It was pretty much exclusively press taunting him, you can see in the KSDK Footage.

That's exactly the problem, he's a St.Ann cop, the whole St.Ann police department exists pretty much solely to be a speed trap force. They are not in any way shape or form comparative in training to St.Louis County PD.

Take a look at the wideshot video from this, he's surrounded by press being assholes.

Yeah, if you look at the wideshot KSDK video you can see they are all press, and this is an area the police had already cleared of protesters.

A lot people look like cornered animals when surrounded by press.

Well, to be fair a lot the police there have been working 12-16 hours days without the ability to go home. Being outside in humid Missouri weather in shorts and t-shirt is bad enough, imagine a bulletproof vest and pants. The Police are pretty damned fatigued at this point, and we will see more break mentally if…

That guy even freaked out the nearby St.Louis County PD which is why they made him lower his gun and walk away.

It's not ferguson SOP, it's St.Louis County SOP. And the officer is from St.Ann police, not the most professional in the area.

If you watch the video, I think he was freaking out the St.Louis County Police near him, they made him put his gun down and leave. The Nut is from St.Ann PD, who basically exist to be a speedtrap.

Ferguson has almost turned into Nathan Explosion's Florida, "People of Florida, Let me hear your guns!".

he was moreso walking around surrounded by press at this time, here's a wideshot, he was on the tail end of the police clearing the area so pretty much anyone not a cop was press at that point.

He was surrounded by press, barely a protester in sight. If I had to chose between him gunning down protesters, or press, I'd choose press.

I think there have been a dozen or so injuries, I can't get an exact number cause the total from the news keeps changing.

He was surrounded by a circle of press all seizing on the fact he was unstable, u can see it in this video. Barely any protesters cause he was trailing the police that just came through pushing them back, so all that was left was mostly press.

Well, a bloodbath would reinforce the point the community is trying to make.

He was completely surrounded by press people, barely in protesters in the crowd he was aiming his rifle at.

Just suspended.

In this video you see that a St.Louis County officer noticed this guy had lost it and forced him to lower his weapon and made him walk away.

He's been suspended, although police are supposed to keep their cool, a lot of these guys are working 12-16 hour shifts during the protests, and some can't even go home the need for numbers is so bad. It was only a matter of time before one of them snapped, I'm actually surprised it hasn't happened before now.

Most the crowd was media, u can see that here. At the times this happened the media outnumbered the protesters 2 to 1.