USA TODAY: The streets of Ferguson saw pockets of violence during protests Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning but on the whole the shaken St. Louis suburb was more peaceful than in recent days, police said.
“Tonight, the elders in the community, volunteers, activists and the clergy came out in large numbers,” Capt. Ron Johnson of the Missouri State Highway Patrol said Wednesday during a press conference. “They walked and talked with people. They urged order,” he said.
Johnson said that overall the protests occurred in a less confrontational manner than had been seen in recent days. “Tonight we saw a different dynamic. There were no Molotov cocktails, no shootings,” he said. However, Johnson also said that 47 protesters were arrested and that threats were made to kill an officer… (more)
EDITORIAL: Message to Franklin & Marshall’s campus security which has recently been armed. A problem of giving police guns is they then tend to use them rather than otherwise dealing with a situation.
