Missouri State Senator Gassed at Ferguson Protest

[Tsiyu]

http://www.businessinsider.com/missouri-state-senator-gassed-while-protesting-in-ferguson-2014-8

"During a press conference on Wednesday, a Missouri state senator claimed she was hit with tear gas while protesting peacefully in Ferguson, the St. Louis suburb that has erupted with rioting this week after the police shooting of an unarmed teenager.

When Maria Chappelle-Nadal asked if she would be gassed again like she was on Monday, Ferguson's police chief Thomas Jackson kept a stoic expression until he found out she was a state senator:"


By all means, let's elect people so our cops can gas them.

America. Fuck Yeah!

[riversedge]

1. If this is not an example of the wrongheadness of the militarization of the US police

force, I do not know what is!! This is all so so soooooooo WRONG!

[msongs]

3. your president and congress recently approved a bill to give police tons of hardcore war toys nt

[Tsiyu]

4. it has to end

or the usa is done

where are the promisekeepers?

the NRA

not that we want them, but what hypocrites

[terdheadur]

33. If they did support this?

You know as well as i Everything they defend we will not and vice versa.

[merrily]

2. Props and respect to Sen. Chappelle-Nadal for participating in the protest.

If more officials did the same, protesting might be safer.

The right to petition government for redress of grievances is the right to make a complaint to, or seek the assistance of, one's government, without fear of punishment or reprisals. The Article 44 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union ensures the right to petition to the European Parliament.[1] The right can be traced back to the Bill of Rights 1689, the Petition of Right (1628), and the Magna Carta (1215).

Please let that sink in:

Fucking King John, mocked in the tales of Robin Hood, agreed to this in 1215 c.e. But, whenever a significant number of USians try it, government moves in, even on the Bonus Army.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army

[Tsiyu]

5. now we need "permits"

ask the canadians about permits.

they put us to shame

[merrily]

6. I can understand requiring a permit for any activity likely to

draw a sizeable crowd, be it a St. Pat's Day parade or a protest. You may need to close streets and re-direct traffic, for example, and that requires advance notice, notice that is given when people apply for a permit.

Withholding permits in a discriminatory way is something else. So is landing demonstrators in the hospital, trashing their belongings without warning, etc.

[unhappycamper]

27. ..

Some Occupy pics with veterans:



Oakland:

PA:



NY:





Boston:

[Paka]

31. I am traveling in Canada right now,

and those I am meeting at hostels tell me the same grim stories about permits and protesting as are rife in the US. Montreal seems to be particularly bad about it.

[Enthusiast]

26. +1

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[deafskeptic]

7. Welcome to Amerika! n/t

[Tsiyu]

8. yee-frickin' haw! n/t

[Warren DeMontague]

9. Whoops.

[Tsiyu]

10. Whoops indeed

your sig - sure do miss her

[Warren DeMontague]

11. Yep

[Tsiyu]

12. Right back atcha

She'd be all over this, in her calm, reasoned, passionate way.

[Lochloosa]

32. Warren...that is my favorite Dead song on your link. When they played Stella Blue at the shows

I would sit back in my chair and just let the music take me.

God, I miss Jerry.

[Warren DeMontague]

41. Yeah, I know what you mean.

I can remember the show I was at when that one first "clicked". Still get chills thinking about it.

No one did soulful and bittersweet, sad and yet transcendent songs like Jerry.. But that tune in particular he inhabited.


... I miss him, too.

[DRoseDARs]

13. Whoever posted that video as a 7 second Vine should be gassed...

YouTube? DailyMotion? PornHub? Any of those would have let you post the entire video. Vine? 7 fucking seconds, Antonio French, you stupid jackass.

[Tsiyu]

14. Everything happening and that's what's got your

skivvies in a twist?

Okie Dokie...

[DRoseDARs]

15. Might want to rethink that post of yours.

It was an important video to post, and the stupid fucker had to get cute with it by posting it to fucking Vine.

[Tsiyu]

17. I'm sure someone has a better video

please find it and post it if you can.

[DRoseDARs]

20. That's kinda the problem: French may BE the original poster.

And he chose Vine of all video services to post it. Here was a perfect opportunity to highlight the gross incompetence and belligerence of the Ferguson PD's handling of the shooting and its whitewashing, and this jackass decides to wreck it because Vine is just so hip and trendy with its 7 second format.

[Tsiyu]

21. here's one

there's another i can post

[Tsiyu]

22. another

[Tsiyu]

23. here's a 17 second shot of the Senator and the dumbass

[DRoseDARs]

35. Thank you. Please include those in the OP.

That's all that needed to be done: Record and show the exchange, and not be hip and trendy editing it with Vine.

[Warren DeMontague]

42. I think you're kind of getting distracted with this whole "hip and trendy" thing.

I dont really use vine, either, but then I'm also older than something like 2/3 of the planet, at this point- as fucked up as that may be for me to think about.

If it gets more people aware of the situation, who cares if it comes with a handlebar mustache and a can of PBR? Hip and trendy is beside the point.

[DRoseDARs]

43. Warren, it's about providing context. I derided Vine because it was a stupid choice for this.

I don't really give 2 shits about Vine. I DO give a shit about how the video poster's choice to use this format cut away important parts of context. The Kennedy assassination in a 7 second clip? Moon landing in a 7 second clip? The agonizingly-slow destruction of the Twin Towers reduced to 7 seconds? The Rodney King beating reduced to 7 seconds? Any number of Civil Rights Era videos reduced to 7 seconds? 7 seconds might be appropriate for campaign ads and animals sneezing, but for newsworthy events like a state senator exposing the gross incompetence/violent belligerence of a racist police force in a podunk Missouri town, her confronting that man deserved more respect than 7 seconds allows.

[Warren DeMontague]

44. I still think you're missing the forest for the trees, getting hung up on the medium

when the crux here is the message.

I doubt anyone is going to be less aware of what went down because it went out on vine. Some people who wouldn't have seen any of it will likely be motivated to dig deeper into the story.

It's like twitter- sure, compressing communication into 149 characters is a bit inane; but there is a strange sort of logic to it, and even if there isn't, might as well go argue with the ocean tides.

[CBGLuthier]

37. Well why don't you drive your criticizing ass down to Ferguson and make a difference

So easy to sit at a keyboard and call people names for not doing what you want.

[ReRe]

16. Ruh-roh...

... an Alderman and now a State Senator? I'm very impressed that representatives of The People of Ferguson and Missouri in general joined in to see with their own eyes what the hay is going on.

[Tsiyu]

18. Yes, I heard he is free now

the protesters stood outside the station demanding his release.

That's some damn courage there.

[ReRe]

19. Glad he got out and is OK! n/t

[blkmusclmachine]

24. Police State. And our elected DEMS sit silent and onlook.

Silence = Consent

[Enthusiast]

28. +1!

[dorothyoh]

25. OHG!!!!

OHG!!!!

[bobGandolf]

29. If I didn't know, I would swear, all the pictures being posted, were of the National Guard....

ordered out by the governor because of a disaster.

The retired soldiers, and soldier wannabes, are police officers. They are to be respected, when they've earned it, but they should not be given the "arms of war" to kill Americans!

[cantbeserious]

30. To "Protect And Serve" The Oligarchs, Corporations And Banks

eom

[justiceischeap]

34. From what I'm seeing on Twitter, it seems this police chief has no control over his officers

He had to be told by an LA Times reporter that his officers arrested two journos (who were then released immediately).

This situation is out of his control.

[Tsiyu]

36. He had been interviewed by these two himself

His response to their arrest

"Oh, God."


The racism in this force has been allowed to grow like a cancer that has infected the entire bunch.

[arcane1]

38. Exactly. They didn't anticipate all of this attention. This time.

[JEB]

39. Fascism.

[Tsiyu]

40. That's what it looks like to me n/t