Posted on 11/11/2014 8:56:04 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
It was 8:30 a.m., and DeRay Mckesson was at a McDonald’s here, the place humming with customers despite riots that left the businesses on both sides boarded up.
With two iPhones and a laptop glowing on the table before him, Mckesson began editing the slickly curated newsletter of articles, tweets and photographs that he and a friend have published almost every day since an unarmed 18-year-old, Michael Brown, was shot by a police officer just around the corner.
Mckesson’s readership has been mounting as tensions in Ferguson are again on the rise ahead of a grand jury’s decision, expected in the coming days, of whether to indict the officer, Darren Wilson.
The protest campaign, which emerged out of the riots that followed Brown’s killing, lacks a single charismatic leader or direction from a national organization. But at the front lines, an influential contingent of organizers including Mckesson is giving the movement a sense of identity and shaping how the American public sees it....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Why didn’t they release this today, when it’s damn cold?
If they wait until next week when it’s warmer I’ll be thinking there’s collusion between the police and the rioters.
unarmed 18-year-old, Michael Brown,
Did he lose his arms in a chipper?
People who don’t live in ferguson are going to make sure that ferguson burns in the name of peace and justice, and screw the people that do live in ferguson.
good point
IOW, they’re professional malcontents.
The GGs arms were tired from clutching blunts and grabbing the clerk/vic.
And that guy has TWO iphones..gee, these are the same people who claim they can’t afford health insurance and demand the Govt give it to them for free
Like Bammy (Hopium be upon him)
My cell phone would make 96% of the people here chuckle.
Probably on welfare, has nothing better to do and our tax Dollars support this useless sucker.
I'm pretty sure you could make the same statement about dung beetles and it would be just as accurate.
From the article—>> I will never forget where I was when the Zimmerman verdict came in,” he said. “It was dark. I cried.”
Yeah, I was celebrating George was found not guilty.
God what horse blank this is. Absolute horse blank.
There’s a spate of African Americans being killed by.police and vigilantes? Really? This is an epidemic???
And the girl who quit her job, saying there’s no point in going to work because she might get shot any day now because of her skin color??? Really?? Do these people live in the real world? Are they part of the lunatic fringe???
What, pepper spray?
Just think if this much effort was devoted to such trivialities as
finding a job....
or starting a business.
Going to a school, learning a trade.
I guess race-baiting can become a way of life. And they thought that Joan of Arc heard mysterious voices.
...joining the Civilian Defense Corps .... becoming an usher at the Nation of Islam ... working for ACORN to sign up dead people for voting ....
What, it’s better than my “reduced for clearance” trac-fone? Do you have to crank it to get a signal?
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