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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRiot police on alert. Some twitter posts from 911 account:
911 Operator ?@911BUFF 49s
MULTIPLE REPORTS OF COPS STORMING THE STREETS IN MIAMI RIGHT NOW AFTER GEORGE ZIMMERMAN VERDICT. #911BUFF
911 Operator ?@911BUFF 4m
CHICAGO POLICE RESPONDING TO DALEY PIZZA FOR A LARGE AND VIOLENT CROWD GATHERING AFTER GEORGE ZIMMERMAN VERDICT. #911BUFF
911 Operator ?@911BUFF 24m
MULTIPLE REPORTS OF LARGE CROWDS AND LARGE POLICE PRESENCE IN BROOKLYN FOLLOWING GEORGE ZIMMERMAN VERDICT. #911BUFF
911 Operator ?@911BUFF 36m
DALLAS POLICE DEPARTMENT CONFIRMS THEY HAVE RIOT POLICE ON ALERT AFTER GEORGE ZIMMERMAN'S VERDICT. #911BUFF
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Followed them for awhile and they check out pretty well.
Here is a scanner for those wanting to follow:
http://www.broadcastify.com/
valerief
(53,235 posts)virgogal
(10,178 posts)Botany
(70,516 posts)..... end of story.
AllINeedIsCoffee
(772 posts)All the Zimmermans on the force are ready to kill some black people.
virgogal
(10,178 posts)Nunliebekinder
(33 posts)Stay safe, people.
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)I for one thinks it's natural that LEOs would be first in line.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)I've checked both newspapers and all tv station news sites; no mention of crowds or police.
Please do not start something.
The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)I don't think the papers there update minute by minute.
One group of 40 people (on a road I could not understand) and another that they were talking about much larger when I tuned in.
http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/763/web
frazzled
(18,402 posts)It's "Taste of Chicago"--there are a hundred thousand people coming home from it. And yes, perhaps they have extra cops called out in case of any activity related to the verdict. But it's been at least an hour and a half or more since the verdict. The local news would have stories and pictures if there were any major activity.
A police scanner is not an indication of anything.
A group of 40 people somewhere in a city of more than 4 million is not an unusual occurrence at any time of day in any part of the city.
The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)There are people marching in the streets in Frisco (on MSNBC), shift change update in Chicago for radio OP's gave some updates on crowds relating to this - two reports I have heard now on protests going on by officers.
Here is a live link to one rally in Chicago:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/samwiseoccupies?utm_campaign=t.co&utm_source=10881934&utm_medium=social
ecstatic
(32,711 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)The only storm we have is rainstorm. It's been raining all day and we are under flood watch.
Don't you bother to check out the garbage you slap up?
rightsideout
(978 posts)More power to those who want to protest.
nolabear
(41,986 posts)Peaceful protest, yes. But riots? That's despicable.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)npk
(3,660 posts)I have been on the phone with my brother who lives in Miami and there are no large angry crowds of people in the street and no large crowds of cops. He called he from a bar not more then 20 minutes ago.