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Ferguson: Police Treatment in Arrests (Original Post) riverwalker Oct 2014 OP
so disturbing... nt TheVisitor Oct 2014 #1
How does this only have 15 recs? marym625 Oct 2014 #2
I'm hoping it was because of the timing. I missed it too! arcane1 Oct 2014 #4
Glad it's getting attention now! marym625 Oct 2014 #7
Kicking! arcane1 Oct 2014 #3
That's terrible. Those cops really acted like fascist pigs. Louisiana1976 Oct 2014 #5
Fucking goon squad. JEB Oct 2014 #6
i wish i could join them. barbtries Oct 2014 #8
Yes marym625 Oct 2014 #10
thank you barbtries Oct 2014 #16
THANK YOU! marym625 Oct 2014 #17
NeoStasi Dont call me Shirley Oct 2014 #9
REC! SammyWinstonJack Oct 2014 #11
K&R Moostache Oct 2014 #12
same in Chicago marym625 Oct 2014 #13
K&R 99Forever Oct 2014 #14
k&r. tosh Oct 2014 #15
You said it! n/t marym625 Oct 2014 #18
Kicked and recommended a whole bunch! Enthusiast Oct 2014 #19
Welcome to police state America. nt MrScorpio Oct 2014 #20

marym625

(17,997 posts)
2. How does this only have 15 recs?
Sun Oct 12, 2014, 05:38 PM
Oct 2014

Jesus christ on a cheese sandwich!

Thanks for the post, riverwalker. I am going to post in GD. No way is this not worthy of kazillion recs!

barbtries

(28,811 posts)
8. i wish i could join them.
Sun Oct 12, 2014, 06:33 PM
Oct 2014

there is something so rotten there with the police and the racism. i just can never stop thinking about birmingham. that mindset - they have not figured out that their way of life is done. is there an organization, that can be supported, to continue these protests and to continue putting this news in front of the people?
sharing to fb. corporate media is so weak, so pathetic, so OWNED. frustration.

marym625

(17,997 posts)
10. Yes
Sun Oct 12, 2014, 07:01 PM
Oct 2014

It's HandsUp United

http://www.handsupunited.org/

I gave this morning. Wish I could do more. Wish I could be there. They deserve all the help they can get

Moostache

(9,897 posts)
12. K&R
Sun Oct 12, 2014, 07:06 PM
Oct 2014

St. Louis is the moist segregated area I have ever lived in.
If you live here and someone asks you "where did you go to High School?", its a question loaded with subtle racial cues...location, status, wealth (or lack thereof)...it's also a massively parochial region chock full of followers.

The behavior of the police in each of the townships that make up the greater St. Louis area is repulsive and needs to exposed as often as possible.

marym625

(17,997 posts)
13. same in Chicago
Sun Oct 12, 2014, 07:11 PM
Oct 2014

we may look integrated by the numbers, but in reality, the areas for this color or that color, or this religion or that religion, or this nationality or that nationality.

People on the southside, in the white areas, still often answer, "where do you live?" with the Catholic parish they belong too. Or if not Catholic, the parish that their home is in.

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