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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCrowds in Ferguson protest are growing. People are coming from out of town.
Vibes that nobody gets hurt tonight. Vibes that the people get heard tonight.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)Promising lots of changes.
applegrove
(118,843 posts)randys1
(16,286 posts)calm this down, but that solves nothing.
Thank god there will now likely NOT be any protesters killed, but we still have nothing but problems all over the country,
and as long as rightwing racist terrorist teaparty is in control of the house and maybe soon the senate, we will go backwards and not forwards.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)manning machine guns on the street right now. I'd call that a small victory!
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)I kept "praying" for some intervention ... someone to protect the populace FROM the police
Brigid
(17,621 posts)It is the cops doing the rioting.
Cha
(297,802 posts)tblue37
(65,501 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)LuvNewcastle
(16,860 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)applegrove
(118,843 posts)hope people feel heard, and police chiefs across the country rethink how they respond and train their forces.
Historic NY
(37,454 posts)Lurks Often
(5,455 posts)Personally I'd just as soon avoid a second Civil War, when you go down that path who knows who is going to end up on the winning side.
applegrove
(118,843 posts)does not result in violence or anybody getting hurt.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)As far as the far right goes, they are not any happier than us. They just blame the wrong people.
freedom fighter jh
(1,782 posts)If it's peaceful, there is a better chance that peace-loving people will win.
Lurks Often
(5,455 posts)socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)And in a socialist revolution the other side has wealth, power, and influence to lose. I'm not optimistic that they are going to give up those things without a fight.
liberalhistorian
(20,821 posts)to go there and join them. And I'm a white gal living on a South Dakota Indian reservation and I know there are plenty of native americans who would gladly come along with me, as this is also what they deal with from police outside of the reservation and sometimes even on the rez itself.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)The local police are allowed to mingle again.
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)I would love to go down but we are going north Saturday to check on an older relative. With the Ferguson citizens in spirit though.
Robbins
(5,066 posts)There are some white people there at this protest showing it's not a Black VS White Issue.And it's a far cry from last night.
It's totally different now that control Is under Missouri Highway Patrol and away from St Louis County.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)One black woman said that whites in the area have been standing with them all along. I guess whites in the area have "history" with the cops too.
Robbins
(5,066 posts)It sends a signal to world.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)And that a large amount of local revenue comes from traffic stops.
I find the absence of dashcams in the police cars fascinating too. With those, the murdering cop may have been identified by now, and hopefully would not have felt so free to open fire in the first place.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)"would not have felt so free to open fire in the first place."
littlemissmartypants
(22,839 posts)We should stand for him.
littlemissmartypants
(22,839 posts)~Love you, applegrove.
Lmsp
flamingdem
(39,332 posts)!