Ferguson Missouri

Gunfire broke out during a demonstration in Ferguson, Missouri, on the second anniversary of Michael Brown's death, disrupting what had been a peaceful gathering Tuesday night but apparently wounding no one.

The Ferguson City Council could soon accept a U.S. Justice Department plan to overhaul its embattled police force and municipal court system after a brief attempt to revise the deal it had already spent months negotiating.

It is good to see so many glass store windows in Ferguson, Missouri!

It has been one year since the name Michael Brown, and the town of Ferguson Missouri, entered the national consciousness. With the "anniversary" this past weekend, this St. Louis suburb is back in the news, due to resumed violence. With this in mind, I thought that I should re-post my thoughts, video, and pictures from my visit to the area, last November. I was in Missouri for my cousin

SEATTLE (AP) -- Felix Vargas read the Justice Department's report on Ferguson, Missouri, and thought some of it sounded awfully familiar: a mostly white police department overseeing a mostly minority town; questionable uses of force; officers ill-equipped to deal with mentally ill residents.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- President Barack Obama said the racial discrimination in Ferguson, Missouri, extends beyond that city's police department, and that law enforcement changes are a prime focus in the civil rights movement.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A federal investigation into the police killing of an unarmed, black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missouri, lays bare what officials contend are racist, profit-driven law enforcement practices in the small St. Louis suburb.

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) -- Brightly colored ribbons flutter from a wrought-iron fence along the downtown business district's main thoroughfare, snapping in the harsh winter breeze like dozens of tiny Buddhist prayer flags, each inscribed with words of inspiration: "Be Kind," "Hope and Love," "Change the World."

BERKELEY, Mo. (AP) -- Demonstrators took to the streets for a second night after a white police officer in Berkeley, Missouri, killed a black 18-year-old who police said pointed a gun at him.

You may have noticed that I was on vacation this weekend...but be assured that I will be back to play "Jersey's Favorite Hits" next Saturday afternoon and Sunday night!