[2ndDivisionVet]

* How'd you know?

[EEGator]

MSNBC

[NorthMountain]

On most days Williams, a recent high school graduate, takes up position with other protesters across from the Ferguson police department. But he also attends various meetings pulled together by a growing network of activists and organizers. He said he hasn’t missed a single day of marching, protesting or meetings.

Hmmmm ....

Has this Williams character ever made anything, built anything, done anything productive or creative in his entire life (all 18 years of it)?

[Vigilanteman]

All of this ink spilt and not one question on which of the following common sense steps was so hard to obey:

1. Don't rob convenience stores.
   
2. Don't throw small Indian store clerks around like rag dolls when you do.
   
3. Don't strut down the middle of the street after you'd done so.
   
4. Don't punch a cop in the face and break his nose when he's asked you to move.
   
5. Don't try to take his firearm to use against him.

Just wondering, which of the foregoing is so difficult?

[Graybeard58]

many with automatic rifles

Very few with P.C. single shot rifles.

[elpadre]

As I recall there are some witness testimonies and photos on record in the Federal Register of events in the civil rights demonstrations in the South prior to 1964, that prove CBS actually organized demonstrations and paid some of the people involved. Then CBS would film it and show it on morning news the next day. If my memory serves me well, the one I was told about was in Memphis, but could have been Jackson.

The way things are in Washington these days, if CBC knew it existed may have been able to purge that information from the record - hopefully not.

[NorthMountain]

On Tuesday night, during an at times raucous City Council meeting— the first since the shooting— Williams was among those who lined up to question, berate and at times belittle city leaders,

I see ...

So the 18 year old hoodrat, whose sole accomplishment in life is graduating from an urban public high school, feels that he has standing to hurl insults and invective at actual adults. I am reminded of the monkey cage at the zoo.

[NorthMountain]

We might have to come together and show that we can work together and overthrow the system.

And there you have it ... He wants to "overthrow the system". What the hell does he mean by that? Does anybody know? Does he know? Overthrow exactly what, Joshua? Replace it with what? Any ideas?

You want to start a revolution, Jason, you may find the results not to your liking. Destruction is a lot easier than building. You'd know that if you had ever actually accomplished anything.

[Shimmer1]

Throwing rocks, bottles, screaming made his eyes red? RLY??!!

[Calvin Locke]

“I was really upset. I saw children, little kids getting tear gassed and stuff. I just couldn’t take it.”

"...because the Pali tactics just aren't working for us..."

[kaehurowing]

He needs to write up a more creative narrative, something like this:

“. . .they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside.”

[Cementjungle]

Just days after 18-year-old Michael Brown was killed in a hail of police bullets

WOW!!!! They forgot to add the "unarmed" keyword before the "18-year-old". Someone's going to get a reprimand at MSNBC.

But, the "hail of police bullets" part was a nice touch.

[sergeantdave]

“Williams, also 18, screamed at officers until his eyes were red and wet. Beads of sweat bubbled from his brow and his body grew tense. His voice strained under the shrill of pain swelling from his throat.”

Hate to be gross, but it sounds like Williams is trying to pass a turd. Eat some spinach with the burger you stole from McDonalds, young man.

[Pollster1]

The police responded with snipers positioned on top of armored vehicles and a heavy deployment of officers, many with automatic rifles slung over their shoulders.

I was not aware that "many" police snipers were armed with automatic rifles. MSNBC is full of facts I never suspected would be true.

[JimRed]

The police responded with snipers positioned on top of armored vehicles and a heavy deployment of officers, many with automatic rifles slung over their shoulders.

One small problem: they didn't "snipe" a single looter, or diminish the rioters' numbers with automatic weapons fire.