Ferguson's Civil War Is Far From Over

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At midnight on Tuesday on South Florissant, a teenage employee at the 24-hour Walgreens has locked the door. She peers out the window at the police cars zooming past the store and hesitates to speak to me when I knock on the glass.

“We’re closed,” the young black girl says, her eyes shifting from side to side.

“But I thought this was a 24-hour store?” I ask

“Not when the police can’t protect us,” she responds.

Just blocks away, nearly 100 protesters stand in the streets of downtown Ferguson in front of the police station, face-to-face with cops who have their hands at their sides. Three gunshots are fired in the distance. The protesters scream, but the officers, seemingly unfazed, don’t budge Read more...

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