Ferguson anger quickly escalating after "no indictment" decision: "We free men facing you!" - protesters taunt police

Wednesday, November 26, 2014
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Tags: Ferguson riots, protesters, police officers

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(NaturalNews) Minutes ago, the grand jury handling the Mike Brown shooting case in Ferguson, Missouri handed down a "no indictment" decision for the police officer who carried out the shooting. This decision means there was compelling evidence that the officer shot in self defense and will not be facing charges for the crime of manslaughter.

Although long anticipated, this decision is entirely unacceptable to the African-American community, which is steadfastly convinced that their young men are being deliberately murdered by white police officers. For weeks, local instigators have been planning to erupt into violence if a "no indictment" decision was handed down, and groups have drilled in almost military fashion to stage widespread riots in protest of what they see as systematic police state oppression of their communities.

In the minutes leading up to the decision, an African-American woman could be heard shouting through a megaphone on a live stream from the streets of Ferguson:

"Stop killing our kids! Stop racial profiling! This is our duty to fight for our freedom!"

Businesses shut down in anticipation of widespread property damage

Local businesses have closed down in anticipation of widespread destruction of private property, and local pawn shops and gun stores were reportedly urged to lock away all firearms in order to avoid them being stolen by rioters and looters. Gun sales have skyrocketed in the Ferguson area over the past several weeks as citizens are arming up to defend their families and property against what they see as the threat of extreme social chaos.



Thousands of law enforcement officers, National Guard troops, military police and FBI agents have descended upon the town in anticipation of the violence now expected to erupt. Local law enforcement has reportedly reached agreement with organized protest groups to abide by certain rules of engagement -- such as declaring churches to be safe havens -- but those rules still allow police to use rubber bullets, tear gas, pepper spray, tasers and other so-called "non-lethal" weapons against protesters.

Two alleged members of a militant activism group were arrested yesterday, with federal officials saying those two men were attempting to purchase explosives to use during the riots. It's not clear how those explosives were planned to be used, or which businesses or groups might have been targeted with them. Right now, there is extreme tension on both sides of the protest that the other side might escalate the situation with unjustified violence.

An oppressed people looking for a reason to express their extreme frustration with government corruption and lawlessness

From my perspective, what we're really witnessing here is the frustration and anger boiling over from a group of people who have been abandoned, oppressed and lied to by their own government. The great hope that Obama was going to make everything better has turned out to be a great lie. The economic reality of African-American communities is worse off now than it was in 2008, and the recent lawless amnesty announcement of Obama has only made the prospects far worse for young black men and women in America.

The perception that law enforcement is actively killing their young men -- whether accurate or not -- has pushed many people to a breaking point. That outrage now looks to be translated into mass protests which could very easily escalate into violent riots and clashes with law enforcement. Even when acting with remarkable restraint, law enforcement officers will sooner or later have to defend themselves against violent assaults, and that will lead to exactly the kind of bloodshed that may spark sympathetic riots in other cities. That's how this situation in Ferguson could end up causing riots in Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, Atlanta and other large cities.

Natural News calls for restraint and calm

As always, we here at Natural News urge citizens and law enforcement to exercise restraint and seek to maintain calm. If this situation erupts into uncontrolled violence, nobody wins and everybody loses.

Within minutes after the grand jury decision was announced, a crowd gathered near the courthouse began shouting at riot control police, screaming things like "Y'all got those bitch-ass shields! Aw, we should knock all them m** f*** down!"

Here are some more of the verbal protests aimed directly at the police:

"All you m*** f*** are dirty! All y'all are guilty!"

"You gonna protect us? You murderers!"

"We got a bunch of free men out here who don't fear you! We ain't goin' back to slavery! These are FREE MEN facing you! These are FREE WOMEN facing you! Don't nobody fear you! Do what you want, we FREE men!"



"We got GOD on our side! You gettin' paid to do this! You are mercenaries. You are gang members! You ain't servin' us. The whole world see you. You punks, you arrested 90-year-old women, you cowards."