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Nonviolence rally marred by multiple fights
Kansas City Star ^ | July 29, 2014 | MATT CAMPBELL

Posted on 07/30/2014 1:42:59 PM PDT by Second Amendment First

A circus parade and rally for nonviolence that drew hundreds of people to the Linwood Shopping Center on Tuesday evening had to be cut short when multiple fights broke out.

Kansas City Police Chief Darryl Forté said the organizers stopped the event. He tweeted that the crowds dispersed and there were no reported injuries.

But the fighting marred an event, called “Your Life Counts,” that was intended to celebrate survival in a city plagued by crime.

Performers and animals from the UniverSoul Circus paraded north on Prospect Avenue from 39th Street to the rally.

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Performers in bright costumes walked on stilts through the crowd as Caribbean dancers invited young people from the audience onto the stage to do the limbo.

“Don’t tell me something good can’t happen on Prospect,” Brooks said before the fights broke out.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: universoulcircus; yourlifecounts
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Plenty of animals on Prospect's soul circus already.
1 posted on 07/30/2014 1:42:59 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
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To: Second Amendment First

Can’t win for losing...


2 posted on 07/30/2014 1:44:54 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: Second Amendment First

Maybe they just need some midnight basketball.


3 posted on 07/30/2014 1:46:19 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: Second Amendment First

Hope the pinhead and bearded lady weren’t involved.


4 posted on 07/30/2014 1:46:45 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Second Amendment First

Rates right up there with “we’re the religion of peace and we’ll cut the heads off of anybody who suggests otherwise”.

Irony is so ironical.

CC


5 posted on 07/30/2014 1:46:52 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (tease not the dragon for thou art crunchy when roasted and taste good with ketchup)
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To: Second Amendment First
For informational purposes only, I present the UniverSoul Circus official website ...
6 posted on 07/30/2014 1:47:08 PM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: Second Amendment First

Sounds like it. At least some in the neighborhood were trying to make a difference, but they got a taste of reality. An animal is an animal because they are animals. It’s not the environment that is to blame.


7 posted on 07/30/2014 1:47:10 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: Second Amendment First
Can't decide which is better, fights breaking out at a peace rally or global warming nuts getting their ship stuck in the ice and needing rescue.
8 posted on 07/30/2014 1:49:35 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: Second Amendment First

Isn’t it ironic.... don’tcha think?


9 posted on 07/30/2014 1:50:40 PM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (I'm not anti-government, government's anti-me.)
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But the fighting marred an event, called “Your Life Counts,” that was intended to celebrate survival in a city plagued by crime.
The usual suspects.
Let's see, 50 years of "parades" with Your Life Counts and I Am Somebody and I Am a Man
and all the rest of the BS and they still can't figure it out.
10 posted on 07/30/2014 1:50:54 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Second Amendment First

Performers and animals from the UniverSoul Circus paraded north on Prospect Avenue from 39th Street to the rally.

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I think I read all I need to to understand why the fights broke out.


11 posted on 07/30/2014 1:54:22 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Farmer Dean

>> Hope the pinhead and bearded lady weren’t involved.

Nah, I think Barry and Shelly were watching teevee at the white hut.


12 posted on 07/30/2014 1:54:40 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: Second Amendment First

Could it be...FERAL AMISH?!?!?!?!


13 posted on 07/30/2014 1:55:59 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Celtic Conservative
IT is ironical. But discouraging. Parades and slogans instead of getting down to the business of living responsibly. No wonder they got nothing but more of the same.
14 posted on 07/30/2014 1:58:58 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: oh8eleven
Yep. I don't recall Asians marching in parades and protests for the last 50 years.

They just worked hard and became one of the most successful groups in America.

15 posted on 07/30/2014 2:14:18 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers

Alanis Morissette quotes aren’t allowed on FR. :)


16 posted on 07/30/2014 2:20:23 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Ken H

Lesson I learned in Sacramento

Comcast was going to cancel the Japanese channel and replace it with international

Two Japanese-American community leaders
Met with vp of comcast

1week later comcast announced Japanese channel restored to line up

Nothing in the paper or tv about meeting

As told to be by my secretary


17 posted on 07/30/2014 2:24:15 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: NorthMountain

It figures. All of the acts listed are from overseas except the Elephants. http://www.universoulcircus.com/#!our-show/c1vn8

Gee, you mean there’s no circus talent in the ghetto?


18 posted on 07/30/2014 2:39:21 PM PDT by vladimir998
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To: Second Amendment First

“You can’t fight here, this is the War Room!”


19 posted on 07/30/2014 2:41:02 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Second Amendment First

I remember a time when American Police Chiefs did not have accent marks in their names.


20 posted on 07/30/2014 2:41:26 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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