Big, big crowds in Baltimore this evening. Let's hear it for them.

[Comrade Grumpy]

This looks like thousands and thousands of people heading for City Hall, coming from different marches.

Peaceful, but powerful.

Lots of white faces today, too. Thank you, white people.

CNN is also saying big demos in Boston and New York City.

It looks like the movement that got stifled last winter when those two NYC cops got killed is reactivated.

I hope so.

[elleng]

1. Good to hear!

A friend of mine in Baltimore is among those encouraging this.

Doesn't hurt that the Orioles won today, even WITHOUT public in the stands!

[FSogol]

5. At the beginning of the game, a player threw the ball into the empy stands for an invisible fan and

Caleb Johnson signed autographs for them.

[Comrade Grumpy]

2. A pair of my friends who live in the neighborhood are marching today.

A middle-aged mixed race couple. (She's white, he's Asian-American.)

They've lived on the same block as Elijah Cummings for about 20 years.

[Comrade Grumpy]

3. Getting rowdy in New York City: "Baltimore, we've got your back!"

NYPD now making arrests of people around Union Square.

Right now.

[malaise]

4. Chicago last night as well

This is great

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. ten thousand per news reporting

and crowd estimating

[malaise]

8. Saw one young white lady with a poster

saying Police are the outside agitators.
I did laugh

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Many are seeing cops as occupation armies

this is national

[malaise]

11. Thank Bush and Cheney

This is madness - and it's not just in America

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. For cops, it starts with Clinton

911 just made it worst.

Sorry, those are the facts

[malaise]

16. True - in fact today Hillary

took the opposite position of her husband from the 1990s. He did a lot of harm in a number of areas.

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. This is why I do not trust them anymore

but anyway, elections are the best show on earth. It used to be the circus.

[hifiguy]

19. You are right, nadin.

It started with Clinton, Just like the Telecom Act, the Digital Millenium Copyright Act and the death of Glass-Steagall.

We got gulled and rolled by Bill Clinton.

[nadinbrzezinski]

21. I gotten way too cynical about the process

but what is happening in Baltimore, what happened in Ferguson, what am afraid will happen for the rest of the year... insert city here, is starting to change conversations

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. is it on the national outlets?

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. MSNBC is actually explaining why

I feel better, not just me.

[ScreamingMeemie]

14. Awesome!

Thanks nad!

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. They interviewed the son of the Orioles owner

and he went into the gutting of the inner city, lousy education, globalization.

I was like... m'kay, this will be a good discussion to have. Perhaps this is the end of current globalization policies. We are having riots all over (not just the United States)... they are related.

[Terra Alta]

7. hoping for large crowds and peaceful protests. nt

[951-Riverside]

18. So when are TPTB going to send provocateurs to attack white protesters and media tonight?

It wouldn't be the first time they've sent in provocateurs to discredit peaceful protests for civil rights

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And this continues to happen to this day



These three were inserted in a peaceful protest for Ezell Ford a mentally disabled unarmed black man who was gunned down by LAPD. The provocateur in the far right photo not only made threats but held a lit lighter to a news photographer's clothes, while the other two shoved photographers and tried to stir up the crowd.

Fortunately they were chased off by the community.

__________________________________________________________________

Even political events are targeted by these goons in uniform

ACLU wants probe into police-staged DNC protest

Posted 11/07/2008

According to a use-of-force police report obtained by the ACLU, undercover Denver detectives staged a struggle with a police commander to get pulled out of the crowd without blowing their cover. The commander knew they were working undercover, and the plan was to pull them out of the crowd and pretend they were under arrest so protesters would be none the wiser.

A Jefferson County deputy, unaware of the presence of undercover police, thought that the commander was being attacked and used pepper spray on the undercover officers.

The report says that the commander and an undercover detective were sprayed, but it does not indicate how many others were affected. The report also doesn't say whether the pepper spray used on the undercover police was the first deployment of chemicals that night or whether the riot was already underway.

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_10920817

[madokie]

20. It appears that the only thing the powers to be hear

is Protest like this. I'd be there if I could. my white ass and gray hair and all

[Comrade Grumpy]

22. Crowds in front of the White House. Live on CNN right now.

Also, protesters marching in New York. Walking up Broadway.

[IDemo]

23. A sign about when it's okay to riot in America at #ShutItDown in #NYC