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LiberalElite

(14,691 posts) Wed Dec 10, 2014, 07:59 AM Dec 2014

Protesters plan 'Week of Outrage'

Source: CNN

(CNN) -- It's become a nightly ritual. When dusk descends, so do they -- by the hundreds, in cities coast to coast.

And the protests over police brutality after recent deaths of unarmed black men might only intensify. Organizers are calling this week a "Week of Outrage," culminating in large demonstrations planned for Saturday in New York and Washington.

Eric Garner Jr., the son of the man who died after a New York police officer held him in a chokehold, said he was proud of how protesters are carrying on.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/09/us/protests-grand-jury-chokehold/

There was another die-in at Grand Central Terminal last night.

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Protesters plan 'Week of Outrage' (Original Post) LiberalElite Dec 2014 OP

Sunday night we were watching a live stream in New York, they logosoco Dec 2014 #1

Perhaps we are naive to demand accountability by the enforcement forces of this country. ellenrr Dec 2014 #2

+1 riversedge Dec 2014 #3

Here are the demands........ riversedge Dec 2014 #4

Press conference today at NYC City Hall at 4PM to announce demands!! Be there! riversedge Dec 2014 #5

I'll be watching, 2 pm our time. Thanks for posting. mountain grammy Dec 2014 #7

Most of that list makes sense imo though they probably wont get the firing one cstanleytech Dec 2014 #8

If Eric Garner Jr had been wearing a Cheney or Rumsfeld mask he would still be alive. postulater Dec 2014 #6

K&R Solly Mack Dec 2014 #9

logosoco

(3,208 posts)

1. Sunday night we were watching a live stream in New York, they

Reply to LiberalElite (Original post)

Wed Dec 10, 2014, 08:29 AM

Dec 2014

started a chant "While you're buying, kids are dying".

I applaud their energy and am glad they are being persistent. Things are bad enough now, I can't imagine how this country can continue like it has been. I really can't even understand how these things are happening with the police in 2014.

ellenrr

(3,864 posts)

2. Perhaps we are naive to demand accountability by the enforcement forces of this country.

Reply to LiberalElite (Original post)

Wed Dec 10, 2014, 09:22 AM

Dec 2014

Dow Chemical has yet to be held accountable for Bhopal. No one has been held accountable for the attempted genocide of the Natives People. No one has been held accountable for the 2000 + Palestinians massacred by Israel in the last attack.

Yet if you or I steal a loaf of bread bec our children our hungry, we will be held accountable, and perhaps face decades of prison time, "to let us now that stealing is wrong".

Accountability does not seem to be in the cards for the powerful, only for the powerless.

riversedge

(70,245 posts)

3. +1

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Wed Dec 10, 2014, 09:54 AM

Dec 2014

riversedge

(70,245 posts)

4. Here are the demands........

Reply to LiberalElite (Original post)

Wed Dec 10, 2014, 09:56 AM

Dec 2014

Russell Simmons ?@UncleRUSH 54m54 minutes ago

I'll be at press conf today at NYC City Hall at 4PM to support organizers' demands. #ICantBreathe #ThisStopsToday

riversedge

(70,245 posts)

5. Press conference today at NYC City Hall at 4PM to announce demands!! Be there!

Reply to riversedge (Reply #4)

Wed Dec 10, 2014, 09:59 AM

Dec 2014

Michael Skolnik ?@MichaelSkolnik 1h1 hour ago

Press conference today at #NYC City Hall at 4PM to announce demands!! Be there!
#ICantBreathe #ThisStopsToday

mountain grammy

(26,626 posts)

7. I'll be watching, 2 pm our time. Thanks for posting.

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Wed Dec 10, 2014, 10:40 AM

Dec 2014

cstanleytech

(26,299 posts)

8. Most of that list makes sense imo though they probably wont get the firing one

Reply to riversedge (Reply #4)

Wed Dec 10, 2014, 06:31 PM

Dec 2014

as the department might not be able to fire them if they have a union and the union has a current contract that stipulates when and how an officer can be fired.

postulater

(5,075 posts)

6. If Eric Garner Jr had been wearing a Cheney or Rumsfeld mask he would still be alive.

Reply to LiberalElite (Original post)

Wed Dec 10, 2014, 10:12 AM

Dec 2014

Apparently they are above the law.

Solly Mack

(90,773 posts)

9. K&R

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Wed Dec 10, 2014, 06:47 PM

Dec 2014

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