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

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: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Monday August 10 2015, @07:45PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday August 10 2015, @07:45PM (#220859) Journal

    Maybe if you weren't so militant and hateful - you would know that I have posted many times, in many places, that Tamir Rice was unjustifiably murdered. Crawford was also unjustifiably murdered. That most recent guy in the news - shot in the head because he resisted a cop who unlawfully tried to drag him out of his car - what was his name? Samuel DuBose.

    There are a MINIMUM of TWO SIDES to every story. Michael Brown? I find no sympathy for that guy - he was an out of control punk, searching for trouble. Why is it that I don't read about demonstrations in Tamir Rice's behalf?

    But, "Black Lives Matter".

    That attitude is just as racist as the shit the cops are doing. You bitched in another post that "all lives matter" somehow dilutes your message. Well - if your message is racist, it needs diluting.

    You're outraged that black people are randomly killed by racist bastards in uniform? I can empathize. I am also outraged. But, don't lecture me on "Black Lives Matter", don't even TRY to make me feel guilty for my opinions. No one in my ancestry has ever owned a black slave.

    Honesty and integrity? You'll need to run down to Walmart and buy some for yourself, before you can hope to judge mine.

    ALL LIVES MATTER. That goes for the little Apache children I've met in New Mexico and Arizona, the Aleuts I met in Alaska - fuck, man, EVERYONE I've ever met. Black is no more, and no less, than any other label that can be attached to any group of people.

    And, "massacre" remains a term reserved for a mass murder, not the murder of one individual.

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