It's from a guy who was at Saturday night/Sunday late night's curfew in Ferguson, Mo. Robert Klemko is a journalist, and his blow-by-blow of what happened, when some protesters decided to defy the midnight curfew and police forces decided to move in, is as intimate a story in the Internet age can take you into what has, in the past week, become a war zone in the United States. Harrowing and, I must say, exciting, if I may extract the tragic and confusing causes of the riots and unrest from the scene Klemko paints overnight. On a couple tweets he called what he was going through an "adrenaline high" and a "rush." I have to admit that I felt the same thing reading his tweets and seeing his photos.
The thing is, Klemko isn't a news reporter. He's a sports reporter. He writes on football for Sports Illustrated's Peter King's online NFL offshoot microsite TheMMQB. Hell if I know why and how he's in suburban St. Louis reporting on the aftermath of a neighborhood roiling over the death of a young black man, but circumstances reveal character, and Klemko has shown he has it in spades.
Peter King, pay this man.
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