Posted on 07/10/2016 5:52:23 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
Deadly officer-involved shootings of two black men, one in Louisiana and another in Minnesota, have the attention of the country and that of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Sunday night, a group here in Memphis marched across the city and onto the I-40 bridge.
It started as a peaceful rally at FedExForum with hundreds of people.
After rallying at FedExForum, the crowd marched to police headquarters at 201 Poplar and then continued on, with more people joining them as they went on.
The marchers attempted to go to the I-40 bridge, but police blocked the entrance to the bridge. They eventually found a way onto the bridge via the exit ramp, and police had trouble stopping them.
Traffic was forced to a standstill, and the bridge was closed as police ordered the protesters to exit.
There was still a crowd of marchers who did not make it onto the bridge, as well as a big group still back at FedExForum.
There was a big police presence surrounding the rally and march, including a police helicopter and officers in tactical gear. Interim Police Director Michael Rallings was also at the rally, and things heated up when protestors interrupted him.
some police officers walking with the protestors in support
and getting Hillary off the front page.
the police director is arm and arm with the protestors leading them
http://wreg.com/on-air/live-streaming-wc/
Jeesh.
Ive been over that bridge a few times...
Total mayhem...
Mayhem is a jailable offense in TN..
were they arrested ???
IDK there are photos of them sitting and standing on a white 18 wheeler.. They have air horns.. but yet.. there they are sitting on it.
PING
Count me surprised when International Paper moved from Connecticut to Memphis and kept most of their eastern employees.
Apparently during slavery times whitey would block ambulances from getting off the interstate on their way to the slave quarters, so this is payback.
Another thought...can anyone name an overwhelmingly non-hispanic white neighborhood that you’d hate to have a flat tire driving through?
looks like they are looting a store?
John Gresham’s book The Firm is based in Memphis...
Whenever Ive gone through Memphis and over that bridge its always been during the day...
Do you know what the three stars on the Tennessee flag represent?
Maybe because interstates are federal and if anything happens on the feds have special privileges over the local law enforcement?
Yes TN was the 16th state to signed and ratify the Constitution, and become a state in 1796...
13 for the original colonies and then TN was the 3rd after them...
Puke. What idiots. What race are the cops doing this foolish thing?
People forget that the Interstate highway system was planned by Eisenhower as the National Defense Highway System, its primary purpose.
He’s the ‘interim’ Police Chief... looking to get a little ‘community’ support for himself. Make the gig permanent.
Very sad...grew up about 100 miles from Memphis, and in those days, it was a great place to go to see a concert, visit a mall or enjoy a good meal. There were dangerous neighborhoods in Memphis back in those days, but as long as you stayed out of places like Orange Mound, you had little to fear. I remember visiting relatives in Whitehaven, and it was a nice, middle-class suburb.
Forty years later, Memphis is literally Chicago on the Mississippi. Any one who could afford to leave—white, black, Hispanic—moved a long time ago. All of the growth in the metro area has been in eastern Shelby county, further east in Fayette County, and in northern Mississippi.
As I said in a previous post, Memphians should thank their lucky stars that Fred Smith decided to move FedEx from Little Rock to Memphis years ago. Many of the companies that were once headquartered in Memphis (such as Holiday Inn) bailed a long time ago.
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