WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- As the sun set on the fifth day of protests following the fatal shooting of an unarmed teenager in Ferguson, Mo., powerful images of protesters facing off with heavily armed police have flooded social media.
In the St. Louis suburb where 67 percent of the population is black but 94 percent of the police force is white, scenes of cops dressed in riot gear, firing rubber bullets and lobbing tear gas at protesters are drawing comparisons to Iraq and the worst moments of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.