the feminist librarian reads

From the very beginning, Ferguson has been a study in paranoia and fear-mongering. The geography of St. Louis is carved by racial politics, and the actions of Wilson are arguably tragic evidence of those politics in action. Brown, unarmed, was perceived as threatening by virtue of being a large, black teenager. There was no rational reason to view him as a deadly threat. There was no need to respond to a grieving community with weaponry, to tears with tear gas. Every move by St. Louis police and officials over the past few months has been rooted in a defensiveness that causes panic in residents, which in turn increases panic among low-level officials, who release panicked warnings to citizens. Ferguson is an ouroboros of irrational incongruity.