Ambush of policemen triggers manhunt in racially tense Ferguson

[Vlerchan]

FERGUSON, Mo. (Reuters) - The shooting of two police officers during a protest rally in Ferguson, Missouri, sparked an intense manhunt for suspects on Thursday and ratcheted up tensions in a city at the center of a national debate over race and policing.

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0M80CJ20150312?irpc=932

It seems like Ferguson still doesn't want to leave our TV screens. Obviously sad news.

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Related: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/12/ferguson-police-officers-shooting-shots-directed-exactly-at-officers

[Left Now]

Crimes are crimes,doesn't matter victims of it are polices or regular people.As I was against innocent people being victims of brutality of some polices,I'm against innocent polices being victims of brutality of some people too.

However,this problem has gone too much out of hand recently;I only wonder what's going to happen in the future.

[phuckphace]

I'll just leave this here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferguson,_Missouri

The ethnic composition of Ferguson has shifted, however. In 1970, 99% of the population of Ferguson was white and 1% African American. In 1980, the proportion of White residents went down to 85%, whereas the proportion of African American rose to 14%. In 1990, residents of Ferguson who were identified in the U.S. Census as white comprised 73.8% of the total, while those identified as black made up 25.1%.[26] (The remainder, 1.1%, identified with other racial categories.) In the 2000 census, 44.7% were White and 52.4% were African American.

[fairmaiden]

Sad news.

[Emerald Dream]

Either get back on the actual topic of this thread, or it will be locked very quickly. If you want to gripe at each other, do it in PM/VM - the completely off-topic and unnecessary posts (and responses to them) have been deleted.

[Microcosm]

There still seems to be lots of tension in Ferguson. Hope the law enforcement and the residents can get themselves and the situation in general under control. That would definitely be for the benefit of us all.