Posted on 11/08/2014 10:51:46 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Chris Schaefer was sitting in a church pew at a meeting Thursday night when those around him gradually eased away. Seconds later, he was lying on the ground outside as five men attacked him.
The meeting was a gathering of Ferguson-based protesters and the agenda was how to conduct future demonstrations. When Schaefer — a senior at the University of Missouri, St. Louis — arrived, he was told he couldn’t live video stream the meeting. The rule struck him as “suspicious,” but in a conversation with BuzzFeed News Friday he said he sat down and obeyed it anyway. And for the next 40 minutes, nothing happened.
At some point, however, Schaefer noticed the people around him moving away “very discreetly.” Then a man he didn’t know sprang into action.
“All of the sudden one guy ran up to me and pointed and said he’s live streaming. Four others joined him,” Schaefer said. “They slammed me against the exit door of the church, so I stumbled out. The guy who was in the front hit me a couple times in the face. I fell to the ground and I was stunned.”
The beating didn’t stop there. Schaefer said the men continued kicking and hitting him as he tried to shield himself with his arms. The barrage only stopped when “five to 10” other people at the gathering stepped in. “They actually pointed at the road and said run. So I ran.”
Schaefer said he sprinted down the road trying to flag down a car, but no one stopped. After hiding in bushes and a convenience store, only to find the attacking men again, he went inside a Walgreens, where a store clerk called 911.
Police and an ambulance eventually arrived. Schaefer was taken to a local hospital, where tests and a CT scan revealed that he had escaped with bruises. He checked out on Friday and has launched a Go Fund Me page to pay for his hospital bills. He also recorded a video in which he talks about what happened:
CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE VIDEO....
St. Louis County Police spokesman Shawn McGuire confirmed to BuzzFeed News Friday that there was an assault at the meeting Friday and that the victim was taken to a hospital.
Patricia Bynes, who was at the meeting and has been a longtime Ferguson protester, corroborated much of Schaefer’s story to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Friday.
She condemned the attack and said the assailants appeared to be members of Lost Voices, a group of protesters that formed in the weeks after Michael Brown’s death.
However, Lost Voices member Bud Cuzz denied that his group was invovled. He told the Post-Dispatch he “didn’t see anyone get beat” and that Schaefer should have “followed directions.”
“I can tell you that (Schaefer) was told specifically at the start of the meeting: no cameras, no pictures and no recording,” Cuzz said.
Schaefer said he initially began live streaming in Ferguson in October because he wanted to “cover this event from that middle ground perspective and just show exactly what was happening.” During his time there, he said he made friends with some of the protesters.
But he also saw fissures in what might otherwise seem like a unified movement. Schaefer said there are groups of people who want the protests to remain peaceful, and there are others who appear to be “agitators” that “make it more of a black and white issue.” Schaefer said his attackers were apparently part of the latter group.
Tensions also remain high in Ferguson and the surrounding areas as the community waits to see if Officer Darren Wilson will face criminal charges, but few there believe he actually will. Bynes mentioned the tension in her conversation with the Post-Dispatch, and Schaefer said it may have been a factor in his assault.
“Definitely the feeling probably among 95% of the people,” Schaefer said, “is that Darren Wilson will be released.”
Let me guess...Chris Schaefer is NOT Amish?
Play with feral creatures they will turn on you.
The dead beat POS is trying to get people to pay for his medical bills via Go Fund Me ?
IMHO, he did not get beat enough.
It is my hope that the rest of scumbags involved get beat down even worse in the riots they are planning to incite.
Animals.....sadly....their black “leaders” (WHY do blcks need leaders?) have RUINED them.
I think his attempt to live feed out of there, reveals his mindset. Those there had no right to do what they did, even if he was clandestinely doing a live feed. Simply kick him out.
The leadership should have stopped the violence. That they didn’t reveals what kind of group we’re talking about.
I’m not convinced he was merely playing their game.
It may be stupid, but it takes a certain amount of guts to take a risk like that for the story.
Bingo! Which one does not look like the others?
He has all the naivete one expects in a young liberal.
You can bet Chris remains ‘baffled and perplexed’ as to why he was beaten and not someone else.
What do they have to hide?
Lie down with vermin, get up with fleas.
Ferguson protesters are prone to violence? Who knew?
Yet it is racist of anyone to fear violence when the grand jury report is released. Al Sharpton has complained in the past that people associate blacks with crime and violence.
“The dead beat POS is trying to get people to pay for his medical bills via Go Fund Me ?
IMHO, he did not get beat enough.”
Why doesn’t he sue the people who beat him up?
Oh...yeah...
Unfortunately, this was apparently NOT a learning experience, or, as they say now, a “teachable moment”. Well, I’d say that it just needs to be “pounded in to him”...
The pitiful liberal white “protesters” who have been attending these demonstrations looking for some meaning to their empty lives need to be cautious about what may happen once the decision of the grand jury is announced. They may be nothing more that an available white person on which irrational and baseless rage can be directed.
Mamas, don’t let your kids grow up to be white Ferguson demonstrators — — they may incur some brain damage or worse.
Lie down with hogs, get stomped into the mud.
No doubt the dimwit will still side with these miscreants once he’s out of the hospital. Maybe even more enthusiastically than before.
Wait. Darren Wilson will be released? Is he being held?
” They may be nothing more that an available white person on which irrational and baseless rage can be directed.”
1. One can hope.
“they may incur some brain damage...”
2. How would one determine this? Or do you mean, as a result of being beat up there? Do you mean “additional brain damage”? Good thing the AHCA allows for “preexisting conditions”.
“(WHY do blcks need leaders?)” Good point.
Black Leaders are approved by Liberal White Leaders to keep blacks in line.
That was your basic plantation set up right?
"When seconds count, the police are only minutes away."™
Were any 70 inch TV’s damaged??????
“The dead beat POS is trying to get people to pay for his medical bills via Go Fund Me ?”
Wait a minute. Isn’t he signed up with Obamacare? Can’t he pay his own medical bills out of the $2,500 that he’s saving? This sounds like a scam.
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