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Metropolis Thursday, August 18, 2014

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The streets of Ferguson,

Missouri more closely resemble a
war zone than small Midwestern
city as tensions have risen past the
breaking point following the
shooting of black unarmed
teenager Michael Brown.
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Hundreds of angry people took to
the streets to protest the racial
implications behind the shooting of
Michael Brown. The protest began
as a peaceful candlelight vigil, but
took a nasty turn after some
protesters began looting and
violence. The police, outfitted in
riot gear responded quickly and
forcefully to try and quell the
violence. Protesters threw rocks
and Molotov cocktails at officers,
looted and burned businesses to
the ground. The police responded
by firing tear gas, and firing
beanbag rounds and rubber bullets
at protesters, and made many
arrests. As the protesting carried
on throughout the next few days,
the police prepared for the worst.
Armored Personnel Carriers, big

carry soldiers into battle

patrolled the street. Men
dressed in all black armed with
assault rifles came in droves to
control the riots. The polices
drastic military change has
drawn considerable criticism
from the public as well as the
media. People question the role
of the police, fear that it is
becoming a police state in
Ferguson. Missouri governor Jay
Nixon issued a curfew, in an
attempt to prevent more rioting.
The polices interaction with the
people of Ferguson have been
viewed with extreme skepticism
by nationally and
internationally.

ISIS Still Strong in

Middle East
ISIS beheaded another
Westerner, a British aid worker.
U.S. Secretary of State John
Kerry courted Middle Eastern
leaders to join a coalition in the
fight against the Islamist
militants. And U.S. planes aimed
at ISIS fighters near Iraq's
capital.
As world leaders struggled
Monday to come up with
strategies against ISIS just days
after a high-profile beheading by

the Islamist militants, the U.S.

military targeted an ISIS position
near Baghdad. An airstrike
southwest of the city appears to
be the closest the U.S. airstrikes
have come to campaign against
the Islamist militants, a senior
U.S. military official told CNN.
A statement from U.S. Central
Command described the action as
"the first strike taken as part of
our expanded efforts beyond
protecting our own people and
humanitarian missions to hit
(ISIS) targets as Iraqi forces go on
offense, as outlined in the
President's speech last
Wednesday."
An ISIS "fighting position" that
was firing on Iraqi security forces
southwest of Baghdad was
destroyed, the statement said
Meanwhile, more than two dozen
nations, the Arab League, the
European Union and United
Nations met in the French capital,
calling ISIS a threat to the
international community and
agreeing to "ensure that the
culprits are brought to justice."
In a statement at the conference's
conclusion, the French

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