Posted on 08/18/2014 2:47:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Each day when the nightly violence in Ferguson, Missouri, subsides, Erma Dupree and other volunteers descend on the tense town's streets to sweep up the broken glass, shell casings and flung bottles.
Dupree, 55, has been driving from her St. Louis home to Ferguson every day since last Monday.
“I clean up the streets for about three hours during the day. I don’t want to be around that area at night because of the tear gas being fired at the riots,” Dupree said.
“It was just horrific. There was more broken glass than I’ve ever seen in my life,” Dupree said. “I even saw bullet shells.”
Amanda Terkel ✔ @aterkel
This lovely lady, Erma Dupree, 55, has been out here for hours
cleaning up at the QT in #ferguson.
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“I found bottles of all kinds of alcohol that people use to make [Molotov] cocktails,” Dupree said. “There is paper torn off from stuff people stole from those vandalized stores.”
“I feel like this is what is going on between Ukraine and Russia. You see it on TV, but you never imagine this will happen in front of your own door,” Dupree said.
“It’s just…oh… so chaotic,” she added....
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Listening to St. Louis County Police Scanner and Protesters are on the move right now
They re probably paying people to hold a broom to look like they are helping. The media, the black population, and the government all have an agenda here. Funny how the only picture I have seen is this one. Where’s the rest of the “good people” in Ferguson?
I would expect to see casings, if for no other cause from people defending their homes and businesses.
Ya. Surprised that it hasn’t broken out into all out war.
We can only hope that the looters are few.
By “shell casings” they must mean those plastic carry cases that holds those foam ear plugs.
Wasn’t the QT burned to the ground by the people who thought it was the store that the punk robbed before he was shot.
The QT was already cleaned up and fenced off by the fire department. She’s just holding a broom. There’s no glass there.
I’m in Wentzville, please keep us posted.
Bless her. I’ll bet if she raised a son he never roughed up a merchant or attacked a cop.
She’s sweeping up perfectly good once fired brass and tossing it in the trash?Oh the humanity!
Sorry bud but she is at the QT - the fence is behind her. They only fenced off the burnt building and not the parking lot. The parking lot has been where many of the radical ones have been meeting up on a daily basis. Daily local newscast show the mess that is left behind and some of the local media is covering the people who are cleaning up the place during the day. National media is really not covering everything.
Burned out QuikTrip being put off-limits as Ferguson gathering spot
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