re: Police come under ‘heavy gunfire’ in Ferguson, arrest 31 people

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I'd say that there is a really good chance that under the scrutiny that the police are under that they did not return fire.

That said, heavy fire is a very subjective term. Does that mean three shots or three hundred?

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There is a precedent for police not returning under such circumstances. In Oxford, MS in 1962, 55 U.S. Marshalls and 40 soldiers and national guardsmen were wounded or injured protecting James Meredith, and they never returned fire, because of JFK's desire to keep things from escalating, and his order not return fire unless Meredith's life was directly threatened.