There is just zero trust remaining between the citizens of Ferguson and the police force that is supposedly there to serve and protect them. There was a single peaceful night in the last week--not surprising that the only peaceful night was the night when police didn't show up in riot gear with tanks and looking like they were entering a warzone (and treating it as such, with the tear gas, which isn't even acceptable for use in actual warfare).
When police are threatening media, telling them to leave, arresting them without cause, tear-gassing them and then dismantling their equipment that was left behind--I have a hard time believing that they're all that trustworthy. If they had nothing to hide, they wouldn't care if someone was filming them.
I think myself and others critical of the police in this situation would be a lot less critical of them if they weren't acting as if they had something they were attempting to cover up.
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