Watch The Live Stream: Cops Go Full Rogue In Ferguson

By Karoli Kuns — August 17, 2014

After watching a few minutes of this live stream it's apparent that there is a full-scale turf war underway in Ferguson between Captain Ron Johnson, the community, the Ferguson Police Department and the Saint Louis County Police.

Three hours ahead of curfew, Saint Louis County Police tweeted that "a molotov cocktail was thrown" and ordered everyone to go home. Then tear gas started flying along with sound cannons and other assorted weapons. All from the police toward the protesters.

As of right now, I'm unable to find any evidence that any molotov cocktails were thrown beyond the tweet. And even if they were, is this the appropriate response?

Just spoke with Capt Johnson. They've quarantined me and two other journos. Not allowed to view Florissant. "They tried to take the command"

— Robert Klemko (@RobertKlemko) August 18, 2014

Gas fired into crowd of cars pic.twitter.com/Ypps1FyJ6p

— Steph Lecci (@stephlecci) August 18, 2014

Uh-oh, unidentifiable men with masks and paramilitary gear unloading. Oh, it's the police. So that's cool, right?

— Jeff Sharlet (@JeffSharlet) August 18, 2014

Update 1: 8:03 PM PDT: Reports of shots fired.

Update 2:: Captain Johnson arrested several journalists briefly before letting them go. It's still unclear why, but here's one tweet that might explain it.

Capt Johnson furious at journals getting in the way.

— Rob Crilly (@robcrilly) August 18, 2014

Update 3: Sigh.

Vine of the moment a policeman threatened a journalist while he was livestreaming https://t.co/PgVOzBaGgD via @pbump

— Steph Haberman (@StephLauren) August 18, 2014

And sighing again:

Miss the riot cop threatening to shoot @ArgusRadio livestreamer? Here it is. RT the fuck out of it. https://t.co/7v8Hpz2jYN

— Jeff Sharlet (@JeffSharlet) August 18, 2014

Update 4: Gunshots were firecrackers:

man, listen... RT @ryanjreilly: Report of shots fired has been cleared as fireworks, police say. #Ferguson

— Zerlina Maxwell (@ZerlinaMaxwell) August 18, 2014

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