Federal grants drive the militarization of police departments in America.

[Dustlawyer]

23. This is how they get around Posse Comitatus, just make the police officers into soldiers.

Next time you are on a criminal jury and the Defendant is charged with "Resisting Arrest," remember the two reporters from last night describing how they were complying when the officer kept telling them "stop resisting" and they kept repeating "I am not resisting" only to have their heads slammed into coke machines and glass doors. This makes it look like they struggled with police and gives the cops some sick jollies!

This is all being driven by the 1% who want to demonize blacks to further their attack on the safety net. The methods being used in Ferguson are what we can expect for future protests, this is the new play book. Notice how government, other than the police have been silent while this has been going on. They want to discourage anyone from protesting ANYTHING!

When will we get smart and go after the root problem which is legalized bribery of our politicians and Judges through campaign donations? We need to fight to eliminate campaign contributions altogether and have publicly funded elections. It will take masses of committed people protesting and letting the politicians know we will vote them out if they do not support this effort to restore our Democracy! Once done, the first thing we should have OUR Representatives do is bust up the financial and media conglomerates that are corrupting our Democracy.