Response: Michael Brown shooting: How Ferguson botched crowd control of protests

Ferguson: what is the role of police agencies? What is the role of the Government? 

Is the police obliged to fulfil its social contract with the public? What happens when the police starts hunting people instead of keeping them secure? What happens when an overwhelmingly white police force and political establishment governs over Black and Brown cities and suburbs across the United States?

The killing of 400 civilians of a specific ethnic group by the police force in 2013 suggests that civil liberties and protection are fritted away by unruly policing method substituting military techniques. Why are there armoured vehicles in a Midwestern inner suburb? Why are cops wearing camouflage gear against a terrain patterned by convenience stores and beauty parlours?  Why are the authorities in Ferguson given to quasi-martial crowd control methods (curfews and bans on the street, firing tear gas at people in their own yards)? The use of flash grenades by the police against Ferguson's night protesters, mounted roadblocks at city limits and media censorship is reminiscent of the occupied territory of Gaza during the ongoing Israeli attacks.

There is a suggestion here that the execution of law and order has become akin to fighting a war. Ironically the Black Americans are at the receiving end of anti-terror funding and training at home as the Muslims of the Arab world are abroad. The burgeoning police burtality in Michael Brown's murder – shot 6 times for jaywalking? He was on his knees, with his hands up and head down when he was already shot twice and then shot 3 more times in the head point blank. The extra-judicial killing of unarmed 23-year-old Jacorey Calhoun and the video-taped police murder of Eric Garner in New York City shows that the police are indeed inflicting civilians with the same terror tactics as used by the military in war.

A police state that internationally engages in acts of terrorism will inevitably take vigilante style, punitive measures against its minority communities. Achieving justice, whether overseas or at home means confronting those in power. Homosexuals and abortion gets all air-time during an election campaign while ideological, ethnic, education, unemployment issues are marginalized. We should put pressure on the political leadership of US to halt police and military aggression and racial and economic injustice everywhere.

Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/michael-brown-shooting-how-ferguson-botched-crowd-control-of-protests-1.2740948