Posted on 07/21/2013 8:36:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
UPDATE: 7:55 PM EST: The march ended without any major acts of violence. There were tussles, but the Houston Police Department did a great job keeping things from escalating.
At one point there was a disagreement between the New Black Panther Party and fellow marchers from the Occupy movement. One of the Occupy protesters began marching in front of Quanell X, so a few Panthers asked the man to move--to let Quanell lead. The Occupy member said he didn't see why Quanell X had to be in the front.
At the end of the event, people recognized Breitbart News' Brandon Darby and asked him to hang himself and directed numerous slurs toward him. The police had to intervene to keep Darby safe from the crowd.
Another journalist asked a question: "Would this be happening if Trayvon were white?" Upon asking the question this journalist was surrounded by many in the "Justice for Trayvon" crowd, who began to chant, "go away KKK."
The protesters accosting Darby and the other journalist were members of Occupy, not the New Black Panther Party.
Update: 6:45 PM EST: After what seems to be two miles of marching there are at least 400 people--the majority of whom are black and there are members of anarchy groups in the mix as well. At one point in the march someone standing along the side of the road held up a sign that said people in hoodies weren't welcome in his neighborhood.....
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
“Would this be happening if Trayvon were white?”
No it wouldn’t. Because if Trayvon had been white society and the media would have portrayed him for what he was; a thug and an aggressor. BUT since he was black he was/is portrayed as a sweet innocent child.
I carry that in my backpack. Love it.
They do not have the intelligence to understand that Obama’s ancestors had them in pens long before the White man came on the scene.
The way you put that, makes me wish the police had disappeared from that area for about 30 minutes. And the panthers would have filled the emergency room at the local hospital[s]up.
Yeah, right?
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