Stark, Raw Perspective From Assorted Tweets On Ferguson Sunday Night

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Antonio French@AntonioFrench
Dad, Husband, Alderman of the @21stWard in St. Louis,


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Mark Bland @markbland · 45s
BREAKING: SWAT team moves in on reported confrontation where #MichaelBrown was shot #Ferguson”

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Alex Wroblewski @alexwroblewski · 1h
Protesters return tear gas canisters at police in #Ferguson pic.twitter.com/cHNU2LD3Ev




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Alex Wroblewski @alexwroblewski · 40m
Protesters in #Ferguson after getting hit by tear gas from police pic.twitter.com/UgqDuhxBWw




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Robert Cohen @kodacohen · 8m
Protestors flee scene after marching toward police command center, tear gas flying in #Ferguson #MikeBrown



Antonio French @AntonioFrench · 2h
Scenes from last night in #Ferguson pic.twitter.com/cG95dhiTGH




Antonio French @AntonioFrench · 29m
There is a small group of people who cannot be defined as protestors/demonstrators. They are more like fighters/rebels/insurgents. #Ferguson

Antonio French @AntonioFrench · 19m
These people are not protestors. This is something different and it has little to do with #JusticeForMikeBrown.

Antonio French @AntonioFrench · 28m
Whenever police come to shut down West Florissant they are prepared to fight back. And they are getting more organized and coordinated.

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Danny Wicentowski @D_Towski · 13m
I can see several people down canfield confronting line of police vehicles and officers. No violence, just shouting. So far.

Antonio French @AntonioFrench · 48s
Official curfew starts in 7 minutes. #Ferguson

Antonio French @AntonioFrench · 1h
I'm safely out of the area. Saddened by tonight's events.

Antonio French @AntonioFrench · 1h
Our present situation is bad. The trust broken by the #Ferguson police is endangering lives. We have to repair it. Communities need police.

Antonio French @AntonioFrench · 1h
Each day County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch delays indicting #DarrenWilson, he is endangering citizens and delaying the rebuilding of trust.

Antonio French @AntonioFrench · 1h
Once there was a shooting, police had to come in. That being said, I'm troubled by tweets I'm reading saying children were gassed. #Ferguson

Antonio French @AntonioFrench · 15s
Been on the phone. Just as these young people must mature into leaders quickly, #STL's black leadership must also step up. Meeting tomorrow.

Antonio French @AntonioFrench · 23m
This thing has the potential to further escalate. Black leadership in STL has a chance to avoid that. We must reach out to these men today.
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Amy K. Nelson @AmyKNelson
I rip and run. | Contributing Editor, @ANIMALNewYork | journalist | global traveler | photographer


Amy K. Nelson @AmyKNelson · 34m
so we won't ever be able to see result of that standoff on Canfield Road. it will be the residents of #Ferguson word against the police.

Amy K. Nelson @AmyKNelson · 37m
guess that's what happens when media watches cops live mace a guy on ground in cuffs. #ferguson

Amy K. Nelson @AmyKNelson · 38m
getting kicked out. will be subject to arrest. "keep going" one officer said to me. no 1 can give us name. "have goodnight sir." is answer.

Amy K. Nelson @AmyKNelson · 42m
Two others arrested too...both white, one man one woman. Arrested man first she came over to us they figured it out arrested her too.

Amy K. Nelson @AmyKNelson · 44m
just arrested for curfew violation. http://instagram.com/p/r1CGVKssi5/

Amy K. Nelson @AmyKNelson · 48m
they just maced him .. "wipe this shit off my eyes I can't feel my fucking eyes" he's screaming. #ferguson

Amy K. Nelson @AmyKNelson · 48m
two men just walked past us walked into cops and were arrested for curfew violation. "just bc I'm black" #ferguson

Amy K. Nelson @AmyKNelson · 23m
all was quiet until sounded like bottle broke & then possible gunshot near QuickTrip... we are in middle of two diff police lines #ferguson

Amy K. Nelson @AmyKNelson · 35m
We've negotiated a stay. Still here just a little farther back. The standoff is still happening. #Ferguson

Amy K. Nelson @AmyKNelson · 6m
total censorship right now being ordered back to the media pen bc yanno #ferguson

Amy K. Nelson @AmyKNelson · 11m
Police parked big empty bus that is conveniently running so now we can't hear what cops/residents are saying. #ferguson

Amy K. Nelson @AmyKNelson · 27m
@EddiesMind they would but cops are keeping us too far back. some here w telephoto lens will come out later

Amy K. Nelson @AmyKNelson · 33m
they just pulled up tear gas truck ... looks like they're gonna has them all residents have hands in Air #ferguson

Amy K. Nelson @AmyKNelson · 35m
cops are in standoff on Canfield telling people to go home; they're refusing ... a car FULL to brim of people drove by taunting cops. tense

Amy K. Nelson @AmyKNelson · 47m
watching. residents come out of their homes w hands up and they are lined up like a firing squad on Canfield road #ferguson

Amy K. Nelson @AmyKNelson · 55m
A young man flees just as assault of tear gas begins #Ferguson http://instagram.com/p/r01M5gMsip/

Amy K. Nelson @AmyKNelson · 57m
Fire started in the Delwood market police tell us.

Amy K. Nelson @AmyKNelson · 1h
on the front line, they fight back and return tear gas #fearguson http://instagram.com/p/r00toJssh4/

Amy K. Nelson @AmyKNelson · 1h
what are they looking for? watching a huge squad of officers surround a house and they are arguing w residents on Canfield #ferguson

Amy K. Nelson @AmyKNelson · 2h
cops: "shots fired west Florissant and chambers. crowd running." #ferguson

Amy K. Nelson @AmyKNelson · 2h
street where Mike Brown was shot an influx of officers head in; some sort of standoff #ferguson http://instagram.com/p/r0wpSqMsrw/

Amy K. Nelson @AmyKNelson · 2h
can't get back in there cops threatening everyone w arrest they keep bringing in more reinforcements #ferguson

Amy K. Nelson @AmyKNelson · 2h
Another journo threatened, this time it was livestreamed, on http://argusradio.com #ferguson http://instagram.com/p/r0vP8Bsso9

Clip of police in Ferguson shouting at cameraman: "get the fuck out of here [...] or you're getting shot with this!"

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Robert Cohen @kodacohen
Photojournalist, St. Louis Post-Dispatch


Robert Cohen @kodacohen · 31m
Where's the LOVE? #Ferguson #MikeBrown




Robert Cohen @kodacohen · 34m
Woman helped over a wall to escape tear gas in #Ferguson #MikeBrown

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Robert Cohen @kodacohen · 22m
Protestors flee scene after marching toward police command center, tear gas flying in #Ferguson #MikeBrown




Robert Cohen @kodacohen · 23m
Protestors flee scene after marching toward police command center, tear gas flying in #Ferguson #MikeBrown




Robert Cohen @kodacohen · 31m
Cassandra Roberts gassed, helped by strangers in #Ferguson #MikeBrown




Robert Cohen @kodacohen · Aug 17
A member of the Peacekeepers yells "No pictures!" as she blocks the view of a photographer. #Ferguson #MikeBrown



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Lewis E. Reed@PresReed
Father of 4 great kids, husband, public servant, life long democrat, proud St. Louis City resident, President of the Board of Aldermen


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Charles Jaco @charlesjaco1 · 6m
Now shots around Canfield, down West Florissant from separate police scene at Chambers. Several instances of gunfire tonight, none from cops

Lewis E. Reed @PresReed · 1h
Not a lot of chants of #MikeBrown from the people who remain. More just general unrest. Nowhere near as tense as before.

Lewis E. Reed @PresReed · 1h
I assume something similar to leave now . #Ferguson.

Lewis E. Reed @PresReed · 2h
Can't make out commands on speaker in #Ferguson

Lewis E. Reed @PresReed · 2h
#Ferguson right now. PD Appear to have removed gas masks. Hope that's a good sign pic.twitter.com/RyVZaw7XZU

Lewis E. Reed @PresReed · 2h
Asking people to go home and be safe. Riot geared PD moving

Lewis E. Reed @PresReed · 2h
At the corner of W Florissant & Chambers. Flash bangs from PD. Some families separated, trying to reconnect. #Ferguson

Lewis E. Reed @PresReed · 2h
People are leaving #Ferguson. Peacekeepers helping direct

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Tef Poe/FootKlan@TefPoe
Bungalo/Universal Music Group Distribution recording artist.. featured in XXL, Unsigned Hype Source Magazine. Worked w/Killer Mike, Royce Da 5'9, I-20, GLC


Tef Poe/FootKlan @TefPoe · 43m
The tear gas came about out the blue a woman was grazed by bullet and things spiraled out of control

Tef Poe/FootKlan @TefPoe · 4m
Every single cop out there knows this is about protecting one of their own

Tef Poe/FootKlan @TefPoe · 4m
They're running the community into the ground and smearing Mikes name in the name of defending Darren Wilson

Tef Poe/FootKlan @TefPoe · 7m
This is all being done to uphold the oath they know damn well he's guilty right now it's all about protecting the oath

Tef Poe/FootKlan @TefPoe · 11m
Ferguson did all of this to protect a guy that's clearly guilty but they can't break the oath

Tef Poe/FootKlan @TefPoe · 12m
The black captain is basically the new escape goat for all of their major fuck ups

Tef Poe/FootKlan @TefPoe · 13m
The police no longer have any power over the black community in Ferguson it's a total shit show

Tef Poe/FootKlan @TefPoe · 26m
I'm speaking the real .. Kids have misplaced energy police are itching to shoot now at the slightest reasons

Tef Poe/FootKlan @TefPoe · 27m
No horse with this but it's time to organize impact full actions in Clayton the honeymoon was cool now let's get busy

Tef Poe/FootKlan @TefPoe · 28m
The dogs are gonna come out the gas is gonna come out .. It happened in the 60s and it's happening now so stand with us and help teach them

Tef Poe/FootKlan @TefPoe · 29m
Bring ppl they respect to the table it's time .. To get physical

Tef Poe/FootKlan @TefPoe · 30m
Tactically sit down and explain to there kids how we can win without them becoming moving targets

Tef Poe/FootKlan @TefPoe · 31m
Invite these kids to the table to talk or the insanity will continue

Tef Poe/FootKlan @TefPoe · 31m
We get that and that's why we're here the entire force is rogue now stand with us and combat it the right way

Tef Poe/FootKlan @TefPoe · 32m
We understand the police are bastards

Tef Poe/FootKlan @TefPoe · 33m
It's time to wake up

Tef Poe/FootKlan @TefPoe · 34m
None of you mugs are actually sitting down with the true ground level organizers leave the church and lead in the streets at night please

Tef Poe/FootKlan @TefPoe · 35m
Like flat out? Showing up getting these kids turned up to shoot at the cops and then flying back to your home city is Wack!!'

Tef Poe/FootKlan @TefPoe · 38m
I'm not voting for none of you mugs next election and I will do everything I can to make sure the local hip hop community demonizes you

Tef Poe/FootKlan @TefPoe · 39m
It's time to move the protest off of West flo so our kids can stop being mobile targets for the police

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Patricia Bynes@Patricialicious
Democratic Committeewoman of Ferguson Township in St Louis County in MO. A delegate for MO's 1st Congressional District.


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Christian Lacroix @_itsvelvet · 1h
we've had monks fly in from india. we've had gaza freedom fighters sending support in the midst of their OWN war. and we're still confused?

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John Butler @NewsDirKMOX · 1h
Amnesty International taking "unprecedented” steps in Ferguson. Amnesty crews on the ground now, never deployed inside U-S.

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Malcolm Johnson @admiralmpj · 16m
@chriskingstl @WarOnFerguson There are four forces here: Local Peaceful Protesters. Looters. Folks who want to fight cops. Cops.

Patricia Bynes @Patricialicious · 48s
Police in riot gear at The Mobile on Chambers and W Florissant #Ferguson http://twitpic.com/eacbto




Patricia Bynes @Patricialicious · 11m
3 SWAT trucks on corner of W Florissant and Chambers #Ferguson

Patricia Bynes @Patricialicious · 24m
He is telling me what just happened on Chambers. This is a war zone for real #Ferguson

Patricia Bynes @Patricialicious · 24m
Picked up a guy he needs a ride to his car #Ferguson

Patricia Bynes @Patricialicious · 27m
The Dellwood Market on Chambers has been looted. SWAT just pulled off and people are going back in O_O #Ferguson

Patricia Bynes @Patricialicious · 29m
So the action is on Chambers by my spot #FERGUSON

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Sandor Clegane @Trap_Jesus · 1h
Real shit, if you not from here...you need to go home man. People not from here coming and fucking shit up for us. We have to live here.

Patricia Bynes @Patricialicious · 54m
Drop off good. It is too dangerous for 2 young black men to walk around the neighborhood because streets r blocked off

Patricia Bynes @Patricialicious · 1h
Found 2 guys that need to get home. I'm dropping them off #Ferguson

Patricia Bynes @Patricialicious · 1h
It is pretty quiet out here other than the sound of a chopper and the occasional, "Turn around"

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Sandor Clegane@Trap_Jesus

Sandor Clegane @Trap_Jesus · 47m
Out of towners, if you come here...it's not about Mike Brown. This is about something way bigger in the St. Louis Metro Area.

Sandor Clegane @Trap_Jesus · 56m
I just want to live, man.

Sandor Clegane @Trap_Jesus · 56m
I could've stayed in Baden for this.

Sandor Clegane @Trap_Jesus · 59m
My mom moved me out here from the city and I thought it was the promised land. Now it's all crumbling.

Sandor Clegane @Trap_Jesus · 1h
Real shit, if you not from here...you need to go home man. People not from here coming and fucking shit up for us. We have to live here.

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Charles Jaco @charlesjaco1 · 1h
St Louis County PD says none of the 7 arrested last night are from Ferguson. "Some may" be from out of state. Dellwood Market now on fire.

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Bobby Scmedium Shirt @Vandalyzm · 2h
Cop just came to talk to us, warns us of Florissant. People are shooting. Folks have been stabbed and cops are being shot at on Chambers.

Sandor Clegane @Trap_Jesus · 2h
I don't want to live here anymore. I give up.

Sandor Clegane @Trap_Jesus · 3h
I don't see a way any of this can end well. I might have to pack my bags.

Sandor Clegane @Trap_Jesus · 3h
RT @sarahkendzior: Eyewitness told me last nights Molotov at the chop suey was thrown by white anarchist group. Been going on all week.

Sandor Clegane @Trap_Jesus · 3h
I don't know about the reports of Molotov cocktails..but I do know there was a shooting. That's enough reason for the crowd to be broken up.

Sandor Clegane @Trap_Jesus · 3h
This ain't what I wanted.

Sandor Clegane @Trap_Jesus · 3h
You got protestors...then you got the looters..then you got those who just wanna be out there and seen..then you got celebrity opportunists.

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Yamiche Alcindor@Yamiche
@USATODAY national breaking news reporter who also covers social issues such as criminal justice and human trafficking.


Yamiche Alcindor @Yamiche · 9s
Johnson said authorities are looking into other ways to calm crowds. He wouldn't go into detail about what things they were considering

Yamiche Alcindor @Yamiche · 28s
Johnson said he had to ratchet up police presence tonight. "We had to act to protect lives and property." #Ferguson

Yamiche Alcindor @Yamiche · 1m
Johnson said protesters created makeshift barricades to stop police from going into certain areas #Ferguson

Yamiche Alcindor @Yamiche · 1m
Johnson said McDonald's employees had to lock themselves in a storage room around 9:20 pm because store was being overrun. #Ferguson

Yamiche Alcindor @Yamiche · 2m
Johnson "pre planned" acts of aggression happened tonight--shooting at police, throwing Molotov cocktails and looting of several stores

Yamiche Alcindor @Yamiche · 4m
According to police, 7 or 8 people were arrested tonight and in some cases face charges of failure to disperse. #Ferguson

Yamiche Alcindor @Yamiche · 5m
Johnson just said two to three people were injured tonight including someone who was shot around 8:25 pm.

Yamiche Alcindor @Yamiche · 1h
Police have blocked multiple roads as things seem to have died down. Hearing police are going to have a presser #Ferguson

Yamiche Alcindor @Yamiche · 22m
Police have blocked multiple roads as things seem to have died down. Hearing police are going to have a presser #Ferguson

Yamiche Alcindor @Yamiche · 33m
Things just got a bit quieter in #Ferguson but police armored vehicles still present

Yamiche Alcindor @Yamiche · 50m
Curfew has started and I just heard gunshots. #Ferguson

Yamiche Alcindor @Yamiche · 52m
Police telling people to go home. Two minutes before curfew. #Ferguson

Yamiche Alcindor @Yamiche · 53m
Police are urging people go home. Officers now have gas masks on and protestors are refusing to leave

Yamiche Alcindor @Yamiche · 55m
Police telling protestors to go home but people are not leaving. Five minutes before curfew goes into effect. #Ferguson

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Ryan J. Reilly @ryanjreilly · 1h
We've got a SWAT team moving into confrontation on street where #MikeBrown was shot. #Ferguson

Yamiche Alcindor @Yamiche · 1h
Bryan Jones said he felt safer running toward gun shots than police "That tells you the world is horrible." #Ferguson

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1. Excellent composition! Thanks. nt

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3. thanks for your support, L&L

. . .great thread, btw


from Live and Learn: Lots of tear gassing happening now in Ferguson: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5402663

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8. +1

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2. K&R n/t

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5. thank, Joe

. . . thanks for looking in and your attention to this issue.

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4. It will be interesting to see just how many troublemakers are from outside the community. nt

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6. saw a report, I'm not certain

. . .but it's said that the 7 arrested last night were not from Ferguson. I wouldn't be surprised. The actual demonstrators from this town obviously love their home town and their neighbors too much to damage it deliberately ofr involve themselves in violent acts without cause or self-defense.

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15. I think much of the violence came from out of town. Much of the righteous anger, though, was home-

grown.

Things are easing down now. Justice is walking a clear path at a fair clip. I don't think the pace of events on the legal side would have progressed so efficiently were it not for DOJ presence in the community.

I can only imagine how this would have been handled "pre-internet." I don't even want to think about it.

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9. Would that be 'troublemakers' like Darren Wilson, who lived in upscale Crestwood?

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10. He's not a "troublemaker." He's accused of killing a suspect/using excessive force.

That's a far more serious thing than "troublemaking." Why minimize what he did in that fashion?

I'm talking about the people who are coming in to town to "demonstrate" and think that just has to involve vandalism, theft and worse and who are provoking those idiot cops, like that's going to help the situation. Perhaps you didn't notice the video that has been played of many of the residents of the community "cleaning up" after these out-of-towners previously?

Welcome to DU. Here's a link that discusses the point I am making-I agree with Rev. Sharpton's POV vis a vis this situation, that Michael Brown is going to change that town, you'll have to read the entire article to get his thoughts (4 paragraph limit):

Nixon charged that the violence had been carried out by “an organized and growing number of individuals, many from outside the community and state, whose actions are putting the residents and business of Ferguson at risk.” He called the violence “a disservice to the family of Michael Brown and to the people of his community who yearn for justice to be served.”

There were multiple incidents of vandalism and looting over a three hour period that began around 8pm local time. Johnson said multiple business including a Family Dollar Store, a pizza shop and a storage office were looted. A McDonald’s restaurant was overrun by protesters, he said, and employees had barricaded themselves in a store room when police arrived. Another convenience store was ablaze. Several reporters attempting to cover the events said they were briefly arrested while others said they were threatened with arrest.

The numbers of participants in the violence appeared to be small. Police said there had been about eight arrests during the evening but Johnson did not say whether any shooting suspects were in custody. Earlier Sunday, several reporters saw what appeared to be a dead body in the middle of Chambers street. But police did not report any fatalities.

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/least-1-dead-violence-engulfs-ferguson

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12. One could say that most of the law enforcement personnel currently terrorizing the

residents of Ferguson are also 'troublemakers from out of town,' given that the Ferguson PD only has 53 staff and most of them almost certainly do not live in Ferguson.

Sorry, didn't mean to take a shot at you. Was pointing to the bias in the language of 'troublemaker'. As with 'beauty' and 'terrorism,' so too with 'troublemaker'.

My sarcasm seems to have fallen way short of its mark.

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13. No worries--I get a bit piqued when there's a "convolution" of purposes put forth.

The people in that community don't want to wreck their own community, they just want change. As always, whenever there's a confrontation with authorities, there will be people who come in not to support, but to take advantage. They don't help, they merely confuse the issues and create a false narrative that it's all about creating chaos and taking things from a frigging dollar store. It's, well, frustrating.

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