Ferguson protesters shut down malls, trains on Black Friday | Fox News
Good, this is the next level to raise awareness of how cops have become lawless and brutal themselves.
Then, a handful of around 15 protesters were arrested, so much for freedom to assemble, now they're trampling on constitutional rights, trying to tamp down peaceful demonstrations, how despicable.
These malls, I would assume, are privately owned.
If these protestors are so pissed off at the cops, then demonstrate outside of police stations or municipal buildings.
These people that are shopping or trying to take the train are almost entirely made up of people that had nothing whatsoever to do with the shooting...why bother them? Public awareness? Please - almost every American has heard about Ferguson ad naseum.
Imo, mostly what these protests are doing is pissing off normal, mostly decent people who just want to get on with their lives. Of course, the shoppers won't say that aloud because it's not PC.
And (this is for the protestors) save the nonsense about this is a protest about police brutality...this is (IMO) about poverty and racism...and we have ALL heard it ALL before. The former won't be helped AT ALL by disrupting private enterprise and the latter won't be helped by whining about it all the time.
You want less poverty? Get the government out of the evonomy as much as possible. And look to yourselves for wealth and prosperity, not others. IMO, America owes you basic rights, enough food/shelter/clothing to survive and basic medical/dental care. You want more, get it yourselves.
You want less racism? Stop going on and on and on and on about it, stop self segregating yourselves, start fully integrating into 'white' society (which I realize is not easy) and eventually people will stop thinking of others as a different race and just think of them as a different person. Whining about is getting you nowhere.
But whatever you do, protest those you are mad at - cops and government. Yelling at and disrupting people who have other things to do is not helping your cause...it's hurting it.
20 years ago, I was very sympathetic to the protests about racism and poverty of 'black' Americans. Now, I am starting to get sick of it.