@andschwa That certainly exacerbates the problem. But it's a bit of a red herring. Cops killed people with revolvers too before all of this.

Can we all stop being surprised by cops doing horrible things? It's a terrible institution that gives individuals inhumane amounts of power.

RT @hollisjames: The Governor has declared a curfew in Ferguson. All citizens have to be indoors no later than 1965.

He's still the one defending the use of tear gas, a Geneva Protocol banned chemical weapon, in #Fergsuon.

He's still the one blaming the violence in #Fergsuon on a few violent protestors from out of town, not the para-military equipped cops.