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| Two arrested as Ferguson protests move to St Louis |
| 2015-03-16 |
[Hurriyet Daily News] Police placed in durance vileDrop the rod and step away witcher hands up! at least two people on March 14 as nightly protests in the racially troubled US suburb of Ferguson over the police killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown shifted into the heart of St Louis. Up to 50 youthful demonstrators gathered after sunset at the Midwestern city's historic 19th century Old Courthouse to march through streets lined with bars filled with St Patrick's revelers. "Justice is dead! We have to wake it up," one protester, David Ragland, shouted from the steps of the white colonnaded courthouse where in 1846 black slave Dred Scott filed his unsuccessful but historic lawsuit to win his freedom. When some of the protesters briefly held up traffic, police stepped in and took away two men -- a young protester with a kerchief over his face and a freelance photojournalist, Philip Montgomery, on assignment for the Mashable website. Mashable's executive editor Jim Roberts said via Twitter that Montgomery was "fine" after he was released a short time later. Ferguson has been the scene of almost nightly protests since 18-year-old Brown was fatally shot by a white police officer on August 9, sparking national outrage, occasional violence and a fierce debate about policing and race relations in America today. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 "Justice is dead! We have to wake it up," This protester doesn't seem very Christ-like to me, not sure he can wake the dead. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2015-03-16 07:48 |