After four nights of tension and violence, President Obama on Thursday called for calm and condemned the actions of police who have turned a St. Louis suburb into a semi-militarized zone.
Obama, speaking from Martha’s Vineyard, sought to calm the town of Ferguson, MO, which has seen violent police clash with angry community members protesting the shooting death of 18-year-old Mike Brown, who was gunned down by an officer on Saturday. HuffPost reporter Ryan J. Reilly and Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery were arrested on Wednesday night, while a camera crew for Al Jazeera America was allegedly hit with tear gas.