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2 Arrested as Protesters March on Mummers Parade for Equality Demonstration (Philadelphia)
WCAU-TV ^ | January 1, 2016 | Vince Lattanzio

Posted on 01/01/2016 6:33:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

A small group of demonstrators protesting police brutality, poverty and inequality marched on the Mummers Parade this New Year's Day. The demonstration ended with two people being arrested.

The group of about 50 marched toward the Broad Street parade route around 1 p.m. Friday and at one point tried to pushed past police to get into the street, but were held back. The demonstrators instead kept to the crowded sidewalks and walked down blocked side streets around Center City.

"I think this movement here has changed the conversation a lot," said Lucy Duncan as she held a large sign carrying a quote from writer Ta-Nehisi Coates above her head. "I think that the whole system needs to be changed in order for justice [to come] for all the black folks that are getting killed."

Peaceful and loud at times, protesters held signs reading 'Fund Our Schools', black, transgender, convict, homeless, and refugee lives matter and 'Justice for Tamir Rice' -- the 12-year-old black boy from Cleveland, Ohio who was shot by police as he held an air pistol. A grand jury did not indict the officers for the shooting....

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


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Local News; Politics
KEYWORDS: blacklivesmatter; goofballs; pennsylvania
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To: windcliff

If it was not for the self hating Whites, a muslim would not have been occupying the White House since 2009.


21 posted on 01/02/2016 6:47:09 AM PST by sport
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To: To Hell With Poverty

that was what I thought after looking at the picture.


22 posted on 01/02/2016 6:48:12 AM PST by sport
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To: Stentor; 2ndDivisionVet


23 posted on 01/02/2016 6:49:10 AM PST by Libloather (Embrace the suck)
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To: Prospero
Protesting Shriners and 'poverty?' Really?

Exactly. The Shriners have a big heart. How can anyone be unhappy with them? Although I remember one convention when they just about took over the city and made a huge amount of noise at night. LOL

24 posted on 01/02/2016 7:29:16 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: Albion Wilde; Tribune7; TAdams8591; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; wireman; Mr. Binnacle; brityank; ...
Thanks FRiend and Happy New Year. The BLM protests were pretty mild.
I think BLM new better than to get into a full skirmish with the Mummers on their home turf.

**** Philly Metro Ping ****



25 posted on 01/02/2016 8:42:30 AM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Stentor

That is just too dang funny. Makes me wish I had gone to the parade for a change.


26 posted on 01/02/2016 8:58:06 AM PST by dirtboy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Attention whores reveling in their self-perception of moral superiority,
when in reality it’s a childish, vain and empty masturbatory morality.


27 posted on 01/02/2016 9:28:48 AM PST by kanawa
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To: Kid Shelleen
I think BLM new better than to get into a full skirmish with the Mummers on their home turf.

I was picturing some husky, beer-drenched, red-faced guy in a dress, an apron, striped stockings, a yarn wig and coconut bra taking care of business South Philly style! LOL!!!

Let the saints go marching in!

28 posted on 01/02/2016 9:39:02 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("Look, the establishment doesn't want me, because I don't need the establishment." --Donald Trump)
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To: Stentor

That’s outrageous...ly funny!!


29 posted on 01/02/2016 10:33:58 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: Stentor

I laughed when I saw this clip. Irreverence and satire.


30 posted on 01/02/2016 12:34:25 PM PST by SueRae (It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
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To: Libloather

P.C. police nowhere in sight. :-)


31 posted on 01/02/2016 12:36:01 PM PST by SueRae (It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
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To: SueRae

The Mummers comic divisions have been doing this stuff forever.


32 posted on 01/02/2016 12:49:41 PM PST by Stentor (#Mummers lives matter.)
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To: Kid Shelleen; 2ndDivisionVet
Happy New Year to everyone!

Not sure how he felt about that "Mummers Lives Matter" sign that that Mummer was holding up, but the new Mayor-Elect Kenney of Philly already complained about that Jenner comedy skit.   (Read about that complaint right here.)

I was thinking that maybe next year, Ex-Mayor Nutter can participate in the Mummers Parade, and then they can say this little poem about him:

Ex-Mayor Nutter
Is a real Mummer Strutter!

For anyone interested in seeing this years Mummers results (and links to videos), you can find them here:

2016 Mummers Parade Results

33 posted on 01/02/2016 7:58:53 PM PST by Heart-Rest ( "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil!" Isaiah 5:20)
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