Ferguson, Missouri 'Mostly Peaceful' Protest Critically Injures Police Officer

The anniversary of an American turning point demonstrates that law enforcement strategies have "evolved' over a decade of social justice progress.

Here's the result . . .

Protesters were allowed to block multiple streets near the Ferguson Police Department and the demonstrations remained peaceful for most of the evening, until some people began “violently” shaking the fence at the police station, Chief Troy Doyle said at a Saturday news conference.

“We did not react. We stayed here, let them shake the fence,” said the chief. “That happened several times throughout the night up until the point that they broke the bottom portions of our fence, they destroyed property on our police department’s parking lot.”
Michael Brown

At that point, Doyle deployed his arrest team to make arrests for destruction of property. The team was assaulted by several protesters and one of the officers, identified by police as Travis Brown, suffered a severe brain injury, Doyle said.

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