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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCould The Police Have Put Up A Perimeter Around The Town Of Ferguson & Not Let People From Other....
communities into the area? That way they could have let the people of Ferguson protest peaceably and not let rabble rousers from outside the area in to incite things.
msongs
(67,453 posts)global1
(25,272 posts)by rabble rousers - I meant 'outside agitators' coming into the area just to incite and not the police.
Bjorn Against
(12,041 posts)politicat
(9,808 posts)I'm not seeing the usual suspects: no Antifa, no BBU, minimal anarchist, mostly of the peace type.
Did you have others you wanted to watch? Quakers, maybe?
Recursion
(56,582 posts)And the confrontation would be moved to wherever they set up the checkpoint.
Bjorn Against
(12,041 posts)The vast majority of people coming in from out of town are peaceful.
countryjake
(8,554 posts)Some guy in a pick-up pulled up to the protesters after cops announced that all non-media had to disperse, he offered rides to anyone needing to get out of the area...young protesters piled in and left the scene.
That same truck was pulled over not far away...every person in it was arrested.
As Rachel said at the end of her show, it was the cops who turned it into a hostile situation tonight.