'Pants Up, Don't Loot'
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/385681/pants-dont-loot-ryan-lovelace
Ferguson, Mo. — “Hands up. Don’t shoot,” several protesters chanted on Sunday night. One voice shouted in response, “Pants up. Don’t loot.”
The request went unnoticed.
On Sunday night, the most violent night of protests in Ferguson so far, the police were incapable of ensuring the safety of its citizens. Missouri governor Jay Nixon has lifted the curfew that had been in place overnight for several days, and while he’s called on the National Guard to restore order, violence could escalate again tonight.
Residents tell me they fear more violence as a result of the release of an autopsy report that found 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot six times when he was allegedly killed by a police officer last week. This information came out after last night’s violence had begun.
Last night, police shut down West Florissant Street in the direction approaching the protests more than six hours in advance of a curfew imposed by the governor.
By the time most protesters left the frenzy at an afternoon rally held by Reverend Al Sharpton, police were only allowing people to exit, not enter, West Florissant Street. But protesters determined to join the heated protests in the streets found access on foot and in cars regardless of police efforts to stop them. When asked where the people swelling the crowds of protesters had come from, police officers stationed in front of local stores told me they did not know, but thought they had come down the side streets.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/385681/pants-dont-loot-ryan-lovelace
Ferguson, Mo. — “Hands up. Don’t shoot,” several protesters chanted on Sunday night. One voice shouted in response, “Pants up. Don’t loot.”
The request went unnoticed.
On Sunday night, the most violent night of protests in Ferguson so far, the police were incapable of ensuring the safety of its citizens. Missouri governor Jay Nixon has lifted the curfew that had been in place overnight for several days, and while he’s called on the National Guard to restore order, violence could escalate again tonight.
Residents tell me they fear more violence as a result of the release of an autopsy report that found 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot six times when he was allegedly killed by a police officer last week. This information came out after last night’s violence had begun.
Last night, police shut down West Florissant Street in the direction approaching the protests more than six hours in advance of a curfew imposed by the governor.
By the time most protesters left the frenzy at an afternoon rally held by Reverend Al Sharpton, police were only allowing people to exit, not enter, West Florissant Street. But protesters determined to join the heated protests in the streets found access on foot and in cars regardless of police efforts to stop them. When asked where the people swelling the crowds of protesters had come from, police officers stationed in front of local stores told me they did not know, but thought they had come down the side streets.
