you're a moron, no offense. There was no reason to roll out tanks and gas legitimate protesters, thereby treating the entire community like a bunch of animals for the actions of some. And the police should have said from the very beginning that Brown was a robbery suspect. Releasing that information a week later and the contradictory statements by the chief shows incompetence at the least and cover your ass at the worst.
Ok, lets discuss. For one, you ******* idiots continue to call the vehicles "tanks". Hey, dipshits, they aren't "tanks". Tanks have treads and big ass cannon-like turret guns on top. Like an M1 Abrams TANK. These armored personnel carriers. Which the military uses to...well, transport people from place to place in a way that a cheap shot from a rifle or pistol, or a maltov cocktail, wont hurt them. The military also builds them to resist mines. Most PD's take that excess mine-resistant armor OFF the bottoms...because that extra ton of weight sucks gas.
But you idiots still call them "tanks".
The chief explained why the video was released. You idiots just don't like it. The media did an FOIA request. PD's have to respond within 7 days. On day 6, he did. He HAD TO release the video. THE LAW required he release it. So he did.
But you idiots and the media thought "OH NO we didn't want THAT video, that makes Brown look bad, we wanted video that made YOU ALL look bad". The chief, BY LAW, had to release it within 7 days.
And using OC gas the disperse protesters, if necessary, is the LEAST abusive way to clear a protest if it becomes volatile/violent....which this one did. You want them to use their batons and beat the shit out of them? No, of course not. Gas is the least harmful way of doing it. You idiots just don't like that the cops won.