# Ferguson 2015

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ferguson-2015/727504>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [August 11, 2015, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ferguson-2015/727504 "2015-08-11T00:26:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ferguson-2015/727504/61 "2015-08-15T07:08:05Z")

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> [@tomndebb](#):
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> And the really sad part of this is that the people of Ferguson are the innocent victims of the violence. Last year, when hundreds were locked up during the riots, exactly two of them turned out to be citizens of Ferguson. Harris is from St. Louis, not Ferguson. The gangs having a shootout were probably not from Ferguson.

As the NYT indirects suggests, Ferguson is struggling for enough black males to even have a riot - 40% of adult black males being _missing_:

> **[1.5 Million Missing Black Men (Published 2015)](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/20/upshot/missing-black-men.html?abt=0002&abg=1)**
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> Across the country, hundreds of thousands of black men are missing from everyday life.

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