Acting on a complaint by a business owner, police descended on the encampment...
Last week, police said the owner no longer wanted them on the property and gave them six days to leave. Eight days later, the group still had not left. So the chief said his officers “helped them move” by picking up their belongings and sending them to a storage facility 20 miles away.
Police Chief Thomas Jackson said his department is trying to use “a variety of tactics and trying to see what works best.” He is most interested, he said, in breaking up any scenario that could cause a disruption.
“The tactics we use is largely determined by the number of, not to use the word ‘agitators,’ but people interested in causing chaos,” Jackson said. “If they are in the crowd, they can heat things up and change the mood.”
“People are angrier now than ever before,” said Patricia Bynes, the Democratic committeewoman for Ferguson Township.
“I just pray there is an indictment,” Moore responded. “If not, I don’t know if we’ll be okay.”
“It’s personal,” she said. “I was 6 years old when the police killed my dad.”
Her father, William Darnell Harlston, was shot by an off-duty St. Louis officer in 2001. Harlston, according to media reports, had robbed two men selling stuffed animals.
“All I know was he went to get beers and never came back,” Jones said. “So I’m going to fight for Mike Brown, and for him, and for me.”
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