How many people feel it's only a matter of time before someone is injured by a police officer in Ferguson and that officer, captured on video, demonstrates not only intent to cause harm against the unarmed citizen but also refuses to identify his or her self?
The causation of harm part is important - particularly if using a firearm or other police-issue weapon.
Why?
Because I'm also wondering when and if someone would follow up with a lawsuit stating that the officer involved was no longer in a capacity supporting or protected by his/her status as a police or peace officer but instead was obviously and intentionally posing a clear and present danger to the public, to private citizens and to property, and as such was acting as a domestic terrorist and in a manner that was purposely subversive to the rule of law, the enforcement of peace and the conduct of police officers.
And I can only hope that if that those questions have occurred to me, then nobody decides to make such a claim and use it as an excuse to disarm and disable anyone acting out in such a way.
I can see things potentially getting even more farked up than they are now if things progress along those lines...and we've already seen the default "habit" of officers obscuring, refusing to wear or intentionally wearing another's identification in order to make identification more difficult. It was practiced in New York during the Occupy demonstrations; it's being actively practiced in Ferguson.
That's not likely to help quell or calm things.
...how long will it be before someone or some people begin to challenge them and attempt to hold them on charges of domestic terrorism against a civilian population, against the American public, and against private property?
As a few folks have pointed out, a LEO in Ferguson recently pointed a weapon at a citizen journalist and threatened to kill him - on camera. That brings us yet another (repeated?) step closer to the scenario, but for the actual circumstances to be met, someone would have to immediately confront the "officer" and state he was presenting a clear & present danger to the public by acting as willful & malicious agent of domestic terror. Or something like that.
...I can imagine the carnage and confusion if one or more people made simultaneous accusations and chose to "stand their ground" against such abuse.
Imagine if any court ever let someone file such charges against the St. Louis County and Ferguson PDs?