The cops are the aggressors tonight. I'm watching it with my own two eyes...

[ChisolmTrailDem]

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bassemmasri?utm_campaign=JPER&utm_medium=FlashPlayer&utm_source=embed

[SoCalMusicLover]

1. Watching Same

Pretty incredible stuff.

[damnedifIknow]

2. This is America?

Holy shit these cops are fascists.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

3. And the world is watching this embarrassing display of police oppression. SMFH. nt

[annm4peace]

4. Agree..

once again there is injustice

anytime there is a college sporting championship there is sometimes rioting with cars turned over.

never have seen teargassing with those .. but one car gets vandalized and they lob one tear gas after another.

[Niceguy1]

74. the scope of what is going on

Is far worse than an after game melee.

[Dawson Leery]

5. It is not the soldier that gives us freedom, it is the citizen.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025863945

[Kalidurga]

6. I guess the F word is pretty dangerous...

cuz all I saw and heard was people saying F' the police then tear gas.

[Volaris]

20. It's been a rage statement against since the vainglory of authority for 20 years.

My DAUGHTER likes Dr. Dre...I had to tell her he's been making relavant music since phones still had to be attached to walls.
Yeah, she didn't quite understand that, either =)

[Kalidurga]

26. I remember rotary phones, my kids know what they look like.

[Volaris]

28. lol mine didnt.

She's 15 I had to tell her about the really LONG phone cords so you could have PRIVATE conservation with your high school girlfriend in your room with the door closed, so your siblings couldn't listen in on your "phone sex" =)

[Kalidurga]

29. my youngest is 20, so that's when they disappeared :D

[Volaris]

41. yep. that 5 year span was when about when we got our first cordless handset.

Problem was, we still had another wall mount in the house, and only one line, so you could be in the middle of your aforementioned "conversation" and anybody else could pick up.
We got really good at hearing that double click when the other line got picked up lol.

[shenmue]

7. CNN reporters having to move - chaos

More gas clouds. A fire. Shops being broken into.

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. I am reading it, on Twitter

Police telling cable networks that it's not tear gas, just smoke. Meanwhile, we have protesters on the ground confirming otherwise.

And I trust Tim Pool, Jeremy scahill, the local organizers who are live blogging in several cities where protests are taking place, esp. Ferguson.

Much more trust than anything on MSM.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

9. Yup. I heard the cops on the loudspeaker trying to direct the cable news output from the scene. nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

13. Did you see/hear report of cop car trying to run over protesters????

Just saw a pic of a police car now on fire, it was described as "the one that tried to run over protesters".

[ChisolmTrailDem]

19. I heard that but I did not see it through the link I'm watching as he became aware of it afterwards.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bassemmasri?utm_campaign=JPER&utm_medium=FlashPlayer&utm_source=embed

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. PS: If it's not tear gas, why are the cops wearing gas masks?

Someone asked a minute ago.

Good question.

[LiberalElite]

18. reporters on CNN had to put on tear gas masks nt

[Man from Pickens]

24. Why would they set off mere smoke bombs?

What in the world would be the rationale for that? Why would it help the situation to reduce visibility?

They'll lie to your face and crack your skull open. That's today's police.

[Cal Carpenter]

11. Yes, there is no doubt

It's getting gnarly now.

[Travis_0004]

12. There were multiple buildings broken into before the police did anything.

[Cal Carpenter]

15. And there is massive collective punishment

with dozens of tear gas canisters and threats of arrest to the peaceful protestors..

[ChisolmTrailDem]

22. There was an initial bunch that ran from the crowd right after McCollough's statement. I suspect

it was that bunch who smashed windows. There didn't seem to be any looting at that point. Meanwhile, the thrust of the crowd was back at the justice center shouting at the riot cops. Then a military assault group came up the street demanding they disperse. The protesters then turned their attention toward the cop car that either drove up amongst them, nearly running some people over and a short time later the tear gas started flying. At the cop car, some white guys in masks began attempting to overturn the police car but easily escaped when cops on foot showed up with bean bag guns. Their demeanor while doing that, relevant to the guys trying to overturn the car, seemed odd as they did not aggressively pursue the guys who were attacking the car.

Are you watching any of this?

[HubertHeaver]

53. I saw the white guys who appeared to attempt to

roll the police car. They either didn't try too hard or they were incompetent.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

57. OR, they were attempting to provoke the protesters into joining them. nt

[wendylaroux]

14. burning car

so much smoke from tear gas,I hope no one dies,so sad.

[laundry_queen]

16. Here in Canada, on CBC

One of the reporters (Keith Boag, I think) said that he was just standing there and so was everyone else - standing there peacefully - and the police moved in and started firing tear gas everywhere.

Cops are definitely the aggressors here.

[dixiegrrrrl]

31. Tear gas confirmed by ABC news affiliates on scene.

Police use smoke & gas to clear violent crowds in #Ferguson. Multiple gun shots all directions.

ChuckGoudieABC7

Firing rubber bullets and firing tear gas can sound like gunshots...jus' saying.

[Cal Carpenter]

34. The 'gunshots' are ammo in the burning police cars

going off, at least according to the livestream dude's assessment.

Haven't heard anything from the ground about actual gunshots.

And you're right about the sound of rubber bullets and tear gas cans getting shot.

[Le Taz Hot]

17. Absolutely!

Protesters were chanting. That's it! Then the chanting is met with tear gas and military vehicles. The National Guard needs to be protecting the protesters from the police.

[wendylaroux]

21. bassemmasri is really good

wonder if he is pro.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

23. He is good. I've been glued to his feed, and a couple of others.

www.democraticunderground.com/?com=post&forum=1002&pid=5864693

[Marrah_G]

25. bassem is a good egg

been following him since it started.

[Live and Learn]

44. He just got his phone stolen. nt

[AnalystInParadise]

27. So the cops

looted the liquor store, the meat market and the hair salon and also set those establishments on fire? Interesting. I have no idea what you are watching, but I am watching a livestream and MSNBC and I have seen a lot of protesters behaving VERY badly and cops showing crazy restraint. But then again, I also believed forensic evidence would trump eyewitnesses.

[hugo_from_TN]

30. yep

[Tsiyu]

37. None of my feeds have shown that action

except one cop car getting pummeled, and then protesters saying to stop.

I guess maybe the agents prov. knew where MSNBC would be.

[Vattel]

38. What forensic evidence trumped what eyewitness testimony?

[Cal Carpenter]

55. Bombarding peaceful protestors with tear gas

because of the action of a few troublemakers is 'crazy restraint'?

So you're a fan of collective punishment. Well, the good news for you is that you'll get to see a lot more of it, it seems, because things are escalating.

Funny how all the hundreds of peaceful protestors are painted as violent because of a small minority of those among them. I'm guessing you don't like it when people apply the actions of a 'few bad apples' in the police force (you know, like the one who shot the unarmed kid a dozen times and didn't get indicted) to all of law enforcement.

[AnalystInParadise]

58. Police your own

and you don't have some of these issues. The much larger crowd could peacefully subdue the trouble makers and deliver them to the police. You know.....police their own.....

[Cal Carpenter]

61. I watched large numbers of protestors protecting businesses

earlier from a handful of people who the crowd was calling infiltrators and provocateurs.

That was before the tear gas and threats of arrest.

What do you even mean by 'police your own' anyway? This is a large community of mostly power less people. What are they supposed to do to 'police' thousands of people and make sure no one does something stupid?

In every single social movement of any significance, there are infiltrators. They've infiltrated labor movements, civil rights movements, anti-war movements, for decades and decades. How are the protestors supposed to 'police' those guys?

Anyway, I don't feel like arguing against an authoritarian right now, I'm going back to the live feeds.

[AnalystInParadise]

63. I am not an authoritarian

that is a bottom up citizen level solution.

Yikes.......now it is authoritarian to ask people to identify and isolate troublemakers. Good luck with that.

[BeanMusical]

70. That "concerned" poster is on vacation.

This was their 5th strike: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025865497

Transparency page: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=303445&sub=trans

[Beausoir]

32. Patently False.

Spreading this kind of BULLSHIT is not helpful.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

35. I reject your comment. I know what I saw. Bye. nt

[Cal Carpenter]

36. Are you watching it happen?

Because the OP is totally right.

[Tsiyu]

33. Yeah this is unbelievable

most everyone has been peaceful, trying to stop looters and protect businesses.

Cops are right now kettling crowd, lobbing teargas into an area of parked cars - that can't go anywhere as they re blocked in by cops?

The cops are definitely trying to provoke an already unsettled crowd, but the crowd is remaining calm.

[Cal Carpenter]

39. Did someone just steal his camera?

[dilby]

43. Yep, I watched it happen it was nuts.

I guess he tweeted that someone stole his iPhone6.

[C Moon]

46. That's what happened? Wow! I thought he was running from the police!

The house they guy ran to is on the stream. Maybe someone can track the bastard down.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

49. That's what I thought too but was listening while looking at DU tab. That sucks! nt

[C Moon]

51. his stream was back as far as I can tell, so I don't think he was robbed. (edited)

Yes. You're right. His tweet says he thinks it was a "police agitator" who stole his phone.
I imagine the police do watch the streams and focus in on folks like http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bassemmasri

Sux. fucked up and sux.

It's obvious they look at this like a war.

[dilby]

40. His Camera was just stolen.

That was messed up.

[AnalystInParadise]

42. Obviously cops

[Odin2005]

45. The Pigs only exist to protect their Capitalist masters and their property.

As long as Capitalism exists ALL cops are enemies of the people.

[AnalystInParadise]

47. Too bad they are failing

to protect the O'Reilly's auto parts store in Ferguson, MSNBC just showed about 3 dozen people looting the shit out of that store. I am sure it is for social justice or some other excuse.

[world wide wally]

48. Just to protect a cop that shot a kid from going to trial

[delete_bush]

50. Just curious,

were they the ones who set three buildings on fire? Responsible for the random gunshots?

[ChisolmTrailDem]

52. Chris Hayes said he saw only a couple of people go to the building he was watching burn and that

it was not set upon by a crowd or mob by any means. His paraphrased words were: It doesn't take many people to start a fire and this building was certainly not set up by a mob but only a couple of people that I saw over going over there.

[delete_bush]

59. I see. Chris Hayes said that "he saw only a couple of people go to

the building he was watching burn and that it was not set upon by a crowd or mob by any means" means what, exactly? Because honestly this seems to be a very convoluted statement. Perhaps you can translate for me.

And there were still two more buildings that Chris was unable to watch, or did he comment on those as well?

[nikto]

54. Another scary thought...

How many of the cops now on the scene are PTSD-suffering veterans of Iraq/Afghanistan, etc?



Those protestors must bring those war-vet police psychologically right back to patrolling the streets
of Iraq/Afghanistan where they... ?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

56. And people wonder why Europeans are thinking America ain't a vacation spot.

[maced666]

60. Not from the footage I've seen. Seen cars set on fire, flipped - stores looted...

And a bunch of cops just standing around doing nothing.
What the heck are you watching...

[ChisolmTrailDem]

66. When I posted the OP I was watching four live feeds from the scene from people on various UStream

and Youtube channels as well as Tim Pool's coverage at Vice and Fusion. I also had TV's on MSNBC, CNN, and Fox.

What the heck were you watching?

I have my own breaking events command center in my office. Looks like the bridge of the USS Enterprise with a red alert light in the ceiling and lights blinking and monitors glowing.

I did have a claxon, but the neighbors complained. Now they're bitching about the brownouts my command center is periodically causing in my apartment building.

[lonestarnot]

64. The New Militarized America.

[C Moon]

65. Any new live streams? bassemmasri was a brilliant stream!

(edit) just found one
http://www.argusnewsnow.com/page/livestreams-from-ferguson/115.html

[BeanMusical]

67. That one is the best I could find:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/heatherdemian

Not as good as bassemmasri.

[C Moon]

72. This one is informative...

http://www.argusnewsnow.com/page/livestreams-from-ferguson/115.html

[BeanMusical]

73. Thanks!

[workinclasszero]

68. Don't you remember the pigs busting heads of peaceful Occupy protesters?

Any threat to the white corporate power structure in Amerika will be met with violence and death by the militarized fascist police forces that protect the 1%ers.

[blkmusclmachine]

69. ,

,

[C Moon]

71. I can't help but thinking that this is what the U.S. would (will) look like under a GOP president.

I'm watching a live stream on ArgusNewsNow.com, and this is scary shit!
Several buildings on fire and unattended by firefighters; scared officers putting on gas masks; people walking and driving by screaming and honking....complete chaos!
There is ZERO control.

[ncjustice80]

75. The cops are always the aggreasors.

Worthless pigs can burn in hell. All of them.