Would you allow violent protests?

Police officers "will not use their position of authority to abuse any citizen," and officers will treat people with whom they interact "equally and in a courteous manner."

"A police officer must weigh the necessity of apprehension against the apparent threat to the safety of all involved, and exhaust every alternative means of apprehension known to be available at the time before resorting to the use of lethal force,"

"...the use of lethal force is permitted against a fleeing suspect only if there is a "substantial risk" that the person will cause "death or serious physical injury if apprehension is delayed."

"The watch commander shall respond to the scene and be responsible for the command and protection of the scene until the arrival of the Bureau of Investigations investigator(s). He shall assist, as necessary, in the investigation of the incident and arrange to have a police officer, not involved, prepare the original report.

The watch commander will complete the Use of Force Report F-080 and forward it through the chain of command to the Chief."

The entire order document is found at the citation above.

The Medical Examiner's Office has denied releasing it to the Post Dispatch or anyone else -- so how did a reporter at the paper get it.

Reporters have been trying to ask the Prosecuting Attorney about it and what McCulloch is doing about it but all they have gotten is silence and unanswered phone calls.

Michael Brown's mother has requested that people NOT write in his name for County Executive and I hope people honor her wishes.

The Republican votes for Stenger in the primary were to defeat Dooley who they felt would be unbeatable in the General Election. Was there a racial component to this? Yes, IMO that definitely played a part. CW - Dooley as an African American would garner more votes from the AA community than Stenger especially after the nasty primary fight. Then again there are Republicans who don't want "those" people to hold higher office. Except for a select few, the majority of "those" people are thugs.

You don't want to get me started on McCaskill who ranks as one of my least favorite Dems. She will stay out of it as much as possible. Her primary principled stand is to keep her job.

Lacy Clay, the Democratic Representative in North County has come out in favor of Stenger after losing his push to get McCulloch replaced.

• El Salvador: 120,000+ dead and missing; 1 million displaced
  
• Nicaragua: 43,000+ dead and missing; 300,000 displaced
  
• Guatamala: 200,000+ dead and missing, 500,000+ displaced

I'm embarrassed to admit that I supported Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush in the 1980 and '84 elections, and I will forever regret those votes until my dying day. The blinders were ripped off with Iran-Contra, and have remained off ever since. And for that, may the heavens bless the late Lawrence Walsh, the man who enlightened me.

I know of several occasions in school where I wrote papers or gave speeches that were actually opposite of what I felt, because I was taught that it forces you to look for and argue with evidence, rather than emotion.

Ronald Reagan certainly talked a tough and good game as president, but from the standpoint of the historical record and actual achievement, he was a lot more meringue and a lot less filling than most people realize, awash in nostalgia as we are for the era.

I have to give President Reagan credit for one great achievement, the reduction of nuclear arms with the 1987 INF treaty, which eliminated all cruise missiles with a range of 500 to 5,000 kilometers.

But other than that, what's the sum total of Reagan's presidency? Well, he campaigned for the office in 1980 by promising to eliminate deficit spending and reduce the national debt, but then proceeded to quintuple deficit spending and nearly triple the debt on his watch, which set this country on an unsustainable fiscal trajectory from which we've yet to pull completely out.

There's the failed military intervention in Lebanon, the aforementioned Iran-Contra scandal, and the ham-handed attempt to place controversial Watergate figure Robert Bork of "Saturday Night Massacre" infamy on the U.S. Supreme Court.

He tried to stack the deck on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in 1982 as a precursor to dismantling that agency, by attempting to replace Commissioners Mary Frances Berry, Blandina Cardenas Ramirez, and Rabbi Murray Saltzman before their terms were completed. The Senate declined to act on his recommendation, and the three stayed in place. He also vetoed the 1986 extension of the Voting Rights Act, which thankfully was overturned by Congress.

He appointed as his Secretary of the Interior the remarkably insensitive and tone-deaf James Watt, a hyperpartisan shill for industrial interests who once infamously bifurcated the country into "liberals and Americans," and made another very regrettable quip featuring "a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple."

There's also the unilateral firing of the federal air traffic controllers, which did a real number on an airline industry then struggling with the twin effects of recession and deregulation. And he pocket-vetoed the Whistleblowers Protection Act of 1989, on his way out of office.