[Behind Liberal Lines]

As this story develops it goes to show that these things are often not as cut and dried as the race-baiters like to portray them.

The police officer who first responded to the scene is being quoted as saying that:

...when he arrived at the scene, he saw Morris [the victim] was visibly upset and trying to move toward two women.... the only information he was given when he was sent to Pete's Grocery was that there was a fight in progress. When he responded and ordered Swansbrough to let Morris go, Morris attempted to get into a physical altercation with Tonya Lynn Swansbrough, 25, and Tori L. Monroe, 23, he said. ..in order to diffuse the situation that Morris was attempting to reenter, he handcuffed her. [The officer] said he told her he wasn't going to hurt her and that she agreed to sit in the back of an open police car.

Furthermore, it turns out that the manager of the Grocery Store that these idiots are protesting is the one who called the police to help the victim in the first place. Despite that:

VanHouten, the nighttime manager at the convenience store...said they were forced to close Pete's Grocery early Friday because of threatening phone calls. Assembled on the sidewalk across from the entrance to the store, protesters carried signs that read, "Your passivity is racism"....

Protesting and threatening the person who helped the victim for not doing enough simply because the victim was black.

Ithaca is the City of Evil.

[Fixit]

I love it, they are going to protest "passivity" by standing in the street doing nothing.

I guess they learned their protest tactics from the Many-Thousand-Woman-Stand-Around a few years back.

Heck, if they prove really good at standing around and doing nothing, they could probably get clerical/support staff jobs at some federal bureaucracy in D.C..

[general_re]

Ya know, BLL, one of these days, we'll have to invade the City of Evil, and penetrate their safe haven. Find the right issue, gather up all the Southern Tier, CNY, WNY, and northern PA freepers we can muster, and roll in for a serious counterprotest. Of course, you'd be outing yourself by participating in sch a thing, but the looks on the faces of the unshowered Left when facing dozens and dozens of motivated freepers might very well be worth it ;)

Imagine it for a moment. It'd be a thing of beauty - what better way to show that no place is safe for them, so long as we're around ;)

[07055]

Protesting and threatening the person who helped the victim for not doing enough simply because the victim was black.

The guy was tried and convicted of operating a store while White.

[NativeNewYorker]

I'd love to see the store's owner file a defamation/libel/slander suit against the knowingly pointless protesters.