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St. Louis Shooting Reignites Anger Among Activists
ABC ^ | 10/9/2014

Posted on 10/09/2014 5:06:13 PM PDT by Altura Ct.

Two months after a Ferguson officer killed Michael Brown, setting off intense national debate about law enforcement treatment of minorities, the shooting death of another black 18-year-old by police in nearby St. Louis has reignited anger among activists already planning weekend protests.

Police say Vonderrit D. Myers was shot Wednesday after he opened fire on a white, off-duty officer, but Myers' parents say he was unarmed. Some activists and lawmakers say Myers was targeted because he was black and are asking the Justice Department — which has opened a civil rights investigation into the death of Brown, who was unarmed — to investigate his shooting.

"This here was racial profiling turned deadly," said state Sen. Jamilah Nasheed, a St. Louis Democrat.

The shooting happened as activists and other protesters from around the country prepared for four days of rallies, marches and protests over the Brown shooting. Organizers say the events, which start Friday and include a march Saturday in downtown St. Louis, have taken on added urgency.

"This is a racial powder keg," said Jerryl Christmas, a St. Louis attorney who was among more than 20 black leaders who joined Nasheed at a news conference Thursday outside police headquarters. "All this is going to do is escalate the situation."

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To: Altura Ct.

They just want a reason.


21 posted on 10/09/2014 5:42:51 PM PDT by Old Yeller (D.A.M.N. - Deport All Muslims Now! Starting in the White House.)
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To: The KG9 Kid

They want to riot best they just bring it on!


22 posted on 10/09/2014 5:43:33 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: Altura Ct.

“All this is going to do is escalate the business.”

Fixed it.


23 posted on 10/09/2014 5:46:27 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Altura Ct.

Black person kills random white person... no story.

White person kills black person out on bond shooting at him... HEADLINES!!!


24 posted on 10/09/2014 6:04:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: Altura Ct.

“Police say Vonderrit D. Myers was shot Wednesday after he opened fire on a white, off-duty officer, but Myers’ parents say he was unarmed.”

Oh Lord, here we go again.


25 posted on 10/09/2014 6:30:56 PM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: Altura Ct.

the first twit rumors were that he had a ice cream sandwich and a pickle. Yes, pickle. The ice cream part of the story disappeared and so did the pickle, and we’re left with a sandwich, that apparently some dasterdly thieving mouse dashed out and grabbed and drug into a mousehole (ok, I added the mouse part)


26 posted on 10/09/2014 7:10:48 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: Altura Ct.

livestream: (just caught the tail-end of a flag burning.)

http://new.livestream.com/accounts/9035483/events/3271930


27 posted on 10/09/2014 7:18:20 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: Altura Ct.

Open season on whites. we gonna shoot you but you better not shoot back whitey.


28 posted on 10/09/2014 7:19:36 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: Altura Ct.

My first thought is that someone named “Vonderrit” probably wasn’t destined to live very long on this earth anyway.


29 posted on 10/09/2014 7:24:08 PM PDT by Newtoidaho
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To: Altura Ct.

The guy was under house arrest for a previous gun violation. Nevertheless, he’s walking the streets with a gun. Where did he get the gun? Who sold it to him? Those are the questions we should be asking.


30 posted on 10/09/2014 7:42:32 PM PDT by popdonnelly (The right to self-defense is older than the Constitution.)
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To: popdonnelly

I read that the gun was stolen.


31 posted on 10/09/2014 7:46:05 PM PDT by kalee
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To: Dilbert San Diego
This new shooting sounds cut and dried. Man with the gun fired first at the policeman. If they make racial hay out of this one, how will liberals and race baiters get around inconvenient truths that the man was resisting arrest and that he shot first????

Doesn't matter if the perp fired first - his parents say he was unarmed, a good boy who went to church, and was aspiring to become a doctor so he could help cure Ebola.

32 posted on 10/10/2014 3:49:13 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They’re already saying that the “teen” actually had a sandwich rather than a gun. Yea, right. No matter how much evidence comes out showing the the shooting was justified, expect the mob to become inflamed — and more pregnant ladies to be punched out in “protest.”

Let’s remember that most black people still believe that Church’s Fried Chicken is owned by the KKK and their product is designed specifically to make black men infertile.

If I were a white cop, I simply would refuse to go into any majority black area and would leave black criminals alone if I saw them doing what they do best. It is not possible for a white police officer to do his/her job; they are expected to die at the hands of criminals if they are black. Period.

It’s not just the officer and his/her partner who are put at risk by this impossible situation. Their families are also in danger. Remember that soon after the Ferguson incident, the media showed up and put the cop’s house on camera.

Nobody knew what actually happened, but the media already decided who was guilty. So Officer Wilson couldn’t possibly have known it at the time, but by not being murdered by that hulking, sociopathic bully as he was supposed to, he was subjecting his wife and kids to being savaged by a racially inflamed mob that hungers for blood and plunder.

What the media and race-baiters have accomplished is make it much more difficult for blacks. Review that incident in which a SC State Trooper shot an unarmed black man in a gas station in late September. More incidents are taking place and I think it is in no small part due to white officers becoming more jumpy due to the racial tensions that were fanned by media, politicians and the Al Sharptons who are all politically and economically invested in sowing racial discord.


33 posted on 10/10/2014 5:45:07 AM PDT by walford (https://www.facebook.com/wralford [feel free to friend me] @wralford on Twitter)
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