“Police in Ferguson were caught on camera Sunday night threatening to mace one reporter and shoot another. At least two other journalists also claim they were arrested while following police orders.
Shortly after 10 pm Sunday night, police began launching tear gas at protesters and demanded that reporters turn their cameras off.
In a confrontation caught on the KARG Arugus Radio livestream, a cop noticed Mustafa Hussein filming with his camera lights on—which police claim makes it hard for them to see—and confronted him, allegedly pointing a gun at him.
“Get down, get the fuck out of here and get that light off, or you’re getting shot with this,” the officer yells at Hussein.
Another journalist was reportedly shot with a beanbag.” *
Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) and Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/AnaKasparian) break it down on The Young Turks.
*Read more here from http://gawker.com/ferguson-police-threaten-to-shoot-reporter-and-mace-chr-1623125660
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The only way we are going to get this country back from the corporate oligarchy is to burn it down and rebuild it.
Im very sick and will not be around much longer. I hope that I see it happen soon.
You’ve got to wonder about all those people becoming cops. Did they dream of destroying democracy when they enrolled?