This is pretty consistent with the tactics used against protestors in the anti-war movement in the Seventies, although some of the technology is different and the police were not a militarized as they are now. And this was against predominantly white affluent people or their children in the nation's capital. In some ways it was worse in DC than in Ferguson with respect to violation of civil rights and constitutional liberties, and it was on a far larger scale, with hundreds of thousands or protestors involved and battalions of police and military.
Think Progress
The Most Outrageous Police Tactics In Ferguson
Nicole Flatow
See also, Emily Tess Katz,
Marc Lamont Hill Reports From Ferguson: National Guard 'Feels Like More Repression', HuffPost Live
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