There's more going on in Ferguson, MO, than one would know if one read only DailyKos diaries about it (to date).
There's a very informative map, linked to by e2247 in his useful diary listing live feeds from Ferguson. The map lists various incidents in the Ferguson/St Louis area since the protests began. The map is here: https://mapsengine.google.com/... You must check-mark each day of the week to see the full picture, then drag the map to Missouri and zoom in to find the Ferguson area. (This grew out of a comment I was asked to turn into a diary.) It's also insightful to listen to the St Louis County Police Scanner radio, live, online here: http://www.ustream.tv/... Open this link and listen to it as you scan the list below and read other diaries on this event, it gives a different perspective on what is going on in Ferguson.
The map's list includes a wide variety of police reports, reports from witnesses, newspapers, hospitals, etc. It includes e.g. fights, stabbings, fires, armed gangs, assaults, burglaries, lootings, and reported shootings, all mixed together more-or-less chronologically.
Go below the fold for the surprisingly-long list of stores that have been looted, and an even more disconcertingly-long list of civilian shootings in the past week, that I (at least) hadn't known about.
For example, here is the list of stores that have been looted so far, according to the map:
Quick Trip (later set on fire)
AutoZone
WalMart (later, shots fired at police chiefs)
Zisser Tire Auto Service
Shoe Carnival
Foot Locker
KMart
PNC Bank
Hibbetts Sports
Quick Cash
Beauty Supply Store
Family Dollar
Boost Mobile
DTLR
Hibbett Sports
Queen's Wig and Hair Co
Velvet Freeze Ice Cream Store
Remy Beauty Supply Inc
Cricket Wireless
Phillips 66
Energy Express
Pawn Shop on Florissant
JC Wireless
T-Mobile
T-Mobile
Dellwood Market
Advance Auto Parts
misc residences -- too many burglaries to list here! all over
Papa John's Pizza
O'Reilly Auto Parts
Walgreens arson
Dellwood Market arson
7-Eleven
QuickTrip
Most of the incidents are linked to a news story, for further details.
Next, here is a list of reported gunfire incidents (shootings by civilians, each a potentially lethal situation) in the area, since a week ago Sunday:
Sun-Mon (last week):
10:38pm shots fired at Halls Ferry Rd
10:45pm shots fired at Solway Ave
11:37pm shots fired at Walmart pharmacy
11:54pm shots fired from railroad
12:19am shots fired at W Florissant
12:00am shots fired at QuikTrip
12:51am shots fired near Church
x:xxam shots fired W Florissant
x:xxam shots fired at W Florissant
Mon eve (last week):
8:38pm shots fired 5300 Hodiamont Ave
9:04pm shots fired at Dellwood Market
9:07pm shots fired at Geraldine AVe
10:34pm shots fired at W Florissant
11:30pm shots fired at Cheri Heights
12:19am 4 shots heard at N Hanley
Tues eve:
9:56pm shots fired at Oakcrest Ave
10:08pm shooting, 2 people hit, in serious condition, Biddle St
10:27pm shooting at Virginia Ave
10:32pm shots fired at chambers Rd
11:38pm shots fired at SW Cardinal
12:00am woman shot in the head in driveby shooting, 1438 Highmont Dr
12:17am possible shooting at S Compton
12:26am shots fired at Chambers
12:30am possible more shots fired at Chambers
12:45am shots fired at Halls Ferry Rd
1:36am shots fired at Bamberger Ave
1:41am confirmed shooting
Weds eve:
9:48pm shots fired at Dellwood Court
10:16pm shots fired near police
Saturday late eve/early Sun:
1:12am unconfirmed, shots fired
1:23am person shot in stomach at Canfield and W Florissant
1:28am shots fired? (different part of town)
1:29am 6 shots fired (different part of town)
1:38am unconfirmed, 20 shots fired (different part of town)
Sun eve (yesterday):
9:44pm shots fired at W Florissant
9:47pm stabbing at Westfall Dr
10:27pm shots fired at Domino's Pizza
10:30pm security guards attacked, Chambers Rd
10:37pm 10 shots at Dellwood Market
10:45pm 6 shots fired at Green Valley Dr
10:50pm - 10:54pm report man shooting in to the crowd @ Chambers Hill Dr
11:10pm shots fired at Chatham Ave
11:22pm gunshot victims at Christian Northeast Hospital
Mon eve (tonight):
10:42pm 6 shots at Bermuda Ct
11:45pm report of a woman shot, lying near dumpster, unconfirmed.
Not all shootings are confirmed, but many are, and several people have been seriously wounded by gunshots.
I had no idea there had been this many shootings and lootings in Ferguson, MO, this past week. Did you?