Posted on 08/26/2018 9:33:59 AM PDT by Simon Green
Protesters have been gathering outside of Ferguson Market and Liquor since Aug. 9 — the fourth anniversary of the police shooting death of Michael Brown Jr. — calling on the convenience store to take more ownership of its role in the saga and submit to a list of requests.
Brown had just left the store before the fatal skirmish with then-Officer Darren Wilson in the street near Canfield Green apartments in 2014. After the shooting, Ferguson police released a surveillance clip from the store indicating that Brown had stolen cigarillos and shoved a store clerk.
Protesters believe that the surveillance clip mischaracterized Brown and that the store should have done more to say so. Recent protests at Ferguson Market have been strong enough to close the store the first week, Jay Kanzler, an attorney for the store, said Saturday when the store was open again.
Police said there had been no arrests.
In an effort to move forward, Kanzler said, he was part of a formal meeting Aug. 17 at Ferguson police headquarters that included Michael Brown Sr., state Rep. Bruce Franks, D-St. Louis, activist Anthony Shahid and attorney Anthony Gray who listened by telephone. The protester group had the following requests:
• Address Michael Brown Jr.’s character.
• Close the store for three days on the anniversary of his death.
• Create a scholarship in his name.
• Find ways to interact and give back to the community.
• Stop selling Dormin, a sleeping capsule, and other items that can be misused to get high.
• Retain a black-owned security company to protect the store.
“It seemed like everyone in the room was open to working it out,” Ferguson Police Chief Delrish Moss said. “It was a friendly, robust discussion.”
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If I owned that convenience store, I’d get the heck out of dodge.
This punk deserved killing. Lots more punks out there deserve the same.
The protestors are blaming the store that got robbed? That’s incredibly stupid, even for that group of people.
For the FIRST time in his life, Michael Brown is RIGHT WHERE HE BELONGS.
they’re devolving ...
“Police said there had been no arrests.”
Yeah, that’s part of the problem.
Almost as if their attitude is “it’s okay for jumbo sized thugs to rob stores” now because it’s less trouble.
If these Urban neighbors are still caught in a state of self-delusion, the store owner would be better off just moving to some other town.
Eventually, some thug with a chip on his shoulder will start something, some unnecessary conflict with the store owner. The neighborhood thug knows that this act might make his name ‘go viral!’. Fame or notoriety is all he’s after. Mike Brown’s memory is just an excuse.
That little group of complainers out front probably sees nothing wrong with using the restrooms in that store throughout the day. They dare the store owner to complain or refuse them use of those facilities. Mucho petty B.S.
He really needs to close up, cash out, and leave.
Then of course, they’ll bitch about ‘food deserts.’
Just buy the store and sell it to Koreans from Los Angeles.
I wonder how many of these people know that it was proven in the grand jury investigation that michel went in through the cop cars driver’s side window ant tried to take the cops gun? It was proven because the gun went off, struck michel in the hand and the bullet lodged in the door with his blood on it. The msm in this country is a disgrace and is actively trying to rip this country apart.
He should shut down and move out of town.
The store owner probably has his life savings tied up in that store. Who would ever want to buy it? If he has insurance then he would be better off if they rioted and burned it to the ground.
Doesn’t look like the female protestors are suffering the effects of a food desert.
Yeah, well, some people born with one set of genitals matching their XX or XY chromosomes also think that their birth gender was mis-characterized.
The protesters should think about a small-stature store owner being manhandled by a not-so-gentle thieving giant that was caught on tape was perhaps not a mis-characterization from the victim's POV. Or anybody else with more than half a brain and does not work for the DOJ, HHS, Education, SJWs, etc.
Facts? We don’t need no stinking facts!
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