Great but sobering look at the mix of law and history that make it unlikely Darren Wilson will be charged let alone convicted of a crime in the killing of Michael Brown.
This is St. Louis Alderman Antonio French, who’s been involved on the ground from the very beginning. Struck that it’s a very different take on what’s going on tonight.
Police used a new tactic tonight. They would move in and extract the 1 or 2 individuals that were causing the problem. Much better than gas.
— Antonio French (@AntonioFrench) August 19, 2014
Half a rhetorical question, half not …
#BREAKING: Police advancing on crowd. Guns drawn. Media ordered to stay in taped off area. #Ferguson #MikeBrown pic.twitter.com/dYm16HNksR
— Eli Rosenberg (@EliKMBC) August 19, 2014
Birds bursting into flames over state of the art solar plant.
On the far right, folks like the always predictably horrible David Horowitz say we need to look at Michael Brown’s rap lyrics to decide whether he deserved to be shot.
Uh oh. Texas Gov. Rick Perry has been indicted for abusing the power of his office for threatening to veto prosecutors’ funding for investigating public corruption.
A Twitter account appears to show the only contemporaneous and recorded account of Michael Brown’s shooting. We can’t say for certain whether the account is accurate or complete. But significantly it was recorded before it could be known that the circumstances of his death would become a nationwide story or such a subject of controversy. Check it out.