Tear gas fired at Ferguson protesters; police cars set afire

What kills me about this (and this and this) is that officials have been planning their crowd control for a while. A State of Emergency was declared days ahead of time. They have had days, weeks, months to position their forces and craft a crowd control strategy. Why. The. Hell.  …Did they position all of those empty police cars in the area, with no show of force near-by?

No, wait. Maybe it’s best not to answer that.