This Ferguson Police Chief is blaming the protestors

[blogslut]

Live press conference right now on MSNBC

[tridim]

1. Blaming the protestors for what?

Shooting an unarmed teenager?

[blogslut]

3. Said

"We've had shots fired at us, bottles thrown, firebombs thrown..."

Bullshit.

[Robbins]

4. according to him

The police look bad because the protesters were being violent.

The police screwed up though on how they treated press.They are asking questions.

[tridim]

5. The police look bad because they are bad.

I know you know that.

Is he saying anything about the murdered teenager? Or is that old news to him now?

[Robbins]

7. Yes i know

I went by In comment what he Is claiming.Which Is BS.There hasn't been any reporting that mentions what he claims.

Of course the far right will claim the liberal media Isn't telling the whole story.The chief going on Fox last night tells me a lot.

[arcane1]

12. It's no coincidence that he went on FOX at the same time CNN & MSNBC were covering the assault

[JEB]

2. Rein in your goons.

[bettyellen]

6. I get the feeling he was ordered to answer every single reporters question today! He is getting

shaky and the officers around him seem to wish they could help or end it early. Lots of reporters put him on the spot.

[HooptieWagon]

8. I suspect the first assault was by police...

... when the protestors didn't immediately disperse when illegally ordered to do so by police. At that point, when having tear gas and rubber bullets fired at them, the crowd quite justifiably threw non-lethal objects in response.

The whole situation in Ferguson, beginning with the young man's murder, appears to be a whole lot of lying and cover-ups on the part of police.

[arcane1]

11. See post 10. That's exactly how it happened. n/t

[octoberlib]

9. None of the journalists who were

actually there are reporting seeing any of this. They said the protesters were peaceful.

[Robbins]

13. Just BS

They are trying to cover their butts by blaming the protesters because their tactics have been exposed and world sees them look bas as they are.

[arcane1]

10. You can see in this video from last night, nothing was being thrown at them when the attack started

http://new.livestream.com/accounts/9035483/events/3271930

Everyone is just hanging out in the street while the cops issue warnings to disburse. One man throws something about halfway through, but the police assault was well under way by that time.

This is just the "he was reaching for a gin" excuse applied to a large crowd.

[Viva_Daddy]

14. WOW. The police are in FULL PROTECTIVE GEAR but THEY feel threatened.

[frylock]

15. shocking