Show of military force fails to quell accusations of police overreaction

[james_davis_nicoll]

Nothing that happened in Ferguson, Missouri, on the fourth night since Michael Brown died at the hands of a police officer there, dispelled the notion that this is a place where law enforcement is capable of gross overreaction.

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[david wilford (from livejournal.com)]

When the Republican National Convention was held in downtown St. Paul back in 2008, there was also police overreaction:

http://rnc08report.org/archive/712.shtml

Some of my friends were caught up in it as well:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/09/02/582875/-xxx-789-0443#

So yeah, they're more than capable of it.