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This
is coming through the wires now.
There
are stories coming through just about every other day about US police
brutality and racism with stories of unarmed people being shot dead,
seemingly for no other reason that they are black. They are so
frequent that I have stopped following them.
It
is beyond insane. America is falling apart at the seams.
BREAKING: Shots fired at police in Ferguson - media reports
RT,
12
March, 2015
At
least two police officers have been shot during a protest outside
Ferguson Police Station, according to reports by local media.
Multiple
accounts of the turmoil outside the Ferguson police station have
emerged on social media. One witness said on Twitter that a policeman
had been shot in the face. The injured officers were taken away by
ambulance. No report on their condition has been issued.
The
shooting reportedly broke out as the rally outside the police station
was subsiding. Currently, the area is seeing a massive police
presence, as many officers with high-powered rifles arrived at the
scene.
Ferguson
Lt. Col. Al Eickhoff told the St. Louis Post-Dispatchhe didn't think
either of the officers were from his department. He also would not
comment on the extent of their injuries.Eickhoff is currently interim
police chief in Ferguson after Tom Jackson resigned from the post,
officially stepping down on March 19.
One
of the injured officers is from St. Louis County officer and the
other is from Webster Groves, according to the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch, citing a police source.
Police
reportedly say the department is under lockdown and describe what’s
happening outside as an “active shooting scene.”
The
protests at Ferguson Police Department started after Jackson’s
resignation on Wednesday. The man was the sixth city official to step
down in the wake of DoJ report last week lashing out at Ferguson's
courts and Police Department for racial bias.
On
Monday, state Judge Roy L. Richter was reassigned by the Missouri
Supreme Court to take over all pending and future municipal cases
from Ferguson. The high court said the move was intended “to help
restore public trust and confidence,” adding that Richter would be
authorized to implement any reforms needed to “ensure that the
rights of defendants are respected and to help restore the integrity
of the system.”
The
report was prompted after the US saw a wave of large-scale protests
against police brutality following the shooting of unarmed black teen
Michael Brown by Ferguson policeman Darren Wilson in August last
year. In November, a grand jury decided not to indict Wilson.
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