Police just executed an unarmed 17 yr old brotha (shot 10 times)

[Camille]

https://twitter.com/jelani9
https://twitter.com/mattdpearce
https://twitter.com/Yamiche
https://twitter.com/Nettaaaaaaaa
https://twitter.com/MzzzMariah


They live tweeted the Cornel West event.

 

[HAR125LEM]

All this is a distraction to keep you guys from focusing on isis war that's going on.

UUUHHH...No.

That ISIS/ISIL "war" is a distraction to keep US from focusing on REAL issues here.

Like...
I don't know...
Maybe...
MILITARIZED POLICE BRUTALITY???

 

[ShortyCumStain]

All this is a distraction to keep you guys from focusing on isis war that's going on.

Shut 'cho bitch ass up, peckerwood.

 

[shanebp1978]

UUUHHH...No.

That ISIS/ISIL "war" is a distraction to keep US from focusing on REAL issues here.

Like...
I don't know...
Maybe...
MILITARIZED POLICE BRUTALITY???

Brother. We already know. There are rules on this board.

If you, yourself are a black man, or a Caribbean man, or an Asian man, or a white man.

Don't let THAT dude's post effect you, brother.

On BGOL the mods/admins will handle it when this one will slip and it is clear within established rules.

Do not let it set you off track. We here in STL need ya'll.

 

[Camille]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>March on St. Louis University: <a href="http://t.co/IGuBZ28QTu">http://t.co/IGuBZ28QTu</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/occupyslu?src=hash">#occupyslu</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FergusonOctober?src=hash">#FergusonOctober</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/slu?src=hash">#slu</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/stl?src=hash">#stl</a></p>&mdash; Umar Lee (@STLAbuBadu) <a href="https://twitter.com/STLAbuBadu/status/521572736011759616">October 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
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[Camille]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Cornel West is denied access to the front. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OccupySLU?src=hash">#OccupySLU</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FergusonOctober?src=hash">#FergusonOctober</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/mikebrown?src=hash">#mikebrown</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/vonderritmyers?src=hash">#vonderritmyers</a> <a href="https://t.co/fxxOSsgpe4">https://t.co/fxxOSsgpe4</a></p>&mdash; ShordeeDooWhop (@Nettaaaaaaaa) <a href="https://twitter.com/Nettaaaaaaaa/status/521555157923135490">October 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/vonderritmyers?src=hash">#vonderritmyers</a> father speaks. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OccupySLU?src=hash">#OccupySLU</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FergusonOctober?src=hash">#FergusonOctober</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/mikebrown?src=hash">#mikebrown</a> <a href="https://t.co/hXDsG7I5uz">https://t.co/hXDsG7I5uz</a></p>&mdash; ShordeeDooWhop (@Nettaaaaaaaa) <a href="https://twitter.com/Nettaaaaaaaa/status/521554038182408192">October 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/VonderritMyers?src=hash">#VonderritMyers</a> father speaks. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OccupySLU?src=hash">#OccupySLU</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FergusonOctober?src=hash">#FergusonOctober</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/mikebrown?src=hash">#mikebrown</a> <a href="https://t.co/ioa63rdO7W">https://t.co/ioa63rdO7W</a></p>&mdash; ShordeeDooWhop (@Nettaaaaaaaa) <a href="https://twitter.com/Nettaaaaaaaa/status/521554300640985089">October 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
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[Camille]

This timeline has a good compilation of tweets from other timelines for #OccupySLU. Protesters are hoping to bet there for a few days and are asking folx to bring food/blankets/tents to help them out.

https://twitter.com/AaronBBrown

 

[II Dxnum]

Be mindful of some of the twitter handles being posted.

 

[ShortyCumStain]

Be mindful of some of the twitter handles being posted.

 

[Camille]

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ous-leaders-messages-anger-ferguson-activists


St Louis protests: Ferguson activists reject religious leaders’ platitudes

Younger black generation rails at ineffectiveness of peaceful tactics as day of mass civil disobedience begins across city




Frustration and anger among young black Americans at an older generation’s apparent failure to adequately respond to the killing of Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson upended a key event at a weekend of mass protest on Sunday.

The showdown exposed a generational divide over how best to confront police racism, brutality and use of excessive force as organisers of the “weekend of resistance”, which has drawn activists from across the US, plan to stage mass civil disobedience across St Louis on Monday.

While older civil rights leaders hark back to the more peaceful methods of half a century ago, some younger people question their effectiveness today and are pressing for more confrontational tactics.

The fuse was lit when hundreds of people who came to hear the intellectual and activist Cornel West speak were subjected to speeches by a succession of preachers from the major religions offering essentially the same message about loving one’s fellow man and standing up against injustice. The meeting was billed as being “in the tradition of the civil rights movement” but the tone was in part governed by the venue for the meeting, St Louis University, a Catholic institution.

Some in the audience grew restless and then angered at the series of reverends, imams and rabbis until a small group of activists demanded to speak. They were supported by chants of “let them be heard” and “this is what democracy looks like”, a rallying cry at protests over Brown’s shooting.

Tef Poe, a St Louis rapper and activist for Hands Up United, a campaign group seeking racial justice in Ferguson, took the microphone and noted that the Christian, Jewish and Muslim preachers on the stage were not the people on the street trying to protect people from the police.

“The people who want to break down racism from a philosophical level, y’all didn’t show up,” he said to loud cheers.

At that point, the planned programme fell apart and the focus shifted. Some younger black speakers demanded to know whether the people on the stage had a plan of action.

“All those speeches before, you’ve heard them all before. That’s not going to change, right?” said one. “I was hoping for a plan from our elders and I was disappointed,” said another.

A young man used more graphic language. “I’ve been out there since motherfucking August 9,” he told the various preachers. “If you don’t turn up at the protest get the fuck out of here.”

By then some had already left the stage, although it was not clear if it was because they were unhappy at the turn of events or to make space.

In the midst of this, a lone white man in the audience caused uproar when he shouted that African Americans should not underestimate white people’s “gift to you”. The man had to be escorted from the arena.

West did not disappoint the audience, telling listeners that an older generation of African Americans had failed them.

“The older generation has been too well adjusted to injustice to listen to the younger generation. The older generation has been too obsessed with being successful rather than being faithful to a cause that was zeroing in on the plight of the poor and working people,” he said. “Thank God the awakening is setting in. And any time the awakening sets in it gets a little messy.”

A little later he drew loud cheers as he sharpened his argument. “What our young people are also upset about is that they understand that too many of our black middle class brothers and sisters have been ‘re******ised’. All you’ve got to do is give big positions, give them some status, give them a little money, but walking around they’re still intimidated, they don’t want to tell the truth about the situation.”

One of the earlier speakers, Reverend Traci Blackmon, touched on a similar theme.

“We have been fooled all these years into thinking that when a few get through the doors all is well. Our generation has been guilty of confusing access with ownership,” she said.

Not all the earlier speakers were unwelcome. Hedy Epstein, a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor who was part of the kindertransport to Britain, told how she arrived in the US in 1948 and was taken aback by racial segregation where she was living in the south. Epstein was arrested in August after joining a protest over Brown’s killing and is awaiting trial for “failure to disperse”.

But the meeting appeared to mark a watershed as protest organisers prepared for what is billed as a day of civil disobedience on Monday, modelled on “Moral Monday” demonstrations launched over political policies in North Carolina, by training volunteers in passive resistance and what to do if they are arrested. Churches ran a “faith in action mobilizing training” session on Sunday afternoon that included the occupation of a police station. At other sessions, volunteers were instructed in blocking traffic and sit down resistance.

Organisers of the “Weekend of Resistance” have kept their plans for Monday to themselves but say they will alert activists to actions at short notice by text message, Twitter and other social media.

At the end of the mass meeting, one of the young people who had taken over the stage called on people to join a protest vigil at the site where St Louis police last week shot another 18 year-old black man, Vonderrit Myers. The police said Myers shot at an officer who attempted to stop him for a “pedestrian check”. His family say he was unarmed.

As the protesters gathered and debated how confrontational to be with the police, Myers’s father appeared and told them: “Whatever it is y’all want to do, I’m fine with it”. Demonstrators began blocking roads in the area.

In the early hours of Sunday morning, dozens of activists attempted to occupy a convenience store in support of Myers. The police arrested 17 people for unlawful assembly.

 

[Camille]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>The student demanded the police let us on campus saying &quot;I pay tuition here! These are my guests!&quot; While holding up a student ID. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OccupySLU?src=hash">#OccupySLU</a></p>&mdash; Dirty Thirty (@kidnoble) <a href="https://twitter.com/kidnoble/status/521583138058035201">October 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Watch <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FergusonOctober?src=hash">#FergusonOctober</a> on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/occupyslu?src=hash">#occupyslu</a> <a href="http://t.co/anD3xCECtc">http://t.co/anD3xCECtc</a></p>&mdash; Global Revolution TV (@GlobalRevLive) <a href="https://twitter.com/GlobalRevLive/status/521589624628473856">October 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Another timeline:

https://twitter.com/HuntedHorse

 

[Camille]

https://twitter.com/kidnoble

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Security guard warns &quot;These kids are trying to get an education.&quot; Protestor: &quot;This is an education.&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/shaw?src=hash">#shaw</a> to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OccupySLU?src=hash">#OccupySLU</a></p>&mdash; Hope for People (@FaithUnedited) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaithUnedited/status/521574057146204160">October 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>The BiG List of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ferguson?src=hash">#Ferguson</a> LiveStreams

» <a href="http://t.co/HiJTKWmGFp">http://t.co/HiJTKWmGFp</a>

<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HandsUp?src=hash">#HandsUp</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FergusonOctober?src=hash">#FergusonOctober</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WeekendOfResistance?src=hash">#WeekendOfResistance</a> <a href="http://t.co/LyrQjxKC51">pic.twitter.com/LyrQjxKC51</a></p>&mdash; Stop1033.org (@stop1033) <a href="https://twitter.com/stop1033/status/521092252500627456">October 12, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Legal observers <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DOJ?src=hash">#DOJ</a> on private campus with protestors.
<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ferguson?src=hash">#Ferguson</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FergusonOctober?src=hash">#FergusonOctober</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OccupySLU?src=hash">#OccupySLU</a> with you <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HongKong?src=hash">#HongKong</a> <a href="http://t.co/sFN9jGcDXP">pic.twitter.com/sFN9jGcDXP</a></p>&mdash; Shazzarazza (@shazza_razza) <a href="https://twitter.com/shazza_razza/status/521570612766986241">October 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...it-in-at-st-louis-university-following-march/


1,000-plus protesters begin sit-in at St. Louis University following march

ST. LOUIS – More than 1,000 peaceful protesters shut down an intersection by playing jump rope and silently marched through St. Louis before staging a sit-in at St. Louis University early Monday morning.

The protests were part of the “weekend of resistance” that brought scores of protesters to Greater St. Louis as demonstrations continued in light of the Aug. 9 shooting of Michael Brown, a black man shot and killed by a white police officer.

The demonstrations were the latest in a series of meticulously organized protests and acts of civil disobedience. The specifics have been held tightly by organizers, with just several dozen people aware of each night’s plans until moments before the actions.

The demonstrators gathered in the Shaw neighborhood — at the scene of another recent police shooting — and split into two groups.

The first group departed just after 11 p.m., marching to a nearby intersection and shutting down traffic by playing hopscotch, jumping rope and tossing footballs.

The demonstration was a play on what has become one of the most popular chants during the protests:

“They think it’s a game. They think it’s a joke.”

The second group departed about 45 minutes later, marching silently on the sidewalk to meet up with the first group.

As the groups converged, they were met with officers in riot gear who held cans of pepper spray and smacked their shin guards.

The officers stood both on the sidewalk and the street and threatened to arrest the marchers. The protest leaders declared that they had the right to proceed on the sidewalk.

“This is an unlawful assembly,” an officer yelled.

“No. It’s not,” protesters responded. “This is a peaceful group of people silently walking on the sidewalk.”

Officers continued to make noise with their batons and threaten to arrest protesters who stood in the sidewalk and refused to turn back.

“Can you please stop beating your sticks and talk to the people you protect?” asked Derek Robinson, a local minister.

Protesters asked officers why many did not have visible name tags and warned them that observers from the Department of Justice were in the crowd.

After about 20 minutes, officers backed down and allowed the march to continue up the sidewalk.

A spokeswoman for the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department did not immediately return a request for comment.

As the march continued, scholar and activist Cornel West emerged — prompting a massive cheer.

Earlier in the night, West had declared that he had come to be arrested in solidarity with protesters.

The march then proceeded up the street, chanting “hands up, don’t shoot” and made its way toward St. Louis University.

Campus security and police officers attempted to stop the protest from entering St. Louis University’s campus.

“I am a student, I have my id, and I have a lot of guests,” a protest leader said into the megaphone.

The security officers moved out of the way and the crowd poured into the campus.

Once inside the campus, protesters gathered at the campus center chanting “out of the dorms and into the streets” as students rushed out of buildings. Some joined the protesters, others took photos and others brought out bottles of water.

“This let me know that my son was loved and he is still being loved, right now,” said Vonderitt Myers Sr., whose son was shot and killed by a police officer earlier this month.

Myers’ family marched at the front of the pack and the demonstrators observed four minutes of silence in his honor.

After the moments of silence, protest leaders took to the megaphone to address the crowd. They declared that their demonstration was about ending white supremacy,

“This is the real definition of resistance … this thing right here that were doing right now is not only a symbolism of what we can do when we stick together this is … It’s the beginning in a change in our consciousness as a people,” protest leader Dhoruba Shakur declared.

They noted the significance of it being Columbus Day, calling him “the first looter” and saying that they were “reclaiming” the college campus.

“On this day we are here to reclaim our shit — I know this was a college a couple of hours ago but as of right now this is our spot and we not going nowhere. This is a sit-in.”

As of 2:45 am central time the sit-in continued.


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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>World are you watching???? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OccupySLU?src=hash">#OccupySLU</a> <a href="http://t.co/Y2kOAcBZ6E">pic.twitter.com/Y2kOAcBZ6E</a></p>&mdash; nancy bell (@BellGirlSTL) <a href="https://twitter.com/BellGirlSTL/status/521555310948143104">October 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Tonight police tried to keep us from entering campus. A SLU student told them he was a student and we were his guests. OVER 1500 GUESTS!</p>&mdash; Dirty Thirty (@kidnoble) <a href="https://twitter.com/kidnoble/status/521582493829718016">October 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Police had no choice but to move to the side and let us on campus. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OccupySLU?src=hash">#OccupySLU</a></p>&mdash; Dirty Thirty (@kidnoble) <a href="https://twitter.com/kidnoble/status/521582589854093312">October 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>The student demanded the police let us on campus saying &quot;I pay tuition here! These are my guests!&quot; While holding up a student ID. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OccupySLU?src=hash">#OccupySLU</a></p>&mdash; Dirty Thirty (@kidnoble) <a href="https://twitter.com/kidnoble/status/521583138058035201">October 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>A loophole that 1500 people walked through! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OccupySLU?src=hash">#OccupySLU</a> RT <a href="https://twitter.com/FreedomChild85">@FreedomChild85</a>: <a href="https://twitter.com/kidnoble">@kidnoble</a> thats one hell of a loophole lol… dope!</p>&mdash; Dirty Thirty (@kidnoble) <a href="https://twitter.com/kidnoble/status/521583275169828864">October 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Both RT <a href="https://twitter.com/Deebauch">@Deebauch</a>: <a href="https://twitter.com/kidnoble">@kidnoble</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/FreedomChild85">@FreedomChild85</a> Do you know if it was campus police, or metro?</p>&mdash; Dirty Thirty (@kidnoble) <a href="https://twitter.com/kidnoble/status/521585760244609024">October 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
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[Mask]

"Few left but some staying all night long for #occupyslu #ferguson
5:40am - 13 Oct 14"

 

[Mask]

"SLU campus is calm after a night of protesting. @JohnHenryKSDK with the latest news of protest. #Ferguson #MikeBrown pic.twitter.com/eMjuhCnL2u
4:20am - 13 Oct 14"

 

[Camille]

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ferguson-october-debate-20141012-story.html

'Ferguson October' rally highlights divide among St. Louis activists

A raucous “Ferguson October” crowd turned a mass protest service on its head Sunday night, heckling the president of the NAACP and successfully demanding that young demonstrators get a place on stage to address an audience of hundreds.

“Let them speak!” the crowd chanted at Chaifetz Arena, where activists had gathered for a third day of meetings and protests.

“For us, this is not an academic issue,” the St. Louis music artist and activist Tef Poe told the audience, which was racially and generationally diverse. “Y'all did not show up.”

Moments earlier, the president of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People, Cornell William Brooks, gave a fiery speech in which he said, “Oh say, can you see Ferguson, Mo., transformed?”

Tepid applause greeted that line, and a man in the crowd began to shout: "Go to Canfield with that! We got revolutionaries out here [on the streets] starving!"

Canfield is the name of the apartment complex near where a Ferguson police officer killed Michael Brown, 18, on Aug. 9, sparking continuing protests and this long weekend of demonstrations, which are to continue on Monday.

Last week’s police killing of another 18-year-old black man, Vonderrit Myers Jr., in the Shaw neighborhood of St. Louis touched off more anger. Police say Myers shot at the officer three times and was killed when the officer returned fire, but representatives of Myers’ family insist he was unarmed. Police say they have recovered a weapon and three bullets fired in the officer's direction.
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Sunday's raucous gathering illustrated that activists have taken widely different approaches to civil disobedience, and that the often-radical youths have taken over the tenor of the debate.

Pastor after preacher, rabbi after imam, told stories of solidarity, activism and racial injustice.

But when keynote speaker and noted black activist Cornel West finally arrived on the stage, he said he saw the writing on the wall. “I didn't come here to give a speech,” he said. “I came here to go to jail!”

Early Sunday, 17 demonstrators did just that. They were arrested in a sit-in outside a St. Louis QuikTrip.

The QuikTrip was a notable choice: Rioters looted and burned down a Ferguson QuikTrip the day after Brown's death, and the empty convenience store parking lot became a gathering point for the ensuing protests that gripped the city.

Brown's death sent ripples of agitation through the U.S., where police shootings are being routinely scrutinized by the national media. The U.S. Justice Department is investigating the Ferguson Police Department, and local police departments have been bombarded with records requests and lawsuits.

America's top law enforcement official, Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr., has raised questions about heavily armed police departments responding to unrest with intimidating shows of force.

But the official scrutiny — including a grand jury investigation into Brown's death that is expected to finish in November — has not moved fast enough for many activists.

"Bring that killer to justice so the people can have some rest!" bellowed an older woman from the back of Chaifetz Arena, referring to Darren Wilson, the Ferguson police officer who shot Brown.

If Wilson is not indicted, many fear that Ferguson will erupt in violence and chaos worse than the unrest that followed Brown's death.

The classic civil-rights trope of peaceful resistance has taken an edgier tone among the more dedicated street activists in Ferguson.

As Tef Poe spoke Sunday night, he appeared to be challenging his predecessors in the arena and in the civil rights movement.

"This ain't your grandparents' civil rights movement," he said, remarking that the clergy at Sunday night's gathering had not done enough in the streets. Those who had his back, he said, were young men with their shirts off and bandannas on, or the girl who should "be in school" but isn't. "Get off your ass and join us!" he said.

Another prominent activist, Ashley Yates, defended the angry tone on the streets that has occasionally translated into demonstrators hurling insults and curses at riot police officers.

"I am OK with being angry," Yates told the audience, adding that if a dead body in the street didn't make them angry, "then you lack humanity."

"See my humanity. See me for who I am. ... Through the way people express their rage, don't judge it," she said.

More and more young demonstrators took the stage with raw questions about why more in the audience hadn't been in the streets.

For too long, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has been cited by whites as a moderate, one young black protester vented. Whites were just talking a good game, he said.

"I had my back turned while that NAACP guy was speaking," another young woman said.

The night's emcee, the Rev. Traci Blackmon, finally addressed a crowd of older speakers who were waiting for their turn on stage. "My apologies for those who have not gotten to speak," she said, "but this is what democracy looks like."

The gathering ended jaggedly after West spoke.

In the lobby of the arena, attendees stood around buzzing about what had happened.

Joshua Williams, 18, was among them.

"I think it was amazing how people stood up and demonstrated our voices be heard," said Williams, a mainstay of the Ferguson protests.

Of the older speakers on the stage, he said, "All they want us to do is listen to them speak. Well, now it's our turn."

Then Williams filtered back through the crowd, organizing another protest.

Twitter: @mattdpearce

 

[Lattimore]

Too much of a sample size exists for black people at this point... The church and a lot of these black preachers/ activists have been exposed. The older generation sold out... Literally. We don't own shit. Another group we need to be careful of is the Jews. They are not our friends... Our brothers and sisters in the struggle they have been using us all along.

 

[Camille]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>University President Fred P. Pestello, Ph.D., addresses the overnight events on campus.
<a href="http://t.co/kQB3KHJ9Cd">http://t.co/kQB3KHJ9Cd</a></p>&mdash; SaintLouisUniversity (@SLU_Official) <a href="https://twitter.com/SLU_Official/status/521637494417543168">October 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
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An Important Update from the President
Dear students, faculty, staff and parents,

These are unprecedented times for the St. Louis community, and Sunday and this morning, they arrived on our doorstep, as a protest was staged on our campus. We as a SLU community have responded peacefully and have kept the protests from escalating in any way. Please know that at all times, the safety of our students has been our top priority - and continues to be.

As many of you know by now, hundreds of protestors marched to our campus early this morning protesting police brutality and other social injustices, and held a rally and sit-in around the clock tower. The march started in the Shaw neighborhood and proceeded up Grand Avenue to the Frost Campus. The University had no prior knowledge that this action would take place.

Once on campus, the protestors were peaceful and did not cause any injuries or damage. In consultation with St. Louis Police and our Department of Public Safety, it was our decision to not escalate the situation with any confrontation, especially since the protest was non-violent. While the protestors were sometimes loud, they were respectful of the students they met. At the same time, we ensured that all of our residence halls were secure and that DPS was carefully monitoring the scene. As of 6 a.m., approximately 25 protestors remain on campus in tents just north of the clock tower. We remain steadfastly committed to ensuring the safety of all of our students and campus to the very best of our ability. To that end, our response has been non-confrontational and consistent with our mission.

While I know that having middle-of-the-night protests is unexpected and can be disturbing, I applaud the actions of everyone on campus - especially our students - for handling this situation with great grace and compassion. After consultation with Provost Dr. Ellen Harshman, we have agreed that classes will go on as scheduled today, but we will leave it to individual faculty members to make any adjustments to their class schedules for today.

Earlier last night, more than 1,800 people came to our arena to hear clergy and young activists speak about the difficult issues that have led to these protests. At that event as well, the attendees were peaceful.

There is certainly the possibility that protests - some near our campus - may continue. We expect these also to be peaceful, but we will handle any of them with the care of our students foremost in our actions. Let us all pray for better days ahead.

Sincerely,

Fred P. Pestello
President


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>I just got chills and teary eyes reading the statement released by SLU President Pestello re: last night. You, sir, are a leader. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Shaw?src=hash">#Shaw</a></p>&mdash; deray mckesson (@deray) <a href="https://twitter.com/deray/status/521662682760749056">October 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
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[Camille]

Clergy are outside FPD now. Good pics @ these two time lines, I don't have time to embed tweets or vids:


https://twitter.com/deray

https://twitter.com/mattdpearce

 

[Mask]

Clergy are outside FPD now. Good pics @ these two time lines, I don't have time to embed tweets or vids:


https://twitter.com/deray

https://twitter.com/mattdpearce

Deray pretty much is the only user I follow...

Other than that I just follow hashtags

 

[Camille]

Peep shaunking's timeline. Clergy were arrested, Cornel West got his wish and got arrested. They are occupying Walmart and city hall.

Sent from my Z30 using Tapatalk

 

[Mask]

"Go off Twitter for an hour, come back and four people I know personally are arrested. Who is not arrested? Darren Wilson. #Ferguson
9:43pm - 13 Oct 14"

 

[Mask]

"#Ferguson PD not interested in Cornel West's words. #FergusonOctober pic.twitter.com/IQwA2Q8TL4
1:10pm - 13 Oct 14"

 

[YoMamaBlack]

Deray pretty much is the only user I follow...

Other than that I just follow hashtags

they arresting the criminals causing disturbance. it is illegal to block the side walk and streets.

 

[water]

West did not disappoint the audience, telling listeners that an older generation of African Americans had failed them.

“The older generation has been too well adjusted to injustice to listen to the younger generation. The older generation has been too obsessed with being successful rather than being faithful to a cause that was zeroing in on the plight of the poor and working people,” he said. “Thank God the awakening is setting in. And any time the awakening sets in it gets a little messy.”

When I made a thread about the older generation failing todays' youth people were upset.


Well there you have it

 

[tre2k4]

When I made a thread about the older generation failing todays' youth people were upset.


Well there you have it

I thought this was common knowledge

 

[Mask]

"#Ferguson Florissant school District being told by authorities of future plans should there be no indictment
7:45am - 14 Oct 14"

 

[spider705]

At the game last night over the video board in the north end zone:

I’m just out here working hard every single day, just trying to be the best poster I can be....

 

[Mask]

At the game last night over the video board in the north end zone:

I’m just out here working hard every single day, just trying to be the best poster I can be....

Saw that last night forgot to post it....



I didn't see this tho!!!

"Photo: #Ferguson protesters now marching around stadium upper level with hands up pic.twitter.com/CToBLcTksf
9:39pm - 13 Oct 14"

 

[Mask]

Saw that last night forgot to post it....



I didn't see this tho!!!

"Photo: #Ferguson protesters now marching around stadium upper level with hands up pic.twitter.com/CToBLcTksf
9:39pm - 13 Oct 14"

This the pic I saw

 

[Mask]

Another

 

[Mask]

 

[Mask]

A number of black people also feel uncomfortable. Pam Peters has lived in Ferguson for 37 years.

“I don’t like the way people are talking about Ferguson now,” she said. “We are good people. We are tired of the protests.”

Peters said she didn’t think Ferguson would ever go back to how it was before Brown’s shooting.

“We just have way too many young people who are trying to stir the pot,” she said. “If police stop them for no reason, that’s not right. But, not to beat a dead horse, some of them bring it on themselves.”

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...cle_d3260f13-d07d-592e-841b-3618d1ecbd5a.html







Ms. Pam I know your very tired, but just understand other folks have reached their breaking points

 

[spider705]

I'd have asked Ms Pam if they're being stopped for no reason, how are they bringing it on themselves???

I’m just out here working hard every single day, just trying to be the best poster I can be....

 

[pookie]

In cases like these people do not bring it on themselves. It is the oppressor against the oppressed. Kendrick Johnson never knew he would be killed for his organs and then there be a big cover up.

The curses and spells that lead us to slavery, and the curses and spells that had us in slavery still have to be broken.

Take a look at Jonestown and you will get an idea of what is meant by a white man's world.

http://blacknation.vpweb.com/default.html

 

[Mask]

It's very night and day when addressing "asking for" and "getting what's due"!!!


Some folks might be due for an ass kicking or something to that nature bug being gunned downed by cops is totally different.