This article is horseshit, being an STL native, and still living here, the amount of BS being perpetuated by Gawker and the national media makes me sick.

The police in the photos are St.Louis County police, which were called in because the Ferguson police force is small and needed the manpower. St.Louis county is a county of over 1 MILLION people, with a police force sized to police that. That is why they look so militarized and have so much gear, they are the best…

I bet they wanted a nonletal option, just in case.

No it's not, and STL police have it good because a lot military equipment manufacturers who supply gear to foreign countries are in and around STL , and have no problem donating equipment.

Because the connection is tenuous at best, horseshit at worst.

Protester and rioters are involved, thousands of them, what do you expect? In STL we don't deal with riots very often.

The media is shitting itself, they seem to have forgotten Michael Dorner as well. If this thing happened on the coasts with the same police presence they would not give a damn, but because it happened in a midwest state, its the most important thing right now.

Don't be too frightened, the men and equipment in the photos are St.Louis county police, and they are the second largest police force in the state, but above and beyond the best armed. Not to mention STL is home to quite a few weapons and military industry companies, which provide various bits of equipment.

Those are not Ferguson PD, those are St.Louis County PD, and St.Louis county is a gigantic and wealthy area. Which is why they look so militarized, they are not small town police, they are a much larger county police force brought in to handle the riots, what you are seeing is probably the extent of the County…

The article is trying to paint the men in the picture as a small town police force, WHICH they are not. Those are STL county officers, and STL county is huge, with a lot of tax income, thus STL county is far better armed and equipped than the Ferguson or Metro PD, and routinely loans their people and equipment to…

STL county is armed to the teeth because they get an enormous amount of tax money from the county, and thus they can buy all the toys they want, they are what's in the picture above, not Ferguson PD, because Ferguson PD has far too few officers to handle the situation, and thus called for help from the county which…

The ATF was geared up nearly 20 years ago for waco like the STL police are now, I don't understand why everybody is freaking out.

As an STL local, I'm glad the county has their space marine gear, the county edges are being picked at by the meth industry, and having MRAP, rifles, and the full accoutremnent of tactical allows them to deal with these problems with few casualties and more tactical flexibility, I'm all for it.

Not Entirely, I'm an STL local, part of the reason the County Police are so well armed, and those are STL county police in the photo, is because STL and it's surrounding areas are flush with military industry, as well as fairly high taxes from the high income areas of St.Louis county allows for an excess of good…

Possible Link to Lovecraft Mythos?

I actually like this one a lot, deal with it.

Well, that's nice that a game with practically unlimited funding should have good hair.

Now that everyone knows what a BUK is, how about we teach them about the KUB, or the TOR?

And without Russia, who provides the meat for the grinder in Europe?

There were some fascists in the Kiev gov't after the overthrow. That's kinda a fact.