Payless Shoes was looted in Ferguson Missouri last night......
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urban protests/lootings are still popular in Europe, even Canada on occasion, but have largely disappeared from the US for various reasons....some pictures from Ferguson...
from CNN:
Owners of the raided stores expressed frustration that police, looking on nearby, didn?t stop the looters.
?I understand that you?re not safe either, but you still have a job to do now, and now you?re not doing your job,? Tanya Littleton, owner of the looted Feel Beauty Supply, said about police in an phone interview with CNN.
The beauty store?s floor was littered with broken glass and merchandise, video from CNN affiliate KTVI showed. Looters took off with hair extensions worth at least $200 a bag, Littleton said.
?We?re shut down for a while. It?s not safe, and the police are doing nothing about it,? she told KTVI.
Jay Kanzler, lawyer for Ferguson Market and Liquor, said police did nothing to stop the looting in town.
?Don?t know why the ? police didn?t do anything. They were told to stand down and I don?t know why,? Kanzler said.
Also targeted was Sam?s Meat Market and Liquor. After hearing that people grabbed chicken, bacon and spirits from their store, the owners arrived with guns and stood outside, warding off any further raids.
Looters began Saturday?s pillage at the Ferguson Market and Liquor store, which has become part of the case surrounding Brown. Shortly before Brown was shot last week, police say, a man fitting his description allegedly stole cigars and roughed up a store clerk as surveillance cameras recorded?.
More than two dozen people blocked off the store with cars early Saturday, then officers commanded them through loudspeakers to free it up.
Instead, bottles flew, mayhem erupted, and looters ransacked the store, which the owner had boarded up. It was the first of at least three stores raided?.
About an hour later, about a dozen people lined up to block Ferguson Market and Liquor?s entrance, saying they were keeping looters out. But before sunrise, looters returned there for a second round.
from CNN:
Owners of the raided stores expressed frustration that police, looking on nearby, didn?t stop the looters.
?I understand that you?re not safe either, but you still have a job to do now, and now you?re not doing your job,? Tanya Littleton, owner of the looted Feel Beauty Supply, said about police in an phone interview with CNN.
The beauty store?s floor was littered with broken glass and merchandise, video from CNN affiliate KTVI showed. Looters took off with hair extensions worth at least $200 a bag, Littleton said.
?We?re shut down for a while. It?s not safe, and the police are doing nothing about it,? she told KTVI.
Jay Kanzler, lawyer for Ferguson Market and Liquor, said police did nothing to stop the looting in town.
?Don?t know why the ? police didn?t do anything. They were told to stand down and I don?t know why,? Kanzler said.
Also targeted was Sam?s Meat Market and Liquor. After hearing that people grabbed chicken, bacon and spirits from their store, the owners arrived with guns and stood outside, warding off any further raids.
Looters began Saturday?s pillage at the Ferguson Market and Liquor store, which has become part of the case surrounding Brown. Shortly before Brown was shot last week, police say, a man fitting his description allegedly stole cigars and roughed up a store clerk as surveillance cameras recorded?.
More than two dozen people blocked off the store with cars early Saturday, then officers commanded them through loudspeakers to free it up.
Instead, bottles flew, mayhem erupted, and looters ransacked the store, which the owner had boarded up. It was the first of at least three stores raided?.
About an hour later, about a dozen people lined up to block Ferguson Market and Liquor?s entrance, saying they were keeping looters out. But before sunrise, looters returned there for a second round.
So, Tanya Littleton wants the po-po to protect her shit, huh? That how it works? Hundreds of people roaming the streets, and your weave mart is job one?
Maybe stand in front of your store and tell these folks to stay out of your bidnez?
Everyone hates the po-po until they NEED the po-po. Same old song and dance.
Maybe stand in front of your store and tell these folks to stay out of your bidnez?
Everyone hates the po-po until they NEED the po-po. Same old song and dance.
pic here of a looter at that Feel Beauty Supply:
Pic here of some folks who blocked the entrance of this C-store and chased looters away:
Pic here of some folks who blocked the entrance of this C-store and chased looters away:
pic here of a looter at that Feel Beauty Supply:
She needs to be looting Jenny Craig.
A previously unnoticed detail in a background conversion of a video taken minutes after the Ferguson shooting could change the course of the investigation into Mike Brown?s death.
The original video poster appears sympathetic to the narrative that Mike Brown was shot unarmed with his hands in the air. But he unknowingly picks up conversation between a man who saw the altercation and another neighbor.
An approximate transcription of the background conversation, as related by the ?Conservative Treehouse? blog, who originally discovered the conversation:
@6:28/6:29 of video
#1 How?d he get from there to there?
#2 Because he ran, the police was still in the truck ? cause he was like over the truck
{crosstalk}
#2 But him and the police was both in the truck, then he ran ? the police got out and ran after him
{crosstalk}
#2 Then the next thing I know he doubled back toward him cus - the police had his gun drawn already on him ?
[there is dispute here whether he says "doubled back" or "coming back."]
#1. Oh, the police got his gun
#2 The police kept dumpin on him, and I?m thinking the police kept missing ? he like ? be like ? but he kept coming toward him
{crosstalk}
#2 Police fired shots ? the next thing I know ? the police was missing
#1 The Police?
#2 The Police shot him
#1 Police?
#2 The next thing I know ? I?m thinking ? the dude started running ? (garbled something about ?he took it from him?)
This is terribly important because if Mike Brown had been shot, and he advanced towards the cop instead of surrendering, it would substantiate the narrative that the policeman shot in self-defense due to the fact that he was being threatened with severe bodily harm. This corroborates an account of the event given by a friend of Officer Darren Wilson:
Well, then Michael takes off and gets to be about 35 feet away. And, Darren?s first protocol is to pursue. So, he stands up and yells, ?Freeze!? Michael and his friend turn around. And Michael taunts him? And then all the sudden he just started bumrushing him. He just started coming at him full speed. And, so he just started shooting. And, he just kept coming. And, so he really thinks he was on something.?
It?s far too unlikely that these two accounts are similar accidentally, having been from such disparate sources. The apparent witness in the background conversation is speaking with detail about the tragic shooting, and in a manner that runs contrary to the widespread version. Those who watch the video need to judge for themselves if the witness sounds reliable (but he would seemingly have nothing to gain by telling such a story.)
A third piece of the puzzle would be the toxicology report. If there happens to be anything found that might explain how Mike Brown might have been shot and kept advancing toward the officer, then the defense becomes even more believable. Unless someone is emotionally invested in an alternative narrative to the extent that one might ignore plain facts.
We shall see.
Co-Authored by Kyle Becker
The original video poster appears sympathetic to the narrative that Mike Brown was shot unarmed with his hands in the air. But he unknowingly picks up conversation between a man who saw the altercation and another neighbor.
An approximate transcription of the background conversation, as related by the ?Conservative Treehouse? blog, who originally discovered the conversation:
@6:28/6:29 of video
#1 How?d he get from there to there?
#2 Because he ran, the police was still in the truck ? cause he was like over the truck
{crosstalk}
#2 But him and the police was both in the truck, then he ran ? the police got out and ran after him
{crosstalk}
#2 Then the next thing I know he doubled back toward him cus - the police had his gun drawn already on him ?
[there is dispute here whether he says "doubled back" or "coming back."]
#1. Oh, the police got his gun
#2 The police kept dumpin on him, and I?m thinking the police kept missing ? he like ? be like ? but he kept coming toward him
{crosstalk}
#2 Police fired shots ? the next thing I know ? the police was missing
#1 The Police?
#2 The Police shot him
#1 Police?
#2 The next thing I know ? I?m thinking ? the dude started running ? (garbled something about ?he took it from him?)
This is terribly important because if Mike Brown had been shot, and he advanced towards the cop instead of surrendering, it would substantiate the narrative that the policeman shot in self-defense due to the fact that he was being threatened with severe bodily harm. This corroborates an account of the event given by a friend of Officer Darren Wilson:
Well, then Michael takes off and gets to be about 35 feet away. And, Darren?s first protocol is to pursue. So, he stands up and yells, ?Freeze!? Michael and his friend turn around. And Michael taunts him? And then all the sudden he just started bumrushing him. He just started coming at him full speed. And, so he just started shooting. And, he just kept coming. And, so he really thinks he was on something.?
It?s far too unlikely that these two accounts are similar accidentally, having been from such disparate sources. The apparent witness in the background conversation is speaking with detail about the tragic shooting, and in a manner that runs contrary to the widespread version. Those who watch the video need to judge for themselves if the witness sounds reliable (but he would seemingly have nothing to gain by telling such a story.)
A third piece of the puzzle would be the toxicology report. If there happens to be anything found that might explain how Mike Brown might have been shot and kept advancing toward the officer, then the defense becomes even more believable. Unless someone is emotionally invested in an alternative narrative to the extent that one might ignore plain facts.
We shall see.
Co-Authored by Kyle Becker
Listen up now and you listen good.....Don't let facts of the audio of a video from someone on scene get in the way that a White Cop gunned down a Black Dude who was obviously just out on the streets minding his own bidnez getting some fresh air and exercise......:shrug:
