Ferguson protests around U.S. clog streets
Source: CNN
In Atlanta and Boston and New York and Los Angeles, they marched by the hundreds or the thousands -- blocking bridges, tunnels and major highways as they shouted their anger over a Missouri grand jury's decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson.
A day after St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch announced there would be no criminal charges against Wilson for the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, there were protests in more than 170 U.S. cities.
In the Big Apple, protesters shut down lanes of the FDR, known more formally as the Franklin D. Roosevelt East River Drive, as they chanted, "Mike Brown! Mike Brown!"
It was just one of several long lines of demonstrators make its way through the city. Police, who were nearby in large numbers, stayed back and let the marchers go.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/25/us/national-ferguson-protests/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
IDemo
(16,926 posts)Because road rage is righteous...
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)There is energy out there. And I suspect that for many of those folks, the electoral game and existing political system is pretty much irrelevant.
Ykcutnek
(1,305 posts)The most useless Congress in generations needs their feet dipped in the flames.
Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)but wish they were about class warfare rather than racial reaction. We need a new new left that drops identity politics, and goes after the elites.
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riversedge
(70,189 posts)yeah--promoting my own....
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025870932
sir pball
(4,741 posts)They don't seem to be hassling the protesters on the FDR or at the Midtown tunnel; both of those are shitshows more often than not anyway, so commuters always have alternate routes in their heads. On the other hand, they did channel protesters away from the Lincoln Tunnel pretty quickly (and uneventfully) - that's a massive cross-river artery that would cause potentially serious problems being closed very long.
Other than that, it's been almost entirely peaceful (two minor arrests). Bratton has generally been giving the crowd "breathing room" quite well.
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)brooklynite
(94,502 posts)noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)they've learned since amadou diallo. but since all the officers were acquitted in that shooting...
sir pball
(4,741 posts)Though I'm not sure if the Hurley shooting is racial as opposed to simply utterly, homicidally, criminally incompetent. "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)do you think, if they were in a tony apartment building on the upper east side, for example. that the cop would have shot someone for walking on the stairs? may not be about race, bu definitely about class....and race.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)Maybe this will start to serve as a heads up.
Our patience grows thin.
groundloop
(11,518 posts)Yes, I get that there's still a great racial divide in this country. Yes, I get that people are rightfully pissed off that a white cop didn't face justice for killing an unarmed black kid. I've been preaching to my family, friends, and anyone who'd listen to me that Darren Wilson should go to trial. But doing something that just totally pisses people off at you isn't the way to bring people around to your point of view. IMO blocking a major interstate just played into the stereotype that black youths are lawless thugs.
FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)Potential for a lot of disruption.