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Journey for Justice runs into hostile counter-protest, keeps marching
I give them a lot of credit for keeping with the mission. It's tough to imagine accomplishing what they have during the past week and then to be hit with this ugliness. I have not read of any confrontations with guns until now. I guess it was bound to happen.
About 200 people met the marchers as they reached Rosebud around noon, activists said. A display of fried chicken, a melon and a 40-ounce beer bottle had been placed in the street. A Confederate flag flew. Counter-protestors shouted racial epithets.
Somebody shot the window out of the back of one of the buses traveling with the march, dubbed by the NAACP as the Journey for Justice. The outer pane of glass broke. The bullet landed in the windowsill, the driver said.
As she marched through Rosebud, she said she felt as if she was facing the same attitudes her parents faced as civil rights activists in the 1960s.
"The comments that we saw are pure ignorance," Willis said.
http://www.columbiamissourian.com/a/182383/journey-for-justice-runs-into-hostile-counter-protest-keeps-marching/
