But when Chambers—on behalf of the Swanns and other families—sued in 1965, district officialsretorted The results came pouring in, and they might just be the funniest thing on the Internet, well,ever. While it was jarring to watch local police officers wearing military equipment and armed with military-grade weapons, accompanying tanks rolling through local streets, and shooting teargas at distraught citizens, it was even more troubling when a Twitter user alleged that the gas canisters shot at Ferguson protesters were the same ones that had been fired at Palestinian protesters just days before, both made in the U.S.Twitter contentView on Twitter That fear wasn’t unfounded. Documents obtained by the Associated Press in 2012 showed that the New York Police Department reportedly deployed informants called“mosque crawlers”or “rakers” in asurveillance operation