Is there any video evidence of protesters throwing stuff at the Ferguson police?

[Skidmore]

Any? This police chief keeps saying that this is the case and that he "knows it looks bad" but he's wants "peace" in the community. I have yet to see any evidence that this is true. If he is making this allegation, then he needs to provide proof to the public. Personally, I think this is CYA.

[Renew Deal]

1. I've seen video of people throwing things at police and occupied police cars

I'm sure you can find it on YouTube.

[Unvanguard]

3. From Sunday? Or from last night? n/t

[Renew Deal]

11. The car was one of the earliest videos I saw

So probably from Sunday. Not sure about the other one.

[JEB]

2. How dare the peons throw things when one of their own

is gunned down.

[Skidmore]

4. Not my point.

I'm simply pointing out that if the police are going to hide behind such accusations for their overreach, and the accusations are false or unfounded, then that is an issue.

[leftyohiolib]

5. well you see what throwing things has done - now it has become an issue

[JEB]

7. Yeah, call in the airstrikes.

[leftyohiolib]

32. snark all you want but theyre using it as justification

[JEB]

35. Lying fukwad thugs are dead set on using their killing toys.

[arcane1]

6. I saw one person, in the live feed last night, throw something. BUT...

it was well after the gas and bombs started. The protesters retreated into a neighborhood, and gas bombs were going off in people's front yards and driveways. At one point during all of this, I saw a man throw something toward where the police were. I have no idea what it was.

This is the video I was watching. When things start to go down, there is nothing being thrown that I could see. The chaos starts when the police say "turn off your cameras" and issue their nth "final warning". Then the sound cannons start, then bullets and bombs start to fly and everyone runs. The reporter goes into a front yard, and while in that area you can see a man throw something at around the 11:17 mark:

http://new.livestream.com/accounts/9035483/events/3271930

But this was in retaliation to the police assault. It was not a cause of it.

[bettyellen]

8. there was a reporter telling the chief exactly that at the presser just now.

[arcane1]

9. I wish I could watch this :(

[bettyellen]

17. I'd check in with Huff Po and Al Jazerra later, as they both had reporters arrested and

either witnessed or endured abuse. It seems as if both were not only improperly detained with excessive force, and AJ had tear gas lobbed at them. I think they finally screwed with the wrong people.

The questions were sometimes hard to hear, but those reporters made him sweat. He kept referring to "talks" going on. I am hoping to find a better video of it too.

[arcane1]

19. Thanks, I will!

[etherealtruth]

37. NPR has a good interview with the Huffpost reporter

he told a pretty horrible story .... believes he was only released because of massive outrage by other journalists

[bettyellen]

38. thanks so much for this, ET!

[etherealtruth]

39. Sorry I could not find a link

It was on morning edition this morning.

Hearing this man speak was very moving

[justiceischeap]

10. There's this photo

Dude is holding a bag of chips in his left hand, wearing an American flag tee and throwing back a gas canister the police had shot at them.

[arcane1]

13. They obviously shot that tear gas to defend themselves against him throwing it at them

[VanGoghRocks]

41. I think you're winning first and second prize today for the internet. I am in awe! :)

[uponit7771]

20. +1

[HooptieWagon]

12. There's videos of police attacking reporters, news crews.

That should put things in context.

[arcane1]

14. They definitely wanted those cameras off for a reason n/t

[HooptieWagon]

16. Yes they did.

And they hid their badges so they couldn't be ID'd. Pretty solid evidence their intent from beginning was to escalate the situation, bust some heads, and violate civil rights.

[tblue37]

25. The cop who rousted the reporters out of McDonald's might *think*

he can't be identified without his name or badge number being displayed, but his face was pretty darned clear in the video. He will be identified quite easily.

[frylock]

34. and that is why ALL cops should be wearing cameras with their badge numbers stamped into the video..

if they have nothing to hide.....

[Mnemosyne]

15. One of the protesters threw a tear gas canister back. nt

[HooptieWagon]

18. Solid evidence the police fired it first. nt

[Mnemosyne]

29. Correct. nt

[Rex]

21. This is total CYA...his department thought this would get swept under the rug like

so many other crimes committed by police...thought WRONG moran!

I think in the end, we will see an entire police department resigning in disgrace.

[bettyellen]

22. some guest on CNN said much the same- that everyone keeps repeating the molotov cocktail story

but there seems to be little evidence it occured, and appears not to be last night.

They have the Wa Po reporter Lowery talking about being detained with no paper trail or explanation, and how he had to ask police to stop waving his gun at him. How colleagues far away from the situation are chiding those on the scene for making themselves the center of the story. Kind of short sighted of those reporters, eh?

[JaydenD]

24. This sounds like IDF bullshit. Kid throws rock,

kid gets missiled into pink mist - his fault!! he had a rock.

[jberryhill]

31. this picture is in several ap wire stories

http://m.amarillo.com/node/109803/photos#gsc.tab=0

[bettyellen]

33. reportedly hours after the tear gas and rubber bullets- and never lit or thrown....

according to all witnesses including the press and protesters, the gas and rubber bullets were provoked only by people refusing to clear the area.

only the boilerplate synopsis- maybe AP reports parroting the police dept- - has claims of molotav cocktail(s), and even then, it's not clear what day they are talking about. The chief tried to float the story that protestors were throwing things first- and reporters corrected him on that.

[JI7]

40. i saw jeff toobin say that earlier today

says the things the police are saying doesn't seem to fit what is actually going on.

[bettyellen]

42. it was nice to see the talking head on CNN change her tune from parroting that meme to questioning

it after one of the journalists on the ground insisted the crowd was calm and did NOTHING to incite the volley of tear gas and rubber bullets that suddenly happened last night. He said that much later he heard a single bottle break.
Before that, she had kept saying "molotov cocktails"- plural- were thrown. She had two guests that said they believed that this was incorrect, so then she STFU about it.

[JaydenD]

23. We are all Palestinians.

[Viva_Daddy]

26. Aamazing that police IN FULL PROTECTIVE GEAR feel threatened by folks "throwing stuff".

[HooptieWagon]

28. Their "authority" was threatened, not their safety.

Much like the situation in Gaza. Homemade rockets did absolutely nothing but were a challenge to authority... which "necessitated" an overwhelming military response. Can't have the subjucated peopled feeling empowered, even if that empowerment is trivial. Got to keep the jack-boots firmly stomped on their necks.

[JEB]

36. Bingo.

Fascism at work.

[MattP]

27. The mayor said they burnt down a building next to mcdonalds ?

Sounds like a bunch of crap made up on cnn

[Historic NY]

30. With all the gas cans being fired I'd be surprised if it wasn't one of them....

they were popping all over the place.