When a member of the black community was shot by a local Ferguson cop on August 9, under circumstances still undetermined, it led to several weeks of angry rioting by the largely impoverished population of this St. Louis suburb, not to mention broad popular outcry against the tactics employed by the Ferguson PD and wholesale punditry taking over primetime TV for hours on end. Fast forward several weeks when last night, Reuters reports, a police officer from the “strife-hit Missouri city of Ferguson was shot and authorities are still searching for the shooter, law enforcement officials said.”
According to Lt. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar the shooting did not seem connected to protests occurring elsewhere in Ferguson. “I wouldn’t have any reason to believe right now that it was linked in any way, shape, manner or form with the protests,” he said. Still a question now arises: will this latest mirror image violence in Ferguson merely stoke the already latent hostilities between all members of society? Then again, the situation is not an exact mirror image as the police officer was not killed, but “merely” shot in the arm by an unknown assailant.
The details of what happened from Reuters:
The officer was chasing the suspect outside the Ferguson Community Center on Saturday night when the person turned and shot him in the arm, St. Louis County Police Sergeant Brian Schellman said.
This post was published at Zero Hedge on 09/28/2014.
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