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Riots in Ferguson, Missouri after police shoot Michael Brown

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TheAnonMessage @TheAnonMessage · 2m
PHOTO: #MikeBrown lays dead on the ground as his killer stands over. #Ferguson

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Rob Wilson 13.08.2014 06:43

BUT... what is even more obvious then those issues are is the abuse of power by local municipalities law enforcement officials! These U.S. police are starting to look an awfully lot like hitlers' Gestapo. The future of our nation can be saved by Anonymous, IF they stick to their demands and carry through with their promises. It is also up to all of us to show our support of their demands in whatever way possible. Remember.....We ALL ARE ANONYMOUS!

ANONYMOUS!

Rob Wilson 13.08.2014 06:39

I truly hope that Anonymous returns to their former take-no-$H1T, eye for an eye actions that made them so loved by the helpless and victimized people all across the world. To the people saying "blah blah, he shouldn't have been grabbing a cops gun" and that "he seserved it for committing a violent felony on a polic officer"... Police officers don't shoot a 17yr old 8 FUKKING TIMES TO DEFEND THEMSELVES!!! If the cop is innocent then why did he refuse to do the press conference that the dept. had scheduled for him? I recognize the gang problem in our country and I also can plainly see the misdirection of American youth

http://rt.com/usa/179532-anonymous-op-ferguson-missouri/

TheAnonMessage @TheAnonMessage · 5h
VIDEO: Activist demands justice for #MikeBrown, gets threatened with @FBI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDATg9uHjxY …

@Anonymous, Aug 13, 2014

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JΞSTΞR ✪ ACTUAL™ ‏@th3j35t3r 9h
Florrissant, MO Family Evacuated From Home After Wrongly ID’d By #Anonymous as Chief of Police >> http://bit.ly/1p3O11p

Fuck him, and the horse he rode in on. He's no patriot, he's a traitorous bastard.

@Anonymous, Aug 13, 2014

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Witness: Mike Brown was 'shot like an animal'

A witness to the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown has come forward to tell his side of Saturday's events.

Dorian Johnson was walking with Brown Saturday afternoon when the shooting happened.

NewsChannel 5's Farrah Fazal was the only local reporter he spoke with.

You can watch the entire raw interview below this story.

Here are excerpts of Johnson's interview:

"It was around 1:40, two o'clock. We were walking down the street, empty street. We were just walking down, minding our business. We're both headed home, and the officer's approaching us, and as he pulled up on the side of us, he didn't say 'freeze,' 'halt,' or nothing like we were committing a crime. He said, 'Get the f*** on the sidewalk!' I told the officer we were not but a minute away from the destination."

"He never once attempted to grab for this officer's weapon."

"The first car I see, I ducked behind for cover because I feared for my life. I'm scared. I don't know what's going on. I don't understand why this officer is shooting his weapon at us."

"My friend stopped running, his hands went immediately in the air and he turned around towards the officer, face-to-face. He started to tell the officer he was unarmed and that you should stop shooting me. Before he can get his second sentence out, the officer fired several more shots into his head and chest areas."

"It was definitely like being shot like an animal. It was almost putting someone execution."

Continued here:
http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/local/2014/08/13/dorian-johnson-michael-brown-eyewitness/13986845/

The Wrong Guy, Aug 13, 2014

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Wesley Lowery @WesleyLowery · 41m
A few feet from where #MichaelBrown was killed: #Ferguson

The Wrong Guy, Aug 13, 2014

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http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/anger-ferguson

TODAY 12:01 AM
The Anger in Ferguson

BY JELANI COBB

CREDITPHOTOGRAPH BY WHITNEY CURTIS/THE NEW YORK TIMES/REDUX
The hazard of engaging with the history of race in the United States is the difficulty of distinguishing the past from the news of the day. On Saturday afternoon, under hazy circumstances, an eighteen-year-old named Michael Brown was shot and killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. Brown was unarmed. Police have confirmed that he was shot “more than just a couple of times.” The story that witnesses tell is disturbing not only in its details but in the ways in which those details blur into a longer narrative. It’s one we’re all familiar with if we have paid even passive attention, and yet, despite its redundancy, we have yet to grasp its moral. A trivial incident sparks a confrontation, followed by a disproportionate response, then the tableau of grieving parents struggling to maintain composure and the social-media verdicts rendered in absentia, many asking about the culpability of the deceased. Invariably, some self-ordained truth teller will stand up to quote non sequiturs about black-on-black violence.

The details are still emerging, but there seem to be two irreconcilable versions of events. Brown’s friend Dorian Johnson tells of a police officer, who has yet to be named, confronting the two of them for the offense of walking in the street rather than on the sidewalk, and then starting a fight with Brown, who held his hands up in compliance, before shooting him dead in the street. The police have said that Brown was shot in response to a struggle for the officer’s gun. The police department, citing threats made through social media, has steadfastly refused to release the name of the officer involved in the shooting. The F.B.I. has announced a federal investigation. On Tuesday, the White House released a statement of condolence to Brown’s family.

Brown’s death has served, at least for the crowds in Ferguson, as evidence that the deaths of innocents are not simply something glimpsed in other countries. People in Ferguson drifted out of their homes to witness the macabre spectacle of Brown’s body on the street, a dismal stream of blood winding its way across the asphalt. The ensuing vigil tipped over into bedlam as some in those crowds, joined by others, broke into sporadic vandalism and looting on Sunday night. Then, after dark on Monday, police responded with tear gas and rubber bullets. The ironies of race and policing were readily apparent: law enforcement using force to suppress outrage at law enforcement’s indiscriminate use of force.

Ferguson, with twenty-two per cent of its population below the poverty line, is likely a community well versed in these ironies. On Monday night, I spoke to a number of acquaintances in the surrounding area by phone. Most spoke skeptically about the police statement that Brown had attempted to seize the officer’s weapon. “Nobody believes that young man tried to get the officer’s gun,” M. K. Stallings, a longtime St. Louis resident who coordinates community programming for the Missouri Historical Museum, told me. “There’s an idea that the police in this area are not from that community and don’t have any real connections to that community. That’s not necessarily uncommon, but it’s part of the equation here.”

Brown’s death carried a particular resonance in a community that is sixty-seven per cent African-American, with nearly thirty per cent of the population under the age of eighteen. A local bar owner explained to me that older patrons weren’t aware of the groundswell of activity that the case inspired, but it was at the front of the minds of younger people. “A teen-age cashier in my supermarket asked me before I checked out whether I’d be at the vigil Sunday night,” she said. “Until that point, I hadn’t even heard about it, but she explained everything that was happening in response to Brown’s death.”

Three weeks ago, Eric Garner died as the result of N.Y.P.D. officers placing him in a choke hold, a banned tactic, following a confrontation over selling loose cigarettes. His death echoed that of Renisha McBride, the nineteen-year-old who was killed when she knocked on a stranger’s door following a car accident, which in turn conjured memories of Jonathan Ferrell, who was shot ten times and killed by officers in North Carolina soon after the death, in Florida, of Jordan Davis, shot by a man who wanted him to turn down his music, which in turn paralleled the circumstances of Trayvon Martin’s demise. For those who have no choice but to remember these matters, those names have been inducted into a grim roll call that includes Sean Bell, Oscar Grant, Amadou Diallo, and Eleanor Bumpurs. These are all distinct incidents that took place under particular circumstances in differing locales. Yet what happened on Staten Island and in Dearborn Heights, Charlotte, Jacksonville, and Sanford have culminated, again, in the specific timbre of familial grief, a familiar strain of outrage, and an accompanying body of commentary straining to find a novel angle to the recurring tragedy.

Despite all the variables, there’s a numbing constant. The conventions are so familiar that, on Sunday, the hashtag #iftheygunnedmedown began circulating on Twitter, with thousands of tweets pointing to the ways in which incidents such as these play out. Many tweets were accompanied by the sort of pictures that could be used to tar even staid black professionals as intimidating. Brown was a large eighteen-year-old—six feet four inches, according to his mother—and, in the image that circulated in the media immediately following the shooting, his size is highlighted. He flashes a peace symbol that, in conjunction with his imposing stature, could predictably be assailed as a gang sign. The hashtag was an overt riff on the way a jury, for example, might decide that a slight teen-ager like Trayvon Martin could be justifiably seen as a threat to George Zimmerman, a man with a gun. Imagery counts as a kind of unspoken forensics, with the power to render someone an innocent victim or a terrifying menace. Implicit is a question: Would you be afraid of this person, too?

The truth is that you’ve read this story so often that the race-tinged death story has become a genre itself, the details plugged into a grim template of social conflict. The genre is defined by its tendency toward an unsatisfactory resolution of the central problems. Two years ago, I visited St. Louis to give a talk at a museum. My visit fell in the wake of a rally in which hundreds of local residents turned out to demand an arrest in Martin’s death. (Brown’s family has now retained Benjamin Crump, the attorney who represented Martin’s family.) Martin was killed nearly a thousand miles away, but when I spoke to people about the rally they conveyed the sense that what had happened to him could happen anywhere in the country, even in their own back yards. For those people in Ferguson pressed against the yellow police tape separating them from Brown’s remains, the overwhelming sentiment is that it already has.

fishypants, Aug 13, 2014

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Wesley Lowery @WesleyLowery · 14s
Colleagues in DC just flagged something concerning #MichaelBrown that I had missed but think is important... #Ferguson (1)

Wesley Lowery @WesleyLowery · 1m
Residents here have spreading name of an officer they believe to be shooter. Police chief said definitive last night hat it wasn't him (2)

Wesley Lowery @WesleyLowery · 25s
Underscores importance of SOMETHING being released by law enforcement. Wrong officer's name has been being chanted at protests etc (3)

Wesley Lowery @WesleyLowery · 51s
Some have asked why I haven't reported officers' name - which is everywhere down here. This is exactly why. No way to confirm it w/o PD

The Wrong Guy, Aug 13, 2014

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LAPD kills young black man days after Ferguson shooting | RT USA

Ezell Ford, a 25-year-old black man described by his family as having “mental problems,” was shot and killed by a Los Angeles, California police officer Monday evening, barely 48 hours after an unarmed black man in Missouri suffered the same fate.

The Los Angeles Police Department said in a statement on Tuesday that officers had conducted an “investigative stop” the night prior, during which the suspect — later identified as Ford — reportedly engaged in an altercation with the cops, according to the LAPD.

“During the stop a struggle ensued, which resulted in an officer-involved-shooting,” the LAPD said in Tuesday’s statement. “The suspect was transported to a local hospital and after lifesaving efforts he succumbed to his injuries.”

According to the victim’s family, Ford was complying with officers at the time of the shooting, and was killed while facedown before the police. USA Today reported that Ford was unarmed.

“They laid him out and for whatever reason, they shot him in the back, knowing mentally, he has complications,” an unnamed man who identified himself as the victim’s cousin told local station KTLA News. “Every officer in this area, from the Newton Division, knows that — that this child has mental problems,” he said. “The excessive force … there was no purpose for it. The multiple shootings in the back while he’s laying down? No.”

According to the cousin, the victim’s mother was met with police brandishing nightsticks when she arrived on the scene.

“Then when the mom comes, they don’t try to console her … they pull the billy clubs out,” he said.

“My heart is so heavy,” the mother, Tritobia Ford, told KTLA News. “My son was a good kid. He didn’t deserve to die the way he did.”

“All we want to know is why they did it,” Ezell Ford Sr. added.

KTLA reported that police were initially behaving “tight-lipped” with regards to disclosing further details, because of a “gathering” at the scene in the wake of the shooting. On Sunday, an event advertised as being a “protest against the murder” of Ford is scheduled to occur outside of LAPD headquarters in downtown Los Angeles.

Continued at http://rt.com/usa/180092-lapd-ezell-ford-ferguson/

Twitter:

(top) https://twitter.com/hashtag/EzellFord

(all) https://twitter.com/hashtag/EzellFord?f=realtime

The Wrong Guy, Aug 13, 2014

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The government trolls are all over the twittersphere, with their fucked up traps and honeypots.

Read everything carefully before you click on any links. If unsure, stay the fuck away from them.

https://twitter.com/hashtag/Anonymous?src=hash

@Anonymous, Aug 13, 2014

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Gabriella Coleman @BiellaColeman · 17m
So http://opferguson.com/ is run by an Anonymous hater trying to entrap them http://www.consternation.us/2012/02/hundreds-of-twitter-users-identified-as.html …

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Anonymous @YourAnonNews · 30m
Several lovely people have told us that it'd be wise to stay away from #OpFerguson dot com, and now we're telling you. So there you go.

@Anonymous, Aug 13, 2014

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This business of threatening to release dox is a misstep IMO. I think it would be better to just release the info. No warnings, no threats, no games -- simply practice full and immediate disclosure with no conditions attached.

eddieVroom, Aug 13, 2014

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TheAnonMessage @TheAnonMessage · 11h
BREAKING: #Anonymous has obtained audio files of police dispatch and EMS during the #MikeBrown shooting. Will release ASAP.

TheAnonMessage @TheAnonMessage · 4s
UPLOADING.

TheAnonMessage @TheAnonMessage · 2m
We apologize for the delay, file size is rather large. Continue to stay tuned in, we will notify you immediately.

The Wrong Guy, Aug 13, 2014

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^^ Thanks, The Wrong Guy

TheAnonMessage @TheAnonMessage · 1m
People are still calling us liars. We can't wait to see their faces. #Legion

@Anonymous, Aug 13, 2014

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Gabriella Coleman @BiellaColeman · 19m
watch out for @josephfcox who is writing a piece on phony/honey trap http://opferguson.com/ site with all the details...

@Anonymous, Aug 13, 2014

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The Wrong Guy said: ↑

TheAnonMessage @TheAnonMessage · 11h
BREAKING: #Anonymous has obtained audio files of police dispatch and EMS during the #MikeBrown shooting. Will release ASAP.

TheAnonMessage @TheAnonMessage · 4s
UPLOADING.

TheAnonMessage @TheAnonMessage · 2m
We apologize for the delay, file size is rather large. Continue to stay tuned in, we will notify you immediately.

TheAnonMessage @TheAnonMessage · 1m
Hey, it's not my fault YouTube servers take forever to process.

TheAnonMessage @TheAnonMessage · 1m
YouTube suddenly doesn't like that file, eh?

The Wrong Guy, Aug 13, 2014

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^^ I'm rather liking the "NEW" The Wrong Guy

@Anonymous, Aug 13, 2014

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TheAnonMessage @TheAnonMessage · 9s
BREAKING: #Anonymous releases St. Louis Police Dispatch Audio Tapes:

Anonymous: Audio Tapes (St. Louis Dispatch)

Published by TheAnonMessage on August 13, 2014

We are Anonymous.

These files compiled in this video contains audio of St. Louis police dispatch from the date of August 9th 2014, the day Mike Brown was murdered by a Ferguson PD officer. We have released these tapes to the public so as they are able to get a sense of the atmosphere the moments before and the hours after Mike Brown was shot.

These raw audio files have been compiled and long quiet moments have been cut down. Time stamps are available within the video.

The Wrong Guy, Aug 13, 2014

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eddieVroom said: ↑

This business of threatening to release dox is a misstep IMO. I think it would be better to just release the info. No warnings, no threats, no games -- simply practice full and immediate disclosure with no conditions attached.

I agree with you, eddie. But, it is really important to correctly get all the relevant "facts" together before disclosing anything. If that is not done, innocent people could very well end up getting hurt. And we don't want that happening. Period.

@Anonymous, Aug 13, 2014

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The Wrong Guy said: ↑

TheAnonMessage @TheAnonMessage · 9s
BREAKING: #Anonymous releases St. Louis Police Dispatch Audio Tapes:
Anonymous: Audio Tapes (St. Louis Dispatch)

Published by TheAnonMessage on August 13, 2014

We are Anonymous.

These files compiled in this video contains audio of St. Louis police dispatch from the date of August 9th 2014, the day Mike Brown was murdered by a Ferguson PD officer. We have released these tapes to the public so as they are able to get a sense of the atmosphere the moments before and the hours after Mike Brown was shot.

These raw audio files have been compiled and long quiet moments have been cut down. Time stamps are available within the video.

Excellent! Thanks, The Wrong Guy

@Anonymous, Aug 13, 2014

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Manuel Rapalo reports on the shooting of 18 year old St. Louis resident, Michael Brown, highlighting the disproportionate violence against blacks in the America, as well as the race-baiting by the news media that helps perpetuate a cycle of police violence.

@Anonymous, Aug 13, 2014

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Anonymous
3 minutes ago

actually i downloaded the mp3 of this video so if its taken down ill upload it to mega.co.nz HEHE suck it youtube

@Anonymous, Aug 13, 2014

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@Anonymous said: ↑

I agree with you, eddie. But, it is really important to correctly get all the relevant "facts" together before disclosing anything. If that is not done, innocent people could very well end up getting hurt. And we don't want that happening. Period.

Then disclose your uncertainity as well.

If I were a public official, I'd have to consider that part of the price of failing to turn out the bad apples.

In the alternative, *we* pay the price when they don't.

eddieVroom, Aug 13, 2014

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TheAnonMessage @TheAnonMessage · 37m
WATCH LIVE: Chief of Police, Tom Jackson makes a formal statement on the #Anonymous #FergusonTapes #Ferguson http://fox2now.com/2014/08/13/live-updates-ferguson-police-press-conference-for-mike-brown-shooting/ … …

“Race relations is a top priority for us. We are working with the Department of Justice on that” – Chief Tom Jackson

What utter fucking bullshit!

“The body was covered immediately. We put up barriers after that out of respect.” – Chief Tom Jackson

Moar utter fucking bullshit!

This guy should be SACKED! IMMEDIATELY!

@Anonymous, Aug 13, 2014

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rof Member

Ferguson or Iraq?

Photos Unmask the Militarization of America's Police

Left: Ferguson. Right: Iraq.

http://mashable.com/2014/08/13/ferguson-police-protests-vs-iraq/

rof, Aug 13, 2014

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Retweeted by Anonymous User
Casey Schneider @casey_schneider · 9m
@_TheSpeakEasy @OpFerguson its sad on the PD's fault that Anonymous had to do their job. But they are more competent. So it works. #Ferguson

@Anonymous, Aug 13, 2014

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TheAnonMessage @TheAnonMessage · 50s
The #FergusonTapes are now available on SOUNDCLOUD. Link:
https://soundcloud.com/theanonaudio/fergusontapes

The Wrong Guy, Aug 13, 2014

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@Anonymous said: ↑

Excellent! Thanks, The Wrong Guy

Are you getting any sound?

Rockyj, Aug 13, 2014

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Rockyj said: ↑

Are you getting any sound?

Yes. Some of the recording is dead air, so we have to wait awhile at the beginning and between sections.

The Wrong Guy, Aug 13, 2014

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Ferguson, Mo., police chief defends officers, says he understands community’s frustration

By Wesley Lowery, The Washington Post

“People here are angry, frustrated. There needs to be justice,” said Corey Crawford, 36. “If you can find a single person in this community who trusts the police, that is like finding a four-leafed clover.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...s-says-he-understands-communitys-frustration/

https://twitter.com/WesleyLowery

The Wrong Guy, Aug 13, 2014

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rof Member

over 9000, fags

rof, Aug 13, 2014

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^^ Thanks for posting the Soundcloud link, rof

@Anonymous, Aug 13, 2014

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rof said: ↑

Ferguson or Iraq?

Photos Unmask the Militarization of America's Police

View attachment 234449

Left: Ferguson. Right: Iraq.

http://mashable.com/2014/08/13/ferguson-police-protests-vs-iraq/

Its not fair to compare the police to soldiers. The soldiers have core values, a code of conduct, and a chain of command that holds them accountable. Furthermore, they are wearing cameras on their helmets so their actions will be assessed and judged. they also have more training in the use of deadly force then the police do.

No, to compare the soldiers to the police is to degrade them.

tinfoilhatter, Aug 13, 2014

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Wesley Lowery @WesleyLowery · 1m
Things tense at protest in #Ferguson. Great updates coming from @trymainelee, who has been all over this story.

If you can get past who's putting it up, there's a live video feed here: http://www.ustream.tv/RealAlexJones

The Wrong Guy, Aug 13, 2014

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@Anonymous

Check out the moron on top of the truck (far left) What! does he think he's in Afghanistan!?
Look at them! Fucking NAZI'S

@Anonymous, Aug 13, 2014

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TheAnonMessage @TheAnonMessage · 1m
#Anonymous has taken down the St. Louis County website. http://www.StLouisCo.com

TheAnonMessage @TheAnonMessage · 1m
NOW: #Anonymous has claimed responsibility for taking down http://fergusoncity.com

The Wrong Guy, Aug 13, 2014

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@Anonymous

SRSLY!? What a fucking Tosser.

@Anonymous, Aug 13, 2014

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The Wrong Guy Member

Anonymous Posts St. Louis Police Dispatch Tapes From Day of Ferguson Shooting | Mother Jones

A twitter follower of mine points out that the dispatch recording probably comes from Broadcastify, a database of public safety radio audio streams that's available to anyone who pays for a subscription. It's "far from a hack," he says.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/anonymous-releases-st-louis-police-dispatch-tapes

I missed where anyone claimed to have hacked anything to get the recording, but:

Anonymous hacks Ferguson police site for dispatch tapes | CNET

It's unclear if these tapes are authentic. CNET contacted the St. Louis County Police to verify their authenticity and we'll update the story when we get more information.

http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/anonymous-hacks-into-ferguson-police-site-for-dispatch-tapes/

The author: https://twitter.com/DaraKerr

The Wrong Guy, Aug 13, 2014

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From http://www.davegranlund.com/

The Wrong Guy, Aug 13, 2014

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