An earlier march from Selma, on March 7 , 1965 ended violently when Alabama state troopers attacked civil rights supporters on the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Just a week before, an earlier march turned into a bedlam, with stores looted, the crowd gassed, and Dr. King hustled into a car by aides.
At the earlier march, some demonstrators said they expected people to express their anger through violence, if not immediately, then in the coming days.
In an interview, Patrick M. Ward, a top aide to Mr. Kerlikowske, said he had no knowledge of any irritation expressed by the Mexican government about the earlier March report.
Indeed, even as Ferguson was featuring on the cover of today's Volkskrant, the paper was also reporting on efforts by the mayor of The Hague to ban an anti-ISIS march by Dutch right-wingers in a largely Muslim neighbourhood, after an earlier march led to violent clashes.
The earlier March consultation garnered some 4,000 responses, and has been used to shape the proposals in the latest consultation, according to a TfL spokesman.
