Them letting this fester is ridiculous. Takes government a lot less time to mobilize what they need to handle a riot than it takes for rioters to trickle from other areas.

"No charges" will be total disaster. Unless they have immediate video to release. A video of Brown pummeling this cop. Was his toxicology report clean? Weed does not count. Weed laced with shite does count. I have never heard? The claim is/was that the cop had facial fractures? Why have photos not leaked of a beat to shite face? Zimmerman's fricked up melon was displayed in photos.

I understand judicial proceedings need to happen, but the absolute lack of any info whatsoever is bad too. There is a fear in reporting anything on the part of any credible news source. Fear from looking like they are picking a side.

If I were in Saint Louis I would be planning a holiday vacation.

Anyone familiar with the area? Ferguson APPEARS to be a shithole suburb. Is this correct? All TV images are awful and a quick google maps look is no better.

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Posted by Homesick Tiger

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Member since Nov 2006

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Posted on 11/19/14 at 7:47 am to LSU alum wannabe

I saw the black police chief, state trooper, whatever guy last night say that busloads of people were arriving in Ferguson. Also said out of the 19 "demands" the protesters presented, the cops could work with them on about 12 of those requests. He didn't look like a happy camper imo.

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Posted by semotruman

Member since Nov 2011

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Posted on 11/19/14 at 10:47 am to LSU alum wannabe

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Anyone familiar with the area? Ferguson APPEARS to be a shithole suburb. Is this correct? All TV images are awful and a quick google maps look is no better.

Ferguson is a mixed suburb. What they're showing on the news is the bad parts. They're not showing you the revitalized, historic downtown area with cafés, shops, a park where they have festivals and concerts, and the nice, historic homes. There are parts of Ferguson that are fine. I had a cousin that lived there for years and was the music minister at a church there until a year or so ago. Then, there are the not-so-good parts that have been impacted by white-flight, and gone downhill from the standpoint of general maintenance and upkeep.

I lived in St. Louis for a while. Ferguson would not have been my choice of a suburb to call home, but there are worse places in the area.

I believe the vast majority of protestors aren't from Ferguson, more likely (if they're even from the St. Louis metro area) places like Pine Lawn, or north city, or they're white activists from the county, or CWE/University City. Just my guess.

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