Police Faulted Over Use of Military Tactics in Ferguson
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Images of camouflage-clad police brandishing assault rifles and training laser sights on unarmed protesters in Missouri stirred criticism of military tactics in U.S. law enforcement that cuts across ideological lines.
Pictures of the law enforcement response to unrest in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson after a police officer shot an unarmed black teenager flooded social media, often paired with images of the U.S. military at work in Iraq and Afghanistan. The website Mashable compiled a series of parallel scenes posing the question: “Ferguson or Iraq?”