A journalist reports on his arrest in Ferguson. Thugs shot him first. They did not really care why he was there; they were arresting anyone who could be found.

Note the sleazy excuse for denying the journalist the right to phone his lawyer. Just the sort of behavior I'd expect from a thug.

Then a press photographer was arrested, for not standing where the thugs wanted photographers to stand. These thugs think they are entitled to control protests and control the press.

I am glad that some of the protesters tried to control random violence by other protesters. That sort of indiscipline leads to defeat. While it is less serious, intrinsically, than the thugs' violence, it gives the thugs an excuse to pretend that they are protecting the town rather than occupying it.

Some suspect that the few violent protesters are outsiders.

The next night, they arrested 78 people, protesters and bystanders and journalists I suppose.