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It occurs to me these "protests" have been occurring in liberal strongholds: Washington DC, Berkeley CA, St Louis MO, NY NY, Mall of America, MN....not conservative states.
Will the movement of protest behind the killing of Mike Brown and Eric Garner now be kill or crippled do to the tragic killings of the two NYPD police officers? Or was the movement already slowing momentum? Why or why not?
LOL, that's interesting because Diblasio got all hot and bothered and claimed it was only a handful of protesters who did that. I wonder how Dibla feels knowing that the very protesters who's arses he's been kissing are now against him.
I'd like to see a list of questionable shoots nationally laid next to cops killed by criminals.
Or read this, from Wikipedia. Note especially the last sentence:
According to the US Department of Justice, blacks accounted for 52.5% of homicide offenders from 1980 to 2008, with whites 45.3% and "Other" 2.2%. The offending rate for blacks was almost 8 times higher than whites (per 100,000), and the victim rate 6 times higher (per 100,000). Most murders were intraracial, with 84% of white homicide victims murdered by whites, and 93% of black victims murdered by blacks.[
As a St. Louis resident where is your source? I heard of no such announcement.
There were articles in both the post-dispatch and on fox2now about this on the 23rd. They both had titles like "Local Police taking measures in response to New York".
How do you know this? Are you on the ground with the protesters or are you getting your information from the fair and balanced Fox News?
I have been attending some of the protest organizing in St Louis (not as a protester). I have had personal conversations with several of the leaders (I am working directly on a MacArthur project related to the protests). The leaders themselves were struggling with the influx of Occupy-style anti-capitalists and anarchists. They were the ones burning American flags, holding up "Revcom" signs, and teaching people how to make Molotovs. Revcom and Karl Dix and Cassandra Rule and the free thought project have been trying to blanket the St Louis protests with their respective messages. Unfortunately, the tactic taken is to move on from St Louis. The leaders moved on to New York, then Cleveland, and now are in Milwaukee and may not return to St Louis at this point. In some ways this is good for us, as the protests move they draw the anarchists and communists away from here.
I have been attending some of the protest organizing in St Louis (not as a protester). I have had personal conversations with several of the leaders (I am working directly on a MacArthur project related to the protests). The leaders themselves were struggling with the influx of Occupy-style anti-capitalists and anarchists. They were the ones burning American flags, holding up "Revcom" signs, and teaching people how to make Molotovs. Revcom and Karl Dix and Cassandra Rule and the free thought project have been trying to blanket the St Louis protests with their respective messages. Unfortunately, the tactic taken is to move on from St Louis. The leaders moved on to New York, then Cleveland, and now are in Milwaukee and may not return to St Louis at this point. In some ways this is good for us, as the protests move they draw the anarchists and communists away from here.
I'm wondering why the protest leaders you speak of didn't get their "crowd" to remove the "bad influences" of which you speak? That large of a crowd properly led could easily run 'em out of town.
If the general crowd (or their leaders) weres o against the actions of Revcom etc. as you say they could have been isolated and removed but they weren't, they were allowed to continue.
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