Posted on 03/15/2015 6:14:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
On Thursday night, the scene outside of the Ferguson police department was remarkably calm, given two police officers had been shot from hundreds of feet away 24 hours earlier.
The police milled about outside without wearing riot gear (though heavily armored cops were waiting inside an adjacent building), and the protesters chanted, marched and yelled confidently, even as they occupied an ominous space between police officers who had repeatedly abused them and a sniper at large who could have had a sight pointed at their backs.
But there was no need to protest any differently or give in to fear, according to demonstrator DeRay McKesson, since “the reality is we live in fear, in blackness, in America every day”.
“I’m no more afraid than I have ever been,” McKesson said, but, as a protester, he added, “I can’t walk into spaces afraid. We plan from a place of hope, and we believe that.”(continued)
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Steven W Thrasher is a weekly columnist for Guardian US. He was named Journalist of the Year 2012 by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Village Voice, Rolling Stone, BuzzFeed, the Advocate and more
They’re already rallying around Jeffrey Williams as the victim of police brutality.
Black Lives Matter apparently was forgotten when the two black thugs gunned down the black cop in Philly.
I`d guess, take it to other cities and shoot more?
Any rioters should be stopped with full-auto. And let the dogs and rats clean up the mess.
NEXT-— incompetent clueless Blacks will be sought for Ferguson Police Department And City Council.. AND .. school board..
Journalism by sausage smugglers and turd stranglers... Enema News..
#BlackLiesMatter
You beat me to it. Why do you think whitey is stalking up like mad.
I would worry about letting dogs do that....better the rats
“Black Lives Matter More Than Anything Else” also has a ring of truth to it ...
Steaming Pile Alert!
Ya knew the Ferguson cop shooter would be the next victim.
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