Posted on 12/21/2014 1:54:07 PM PST by Pan_Yan
On the weekend before Christmas, last-minute shoppers descended upon Buckhead to pick up last-minute gifts for their friends and family. And protesters, who in recent weeks have taken to Atlanta's streets over the non-indictments of police officers responsible for the killings of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and Eric Garner in Staten Island, N.Y., decided to stage one of their most disruptive demonstrations yet by shutting down a major intersection near two of Atlanta's biggest shopping centers.
Atlanta Police this afternoon arrested more than a dozen protesters who blocked traffic for more than 90 minutes at Peachtree and Lenox roads between Lenox Square and Phipps Plaza. Local advocacy group Rise Up Georgia organized the protest to call for more body cameras, strengthening the power of citizen review boards, and taking other steps that could lead to more police accountability.
Several-dozen activists took part in the rally. The demonstration, which aimed to disrupt economic activity near both malls, started at approximately 3 p.m. Activists holding banners ran in front of cars stopped at the Buckhead intersection. Once they blocked all lanes, others erected a 10-foot tripod supported by three metal poles that Nelini Stamp, co-director of Rise Up Georgia, sat atop in the middle of the intersection. Then another eight protesters connected to each other via lockboxes and laid down in a circle next to the tripod.
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Did they dance a little victory dance when they heard of the two NYC cops shot in cold blood, too?
You a-holes own that. Oh, and you missed: You wanted white cops but you got an Asian and a Latino.
I still think Buckhead deserves all the credit!
:p
run over a few and this will stop.
Obama/Sharpton want civil unrest so they can declare martial law.
It seems to me, around the country, most of the protesters are white. Professional anarchists.
Bring a muzzie in with a rent-a-wreck and let him clear the road!
WTF? Criminals & rioters. Blocking people trapping them in their cars? False imprisonment. As Will Rogers once said, "Your right to swing your fist ends at my nose."
Shooting them is probably too extreme, but barely.
The answers are simple.
He committed a robbery. He was stoned.
He defied a lawful order from a police officer.
He physically attacked a police officer in his car.
He tried to take the officer’s gun in an effort to kill him.
He charged the cop in a second effort to kill him.
He was shot dead in the street as any rational person would expect.
Enough answers, sweetie ?
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