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Related: About this forumPolice in St Louis assault activist T-Dubb-O with gun to his head
T-Dubb-O a St. Louis activist/rapper appeared on the Ed Show today. More on T-Dubb-O is found at the end of the article. He describes an incident that occurred in St. Louis that seemed only possible in communist China or Cold War era Soviet Union.
T-Dubb-O said he was having lunch at a TGI Fridays in downtown St. Louis. He said when they left they noticed they were being followed by three trucks. After exiting the highway thy were stopped by these trucks. At first T-Dubb-O believed it might be the KKK since his life along with his passengers, journalist Bassem Masri, and activist Rika Tyler were threatened by the KKK.
It was the police that stopped them for no reason. T-Dubb-O said that the police held him with a gun to his head. He was told to stop asking questions lest the current protests would be for him next. After the police placed a gun to the head of Rika Tyler as well, T-Dubb-O became concerned and stopped talking as he feared the police would kill her.
It turns out that because of his organizing and protests, he was under surveillance by police for several weeks.They however had no reason to hold them or arrest them. T-Dubb-O said he will not allow the intimidation to stop his activism to fight oppression.
T-Dubb-O will be appearing on my show Politics Done Right (http://PoliticsDoneRight.com) on Monday at 9:00 PM Central.
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Police in St Louis assault activist T-Dubb-O with gun to his head (Original Post)
egbertowillies
Nov 2014
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rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)1. Unbelievable. nm
juxtaposed
(2,778 posts)2. this happens everyday, every minute, never stops.
They said they would pick out the leaders, hit the organizers, the bad apples, out of towner's, agitators, take out those in charge and that's what it sounds like what they did.
HLS has a big hand in how all this is done...
sakabatou
(42,083 posts)3. Now THIS is police intimidation
Omaha Steve
(99,072 posts)4. I listened to this on Sirius on the way home when it aired
Great coverage. ONLY coverage?
glinda
(14,807 posts)5. Kick
Logical
(22,457 posts)6. Maybe I am naïve, but wouldn't the feds investigate this? Nt