🇺🇸Ferguson: City under siege | Fault Lines

Fault Lines travelled to Ferguson to witness the demonstrations and the subsequent heavy-handed police reaction - and to find out how Brown's killing sparked something bigger, exposing tensions that have been bubbling beneath the surface for years.
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[@the81kid]

In the army, I'm pretty sure you DON'T keep your gun pointed at anyone, even "the enemy". These police are not trained - they keep pointing their guns.

[@francoisd6942]

I am so glad to live in Canada

[@asiaexpat62]

This is certainly not up to Al Jazeera's usual standard of journalism. It is inconceivable that such a report would go online without the benefit of full knowledge of the facts and the US. I do agree that the militarization of local police forces has created a dangerous situation, the report fails to understand why. Americans ask the local police to solve all their crime problems while failing to teach their offspring how live in a civil society of great diversity.

[@haloumi67dipp37]

#Hands up dont shoot.

[@100iliasm]

American dream is fading..................

[@DEVRIMCI2007]

What american dream... there was no american dream in the fucking first place.

[@EternallyGod]

Unemployed worthless people dont get the american dream, cry about being a crook but want a good paying job. Crooks dont get top jobs and shouldnt.

[@DanglinSausage]

Kirk Wilson Fight the crooks,End the Fed!

[@jamesmorleyjmor5003]

god bless murica .

[@MrSzeklerdude]

not an antagonizing report at all. pf...neutral my ass. from the music selection to the way they approach the groups, they made sure to paint a clear emotional picture where the fault line is.

[@TheBluesSociety]

If this is how -THE LAND OF FREEDOOM- looks like , then I don't need your freedom USA ! In Europe if police will display such force a government will be fall down ... This isn`t how freedom is protected is how freedom is abolished ! Respect for Aljazeera TV! This is an example of how an event should be covered by press!

[@benghazi8815]

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

[@loozifere]

Its ironic isn't it? that In America, the biggest exporter democracy to the middle east , you need al-jazeera, a channel based in middle-east to tell its people the truth!

[@SurjikOFF]

Dzhangoa come, the order will bring! Obama huylo la la la la..

[@rajanaldo]

That is the absolute worst! You spend 20k on degree/diploma but because you got a felony, it all goes to waste. I feel for that guy

[@the81kid]

It's unjust.

[@just1fix2004]

This is a test of martial law and those that don't protect them rights don't deserve them.

[@politereminder6284]

Michael Brown was heavily armed- with melanin

[@HomersIlliad]

Wow, Al Sharpton lost a lot of weight.