The New Republic, "White St. Louis has some awful things to say about Ferguson:" "'Our opinion,' said the talkative one in a group of six women in their sixties sitting outside the Starbucks, 'is the media should just stay out of it because they're riling themselves up even more.'"

Grantland, "The front lines of Ferguson:" "A man sitting near me was the first person I saw start to run. Then, suddenly, we were all running. I remember looking over my shoulder as my legs churned beneath me. The police were shooting flares and I didn’t want to get hit in the back. But I didn’t stop running, because I didn’t want the smoke to catch up. There was also the sound of weapons firing. And this siren. This terrible, terrible siren."

St. Louis Public Radio, "Editor's weekly: a week St. Louis can't forget:" "One of the looters, in an interview with a Post-Dispatch reporter, justified his actions as fighting back against injustices. We can challenge reasoning that rationalizes looting of the very businesses that help sustain a community. But we can’t simply dismiss the existence of people who feel so disenfranchised that looting makes sense to them. We can’t expect to build functional communities and a thriving region on a foundation riddled with despair."

The Washington Post infographic, "Where police forces don't resemble the community."

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