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| Ferguson Looter: 'I'm Proud Of Us, We Deserve This' |
| 2014-08-20 |
| [STLOUIS.CBSLOCAL] The National Guard arrived in Ferguson but kept its distance from the streets where protesters clashed again with police, as clouds of tear gas and smoke hung over the St. Louis suburb where Michael Brown was fatally shot by a police officer. Protesters filled the streets after nightfall Monday, and officers trying to enforce tighter restrictions at times used bullhorns to order them to disperse. Police deployed noisemakers and armored vehicles to push demonstrators back. Officers fired tear gas and flash grenades. One looter who came out of a QuikTrip told The Washington Post that he was proud of what he was doing. "I'm proud of us. We deserve this, and this is what's supposed to happen when there's injustice in your community," DeAndre Smith told The Post. "St. Louis — not going to take this anymore." A police officer who asked not to be identified labeled it "looting tourism." "It's like they are spending their gas money to come down here and steal," the officer told The Post. Capt. Ron Johnson of the Missouri Highway Patrol, who is in charge of security in Ferguson, said bottles and Molotov cocktails were thrown from the crowd and that some officers had come under heavy gunfire. At least two people were shot and 31 were nabbed Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! , he said. He did not have condition updates on those who were shot. Johnson said four officers were maimed by rocks or bottles. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #11 What #5 and 6 rjschwarz said. Yeah, proud of making your little suburban neighborhood into a place where no retailer or substantial employer will ever want to come again. Less'n it's the kind where the cashier is behind a bullet-proof and barred barricade, with a little drawer to pass the merchandise and the money back and forth. Yeah, just socking it to 'da man', you fearless social justice warrior, you! And when you have to make a two-hour bus-ride across town to shop at a decent supermarket or Wallyworld on the first of the month, lugging a couple of squalling toddlers (by two different fathers) one way, and the toddlers and a rolling wire cart crammed full of groceries back the other way ... I shall think of you then, and laugh and laugh and laugh. |
| Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2014-08-20 18:10 |
| #10 Thanks Barb, spot on! Evil, worthless low-life, communist, dumbocrat bastid. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-08-20 16:02 |
| #9 "televised assurances of Officer Wilson's FTFY, B. No charge. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2014-08-20 15:59 |
| #8 I hope the good people of Missouri do not forget their governor's rush to judgment and televised assurances of Officer Wilson's prosecution. Spit ~ |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-08-20 15:52 |
| #7 I would take my insurance money, close the business, and reopen someplace safe. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-08-20 14:58 |
| #6 Has anyone done a comparison of job oppurtunies in riot prone areas? I'm sure its all wrapped in racism but I can't imagine opening up a big facility in one of these areas. Even if you aren't burned down you can be shut down for weeks and insurance rates have to be a lot higher. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2014-08-20 14:42 |
| #5 How proud will they be if the storeowners take the insurance money and pack it in. Leaving a long trip to buy basic necessities (at least until folks forget). |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2014-08-20 14:40 |
| #4 The men of the 54th Massachusetts and the Tuskegee airmen would have stalked off in disgust and readied the grapeshot themselves. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2014-08-20 12:53 |
| #3 The payoff of the "You didn't build this" mindset. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-08-20 09:44 |
| #2 Not getting enough from Obama's govmint? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-08-20 09:39 |
| #1 "I'm proud of us. We deserve this, and this is what's supposed to happen when there's injustice in your community," I'm sure your great-grandparents would be proud of you, DeAndre. Along with Dr. M. L. King and all the others who promoted civil rights and equal opportunity over the last 50 years. And the Attorney General and the White House, of course. [spit] |
| Posted by: Bobby 2014-08-20 07:44 |