Wednesday Night in Ferguson, USA
Protests on Wednesday afternoon over the shooting of Michael Brown erupted in the evening as police marched the streets of Ferguson, Missouri firing tear gas to disperse protestors. Here is video footage along with some firsthand accounts of what Wednesday night in Ferguson looked like.
#Ferguson crowd threw rocks, bottles, Molotov cocktails, saw a gun, right before this stepped off pic.twitter.com/qNngeVLtVL
— David Carson (@PDPJ) August 14, 2014Officers just drew rifles at 3 cars attempting to come near QuickTrip. Screamed "Stop your vehicle" w/ pointed guns pic.twitter.com/GsAHYEy52Q
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) August 14, 2014Huge cloud of gas over Ferguson. #MikeBrown #Ferguson pic.twitter.com/brp31qO9y0
— Robert Cohen (@kodacohen) August 14, 2014Police copter circling over, every entrance to street blocked with multiple vehicles., tear gas flowing into neighboring street.
— Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie) August 14, 2014It feels like a straight up war zone in #Ferguson tonight. Rifles, fatigues, bullet proof vests, and lines of officers.
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) August 14, 2014Police fire tear gas at protestors for the third night in a row in Ferguson, Mo. #Ferguson #MikeBrown pic.twitter.com/BEoZT5yjkU
— Robert Cohen (@kodacohen) August 13, 2014All of this repression, because the police killed a kid and the community wants answers.
— Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie) August 14, 2014