Police in Ferguson, Missouri beheaded an American journalist today.

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Screen-Shot-2014-08-15-at-4.01.27-PM-1280x730Police in Ferguson, Missouri beheaded an American journalist today.

According to multiple reports, Edward Baxter was working on a story inside a local McDonalds when police approached and asked him to hand over his laptop.

When the longtime CNN Headline News reporter refused, officers took him into the bathroom and beheaded him with a hunting knife.

Video of the incident was later posted on Youtube, along with a warning to other journalists not to interfere with police activities in the area.

“Let this serve as a message to MSNBC, Fox News, The New York Times, the Huffington Post and other national news outlets,” exclaims an officer in the video, with Baxter’s severed head in one hand.

“Ever since this crisis started the media has unfairly portrayed us as violent monsters. And freedom of the press? That’s fine. If you want to sit in your studio in New York or Washington D.C. and slander our reputations go ahead.

“But when you come into our town, you play by our rules. We are the Feguruon Police force. And we are the law.”

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The brutal beheading is only the latest in a series of attacks on journalists by police forces in Ferguson, Missouri against journalists in town to cover the death of teenager Mike Brown.

On August 9th Brown was shot six times by a Ferguson police officer in what many see as an excessive use of force against the unarmed black teenager. Protests by the city's outraged population have paralysed the town in the days since.

The crisis has brought national media attention to this hitherto obscure suburb of Saint Louis. But the throngs of journalists have not been well received.. Many have been wrongfully arrested or assaulted by local police.

Today’s stunning events come just one day after the radical Islamic group ISIS beheaded an American journalist in Iraq.

Although a few fringe groups have raised concerns about the extrajudicial beheadings of journalists in the United States by law enforcement, in a statement today Ferguson’s police chief defended the practice.

“This is standard procedure here in Ferguson when a member of the media disobeys our orders,” he explains, “If this clown knew what was good for him, he would have simply handed over his laptop. His blood is on his own hands.”

Baxter is survived by his wife Georgette and their seven children. His dismembered body will be flown back to his native Minnesota for burial tomorrow.

Anthony-Claret Ifeanyi Onwutalobi

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