(ANTIMEDIA) Police apologists, who have long claimed the violent response by officers to demonstrations in Ferguson was perfectly justified and appropriate, might soon be eating crow. According to a Department of Justice document obtained by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the police effort to handle protests with inappropriate, militaristic
DOJ: Militarized Police Tactics Caused Ferguson Riots
DOJ: Police effort to handle protests with inappropriate, militaristic tactics not only violated constitutional rights, it effectively antagonized and incited the crowd—creating the very situation police ostensibly sought to prevent.