in Ferguson were sad and scary. Many had a sleepless night. Merely one or two or three blocks from West Florissant Ave., where the looters were doing their evil deeds, are many neighborhoods, inhabited by innocent citizens who could hear the looters, the gunshots being fired, and then the police sirens and the helicopters flying overheard, shining lights into their backyards. Florissant friends were on facebook offering to let friends in Ferguson, if they felt it was safe to even leave their homes, to come and stay with them overnight. Friends in St. Charles County, where the Missouri River meets the mighty Mississippi, were offering their homes,too, as havens from the violence and danger.

With the dawn of Monday morning, the damaged buildings were like an open wound inSt. Louis County Police have been called in to conduct the investigation for the Ferguson Police Department. I also heard today a report that the FBI has also been called in and that the US Justice Department will be keeping a watch on the investigation’s outcome.

A tragedy playing out in Ferguson, Missouri. A community of 21,000, mostly middle-class Americans who work hard, want their children to be educated, for their children to grow up and reach their potential in life. A community that was started in 1894 by a Mr. William B. Ferguson, as a train station for the Wabash Railroad. In 1904, a streetcar line was installed that led from Ferguson to the city of St. Louis and this helped the train station town expand, becoming one