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Protesters Storm St. Louis Police Headquarters
Tea Party Network ^ | December 31, 2014 | Greg Campbell

Posted on 01/01/2015 3:54:27 PM PST by robowombat

Protesters Storm St. Louis Police Headquarters December 31, 2014 By Greg Campbell

After the shooting of two of New York’s finest, the message has been made clear: there is a war on police officers.

On Wednesday, protesters stormed the police headquarters of the St. Louis Police Department and occupied the building. Reports are still emerging ,but protesters reportedly issued police an “eviction notice” that included a list if supposed grievances that included the police’s alleged willingness to brutally serve as a militarized occupying force that locks up too many minority citizens.

The “eviction notice” also claimed that “Chief Sam Dotson and all other occupiers of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department” would be “removed from power.”

Social media reports claim that several of the protesters have been pepper sprayed and that the protesters intended on staying for four and half hours, though that is unlikely as police are unlikely to wait that long before dislodging the intruders.

The duration of their stay is supposed to coincide with the amount of time Michael Brown’s body remained laying on the street where he was killed.

Though this appears to be a peaceful protest, this is the kind of ludicrous behavior spurred-on by America’s top race-hustlers including President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.

Though a conversation about how the police do their job is welcomed, the flagrant disrespect and threats lobbed at police in recent weeks is indicative of a deep division widening in American and being aided by those who profit from chaos and division.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
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To: ASA Vet
The St. Louis city jail, unless they've moved it used to be exactly 400 feet from St. Louis police HQ.

Mayor Slay and his bums may indeed have moved it, but my money is that Slay and his cowards were handed the word from "on high" by Odildo and his (cough) Attorney Private Holder.

21 posted on 01/01/2015 4:31:47 PM PST by SAJ
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To: MeshugeMikey

LOL, what’s up with the traffic cones on top of the heads? Are these idiots still standing in the middle of freeways?


22 posted on 01/01/2015 4:35:29 PM PST by Baladas
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To: robowombat

those who profit from chaos and division.

The key line in the whole article.


23 posted on 01/01/2015 4:41:17 PM PST by logic101.net (If libs believe in Darwin and natural selection why do they get hacked off when it happens?)
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To: robowombat

I’m thinking paint ball gun, with a mix of blue leather dye and itching powder.


24 posted on 01/01/2015 4:41:35 PM PST by taxcontrol
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To: BenLurkin
The cops can’t secure their own building?

Gee, I wonder where those come from?


25 posted on 01/01/2015 4:41:43 PM PST by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“There are still some good people living in this country who don’t appreciate all of this lawlessness.”

But are they willing to get their hands dirty? That’s the million dollar question. And if they don’t have the guts to do anything, when someone who does have the guts does something - will the same “good people” throw the doers under the bus?

Anger and be tired of a criminal behavior isn’t going to cut it anymore.


26 posted on 01/01/2015 4:49:12 PM PST by roofgoat
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To: Baladas

theryre all CONEHEADS,,and Potheads


27 posted on 01/01/2015 4:50:38 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Jim Robinson

More “when” than “if.” Cops can’t exist if they put up with this level of ignorance or disrespect.


28 posted on 01/01/2015 4:53:26 PM PST by Gargantua ("...Fee tine a mady..." ;^)
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To: ASA Vet

Run em outside and hose em down. That should do it!


29 posted on 01/01/2015 4:54:28 PM PST by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: robowombat

Here is the group that is funding/organizing all this:

www.revcom.us


30 posted on 01/01/2015 4:58:05 PM PST by Ben Hecks
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To: COBOL2Java
Protesting the Bully Brown's death but never this:

Political Correctness has this nation so out of whack even the valueless are demanding values.....how about making them work for a living....jail is just another freebee....

31 posted on 01/01/2015 5:01:02 PM PST by yoe
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To: Baladas
The cops ought to make them stay on the floor until Saturday at the very least to up the ante.

Get someone to go in there and say, "Thirty-six hours! That's how long they kept his body there in the street! Thirty-six hours! We gonna stay here thirty-six hours!" After twenty-four hours have someone bring about four buckets of KFC through the lobby and into the police station secure area. Have police walk by eating....

32 posted on 01/01/2015 5:02:04 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Cvengr

Bingo


33 posted on 01/01/2015 5:17:17 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: robowombat
Though this appears to be a peaceful protest, this is the kind of ludicrous behavior spurred-on by America’s top race-hustlers including President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.

And, apparently, not being stopped by law enforcement?!!

34 posted on 01/01/2015 6:16:20 PM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Jim Robinson

I think we might see more cases of the police laying back in these urban areas and not responding as much. Not an official strike but just not exercising their duties fully. Sort of analogous to what Obama had done by just refusing to obey the law and send illegals back


35 posted on 01/01/2015 6:45:06 PM PST by plain talk
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To: robowombat

Here is more info.

ST. LOUIS (KTVI) – In what was slated as a peaceful “March to the Arch” by Ferguson demonstrators, more than two dozen people were arrested and pepper spray was used by police. The melee unfolded as protesters tried to storm the St. Louis Metropolitan Police headquarters building.

About seventy-five people marched through the downtown area and eventually went to police headquarters. There, with the building on lockdown, the group took the opportunity to rush an open door. Several people pushed in.

Upon entry, protesters read a list of demands to department officials. Those demands included a meeting with Chief Sam Dotson, Mayor Slay and Board of Aldermen President, Lewis Reed. They also requested an immediate termination of Officer’s Hayes and Flannery. They want amnesty for protesters who have been charged with non-violent offenses, the creation of a diverse Citizens Review Board with subpoena power and a seven day release of all information regarding police shootings, not limited to transparent release of all unedited videos and audio.

Activist Deray McKesson posted several Vine videos and images via Twitter as the demonstration took place.

Protesters also placed Eviction Notices along type outside of the building.

Signed, ‘We the People,’ the notice read: “We are informing you that the police department is scheduled to be reclaimed by its citizens today, December 31, 2014.” Protesters also outlined reasons why they feel a power shift should take place.

There was quite a bit of pushing and shoving as police tried to clear the demonstrators out, with officers eventually resorting to the use of pepper spray to push the crowd back.

Five people were arrested in the initial scuffle. Police chief Sam Dotson says officers were justified in clearing the group out of the lobby.

“We’re a public building, we’re open. But we’re open for legitimate business. We’re not open for people to come in and push their own agendas and disrupt the business that has to go on here.”

Protesters were critical of police use of pepper spray, many saying things escalated too quickly, with one “live streamer” who had been hit saying it was happening too often.

“This is becoming too commonplace now. I don’t know,” the man told photojournalist Doug Larsen.

Police say all those calls are already in the met, or on the way to being met, and that protesters are now distracting them from other work with repetitious demands.

“The forty or fifty officers that it took to handle the disturbance that was going on outside police headquarters weren’t in our neighborhoods doing the job our citizens have asked them to do,” Chief Dotson said. “That’s a big deal”

http://fox2now.com/2014/12/31/protesters-storm-police-headquarters-in-downtown-st-louis/


36 posted on 01/01/2015 7:15:49 PM PST by rwa265
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To: MeshugeMikey

Whip ‘em! Whip ‘em good! (Apologies to DEVO;)


37 posted on 01/01/2015 7:59:01 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: Frank_2001

I have to wonder what that largely white middle class group of pot heads finds attractive about “protesting” ??


38 posted on 01/01/2015 8:03:52 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: robowombat

Some situations cry out for the attention of Ma Deuce.


39 posted on 01/01/2015 8:09:01 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: robowombat
(1) The authorities in St. Louis are coddling the protestors. I'd lock 'em up for interfering with police work. They've got computers, file cabinets, etc., with personal information and ongoing investigations to protect, and detectives busy working on things, handling phone calls, arranging to talk to witnesses, etc., i.e., police work. And the protestors should be cited not for disorderly conduct, but actually interfering with officers in the performance of their duties. Get the DA involved in it.

(2) Notice how this protest against the cops movement can go on and on ENDLESSLY in any American city...save one? Washington, D.C., that cesspool with magnificent architecture, doesn't put up with this crap. I've been there. The police are quick to put things down, and keep 'em down and under control. Quickly. And the press doesn't say a word, either. Some kind of unwritten understanding they have. It's the only city where this behavior doesn't happen. (Remember how they gunned down this crazy young lady in her car? The press didn't push the anti-cop agenda, now, did they?)

40 posted on 01/01/2015 9:42:10 PM PST by sauron ("Truth is hate to those who hate Truth" --unknown)
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