Good going, Ferguson PD
Word is, along with refusing to acknowledge (much less interview) witnesses (whose testimony to the meeja has been remarkably consistent, unlike most eyewitness accounts) to Michael Brown's summary execution, you're now firing on journalists
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As far as I can tell from the news stories, there are several parallel investigations going on now, so it's unlikely that the story won't get out.
You've single-handedly set race relations in the Midwest
Sadly, I don't think this is so. This sort of shit is an eruption based on a long history of trouble, that is, the situation was really bad even before, it just wasn't in the news.
One thread that I am seeing signs of is what is/was called "the criminalization of the lifestyle of the poor". The "broken windows" theory is that crime is kept down if the place doesn't look disorderly, but when you scrub the paint off that description, it means if the place doesn't look like a lot of poor people live there. If you send the cops in to keep the place looking middle-class (e.g., doing their drinking and drug dealing indoors), there's going to be a lot of friction.
Edited to add: Maybe this is a good summary: If you send in the cops to stop poor people from looking and acting like poor people, the poor people will treat the cops like an occupying army, because they are an occupying army.
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OTOH, if the actual goal is to make middle-class people comfortable in an area, then "disorder" means "having a lot of poor people", and arresting people for "the crime of being undesirable" will get a lot of support from the voters.
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