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Peaceful Rallies in Ferguson Give Way to Violence, Gunfire

posted by CoolHand on Monday August 10 2015, @04:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the nothing-funny-about-it dept.

"exec" writes:

From Yahoo News:

A man was gravely wounded in a gun battle with police in Ferguson, Missouri on Sunday night after a day of peaceful rallies to mark the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white officer one year ago. Several volleys of gunshots rang out as police in riot gear tried to disperse demonstrators blocking traffic and smashing storefront windows along a street that was a flashpoint of last year's unrest in the St. Louis suburb after Michael Brown, 18, was slain. Police later said the gunfire began with two groups of agitators apparently shooting at each other.

http://news.yahoo.com/ferguson-protests-mostly-peaceful-anniversary-brown-shooting-015555407.html

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Anniversary commemorations had begun hours earlier with a peaceful march through the St. Louis suburb. The scene changed dramatically after dark. Dozens of protesters converged on West Florissant Avenue, which bore the brunt of last summer's rioting, and chanted: "Shut it down" in the midst of a severe thunderstorm.

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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by digitalaudiorock on Monday August 10 2015, @05:24PM

    by digitalaudiorock (688) on Monday August 10 2015, @05:24PM (#220767) Journal

    And monitoring the MASSIVE real-time coverage on Twitter at #Ferguson and #BlackLivesMatter know EXACTLY how peaceful and amazingly non-violent the Ferguson protests - as well as Baltimore, Cleveland and Chicago - have been for whole year now.

    Exactly. Yet based on other SN threads here someone will likely come along cherry picking isolated Internet posts, videos, whatever talking about how to kill cops or whatever...

    I've been watching that sort of reaction to these topics lately. Frankly, it reminds me of the spin that got applied to shit that was going on when I was 10 in 1963, and frankly I find that disturbingly telling.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Monday August 10 2015, @05:34PM

    by Jeremiah Cornelius (2785) on Monday August 10 2015, @05:34PM (#220772) Journal

    Or diluting with "All Lives Matter" bullshit.

    "Hello Fire Department? Our house is engulfed in flames!"
    "Yeah, well ALL houses matter."

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    You're betting on the pantomime horse...

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2015, @06:06PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2015, @06:06PM (#220792)

      I don't understand what you mean. Could you explain? Was that in reference to the news focusing solely on Ferguson and Baltimore police claiming, and never proving, they were injured in riots and were merely retaliating against violent crowds?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2015, @06:56PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2015, @06:56PM (#220820)

        The news is contorting the truth to get more viewers, especially when Rev Racist is on MSNBC.