Glad this sticky finally got created, was fed up of all the posts that were happening about ferguson, so thanks

"#StopTheParade" has been trending on Twitter worldwide.

Protesters plan to interrupt and halt the Macy's Day Parade because of the Ferguson incident.

British jihadis fighting for the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq have pledged to send militants to fight police in the riot-hit American city of Ferguson, Missouri - providing the protesters embrace Islam.
The city has seen widespread disorder after a police officer escaped punishment for shooting dead an unarmed black teenager, and now the Islamic extremists are attempting to take advantage of the anti-authoritarian feeling to convince those involved to adopt ISIS' radical ideology.
Using the slogan 'From #IS 2 Ferguson', Birmingham-born jihadi Junaid Hussain, 20 - who has adopted the nom de guerre Abu Hussain al-Britani - this morning tweeted a photograph of a hand-written letter urging the Ferguson rioters to 'reject corrupt man-made laws like democracy' and declare their allegiance to ISIS' leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

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Ferguson fallout: Scores arrested in Calif. unrest

Dozens of protesters in Los Angeles and Oakland were arrested late Wednesday during a third night of demonstrations linked to the shooting protest in Ferguson, Missouri.
Police said at least 130 demonstrators who refused to disperse during a Los Angeles protest were arrested, while 33 people were detained in Oakland following a march that deteriorated into unrest and vandalism.

In Los Angeles, about 200 or 300 largely peaceful demonstrators crisscrossed downtown streets for several hours in the afternoon and evening over a decision not to bring criminal charges against a Ferguson policeman for killing a black man.

But later some of the protesters were stopped by a phalanx of riot-clad police near the Central Library.

Lt. Andy Neiman said an unlawful assembly was declared after some marchers began walking in the street and disrupting traffic. They were ordered to disperse but instead reformed, with police trying to corral them.

Neiman said 130 protesters were arrested, with most appearing calm as they were handcuffed with plastic bands and walked to waiting Sheriff's Department buses.
Meanwhile, Oakland police spokeswoman Johnna Watson said the 33 arrests there came after a march by about 100 people through Oakland streets.

She said that later small groups began moving through the streets with some vandalizing property, mainly breaking windows.

Most of the protesters had dispersed but shortly before midnight Watson said that there was still a very small group that police were monitoring.

On Monday and Tuesday, some demonstrators in Oakland vandalized businesses and blocked freeways to protest the decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the Aug. 9 fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown.

During the demonstration Wednesday in Los Angeles, demonstrators had marched to a federal building and police headquarters but they were turned away by lines of police after heading toward the county jail and then the Staples Center arena, where the Los Angeles Lakers were playing.
"The system is wrong," demonstrator Jovan Brown told KCAL-TV. "We're trying to let everybody know if we come together as a people and unite, we can change it."

There was a brief, tense confrontation where a handful of demonstrators screamed at officers, who held raised batons. One officer struck a woman who had moved forward, and another shoved a protester.

Finally, squads of police boxed in and began arresting around 60 remaining protesters for failure to disperse, Neiman said.

Most of those arrested were expected to be released after posting $500 bail for the misdemeanor. However, those unable to pay the bail could remain jailed through the Thanksgiving weekend pending scheduled Monday court hearings, authorities said.

Earlier Wednesday, nine people were arrested after they sat down in a bus lane on U.S. 101 near downtown during one of the busiest driving days of the year.

There were smaller, peaceful protests in other communities, including San Diego and Riverside.

More than 300 protesters have been arrested over the past three days by Los Angeles police and California Highway Patrol officers.
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Ferguson protests dwindle as businesses regroup

As demonstrations in California heated up overnight, the robust protests in Ferguson dwindled in size and severity as Thanksgiving approached, a change from the days immediately following the grand jury decision in the Michael Brown case.
People have begun cleaning up the battered suburban community of Ferguson and seeking something closer to normal. Meanwhile, a group gathered in downtown St. Louis on Thursday morning for what the organizer called a "pro-community" car cruise.

Organizer Paul Byrd said the cruise which consisted of a few vehicles, mostly pickup trucks was meant to be peaceful and to counteract the violence seen earlier this week in Ferguson after Officer Darren Wilson was not indicted in the fatal August shooting of 18-year-old Brown, who was black and unarmed.

Byrd, a 45-year-old construction worker from Imperial, Missouri, declined to say whether he supported Wilson but noted, "I totally support police officers." The cruise, which started near Busch Stadium, was escorted by a city police vehicle. No protesters showed up.

There were no reports of major confrontations or damage to property in Ferguson overnight where about a 100 people marched in a light snow and St. Louis County police said there were only two arrests. Troops with rifles were posted at intersections and parking lots in an area where stores were looted and burned Monday into Tuesday.

Since the grand jury's decision was announced, demonstrators have been active in other cities throughout the U.S. Most have been peaceful. But at least 130 demonstrators who refused to disperse during a Los Angeles protest were arrested Wednesday night, while 35 people were detained in Oakland following a march that deteriorated into unrest and vandalism, according to police officials.
Ferguson business owners and residents on Wednesday covered up broken windows, cleared away debris and hoped the relative calm would last into the Thanksgiving holiday.

The footage people see on the news "is such a small bit of what's happening here," said Kari Hobbs, 28. "There's so much donation and charity going on with the businesses that have been affected and the people that have been affected."

There were no seats inside Cathy's Kitchen a restaurant near the Ferguson Police Department that had windows smashed during the violence and a line had formed at the back of the building. Jerome Jenkins, who runs the restaurant with his wife, Cathy, said he never considered closing his doors.

"It really wasn't about wondering if the building would get torched or not," Jenkins said. "Me and my wife, we expected it to get damaged ... we decided to go home, and we would live with whatever fate would give us."
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Ferguson protesters say LAPD overreacted with arrests

Jasmyne Cannick blended into the throng of protesters as they reached 7th and Figueroa streets, the crowd swelling to several hundred. As the protesters moved forward, those in the front of the pack tried to outmaneuver the police by moving through downtown's alleyways and side streets.

But within an hour, the most feverish of the protesters on the front lines Wednesday evening had scattered, leaving a group that quickly found itself boxed into a cul-de-sac near 6th and Hope streets.

"I was waiting for the dispersal warning, thinking, 'OK, fine, I'm tired anyway,' " said Cannick, a political consultant and writer who has written critically about the LAPD's chief and other top brass. "There was zip, zero."
As protests continued in the wake of a Missouri grand jury's decision not to indict a Ferguson police officer in the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown, some of the hundreds of people arrested in Los Angeles said they had broken no laws and never heard the order to disperse. Several said they inadvertently marched into tight areas where they became easy marks for arrest.

On Thursday, with an additional 145 people jailed overnight, Chief Charlie Beck ordered all of the protesters released in time for Thanksgiving dinner.

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"We were a little surprised that there was that many and frankly, a little disappointed," Cmdr. Andrew Smith said. "All our actions are predicated on the behavior of the crowd. My understanding is that they gave multiple dispersal orders. And [protesters] would move down the street and continue the behavior that we consider unlawful" such as "blocking streets, banging on cars."

Times reporters heard police announce that protesters had four minutes to disperse or face arrest, but many in the crowd were chanting or had begun to walk away from the area, and it is possible that at least some did not hear the order.

Those being released were asked to sign a promise to appear in court but were not required to post bail, Smith said. Any protesters with warrants out for their arrest were not eligible, he added.
About the time of Beck's announcement, two bail bondsmen lingered outside the Metropolitan Detention Center downtown. They offered their cards and services to those who came to pick up their friends and family members only to learn that the detainees had been released without bail.

Police had been monitoring the protesters since about 3 p.m. Wednesday. In the coming hours, members of the group would block traffic, lie in street, and at one point, attempt to take over, the freeway, Smith said.

Authorities eventually received information that the group was headed to the Staples Center, so police stopped protesters at 7th and Figueroa, Smith said. Authorities used a sound truck to order the group to disperse, and after an attorney informed officers that some protesters had not heard the order, police gave the order a second time, Smith said.

"Nobody should have been surprised when they got taken to jail last night," Smith said. "We gave them warning."

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LAPD got it right and Chief Beck releasing people without bail for Thanksgiving was being more accommodating than he was legally obligated to be. If the protesters don't like being told to disperse or being arrested then stop blocking streets. And 'pounding on cars' is not...
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Charmaine Chua, 29, Los Angeles, spent the night in the Van Nuys jail and got a ride downtown Thursday morning to await the release of a friend who had also been arrested.

She said she felt penned in by police near 7th and Figueroa, and was taken by surprise when LAPD officers began making arrests. Chua insisted that authorities did not issue an order to disperse.

"We were made an example of. The LAPD set out and intended to arrest us," she said, adding, "I'm even more determined to keep organizing, and keep showing that the system that we live in is broken."

Marcos Mata, 23, of Los Angeles took the bus downtown Thursday morning after spending the night in a holding cell at the 77th Street Regional Jail. His wallet, phone and keys are still being held by LAPD, he said, and he was told he wouldn't be able to retrieve them until next week.

Mata said he felt the arrests were an overreaction because protesters were generally well behaved. They marched and chanted, he said, but did not destroy property, he said.

"It was completely unnecessary," he said of the arrests. "The only crime I saw was maybe jaywalking. Nobody was breaking windows; there was nothing serious going on."

Smith said that all detainees had been booked and processed. A spokesman for the city attorney's office said it had not been referred any cases as of Thursday afternoon.

The high number of arrests reflects a no-nonsense approach from the LAPD, sad Laurie Levenson, a professor of criminal law at Loyola Law School. After the 1992 riots and more recently, Occupy L.A. protests at City Hall, police in this city may be gun shy about letting protests go on too long, she said.

"They want to send a clear message that they're not going to let this get out of hand," she said. "This is a strong showing of police presence, and I think the reason they're doing it is they think they have the community support.

"Most Angelenos don't want to become like the images they've seen of Ferguson," she added. "We've already been through that and we would like to think we've gone beyond it."
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North Korea slams US as racist, human rights 'tundra'

Condemned at the UN for rights abuses, North Korea hit back Friday, describing the United States as a human rights "tundra" where racial discrimination flourishes.
Citing the protests that erupted when a police officer was not charged in the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, a foreign ministry spokesman heaped scorn on the notion of "rule of law" in the US.

"This is clear proof of the real picture of the US as a tundra of human rights, where extreme racial discrimination acts are openly practised," the spokesman was quoted as saying by the North's official KCNA news agency.

His remarks came a week after the UN adopted a landmark resolution urging the Security Council to refer North Korea's leaders to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for possible indictment on crimes against humanity.

The resolution, drafted by Japan and the European Union, drew heavily on the work of a UN inquiry, which concluded in February that the North was committing rights abuses "without parallel in the contemporary world".

Pyongyang has rejected the inquiry and condemned the resolution, saying both were initiated and controlled by the US in a politically motivated effort to humiliate the regime of leader Kim Jong-Un.

"The great irony is that the US tries to measure other countries with its wrong human rights standard, though it is a typical human rights abuser," the foreign ministry spokesman said.

His statement specifically criticised President Barack Obama for his efforts to "justify" racial discrimination by talking about the rule of law.

Although China and Russia would block any Security Council move to refer Pyongyang to the ICC, North Korea has been rattled by the adoption of the strongly-worded UN resolution, and has threatened "catastrophic consequences" for its supporters.

Earlier this week, Kim Jong-Un toured a museum dedicated to alleged atrocities by US forces during the 1950-53 Korean War, saying they were like "cannibals seeking pleasure in slaughter."
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Darren Wilson Resigns

Ferguson officer Darren Wilson, who fatally shot black teenager Michael Brown, has resigned from the police force, his attorney said. The news comes amid unceasing protests across the US against a grand jury decision clearing Wilson of murder charges.

The resignation is effective immediately, AP quoted one of Wilsons lawyers, Neil Bruntrager, as saying on Saturday.

Prior to the resignation, Wilson was on administrative leave from the Ferguson Police Department since the August 9 shooting of Brown.