Posted on 09/19/2014 7:19:32 PM PDT by walford
A raucous crowd disrupted speakers, threatened violence and accused police of murder Tuesday night as the fallout from the police shooting in Ferguson, Mo., reignited.
And anyone who disagreed with the mob needed a police escort to get out.
That was the scene of “democracy” as protesters apparently conceive it during a meeting of the St. Louis County Council in Clayton, Mo., as a meeting called to conduct local government descended into two hours of near chaos and mob rule, according to an account by the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
The mob was on hand, of course, to “protest” the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown, a black man shot to death during a scuffle with a police officer Aug. 9.
The case is in the hands of a grand jury – which now has until January to decide whether Officer Darren Wilson should face criminal charges. But the mob at Tuesday night’s meeting demanded the justice system be ignored and Wilson placed under arrest now.
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Ferguson mob swarms town meeting: If cop gets off, ‘ya’ll better bring every army y’all got. Cause it’s going down’
A raucous crowd disrupted speakers, threatened violence and accused police of murder Tuesday night as the fallout from the police shooting in Ferguson, Mo., reignited.
And anyone who disagreed with the mob needed a police escort to get out.
That was the scene of “democracy” as protesters apparently conceive it during a meeting of the St. Louis County Council in Clayton, Mo., as a meeting called to conduct local government descended into two hours of near chaos and mob rule, according to an account by the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
The mob was on hand, of course, to “protest” the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown, a black man shot to death during a scuffle with a police officer Aug. 9.
The case is in the hands of a grand jury – which now has until January to decide whether Officer Darren Wilson should face criminal charges. But the mob at Tuesday night’s meeting demanded the justice system be ignored and Wilson placed under arrest now.
(For hanging later, no doubt.)
And if the grand jury completes its term and decides Wilson was justified in shooting Brown the mob threatened violence. It matters nothing to them that Brown had marijuana in his system at the time of the scuffle, had just used physical force to rob a nearby convenience store of the kind of cigars used to roll marijuana “blunts,” and was said by at least one witness to have been charging Wilson at the time of the shooting.
One speaker made it clear.
And the mob was even clearer, chanting what will happen if the justice system doesn’t come to their preferred outcome: “If we don’t get it, shut it down.”
And what modern mob scene would be complete without some version of the “hey, hey, ho, ho” chant libs have been using since at least the 1960s to boil thought away into mindlessness? In this case, it was accusing the police who maintain order of being murderers.
Amid the chants, one speaker even compared St. Luis County authorities to terrorists rampaging in the Middle East, beheading innocents, murdering Christians and selling women captives into sexual slavery, the Post Dispatch reported.
“You are ISIS to black people,” he said.
(Here’s a hint that’s wrong. If you’re allowed to stand up and insult the guys on the dais, you’re not dealing with murderous Islamic terrorists.)
And there was more. The mob even threatened to disrupt sports events like St. Louis Rams games and St. Louis Cardinals games as part of their “demonstration.”
The mob mentality rules.
So, are these threats going to be on the evening news?
jive talk ... by jiveasses
Lets give into the mob! Yay!
How about a 50 cal. straight to the brain of these THUGS!!!
You say you hate racism? Nietzsche: “Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster . . . for when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
Let’s hope that the day Wilson is exonerated will be the coldest January day in Ferguson history.
No one will show up for the “riot.”
Reports are that he was injured during the altercation with GG.Assuming they're true (my bet is that they are) they'll surely be released at some point...perhaps not until the cop's trial(s).
They are becoming what they hate.
A bunch of muslims behind them? muslims like sheep and camels and goats..............................but no dogs.
If mob threats are allowed to stand or even met with acquiescence it spreads. How many times have we heard this? 2008 Presidential election, 2012 too. Zimmerman, this. Others? I’m not particularly enthused at the prospect of trial by hooting mobs of substance abusing wards of state whose only measure of guilt or innocence is skin color.
Wisdom seems to be about the last thing on their list of desiderata.
“Is there anything at all that could make them feel sheepish?”
Well, I suppose that machine guns would work! ;-)
I don’t personally question the cop was injured. I just hadn’t seen any photographs of those injuries.
Once they are released, things should calm down a bit.
Ain’t that the truth, and I, for one, would welcome it.
Although snow plows could be a good crowd control technique....
“Watch the final charge scene in “Zulu” (1964) Sometimes, coolness & discipline really do matter.”
Along with massed firepower.
It’s interesting that weather pundits have already been suggesting an extremely frosty winter for Dixie this year.
this is just why the current Congress will not impeach a president who is 50% white race and 50% black race..they fear riots all over the Nation...
sad world..and the policeman was just doing his job, and the ‘kid’ brown was a potential big time thief.
The optics are soooo much better with a summertime riot....
And you probably won’t till (if) there’s a trial. It was nearly 4 months before the first official photos of Zimmerman’s injuries were made public.
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