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[Ferguson] Protesters temporarily block Downtown Connector (I-75/85 in downtown Atlanta)
Ben Gray and Jon Gargis ^
| 6:50 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014
| Ben Gray and Jon Gargis
Posted on 10/23/2014 5:31:06 PM PDT by FreedomPoster
A human blockade temporarily formed on I-75/85 northbound Wednesday evening as protesters halted traffic. The incident was part of a protest in response to the Aug. 9 fatal shooting of a 18-year-old African-American by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo.
Atlanta police spokesman Officer John Chafee said a number of protesters were present on the Downtown Connector near Freedom Parkway. Their presence blocked traffic for a short time.
No arrests were made in connection to the protest, he added.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: atlanta; ferguson; georgia; missouri; trayvons
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If the Atlanta PD isn't going to arrest people for this nonsense, the governor needs to have the Highway Patrol ready to do so if it happens again. This is insanity.
To: FreedomPoster
To: AnAmericanMother; Apple Pan Dowdy; bfh333; Broker; clee1; ctdonath2; Dacula; dansangel; ...
GA FReeper ping.
Anyone get stuck in this?
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posted on
10/23/2014 5:32:29 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: FreedomPoster
Take away our Taxpayer/Welfare handouts to them and this crap would stop.
Arrest them all and take away their free bennies.
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posted on
10/23/2014 5:35:15 PM PDT
by
MaxMax
(Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
To: FreedomPoster
People inconvenienced need to start making private party arrests, and demand the police take them. Down side is they would have to show up in court, but I doubt any charges are filed.
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posted on
10/23/2014 5:37:58 PM PDT
by
Yogafist
To: FreedomPoster
Run them over. Let God sort them out...
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posted on
10/23/2014 5:38:17 PM PDT
by
MaxMax
(Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
To: FreedomPoster
They can smell the reparations money.....
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posted on
10/23/2014 5:38:30 PM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(Legacy of 'Obama The Divider' - Racial Revenge)
To: FreedomPoster
What a ridiculous show. This would never foment solidarity, as all the drivers were commuting home.
I wasn’t in it. I stay way away from downtown Atlanta unless I’m forced to pass through.
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posted on
10/23/2014 5:41:43 PM PDT
by
melissa_in_ga
(Laz would hit it.)
To: FreedomPoster
Nope-—but I would have feared for my life and not stopped for any one of them.
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posted on
10/23/2014 5:43:46 PM PDT
by
freeangel
( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
To: MaxMax
Change welfare into workfare and watch them run for the shadows.
To: FreedomPoster
What? A handful blocking traffic?
August 11, 1965, 1992, and now
“Burn, Baby, Burn”
Here we go.....
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posted on
10/23/2014 5:44:54 PM PDT
by
griswold3
(I was born here in America. I will die here in a third world country. Obama succeeded.)
To: FreedomPoster
Amazing that they refuse to give it up. Even after proven wrong, 100%, they refuse to give it up.
If I lived in this town I’d move the hell out, ASAP.
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posted on
10/23/2014 5:45:31 PM PDT
by
Kenny
(,)
To: FreedomPoster
Now, what would happen if a bunch of us went out and stopped traffic while holding signage that said “I stand with Officer Wilson”?
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posted on
10/23/2014 5:45:31 PM PDT
by
freeangel
( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
To: MaxMax
Convicted of a crime? Lose your welfare.
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posted on
10/23/2014 5:46:01 PM PDT
by
icwhatudo
(Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
To: freeangel
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posted on
10/23/2014 5:48:45 PM PDT
by
BunnySlippers
(I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
To: FreedomPoster
Do these losers work? Of course they don’t.
If these POS tried looting my business, I’d shoot them on site...and not just to injure!
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posted on
10/23/2014 5:56:36 PM PDT
by
Artcore
To: FreedomPoster
This was a spontaneous event.
The Community Agitators Formerly Known as ACORN and the racist homosexual-Musloid community agitator in the White Hut had absolutely nothing to do with it.
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posted on
10/23/2014 5:58:32 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
To: MaxMax
Yep, that was my first thought. Run them down!!!
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posted on
10/23/2014 6:05:53 PM PDT
by
Fire_on_High
(RIP City of Heroes and Paragon Studios, victim of the Obamaconomy.)
To: FreedomPoster
Where’s the &*%$#ing MAYOR?!?
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posted on
10/23/2014 6:16:13 PM PDT
by
Mamzelle
To: FreedomPoster
and the other lanes stopped, because???
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posted on
10/23/2014 6:17:41 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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