordered the crowd to disperse.

Demonstrators no longer faced a midnight-to-5am curfew, but police told protesters that they could not assemble in a single spot and had to keep moving.

Three journalists - a photographer for the Getty photo agency and two German reporters - were briefly detained and later released.

Reports said a 90-year-old woman, who fled Nazi Germany in her youth to eventually emigrate to the US, was also detained for failing to disperse.

A crowd that gathered near where Mr Brown was shot dead by a local policeman was smaller than the one that clashed with officers on Sunday.

Mr Brown was shot in broad daylight on a residential street by Darren Wilson, a 28-year-old white police officer.

Pathologists hired by Mr Brown's family revealed he had been shot at least six times, including twice in the head.

Different versions of the shooting have emerged, with police sources saying there was a scuffle during which Mr Brown tried to seize the policeman's weapon. Police say the officer was injured.

The Washington Post said traces of marijuana were found in his system.

A total of three autopsies have been requested - by local authorities, the family and the Justice Department.

Officials have said a grand jury could hear evidence in the case as early as Wednesday.

In Washington, President Barack Obama said the vast majority of protesters in Ferguson were peaceful, but warned that a small minority was undermining justice.

He has said there was no excuse for police to use "excessive force" and urged a "limited" use of the National Guard.

The president has also deployed Attorney General Eric Holder, who is expected in the area on Wednesday for talks with FBI and other officials carrying out an independent federal investigation into Mr Brown's death.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-18/ferguson-tonight-nelly-national-guard-negro-spring



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J-Z and Bey-Bey can't be far behind.

This was sent to me and is interesting.....apologies as I am not sure who she is but am trying to find out. More muddying....

https://twitter.com/ChristineDByers/statuses/501556693382094848

lily wrote:This was sent to me and is interesting.....apologies as I am not sure who she is but am trying to find out.  More muddying....

https://twitter.com/ChristineDByers/statuses/501556693382094848

Christine ByersVerified account
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Crime reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. True crime author of one detective's quest for a serial killer: In Cold Pursuit.

St. Louis, MO · stltoday.com

I've followed one of the links to the Blaze, Lily:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/08/18/report-more-than-a-dozen-witnesses-have-corroborated-officer-darren-wilsons-version-of-ferguson-shooting/

Though Wilson has not spoken publicly about his side of the story, an alleged friend of the officer, identified only as Josie, shared what she claimed to be Wilson’s recollection of events. CNN later confirmed that the woman’s account matches Wilson’s account of the shooting, according to their law enforcement sources.

The woman called into TheBlaze TV host Dana Loesch’s radio show on Friday, claiming that Brown “bum-rushed” Wilson moments after pushing him into his squad car, punching him in the face and trying to grab the cop’s gun.

“Michael and his friend turn around. And Michael taunts him… And then all the sudden he just started bumrushing him. He just started coming at him full speed. And, so he just started shooting. And, he just kept coming. And, so he really thinks he was on something,” the caller added. “The final shot was in the forehead, and then he fell about two or three feet in front of the officer.”


I have absolutely no idea what happened, though I have to say, if someone Brown's size, stoned out of his gourd, was charging me, I'd shoot him too. Incidentally, I've seen some of Brown's rap 'music' and it is utterly vile, nothing but drugs, raping ho's and killing whitey - the usual.

I have no idea, either, how anything resembling order is going to be restored. The professional agitators and sh*t-stirrers are moving in, the celebs like Nelly are on the scene, and the National Guard appear to think they are still in Afghanistan. It's a recipe for disaster - and it's still warm there, so roaming the streets involves no discomfort.

Even worse, no-one on either side trusts Obama and his cronies, so there's no point in looking for national leadership to calm things down.

Thanks, LL, so she does have some kind of crime background?

Yes, a journo on a local paper by the look of it. LL

Thanks so much LL.    

I hope they get this mess settled soon.

Phew, thank goodness, Holder's on his way to sort everything out! What could possibly go wrong?

Wrong, you say? Oh I cannot imagine....

Perfect...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2728831/American-Spring-Now-Egypt-puts-boot-urges-U-S-authorities-exercise-restraint-dealing-Missouri-riots.html

Egypt has taken the unusual step of urging the U.S. to exercise restraint in dealing with racially charged demonstrations in Ferguson, Missouri.
Echoing language Washington used to caution the Cairo government as it cracked down on Islamist protesters last year, Egypt's Foreign Ministry said it was 'closely following' the escalation of violent protests following the shooting dead by police of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown.
It is highly unusual for Egypt to criticise such a major donor, and it was not immediately clear why the government would have taken such a step at this stage.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2728831/American-Spring-Now-Egypt-puts-boot-urges-U-S-authorities-exercise-restraint-dealing-Missouri-riots.html#ixzz3As95J6CB
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Gloating, probably. As is Iran:

http://www.presstv.com/detail/2014/08/19/375893/iran-slams-blacks-discrimination-in-us/

Iran’s Foreign Ministry has condemned the US's “targeted discrimination” against African Americans after an unarmed black teenager was fatally shot by the US police and protests over the killing were met with a heavy crackdown.

“The targeted discrimination against the black in America by the US police and the judicial system and the suppression of protesters… are clear instances of violations of human rights of people of color in the US,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said on Tuesday.

Afkham said the breaches come as the US administration constantly publishes reports of alleged human rights violations in other independent states.

The Iranian official called on the US to comply with the articles of International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination as a member state.

They sure are, but who can blame them?

Was not too happy on the tweets from the folk in ISIS.....

I saw those, Lily. It raises a few questions - like, why is no-one interested in shutting down ISIS' twitter and FB accounts?

It would definitely be extremely easy to do too..............  

http://www.todayonline.com/world/missouri-violence-flares-fingers-point-outsiders

As Missouri violence flares, fingers point to outsiders



PUBLISHED: 1:23 AM, AUGUST 20, 2014(PAGE 1 OF 1) - PAGINATE
FERGUSON Mo. - As darkness fell on Ferguson, Missouri, the crowd of several hundred people protesting the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black teen quickly and radically changed.

The crowd shrunk as many of the older people slipped away. Protest hymns were replaced by the shouts of angry teens who marched against a cordon of heavily armed police blocking the street.

By the end of another night of violence, 31 people had been arrested, marking the latest outbreak of rancor in the St. Louis suburb where calls for peaceful protests have been overshadowed by episodes of looting, arson and clashes with police.

Police have yet to release arrests records, leaving open the question of who is to blame for outbursts of late-night violence and looting. Some have made no efforts to hide their faces, others have charged into stores bare-chested, with shirts wrapped over their faces and baseball caps pulled over their brows.

At times, the most violent element hide in alleys, emerging to throw rocks or bottles before disappearing again. Others are caught and taken into custody.

Police have struggled to contain violence that erupted in Ferguson after a white police officer killed an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, 10 days ago.

Civil rights leaders and police - at odds over much of what has occurred in this small, mostly black St. Louis suburb - agree on at least hypothesis: Many of the perpetrators are not local residents.

“I’ve said that many a criminal element that have been coming through Ferguson are not from this area. Tonight, some of those arrested came from as far away as New York and California," State Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson told a news conference early on Tuesday.

Whoever is behind the violence, local and civil rights leaders seemed unable again on Monday to fully control the most violent elements in the crowd.

As the Missouri Highway Patrol, which has been put in charge of security on site, rolled out noise cannons intended to drive demonstrators back, a handful of area preachers appealed to the crowd to heed their orders.

"God told us in the Bible to obey the law of the land," said Elder Jimmy Burchfield, of St. Louis City, who had come out in hopes of helping to calm the situation. "When we make a mistake and we have to be arrested, we have to be arrested."

"OUTSIDE AGITATORS"

While the majority of the crowd heeded the appeal, a smaller group assembled a quarter mile away, near the site of a burned-out gas station that was destroyed in the first night of rioting more than a week ago, hurling rocks at police and breaking glass.

As the crowd grew angrier, the police lobbed tear gas and flash grenades, provoking an angry response that included at least one small gasoline bomb.

Johnson accused a handful of violent actors in the crowd of coming to Ferguson at night to destroy infrastructure and fight with police, then returning home to towns nearby.

"They can go home and their gas stations and their stores are open. Here we have one Quick Trip that burned down and the other one nearby is closed," said Johnson, an African-American who grew up in the area and who took over security efforts after the mostly white local force was accused of using excessive force against blacks.

Malik Shabazz, the head of a black attorneys group who had tried to calm the crowd, told reporters he believed "outside agitators" and anarchists were behind the worst of the violence.

At the peak of Monday night's violence, an angry crowd clogged the street near the burned-out Quick Trip gas station. One man waved a "Yield" road sign.

Several onlookers, who declined to give their names, said they believed that many of the people in that crowd of teenage and twenty-something men and women, mostly black, were from out of town and had been looking for a fight.

Others said that the makeup of the crowd had changed over the last 10 days. What began with locals committing crimes of opportunity, like looting, later drew outsiders with little or no connection to the community.

"There are a certain number of people here who are waiting for trouble," said one resident who gave his name only as Leo J. Wearing a T-shirt with the slogan "World Peace," he said he had been observing the protests over the past few days. "Some from away, some from here. I'd say about half and half." REUTERS

Not surprising, unfortunately, there are bound to be people only too keen to exploit this ....mess.

Yes there are Bonny, and wish to mess it up further.

Oh no, just what wasn't needed....

http://news.sky.com/story/1321517/suspect-shot-dead-by-police-in-north-st-louis

Suspect Shot Dead By Police In North St Louis
8:03pm UK, Tuesday 19 August 2014



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A 'knife-wielding' suspect has been shot dead by police in north St Louis, Missouri, police said.

The suspect, identified as a 23-year-old African-American male, was approached by officers after calls came in about a "man with a knife acting erratically", St Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson said.

More follows...

Huge sigh...

I don't suppose there's the slightest chance that people will stay calm and let the law take it's course....?

I won't hold my breath, Bonny.

Nope. Pic from:

http://www.infowars.com/st-louis-police-shoot-armed-suspect/




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