Ferguson and Mexico's Violent Protests 

      Ferguson, Missouri is a city ripped apart by conflict, riots, and disagreements about a white police officer who shot and killed and unarmed black teen this past August. Some witnesses say that Brown had his hands up in surrender when he was killed while others describe the situation as a physical altercation between Brown and the officer. Currently, the city is awaiting a grand jury's decision on whether to indict Wilson, the police officer. Besides disagreements and conflict surrounding the shooting itself, individuals from St. Louis are not understanding of the reasons behind inviting in the National Guard. "The National Guard is called in when policing has failed. Military presence in my city will mark a historic failure on the part of (government),"  French, a St. Louis an elected member on the municipal council, said on Twitter, "This is not a war. There is no military solution."   The Ferguson case and riots are not only described in depth on Twitter, but also in thousands of newspapers, websites, journals, and every other form of global communication.

     Ferguson is not the only city that is going through a protest battle; Hundreds of towns and cities all across Mexico are in rage about the recent capture of students. According to the Mexican government, the trouble began on September 26, when police stopped the students as they traveled on buses. Authorities say that the town Mayor, José Luis Abarca, ordered police to stop the students from disrupting a speech given by his wife. The government says that police then handed over the students to a drug gang, Guerreros Unidos. In the weeks following, over 10,000 Mexican soldiers and police officers searched the area and discovered assorted graves. Last week, Mexico’s attorney general, Jesús Murillo Karam, said that burned remains, most likely of the students, had been uncovered at a dump and in a river in Guerrero. He displayed videotaped admissions of drug gang affiliates talking about the killings. 

         The families and communities connected to these kidnapped children are not believing this story that the government has produced. “The parents are enraged by so much waiting and so few results,” de la Cruz, a spokesman for the victims’ families, told the crowd on Wednesday. As of Monday, he claimed, “the flame of insurgency has been lit.” Numerous buses drove all around Mexico to spread their resistive message, as protesters in different states closed off highways, annexed town squares, closed airports, and burned buildings and cars. In the seven weeks since police drove away with 42 students, the efforts made by their relatives has gained the attention from those across the country and the world, even from world leaders like President Obama and Pope Francis. The atrocity has attained Mexico’s attention unlike any other crime and generated an objection evolution that shows no signs of dwindling.