"A woman saying yes to a date with a man is literally insane and ill-advised, and the whole species' existence counts on them doing it. I don't know how they...how do women still go out with guys, when you consider the fact that there is no greater threat to women than men? We're the number one threat to women.…

You know, it pisses me off that we're supposed to be grateful this psycho has been "removed" from duty. It's not like he was fired; he's on paid leave for a few weeks—-now he has even more time to jerk off to torture porn and eat donut holes.

yep. Terrified, undertrained, over-armed, with his finger just outside the trigger guard.

This pretty much sums up the problem with (some) cops. This guy is pants-shittingly terrified of just the presence of unarmed citizens. He's waiving his gun around like he was in the middle of the jungle and the rest of his platoon had just been killed by the VC and he was just waiting to be taken or to have his…

If he had any sense, he would point his gun at the real threat: diabetes.

And threatening to kill you.

The cop was later asked to write an essay on exemplary policing for the Washington Post.

Our American Police: Fat, bald, slightly limping and carrying a large gun

I'm sure not everyone in that crowd was innocent, but I would bet on agent provocateurs. All they have to do is throw a couple bottles and that gives the police an excuse to use force. And it's done at almost every major protest, from G20 to Occupy Wall Street.

Cabelas! I have this hat as well. And NOBODY is charging at me with a full frontal assault when I wear it walking down my street.

Great piece. I've lived in St Louis for 16 years and I've never seen any of this equipment before Monday. Yesterday the Ferguson chief was all over local news saying that they wouldn't do anything if protesters were peaceful after 9pm. Cut to 9pm exactly - cue up the bullhorns rubber bullets and tear gas while…

excellent article PG. Police don't need to take the place of the National Guard. And the National Guard should be deployed to keep these trigger happy cops apart from the populace and press.

Because they didn't. The rioters and the protestors were two different groups. And the cops could have stopped the rioters much more easily if they hadn't been busy gassing and attacking peaceful protestors.

To be fair, there's really no reason for them to be wearing military camo. It's not like it's even urban camo.

The protesters were not connected to the rioters. That was organized groups of opportunists outside of Ferguson taking advantage of the police being preoccupied.

The above images and video were tall taken in Ferguson, Missouri this week, as protests rock the town in the wake of the shooting of an unarmed teenager. More notable than the protests themselves, however, has been the police response, which as you can see, has been on the heavy-handed side.

Yeah, those protesters looked really armed. As in their arms were up. In the air. Empty-handed.