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jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
Tue Aug 19, 2014, 12:05 AM Aug 2014

"Protesters, police in riot gear brace for tense night in Ferguson"

That's the headline, anyway, here. http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/18/us/missouri-teen-shooting/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

"There are neighbors walking around trying to get people to stop their "rioting", which is interesting.


...
"Get out of street! Don't fight!" some protesters bellowed on bullhorns.

Police in riot gear formed a barricade, donnning gas masks and asking reporters to do the same. Some sat with guns pointed atop armored vehicles. But they showed restraint.

Officials temporarily detained a few, including news photographer Scott Olson and longtime activist and Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein.

"We are not going to let outside provocateurs to come here. We can't allow this movement to be destroyed," said Malik Shabazz, national president of Black Lawyers for Justice.
...


And that last one. This is some kind of orchestrated protest now, with tactics or strategy to...?

"We"? Or was he just talking for what power his org can exert? And did these lawyers get her arrested?


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