{"id":44661,"date":"2014-08-27T14:55:27","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T20:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/27\/yeah-i-cant-see-a-reason-why-people-were-upset.html"},"modified":"2014-08-27T14:55:27","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T20:55:27","slug":"yeah-i-cant-see-a-reason-why-people-were-upset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/27\/yeah-i-cant-see-a-reason-why-people-were-upset.html","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, I can't see a reason why people were upset"},"content":{"rendered":"
Community policing at its not-so-finest.<\/p>\n

'As darkness fell on Canfield Drive on August 9, a makeshift memorial sprang up in the middle of the street where Michael Brown's body had been sprawled in plain view for more than four hours. Flowers and candles were scattered over the bloodstains on the pavement. Someone had affixed a stuffed animal to a streetlight pole a few yards away. Neighborhood residents and others were gathering, many of them upset and angry.<\/i><\/p>\n

Soon, police vehicles reappeared, including from the St. Louis County Police Department, which had taken control of the investigation. Several officers emerged with dogs. What happened next, according to several sources, was emblematic of what has inflamed the city of Ferguson, Missouri, ever since the unarmed 18-year-old was gunned down: An officer on the street let the dog he was controlling urinate on the memorial site.<\/i><\/p>\n

[…] Missouri state Rep. Sharon Pace, whose district includes the neighborhood where the shooting occurred, told me she went to the scene that afternoon to comfort the parents, who were blocked by police from approaching their son's body. Pace purchased some tea lights for the family, and around 7 p.m. she joined Brown's mother, Lesley McSpadden, and others as they placed the candles and sprinkled flowers on the ground where Brown had died. "They spelled out his initials with rose petals over the bloodstains," Pace recalled.<\/i><\/p>\n

By then, police had prohibited all vehicles from entering Canfield Drive except for their own. Soon the candles and flowers had been smashed, after police drove over them.'<\/i><\/p>\n

At best, call it sheer insensitive stupidity. \u00a0At worst …<\/p>\n

(via Charles Pierce)\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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Michael Brown’s mom laid flowers where he was shot\u2014and police crushed them<\/a>
\n New details emerge about callous tactics that fueled anger in Ferguson.\n <\/p>\n

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Community policing at its not-so-finest. 'As darkness fell on Canfield Drive on August 9, a makeshift memorial sprang up in the middle of the street where Michael Brown's body had been sprawled in plain view for more than four hours. Flowers and candles were scattered over the bloodstains on the pavement. 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