Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) weighed in Thursday on the growing chaos in Ferguson, Mo., where violence has erupted after an unarmed black teenager was fatally shot by a police officer last weekend.
The Massachusetts senator addressed the surreal condition of the St. Louis suburb, which has seen a week filled with tear gas and rubber bullets following the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
This is America, not a war zone. The people of #Ferguson just want answers. We all want answers.
— Elizabeth Warren (@elizabethforma) August 14, 2014
Police in Ferguson have come under heavy criticism this week for what has been seen as an overzealous response to the protests over Brown’s death.
On Wednesday night, two reporters — the Washington Post’s Wesley Lowery and the Huffington Post’s Ryan Reilly — were arrested inside a Ferguson McDonald’s.
The two journalists were subsequently released.
Let’s play pretend: After the police moved in to quash the peaceful protests, armed black nationalist militants from all over the country streamed to Ferguson to support the cause of ending police brutality and profiling.
I would imagine that the 2nd amendment, freedom loving patriots who held up Cliven Bundy as a hero could get behind this, right?
Right?
This is why I love Elizabeth Warren, her statement could not be more spot on. Common sense is a beautiful thing, and Elizabeth Warren has more of that rare commodity than any politician to come along sense, well, sense John F. Kennedy.
But a tweet! A tweet?! C’mon…
Not her state. IMO, an official response from ElWa (D-MA) could/would be construed as interfering or at least out of place. But we haven’t heard anything from Roy Blunt (R-MO) and McCaskill (D-MO). Blunt is a lost cause. I’m surprised that McCaskill hasn’t weighed in (as far as I know).
True…in that context. Maybe I am just a Tweet-hater and find it an unserious communication medium.