Posted on 10/25/2014 4:48:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Chris Hardy could hear the sounds of percussion grenades booming from his living room sofa. Tear gas would waft through his apartment complex, as a few blocks away, police launched canister after canister of the stuff at protesters.
Officers toting machine guns would set up blockades all across the neighborhood when night fell, locking down neighborhood residents in a kind of Pandora’s Box filled with police and protesters.
“When they put that curfew down, that’s when it all went really bad,” Hardy, 49, said. “You couldn’t get out. You couldn’t leave your house.”
When protests erupted in the streets of Ferguson in the days and weeks following the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown Jr. by a Ferguson police officer, whole sections of the city were taken over by police and by mostly peaceful yet angry protesters. While the massive crowds have long since dissipated, many local residents – some trapped in their homes during the demonstrations – are still paying the price.
“I done lost my job behind all of this,” said Hardy, a truck driver who lives in the apartment complex where police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Brown on Aug. 9. “I just couldn’t get out. You’re hearing bullets all the time at night. They had tear gas shooting out. I was just kind of paralyzed.”
For some — it’s unclear how many — gainful employment became one of many casualties in the fallout from the unarmed teen’s death. Some quit paying gigs for non-paying positions on the frontlines of the protests. Others say they were hemmed in by police activity or by fear and lost their jobs because they couldn’t make it to work on time. Still others say their jobs have been threatened because of their support for Michael Brown and his family.....
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if Mr. Hardy is truly a truck driver without a blemished record, he could go to work tomorrow and pull down $75,000 annually.
I call this “victim story” totally BS.
They could always apply for a job at QuikTrip...oh wait.
There they go again.
The "teen" was well armed. Three by my count. He had a left one, a right one, and.... when there is an altercation between a cop and a thug for a gun, from a legal perspective BOTH are armed with that weapon.
“Life is hard. It’s a lot harder when you’re stupid.”
—John Wayne
In 1965 I lived not to far from the Watts riots in LA. I was just a teenager, but it made an impression on me. Ferguson brings back those impressions.
I agree.
I frequently hear gunfire here in my LA neighborhood. And I still get up and go to work.
Headline needs double barf alert!
Woe is them. Looks like they made this bed now they dont like lying in it.
Stop the stupid protesting and go home, fools.
Yes, if he can pass the drug test and has a CDL, there are jobs in the oilfields.
Where is the “WAAAAAAAAAAAAAmbulance” graphic?
That's an awful big "If".
Rochester, NY had its own riots - I was 12-13 and remember a gang rocking the car ahead of us and letting it go to turn their attention on us. My uncle was driving and he said that if, and I quote, "Them niggers think I'm going to stop, they'll be scraping some of their pals up from the street" as he cranked his full size Caprice up into a barreling tank. They scattered and we went on - I recognized one of my friend's brothers in the crowd and it gave me pause for thought - I grew up in a mainly Black neighborhood and we were all friends and neighbors, yet they only recognized skin color in their aggression.
Excuse to sit around like the rest and loot
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