Sadly it's not just Gawker doing it, as some sites are even trying to make Ferguson out to be the nice little city everyone would love to live in, HA! This article and the one it references are ridiculous though. There's plenty of history of riots that got very violent because police were slow to respond or get them…

Thanks for clearing that up.

"Protests"

To the people in that video yelling, "You go home!",

They are the ones that need to go home! They are the ones that need to stop terrorizing their community because they are full of anguish and hate because some white cop shot an unarmed black guy. By all means I am absolutely not condoning pure compliance and…

Luke you should stick with video game journalism as it seems you don't know what your talking about. The police forces in Ferguson (a suburb located 10 miles of St. Louis) are treating this as they should to keep themselves and the general public safe. There have been multiple tweets where people threatened to raid a…

The thing that you need to consider is that while yes Ferguson is a suburb of St. Louis it is a City all it's own of 21,000 as you said. They do not have a huge police force. When the shooting happened they had to wait for backup from other cities & St. Louis County before they could even do anything at the scene of…

Maybe people should realize that protests are dangerous. They are a powder keg ready to explode. The military trains to deal with them in foreign countries. I can say that we borrowed most of tactics from tactics learned from some of the most deadly riots in the United States While. I was in the service I had the…

In my country we had serious riots in 2013 and Police was, as usual, unnecessarily brutal and militarized. I'm shocked by those pics, though. Here they killed protesters with rubber bullets point blank to the eye, but /most/ of them only carried less-lethal weapons.

You americans are so spoiled...here in Brazil police rolls much heavier than that - respecting our economical differences - beats the hell out of people, executes civilians and is corrupt to the bone.

We are so fucking used to seeing cops wielding heavy guns that we find it completely normal. You guys are lucky to be…

No. Just no. I've got friends and family in the Ferguson area, and they've been fearful for their lives because of rioting the past couple of nights that left a gas station burned down, businesses ransacked, and people assaulted. Don't try to tell me that the police responding to these psychos shouldn't be dressed…

Well... let me address that in my point-of-view. I live in a country where crime is a huge problem, I mean, HUGE, drug dealers are often showing in the street of their "turfs" with nothing less than AR-15's or AK-47's, on day light, to be accurate, I live in Brazil and here our police is Military Police (don't…

I'm really curious if any of you actually watched the riots/looting as they started Sunday night. I live in the STL metro area and was watching the news coverage for 4+ hours that night. It happened again last night. Buildings were being lit on fire. Dozens of businesses were looted. I'm sorry, but in a riot…

Sorry but I have to comment on this. The law enforcement just wanted this to end after the ignorant protest that happened in St. Louis. The St. Louis protest wasn't even a protest it was pure ignorance looting, arson and shootings is not a peaceful protest. Look I don't like the Police either but if I was in law…

I don't think the events in Ferguson should reflect the image of the games subject matter at all. The game is about heavily armed police fighting heavily armed criminals. Otherwise it wouldn't make sense, it might not even be fun, and it would probably feel like a joke. The events in Ferguson don't make sense, real…

Yes. Ignore the fact there was rioting and the convenience store that called the police was burnt out in rage, but everyone is right. Just peaceful protests while the military police knock everyone around.

I've got an idea, let's just let them riot! Seriously Luke, this article has me scratching my head. Just because a potential crime has been committed (and let's face it, we don't have the facts yet), doesn't mean that rioters should a) occur, or b) not be dealt with. The problem is that people want to riot and loot…

As someone who lives in Saint Charles, one of the neighboring counties to St. Louis, I can say that it was a little bit more than protests that brought them to this. While I agree it's a bit much, some of the "protesters" - obviously not the ones who are trying to get something done - did loot Walmart, Sams Club,…

Seeing the news about Ferguson hitting Kotaku is surreal. I live in STL so just outside the epicenter of all this basically. I've been following it all weekend through social media mostly since major news outlets didn't cover it until yesterday.

"But this isn't a warzone. It's a small town of 21,000 people. An American town."

How about some perspective here. Ferguson is not some small town of 21,000 people. Its a suburb of St. Louis County. It's 10 minutes from downtown St. Louis. Its in the northern area of a major metropolitan city.

Calling it a small…

Unless you've been to Ferguson, MO, stop making assumptions. That place is out of control right now. People from Ferguson are setting buildings on fire and traveling to other counties just to pick fights with random people. Shopping malls, twenty miles away, are being forced closing their doors because mobs are…