Loading ...For those who don’t know, I live in St. Louis. I have been following this from the beginning and as you can guess, we are inundated with news. I have been refraining from comment until more information and better evidence surfaced. It has been coming out in bits and pieces from a variety of sources. There is still much to know, but from everything I have been able to piece together, Samb’s post at 11:31 is very close to the mark as to how I would try to summarize what I believe happened. I don’t want to say much more at this point because there are important facts still being gathered and have not been officially released. But please believe me, fellow oasis-ers, what you are getting from the major news media sources is a far cry from what I believe we will come to accept when we get to the bottom of it (If that is possible; it is an unbelievably f–ed up situation).
For those who would like a blow-by-blow discussion not found in the newspapers and on TV, let me suggest my other favorite forum: sigforum.com It is nominally a gun forum, but like the tent/oasis, it is composed of a large and diverse group of interesting people, and features discussions on a very wide range of topics. If you go to the forum, enter and find “The Lounge”. It is the first “room” at the top of the page. In there you will find a long discussion of the events in Ferguson (St. Louis members … stay the H out of the north county/city area!!!) The thread was started by a St. Louis County police officer who has been at the scene almost every night.
EDIT: If you go to sigforum, you will have to wade through the flip comments to get to the thoughtful ones; be advised.