Freddie Gray protester who interrupted Geraldo shoulders new role as leader

[Quixote1818]

Kwame Rose, who challenged Fox News reporter Geraldo Rivera, sees surge of unexpected support: ‘You should never hesitate to speak up for yourself’

As Rivera was setting up in West Baltimore to interview state senator Catherine Pugh about the protests – which erupted over the death in police custody of a 25-year-old man, Freddie Gray – he was surrounded by a crowd of protesters. Rose then stood in front of the camera and told the reporter to leave.

“This is my city. This is our city,” Rose was heard to say. “We want you gone.”

“I still can’t fathom the thought that that’s me,” Rose told the Guardian. “I didn’t do it for the attention … I hope everyone understands that it was a genuinely raw moment.”

Though he remarked on Rose’s “passion” on Fox & Friends on Wednesday morning, Rivera, 71, ultimately deemed the interruption “annoying” and “obstructionist”. In Baltimore, the famed investigative reporter continued to be on the receiving end of interruptions and vitriol.

Rose, meanwhile, was thrust into an unlikely position – a leader for the young people of the city.


More: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/03/baltimore-protest-kwame-rose-geraldo-rivera-fox-news


Here is the full video:

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1. "famed investigative reporter"? Geraldo? (nt)

[tularetom]

2. LOL that was my first reaction as well

Here's the famed investigative reporter famously investigating Al Capone's Vault and reporting that it's fucking empty.

[notadmblnd]

4. Wasn't there an empty whisky bottle in it?

[tularetom]

5. Actually a "few" empty whiskey bottles

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1986-04-22/news/8601290201_1_capone-era-lexington-hotel-empty-whiskey-bottles

That was almost 30 years ago. I watched it with my son in law and I can still remember laughing our asses off as the famed investigative reporter was reduced to a babbling idiot at the end of the show.

[justiceischeap]

3. Before the "vault" he was actually a fairly good investigative reporter

Here's part 1 of the report that landed him a Peabody (graphic):

[sadoldgirl]

6. Perhaps this will lead to a lot of

young people to become examples of how to treat the
media, which tries to put them down.
They will find support on the social media, which are
the main places for sharing information, for most of the
younger ones anyway. I think that this is great!

[BrotherIvan]

7. I love that guy

He was so right