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Abolish the police? Organizers say it’s less crazy than it sounds.
The Chicago Reader ^ | August 24, 2016 | Maya Dukmasova

Posted on 08/26/2016 12:12:00 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Until that moment on Fox News, Jessica Disu hadn't considered herself a police abolitionist. But on July 11, she was on national television, surrounded by 29 other people convened by Megyn Kelly to discuss the recent killings of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and several Dallas police officers.

"I was under the impression that it would be a robust and productive conversation, even though it was Fox News," says 27-year-old Disu, who identifies herself as a "humanitarian rap artist and peace activist" and is involved with various organizations serving youth on the south side. She prepared her message before going on the show: "It should be against the law for an officer to shoot a civilian," she says. "That was what my message was supposed to be."

Disu was seated in the front row, wearing a green dress, black blazer, and gold hoop earrings, her braids pulled up in a bun. Next to her was Ron Hosko, a former assistant director of the FBI. Also present at the forum: several retired NYPD officers, a "conservative voter," a black pastor from Baltimore active with Black Lives Matter, a black pastor from Los Angeles who said Black Lives Matter was "worse than the KKK," a civil rights attorney, a civil rights movement leader, a white woman who referred to Newt Gingrich's "beautifully" spoken comments on race relations, a black Trump supporter, a "Second Amendment advocate," and several unidentified others.

The discussion quickly turned raucous, with panelists shouting over each other as Kelly called on participants to answer polemical questions in quick succession....

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagoreader.com ...


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: blacklivesmatter; commiefrontgroup; communist; crime; ghetto; lawenforcement; police
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In the days of newspapers, it cost money for paper and ink, and the heavy newspapers needed to be delivered. Therefore newspapers had editors to see that vomitus like this never saw the light of day.

Articles like this are what the old saying, “not worth the paper it’s printed on” was for.

This is literacy porn.

No offense to you for posting it, 2dvet. Someone has to understand what the loonies are up to. Hope the FBI is aware of this “activist.”


41 posted on 08/26/2016 7:12:13 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("They only smear who they fear." --Diamond and Silk)
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To: ETL

You’re right, I’m sure.


42 posted on 08/26/2016 7:50:19 AM PDT by uncitizen (Americanism NOT Globalism! - Trump)
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To: uncitizen

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/backroom/3463056/posts?page=15#15


43 posted on 08/26/2016 7:52:07 AM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Me and the boys think that is ok.
We will take care of any trouble our way.
ping
44 posted on 08/26/2016 4:59:32 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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