Widespread police protests draw old, young, white and black: 'a moment or a movement?'

[Liberal_in_LA]

Widespread police protests draw old, young, white and black: 'a moment or a movement?'

At 26, Rachel Tuszynski is hardly new to protest. She marched against the Iraq war in 2007 and, more recently, demonstrated in favor of legalizing medical marijuana. Then, last Thursday, Tuszynski and her girlfriend drove into downtown Chicago on an errand and, motivated by spontaneous curiosity, went looking for a march against police brutality that they'd heard about on the radio.

"We drove down Michigan Avenue until we couldn't," said Tuszynski. "I was in slippers ... and I heard helicopters and police and I just hopped out of the car," joining protesters shouting "Hands Up. Don't Shoot." When someone handed her a sign with the message, "Ferguson is Everywhere," she grabbed it.

"It's like I have an internal fire and I am deeply, deeply upset by injustice. To me, this is injustice," she said.

Tuszynski, who works as a cook in a restaurant and who shares Puerto Rican, Italian and Polish ancestry, acknowledges that it's not injustice that victimizes her directly.

And yet, with short-cropped hair that draws attention to her identity as a lesbian, she said she is often stared at by passersby and sometimes hassled. She has heard from black, male friends about being pulled over by police and ordered out of their cars for little if any apparent reason. While their experiences are different, it is easy to relate, she said.

So much so that in the days since Tuszynski has grown hoarse from shouting at protests and taken time off from work to participate.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/12/09/widespread-police-protests-draw-old-young-white-and-black-moment-or-movement/

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[bigwillq]

1. Most likely a moment

Hopefully more than a moment. But I'll wait and see.

[cwydro]

2. Unfortunately, I agree.

I think Christmas (and all the other holiday hoopla) will come and everyone will go back to Facebook and the newest iPhone and whatever else is "cool" in the good old US of A as the new year approaches.

We're a nation with a "short little span of attention." Apologies to Paul Simon.

[LiberalElite]

3. except that -

a sizeable number of people HAVE been able to put down the iphone and ignore Facebook for these demos which I figured would be done in one day and every day there's one or more somewhere else.