Ferguson

++So now what could possibly go wrong after all the tone-deaf actions from the local authorities all the way to the Governor?

++First the leaked police reports on the so-called shop-lifting of the cigarillos that Michael Brown supposedly stole from the Mart. First, the market said they never reported a "robbery" and never called 9-11. The videos from the security camera shown tonight indicated that he actually paid for the cigarillos. 

++Secondly, the next leaked report from the County indicated he had the residue of marijuana in his blood. As Jonathan Capehart in the Post writes this shows he was a normal teenager and not some young man revved up on PCP. The same smear occurred in the Treyvon Martin case. Treyvon had been expelled from school because he was found to have an empty baggie.

++It is important that these reports were leaked by the County but no official report on the shooting itself. Later today, on Facebook Ferguson police posted messages saying they had Darryl Martin's back.

++President Obama addressed the issue today and while he urged calm he also suggested citizens had a right to organize and the press had the right to cover the events. He was not very pleased with Governor Nixon calling out the National Guard.

++So with the President weighing in and saying that Eric Holder would be traveling there by Wednesday,what happens? The curfew is lifted. The National Guard is positioned to defend the police headquarters, not the population itself. The press? Well,a Getty photographer and a CNN reporter were arrested. 

++But aware that they had an image problem, the town hired a PR firm to handle questions about this "difficult" situation. The entire staff of the firm is white. 

++This is like watching a domestic version of the Iraq invasion unfolding. Both autopsies --the County and the family's--agree that at least 6 bullet holes were found in the boy's body and no one has disputed he had been unarmed. They can't even get the story straight about why the police showed any interest in him. The "alleged robbery" was still unknown. The story has moved from blocking the road to "jaywalking". Even with his slain body in the street a car could get around him.

++The reasons for his killing keep changing on the rightwing blogs. Now he is a rapper,and a doper. An extreme right blog intuited he was a gangster and made hand signals known to gangs. Of course,the origin of this urban myth was a white supremacist website.

++No, there can be no justice. Michael Brown was another young African-American male gunned down for no reason. The sooner the authorities of Ferguson admit this,they can stop making asinine mistakes that only outrage the community and the country.