In Ferguson, activists in search of a revolution

MSNBC ^ | October 19, 2014 | Amanda Sakuma

[2ndDivisionVet]

FERGUSON, Missouri — It took seven University of Pennsylvania students piled into a rental van nearly 16 hours to drive to St. Louis. They had raised $600 in three days from a Go Fund Me account that was supposed to last them through the weekend. They slept wherever they could crash for free — the basement of a St. Louis couple’s home, or packed on the floor of a church at night.

But once in Ferguson, it was nothing like the war zone they had seen splashed on their television screens exactly two months earlier.

Instead of armored vehicles blocking suburban intersections and stoking chaos in the streets, police squad cars were escorting peaceful marches that were careful organized and tailored during the day. Instead of training assault rifles on the faces of protesters, officers were standing idly by, at times even joking around with anyone within earshot.

“I guess we are feeding off of what we saw in August,” 22-year-old Laura Krasovitzky said one night in Ferguson, looking around disappointedly as the crowds outside the police department began to disperse at an early hour.

“We all came because we saw the footage on TV of what happened,” she added. “I think people were shocked because this was happening in the U.S.”

Without the heavily militarized law enforcement response to what started as local outrage over the killing of a young black teen by a white police officer, young people like Krasovitzky may never have joined in demonstrations held months later. But as calls for the officer’s arrest grow more desperate, the movement takes on a greater meaning for supporters hundreds of miles away who seek an end to police violence....

[Nailbiter]

Ivy League school

I was amused that the 7 could only raise $600 form Go Fund me.

What their parents would not foot the bill

[Friendofgeorge]

Is the Black Church praying for Officer Darren?

[XenaLee]

Yes... at least, in the 60’s...the hippie ‘cause’ was merely an excuse to have casual sex, even though they were too stupid to realize that the anti-war and anti-American leftists were, even then, using them to further the leftist agenda of bringing down and defeating America from within.

This “new” cause is based on a false premise from the start. The false premise that Michael Brown was an upstanding “kid” that did not deserve to be shot by a cop like that. The truth is quite different from the premise, however. So all of these idiots that are protesting, are...again, and half a century later... protesting on behalf of a criminal...and on behalf of those same leftists still trying to bring America down from within. Only problem now is.....they are succeeding.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Praying for his conviction & imprisonment, you mean?

[gogeo]

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the benefit of their inexperience."

Oscar Wilde

[Friendofgeorge]

I was using Sarcasm to show that they are more like a politica social club than a serious Church. I dont see the Gospel being preached at any ALL Black Church in the USA, perhaps there is a ALL Black Church in the USA that is not anti Christian, I am just not aware of any.