It's come to this: Amnesty International is on the ground in MO.

[RandySF]

Possibly the first time they've ever deployed into the United States.

[oldandhappy]

1. Tis true.

Amnesty International has said this is the first time they have deployed observers in the U.S.

[oldandhappy]

2. amnesty in Missouri

http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/amnesty-international-takes-unprecedented-us-action-in-fergu?utm_term=u7h73d#2uud39b

[BrotherIvan]

3. I thank them for going

The community needs help. It is not coming from the elected officials or police. Please, someone, please help them.

[frazzled]

4. You guys must not have been around in the 60s

to see Watts burn in 1965. Six days in August, and there were 34 deaths, over 1,000 injuries, and nearly 3,500 arrests.

Or Patterson, or Detroit, or Chicago, or Milwaukee.

Or 1968, when Martin Luther King was assassinated, and riots broke out in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Louisville, Kansas City, and Chicago and dozens of other cities. In DC, 3000 police weren't deemed enough, and LBJ sent in more than 13,000 federal troops and 1750 federalized National Guard troops to help out. 1200 buildings burned.

And we survived all that. And yet nothing has changed. 50 years from now some people will be marveling about a community-police standoff in some other town or city, and you'll be reminding them about the summer of 2014 in Ferguson, MO.

[kath]

5. Yeah, the beat goes on. So infuriating that nothing has changed.

I'm old enough to remember '68, but was only 9 in '65.

[HuckleB]

6. AI is in Seattle.

And it pushes a whole lot of BS.