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OTM Open Thread



The last Open Thread has dropped off the board, so I'm making a new one.

Rules: No politics, religion, discussion of Sean O's testicles.

I've been trying to figure out a way to discuss this without it being political, but I'm not really sure how. What's happening in Ferguson, MO looks like something out of Venezuela or Stalin's Russia right now. For those of you who don't know, after police shot an african american teenager, a group of citizens organized outside the police station to protest. Things escalated with Ferguson law enforcement calling in heavy riot teams, and now currently news reporters have been banned from the city. Police are stationed at every road leading in and out of the city, and the area is considered a no-fly zone.

There are multiple sides to this story, which I'm not going to report here because I feel it would violate the "no politics" rule, but I encourage you to go look for them yourselves. What I will say, is that my hopes go out to everyone involved in this situation that it is resolved peacefully, without any more loss of life. These sorts of things should not happen period, but they absolutely shouldn't be happening in America.