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Leroy N. Soetoro
Jul 10, 2016, 5:09:28 PM7/10/16
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activist-deray-mckesson-fuels-online-outrage-at-end-of-difficult-week/
Police in Baton Rouge late Saturday arrested DeRay McKesson, one of the
most visible faces of the Black Lives Matter movement, during one of
several protests over the recent fatal shootings of black men. Police
arrested more than 200 people on a night of tension and unrest.
Throughout the nation, demonstrators on Saturday demanded accountability
from police. The protests stretched into early Sunday in Baton Rouge and
St. Paul, Minn., where tensions are most raw after the deaths of Alton
Sterling in the Louisiana city and of Philando Castile in a St. Paul
suburb.
With activists and police on edge after those deaths and the sniper
killings of five police officers in Dallas, the United States is “sitting
on a powder keg,” said Charles H. Ramsey, a former police chief in
Washington and Philadelphia.
President Obama plans to travel to Dallas on Tuesday at the invitation of
the city’s mayor to deliver remarks at an interfaith memorial service for
the slain officers, the White House announced Sunday.
A Baton Rouge parish prison official told The Washington Post on Sunday
morning that more than 120 people were arrested overnight at multiple
protest sites across the Louisiana capital.
[Black Lives Matter Activist Deray McKesson taken into custody by Baton
Rouge police]
McKesson was charged with obstructing a highway of commerce, said the
prison official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because she was
not authorized to talk to reporters. She said bond had not been set for
the arrested protesters as of late Sunday morning. Another official said
bonds for demonstrators arrested the previous night were set between $250
and $400.
A late night sit-in on a Minnesota highway broke up after smoke bombs and
flash-bang grenades were used by officers, who were the targets of rocks
and water bottles thrown by protesters. During the confrontation, five
officers suffered minor injuries — including one struck in the head with a
large piece of concrete, a St. Paul Police Department spokesman tweeted.
He later told the Star Tribune newspaper that about 50 people were
arrested during that incident and 50 more later in the night.
The people arrested during the melee could be charged with rioting, the
spokesman told The Washington Post. The others, detained at a different
location, were cited for public nuisance and unlawful assembly and
released, he said.
Shortly before 10 p.m. local time Saturday, someone had shot at the San
Antonio Police Department headquarters. No one was injured, but police
leaders were anxious, given the slayings of five officers in Dallas on
Thursday by a gunman who, police say, was enraged by the deaths of black
people at the hands of police officers.
[Amid protests and vigils, a small cry for a nation on edge: ‘It hurts too
much’]
There was no similar violence on Saturday or widespread unrest like what
occurred after the death of Freddie Gray in police custody in Baltimore
and the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. But demonstrations were
punctuated with tense confrontations.
In an interview Sunday morning on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Ramsey said:
“You can call it a powder keg. You can say that we’re handling
nitroglycerin. But obviously when you just look at what’s going on, we’re
at a very critical point in the history of this country.” The former
police chief, who was chosen by President Obama in 2014 to head the Task
Force on 21st Century Policing, also expressed concern about incidents
during the upcoming Republican and Democratic conventions because “the
climate is simply too volatile.”
On Saturday, members of the New Black Panther Party came face to face with
Louisiana state troopers outside a police headquarters. At night, police
took dozens of activists in Baton Rouge into custody, including McKesson.
McKesson, who lives in Baltimore, documented protests in Baton Rouge on
Saturday, the same day as his 31st birthday. He narrated the events
surrounding him on Periscope, criticizing Baton Rouge police for what he
saw as a heavy-handed response to peaceful protests. And did the same in
frequent postings on Twitter and Vine.
As he and other activists marched through one of Baton Rouge’s busiest
highways, which passes the police headquarters, McKesson assailed police
for provoking people after an officer threatened to arrest anyone walking
on the road, according to video obtained by The Post. Another high-profile
activist fired back that they were on the shoulder because there was no
sidewalk.
Later, officers approached McKesson. The smartphone he was using to
broadcast the march and his ongoing commentary fell from his hands as he
was arrested.
According to other activists, two police officers slammed McKesson to the
ground and took him into custody along with 33 other activists.
In a text message to The Post from within police custody, McKesson said he
and the nearly three dozen others were in custody together, wrists tied,
and being taken to a police precinct. A police spokesman confirmed his
arrest to the Advocate newspaper but did not elaborate on potential
charges and did not respond to a request for comment from The Post.
As Saturday night became Sunday morning, there was no word on what charges
McKesson might be facing. But a website for a local jail showed that
McKesson was an inmate there as of Sunday. He called a close friend in
Baltimore around 5:30 a.m. and told her he was in okay physical condition
but did not know when he would be released, the friend told The Post.
News of McKesson’s arrest quickly spread on Twitter, fueling outrage over
the possibility that he may have been deliberately targeted. The hashtag
#FreeDeray began to trend almost immediately on Twitter after McKesson’s
arrest and was trending with more than 100,000 tweets hours later as of 5
a.m., with many tweets urging people to call Baton Rouge police and demand
his release. McKesson was arrested nearly a year ago in August during a
sit-in outside a federal courthouse in St. Louis to commemorate the first
anniversary of Brown’s death.
McKesson rose to national prominence when he left Minneapolis after the
death of Brown in Ferguson to become an activist and to document the
growing movement seeking reforms in how law enforcement across the country
treats communities of color. He has amassed roughly 450,000 Twitter
followers and has been a forceful advocate for the Black Lives Matter
movement on cable and in late-night television appearances.
Earlier this year, McKesson sought to transform from activist to
politician by running for Baltimore mayor. But the national spotlight
wasn’t enough to endear him to voters there, and he finished far behind
well-established political figures in the Democratic primary.
In the quiet period after the plethora of tense standoffs and arrests in
Baton Rouge, three young protesters put on thin blue gloves and grabbed
large trash bags.
“Last night, when people was running, they were tripping over the water
bottles,” said Allyson Leach, 24. “This way if something happens, people
will be safe.”
Across from them, police officers formed a human barricade outside police
headquarters.
Barely moving. Shields up.
Still, protesters kept coming. They gathered on a swale outside a Shell
gas station. They shouted, “No justice, no peace!”and wondered whether the
police would charge at them again. They carried signs — “I Can’t Keep Calm
I Have a Black Son,” one read — and raised their voices to sing “We Shall
Overcome” and dropped used water bottles on to the ground.
Leach and her friends were there to pick them up.
“I am working full time, I’m a student and a mother,” added Shelby
McKnight, 25. “But I am out here anyway because we need to stand up.”
Stand up.
Both had felt a movement was afoot in Baton Rouge. It was bound to happen,
they thought. If it happened in Ferguson and Baltimore, it was bound to
happen in this place, too, where the black community had long had tensions
with the police force.
On Friday, McKnight recalled looking into one police officer’s eyes. She
yelled at him and begged him to speak out for justice. She had no idea
what he would do next and got a little scared. Tears welled in her eyes,
and the officer stared back. He too, she said, had started to cry.
“They know,” McKnight said. “They have to know that wrong was done.”
The crowds thinned at midnight, and police officers began filing back into
the headquarters.
Others joined to help them pick up trash. They filled 22 bags and three
boxes. “I’ll see you tomorrow,” Leach said. “It could get ugly again.”
But for this night, the police had retreated, the songs had died down. And
the lawn was left clean.
Earlier in the evening in St. Paul, Castile’s friends, family and
relatives from as far as St. Louis assembled in a parking lot at dusk,
waiting for the light to fade.
Steps away, along Larpenteur Ave., in Falcon Heights, Castile was pulled
over and fatally shot during a traffic stop on Wednesday, and his
girlfriend streamed his dying moments and the officer’s reactions in a
widely viewed Facebook Live video. In the days since, a makeshift memorial
formed beside the pavement, where the hot sun wilted flowers and melted
candle wax into puddles on the concrete sidewalk.
When the sunlight faded, family members lighted the remaining candles anew
and tied up shiny balloons to memorialize Castile at the place where he
died. His sister, Allysza Castile, thanked the group of about 50 who came
to pay their respects. They held a moment of silence and prayed to “find
justice in his death.”
About four miles south, hundreds of Black Lives Matter protesters led a
march from the governor’s mansion onto a busy interstate, snarling traffic
in both directions. The response from law enforcement was swift. What
started as a peaceful demonstration during the course of the next six
hours escalated into a tense and at times violent standoff with police
ready in riot gear.
The marchers moved slowly along the highway. Many of them bounced to
Kendrick Lamar, Run the Jewels and N.W.A pumping through loudspeakers.
They sat into the late hours of the evening.
“This is Black Lives Matter, and we are exercising our First Amendment
right to protest,” one activist said.
At one point, the crowd inched toward a line of officers in gas masks and
holding batons. Officers responded with smoke grenades, flash bangs and,
in a number of instances, jets of pepper spray. Protesters countered by
throwing plastic bottles of water, hunks of concrete and rocks.
At last, officers soon surrounded the marchers. Police detained
demonstrators as Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” played on the sound
system.
The tenor’s soothing voice called out into the restless night:
“Picket lines and picket signs
Don’t punish me with brutality
Talk to me, so you can see
Oh, what’s going on.”
William Branigin, Ashley Cusick, Isaac Stanley-Becker and Mark Berman
contributed to this report.
Comments:
billbillcolorado
10:57 AM PDT
i will be so happy when someone decides to run over a group of these
people. all you have are lazy unemployed teens that want to be so
cool....they can post their self absorbed videos on social media
LikeReplyShare1
TheRapperFormerlyKnownAsGunRack
10:57 AM PDT
The fastest way to fix a black neighborhood is to invite the latinos in.
So maybe instead of rebuilding the CVSs they burn down we should replace
them with El Supers
LikeReplyShare
MakeWesterosGreatAgain
10:57 AM PDT
A quick scan of McKesson's Facebook page shows he went to NOLA for the
express purpose of getting himself arrested.
The best punishment for this guy is a quick release and a rapid slide into
anonymity. Nobody will ever remember they even heard of this grifter.
LikeReplyShare
Politico101
10:54 AM PDT
bertram2
1:49 PM EST
Peaceful protesting. This is beautiful stuff.
Sunday morning, St. Paul Police Chief Todd Axtell confirmed 21 officers
were injured by projectiles, including fireworks, rocks, bricks, concrete
chunks and glass bottles. At the height of the confrontation, police said
some people started arming themselves with rebar from a nearby
construction site. Police then used smoke and to clear the crowd. After
the freeway was cleared, one officer was hit in the face by a bottle
thrown by a protester on a St. Paul city street.
Police are deploying smoke on the crowds to get them to leave the area by
the pedestrian bridge.
Protest shuts down I-94 in St. Paul: 21 officers injured, 102 arrested
"Protesters last night turned into criminals," Chief Axtell said, noting
police will not tolerate violence during demonstrations.
LikeReplyShare1
TravelingOn
10:58 AM PDT
Bert figures if it didn't happen to him or his family, it didn't happen.
If one of his family were injured, the crocodile tears would be flooding
the country.
LikeReply
bloggod
10:54 AM PDT
"The killings have saddened and angered Americans of all racial
backgrounds, and spurred thousands to march.
There have been mostly peaceful demonstrations in Chicago, where three
were arrested Saturday. Throngs protested in New York City, where 20
people were arrested.
Demonstrations have unfolded in cities including Washington, D.C.,
Atlanta, Miami and Fort Lauderdale, Florida."
_____________________
LikeReplyShare1
TheUnder Dogue
10:58 AM PDT
The Dallas police killings.
The others? Meh.
LikeReply
DaliLlama
10:54 AM PDT
The Black solution
"Burn that b*^€¥ down"
Michael Browns father.
Ferguson, MO.
Baltimore.
Burn down your places of employment and neighborhood stores.
That will show "them".
LikeReplyShare3
Pope Algore
10:55 AM PDT
BLM invites everyone to join the chant "Pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like
bacon"... and reminds everyone that tonight is BYOSR (Bring Your Own
Sniper Rifle) night at the BLM protest.
LikeReply
TheRapperFormerlyKnownAsGunRack
10:56 AM PDT
Look if they want to burn down their neighborhoods, that is fine by me.
The latinos will come through crime will drop investment will boom.
LikeReply
DavidM in Cal
10:56 AM PDT
You want to judge tens of millions of Blacks based on the comments of one
grieving parent after receiving unexpected bad news?
Do you also judge the 800,000 police in this country based on one under-
trained and skittish officer in Minnesota?
LikeReply1
Zelena222
10:53 AM PDT
It's pretty stunning to read the comments. Twenty years ago, there was no
comments section to talk to yourself out loud in racist language. You
either whispered it to your fellows or shut up. It wasn't out in public.
Now, with each passing day I see more and more comments that are flat out
hateful to African Americans in totality. Expressing hate of the whole
group and everything about them, based on skin color. Not a criticism of
some specific thing. It's like Yugoslavia. It's nationalism spiraling out
of control fast. Separating people into groups by some characteristic that
you can't opt out of, and squaring off into corners. You can't rule out
the possibility of war.
LikeReplyShare
John L Bernstein
10:55 AM PDT
Rule it out? No, encourage it.
LikeReply
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Police in Baton Rouge late Saturday arrested DeRay McKesson, one of the
most visible faces of the Black Lives Matter movement, during one of
several protests over the recent fatal shootings of black men. Police
arrested more than 200 people on a night of tension and unrest.
Throughout the nation, demonstrators on Saturday demanded accountability
from police. The protests stretched into early Sunday in Baton Rouge and
St. Paul, Minn., where tensions are most raw after the deaths of Alton
Sterling in the Louisiana city and of Philando Castile in a St. Paul
suburb.
With activists and police on edge after those deaths and the sniper
killings of five police officers in Dallas, the United States is “sitting
on a powder keg,” said Charles H. Ramsey, a former police chief in
Washington and Philadelphia.
President Obama plans to travel to Dallas on Tuesday at the invitation of
the city’s mayor to deliver remarks at an interfaith memorial service for
the slain officers, the White House announced Sunday.
A Baton Rouge parish prison official told The Washington Post on Sunday
morning that more than 120 people were arrested overnight at multiple
protest sites across the Louisiana capital.
[Black Lives Matter Activist Deray McKesson taken into custody by Baton
Rouge police]
McKesson was charged with obstructing a highway of commerce, said the
prison official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because she was
not authorized to talk to reporters. She said bond had not been set for
the arrested protesters as of late Sunday morning. Another official said
bonds for demonstrators arrested the previous night were set between $250
and $400.
A late night sit-in on a Minnesota highway broke up after smoke bombs and
flash-bang grenades were used by officers, who were the targets of rocks
and water bottles thrown by protesters. During the confrontation, five
officers suffered minor injuries — including one struck in the head with a
large piece of concrete, a St. Paul Police Department spokesman tweeted.
He later told the Star Tribune newspaper that about 50 people were
arrested during that incident and 50 more later in the night.
The people arrested during the melee could be charged with rioting, the
spokesman told The Washington Post. The others, detained at a different
location, were cited for public nuisance and unlawful assembly and
released, he said.
Shortly before 10 p.m. local time Saturday, someone had shot at the San
Antonio Police Department headquarters. No one was injured, but police
leaders were anxious, given the slayings of five officers in Dallas on
Thursday by a gunman who, police say, was enraged by the deaths of black
people at the hands of police officers.
[Amid protests and vigils, a small cry for a nation on edge: ‘It hurts too
much’]
There was no similar violence on Saturday or widespread unrest like what
occurred after the death of Freddie Gray in police custody in Baltimore
and the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. But demonstrations were
punctuated with tense confrontations.
In an interview Sunday morning on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Ramsey said:
“You can call it a powder keg. You can say that we’re handling
nitroglycerin. But obviously when you just look at what’s going on, we’re
at a very critical point in the history of this country.” The former
police chief, who was chosen by President Obama in 2014 to head the Task
Force on 21st Century Policing, also expressed concern about incidents
during the upcoming Republican and Democratic conventions because “the
climate is simply too volatile.”
On Saturday, members of the New Black Panther Party came face to face with
Louisiana state troopers outside a police headquarters. At night, police
took dozens of activists in Baton Rouge into custody, including McKesson.
McKesson, who lives in Baltimore, documented protests in Baton Rouge on
Saturday, the same day as his 31st birthday. He narrated the events
surrounding him on Periscope, criticizing Baton Rouge police for what he
saw as a heavy-handed response to peaceful protests. And did the same in
frequent postings on Twitter and Vine.
As he and other activists marched through one of Baton Rouge’s busiest
highways, which passes the police headquarters, McKesson assailed police
for provoking people after an officer threatened to arrest anyone walking
on the road, according to video obtained by The Post. Another high-profile
activist fired back that they were on the shoulder because there was no
sidewalk.
Later, officers approached McKesson. The smartphone he was using to
broadcast the march and his ongoing commentary fell from his hands as he
was arrested.
According to other activists, two police officers slammed McKesson to the
ground and took him into custody along with 33 other activists.
In a text message to The Post from within police custody, McKesson said he
and the nearly three dozen others were in custody together, wrists tied,
and being taken to a police precinct. A police spokesman confirmed his
arrest to the Advocate newspaper but did not elaborate on potential
charges and did not respond to a request for comment from The Post.
As Saturday night became Sunday morning, there was no word on what charges
McKesson might be facing. But a website for a local jail showed that
McKesson was an inmate there as of Sunday. He called a close friend in
Baltimore around 5:30 a.m. and told her he was in okay physical condition
but did not know when he would be released, the friend told The Post.
News of McKesson’s arrest quickly spread on Twitter, fueling outrage over
the possibility that he may have been deliberately targeted. The hashtag
#FreeDeray began to trend almost immediately on Twitter after McKesson’s
arrest and was trending with more than 100,000 tweets hours later as of 5
a.m., with many tweets urging people to call Baton Rouge police and demand
his release. McKesson was arrested nearly a year ago in August during a
sit-in outside a federal courthouse in St. Louis to commemorate the first
anniversary of Brown’s death.
McKesson rose to national prominence when he left Minneapolis after the
death of Brown in Ferguson to become an activist and to document the
growing movement seeking reforms in how law enforcement across the country
treats communities of color. He has amassed roughly 450,000 Twitter
followers and has been a forceful advocate for the Black Lives Matter
movement on cable and in late-night television appearances.
Earlier this year, McKesson sought to transform from activist to
politician by running for Baltimore mayor. But the national spotlight
wasn’t enough to endear him to voters there, and he finished far behind
well-established political figures in the Democratic primary.
In the quiet period after the plethora of tense standoffs and arrests in
Baton Rouge, three young protesters put on thin blue gloves and grabbed
large trash bags.
“Last night, when people was running, they were tripping over the water
bottles,” said Allyson Leach, 24. “This way if something happens, people
will be safe.”
Across from them, police officers formed a human barricade outside police
headquarters.
Barely moving. Shields up.
Still, protesters kept coming. They gathered on a swale outside a Shell
gas station. They shouted, “No justice, no peace!”and wondered whether the
police would charge at them again. They carried signs — “I Can’t Keep Calm
I Have a Black Son,” one read — and raised their voices to sing “We Shall
Overcome” and dropped used water bottles on to the ground.
Leach and her friends were there to pick them up.
“I am working full time, I’m a student and a mother,” added Shelby
McKnight, 25. “But I am out here anyway because we need to stand up.”
Stand up.
Both had felt a movement was afoot in Baton Rouge. It was bound to happen,
they thought. If it happened in Ferguson and Baltimore, it was bound to
happen in this place, too, where the black community had long had tensions
with the police force.
On Friday, McKnight recalled looking into one police officer’s eyes. She
yelled at him and begged him to speak out for justice. She had no idea
what he would do next and got a little scared. Tears welled in her eyes,
and the officer stared back. He too, she said, had started to cry.
“They know,” McKnight said. “They have to know that wrong was done.”
The crowds thinned at midnight, and police officers began filing back into
the headquarters.
Others joined to help them pick up trash. They filled 22 bags and three
boxes. “I’ll see you tomorrow,” Leach said. “It could get ugly again.”
But for this night, the police had retreated, the songs had died down. And
the lawn was left clean.
Earlier in the evening in St. Paul, Castile’s friends, family and
relatives from as far as St. Louis assembled in a parking lot at dusk,
waiting for the light to fade.
Steps away, along Larpenteur Ave., in Falcon Heights, Castile was pulled
over and fatally shot during a traffic stop on Wednesday, and his
girlfriend streamed his dying moments and the officer’s reactions in a
widely viewed Facebook Live video. In the days since, a makeshift memorial
formed beside the pavement, where the hot sun wilted flowers and melted
candle wax into puddles on the concrete sidewalk.
When the sunlight faded, family members lighted the remaining candles anew
and tied up shiny balloons to memorialize Castile at the place where he
died. His sister, Allysza Castile, thanked the group of about 50 who came
to pay their respects. They held a moment of silence and prayed to “find
justice in his death.”
About four miles south, hundreds of Black Lives Matter protesters led a
march from the governor’s mansion onto a busy interstate, snarling traffic
in both directions. The response from law enforcement was swift. What
started as a peaceful demonstration during the course of the next six
hours escalated into a tense and at times violent standoff with police
ready in riot gear.
The marchers moved slowly along the highway. Many of them bounced to
Kendrick Lamar, Run the Jewels and N.W.A pumping through loudspeakers.
They sat into the late hours of the evening.
“This is Black Lives Matter, and we are exercising our First Amendment
right to protest,” one activist said.
At one point, the crowd inched toward a line of officers in gas masks and
holding batons. Officers responded with smoke grenades, flash bangs and,
in a number of instances, jets of pepper spray. Protesters countered by
throwing plastic bottles of water, hunks of concrete and rocks.
At last, officers soon surrounded the marchers. Police detained
demonstrators as Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” played on the sound
system.
The tenor’s soothing voice called out into the restless night:
“Picket lines and picket signs
Don’t punish me with brutality
Talk to me, so you can see
Oh, what’s going on.”
William Branigin, Ashley Cusick, Isaac Stanley-Becker and Mark Berman
contributed to this report.
Comments:
billbillcolorado
10:57 AM PDT
i will be so happy when someone decides to run over a group of these
people. all you have are lazy unemployed teens that want to be so
cool....they can post their self absorbed videos on social media
LikeReplyShare1
TheRapperFormerlyKnownAsGunRack
10:57 AM PDT
The fastest way to fix a black neighborhood is to invite the latinos in.
So maybe instead of rebuilding the CVSs they burn down we should replace
them with El Supers
LikeReplyShare
MakeWesterosGreatAgain
10:57 AM PDT
A quick scan of McKesson's Facebook page shows he went to NOLA for the
express purpose of getting himself arrested.
The best punishment for this guy is a quick release and a rapid slide into
anonymity. Nobody will ever remember they even heard of this grifter.
LikeReplyShare
Politico101
10:54 AM PDT
bertram2
1:49 PM EST
Peaceful protesting. This is beautiful stuff.
Sunday morning, St. Paul Police Chief Todd Axtell confirmed 21 officers
were injured by projectiles, including fireworks, rocks, bricks, concrete
chunks and glass bottles. At the height of the confrontation, police said
some people started arming themselves with rebar from a nearby
construction site. Police then used smoke and to clear the crowd. After
the freeway was cleared, one officer was hit in the face by a bottle
thrown by a protester on a St. Paul city street.
Police are deploying smoke on the crowds to get them to leave the area by
the pedestrian bridge.
Protest shuts down I-94 in St. Paul: 21 officers injured, 102 arrested
"Protesters last night turned into criminals," Chief Axtell said, noting
police will not tolerate violence during demonstrations.
LikeReplyShare1
TravelingOn
10:58 AM PDT
Bert figures if it didn't happen to him or his family, it didn't happen.
If one of his family were injured, the crocodile tears would be flooding
the country.
LikeReply
bloggod
10:54 AM PDT
"The killings have saddened and angered Americans of all racial
backgrounds, and spurred thousands to march.
There have been mostly peaceful demonstrations in Chicago, where three
were arrested Saturday. Throngs protested in New York City, where 20
people were arrested.
Demonstrations have unfolded in cities including Washington, D.C.,
Atlanta, Miami and Fort Lauderdale, Florida."
_____________________
LikeReplyShare1
TheUnder Dogue
10:58 AM PDT
The Dallas police killings.
The others? Meh.
LikeReply
DaliLlama
10:54 AM PDT
The Black solution
"Burn that b*^€¥ down"
Michael Browns father.
Ferguson, MO.
Baltimore.
Burn down your places of employment and neighborhood stores.
That will show "them".
LikeReplyShare3
Pope Algore
10:55 AM PDT
BLM invites everyone to join the chant "Pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like
bacon"... and reminds everyone that tonight is BYOSR (Bring Your Own
Sniper Rifle) night at the BLM protest.
LikeReply
TheRapperFormerlyKnownAsGunRack
10:56 AM PDT
Look if they want to burn down their neighborhoods, that is fine by me.
The latinos will come through crime will drop investment will boom.
LikeReply
DavidM in Cal
10:56 AM PDT
You want to judge tens of millions of Blacks based on the comments of one
grieving parent after receiving unexpected bad news?
Do you also judge the 800,000 police in this country based on one under-
trained and skittish officer in Minnesota?
LikeReply1
Zelena222
10:53 AM PDT
It's pretty stunning to read the comments. Twenty years ago, there was no
comments section to talk to yourself out loud in racist language. You
either whispered it to your fellows or shut up. It wasn't out in public.
Now, with each passing day I see more and more comments that are flat out
hateful to African Americans in totality. Expressing hate of the whole
group and everything about them, based on skin color. Not a criticism of
some specific thing. It's like Yugoslavia. It's nationalism spiraling out
of control fast. Separating people into groups by some characteristic that
you can't opt out of, and squaring off into corners. You can't rule out
the possibility of war.
LikeReplyShare
John L Bernstein
10:55 AM PDT
Rule it out? No, encourage it.
LikeReply
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Byker
Jul 11, 2016, 9:07:55 AM7/11/16
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"Leroy N. Soetoro" wrote in message
news:XnsA641900267...@202.81.252.44...
> Another official said bonds for demonstrators arrested the previous night
> were set between $250 and $400.
Hike their bonds to $250,000-$400,000 and they'll definitely think twice
before doing that shit again...
news:XnsA641900267...@202.81.252.44...
> Another official said bonds for demonstrators arrested the previous night
> were set between $250 and $400.
before doing that shit again...
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