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‘Overkill’: Images from Ferguson protest show cops treating city like a war zone
Thursday, August 14, 2014 9:06
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As demonstrations in Ferguson, Missouri enter their fourth night, pictures and online posts from the scene show an escalation in response from St. Louis County police.
Despite police insisting, “Your right to demonstrate is not being obstructed,” they have brought at least 70 SWAT team officers and one tank to stand opposite the protesters in the street. The Huffington Post reported that state Sen. Maria Chapelle Nadal (D), who criticized the police response in an MSNBC interview on Tuesday night, was taken into custody.
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Wednesday’s demonstration is the latest criticizing Ferguson and St. Louis police following the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown last Saturday.
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