A.M. Links: DOJ to Review Police Tactics, U.S. Sends More Military Advisors to Iraq, Lauren Bacall Dead

President Obama spoke about the weekend shooting
of 18-year-old
Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, calling it “tragic,” while
the
Department of Justice announced it would conduct a broad review
of police tactics nationwide. Gun sales in Ferguson have
quadrupled. The
Ferguson Police Department continues to withhold the name of
the officer who shot and killed Brown. A progressive reporter
heckled the Rev.
Al Sharpton, who arrived for protests in Ferguson, for being a
snitch.
The United States is sending 140 additional military advisers
to northern Iraq.
Iran and Saudi Arabia have both come out in support
of Haider
al-Abadi to replace Nouri
al-Maliki, who refuses to give up as prime minister of Iraq.
The Vatican,
meanwhile, has endorsed the U.S. air strikes in Iraq, something it
usually doesn’t do.
Russia has sent a convoy of aid to eastern
Ukraine. Ukrainian officials say they will consider any attempt
to deliver aid to eastern Ukraine without their consent an
invasion.
Officials from Israel and Palestine are expected to continue
negotiating as a ceasefire brokered by
Egypt comes to an end. Hamas, which rules Gaza, where the bulk
of civilian casualties have been, insists this would be the last
ceasefire they agree to.
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has become the official
owner of the Los
Angeles Clippers after a judge approved Donald Sterling’s
wife’s authority to agree to a sale.
Actress
Lauren Bacall died at age 89.