Posted on 11/29/2014 12:57:09 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Father-of-six Tyree Landrum was driving to one of his three jobs when he came across a line of Ferguson protesters blocking the road in the middle of the San Diego rush hour.
Furious that the demonstrators might make him late to work and risk him getting fired, he decided to get out of his car on the I-5 in La Jolla to confront the group of students.
He then told a photographer for ABC News 10: 'If I don't get there, I'm going to get fired. I've got six f****** kids to feed.'
Mr Landrum's reaction on Wednesday has since gone viral, and has drummed up support from hundreds on social media.
Meanwhile demonstrations have continued across the country in the wake of the decision by a grand jury not to indict Darren Wilson who shot unarmed teen Michael Brown.
Many other drivers around him shared his anger, including nurses in their scrubs en route the hospital, and got out of their cars.
Mr Landrum then approached one protester standing with a bullhorn shouting: 'No justice, no peace.'
He ripped the device from him and replied: 'Hey, I feel you; we ain't got no justice either.'.......
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You don’t want to stand in front of my truck.
Where in the law does it say it’s legal to block traffic? Way to go, Responsible Citizen and Working Dad! More should have gotten out of their cars and done the cops’ job. Enough of this.
They pulled the same on Stemmons Freeway in Dallas, TX. Stemmons is crazy on a good day. The cops there lined their cars up in 20 minutes slowly moved the protesters off the road. If you’re standing in the middle of a road, you deserve whatever you get.
I knew as soon as I read this, some joker would get on the man’s case for having a lot of children. It never fails!
I was wondering who did it! Thank you and thank you to the mods for stepping in.
It was the mods who stepped in and removed it. You can report “abuse” (which often is simply a really crude statement) but that doesn’t mean they will automatically remove it. They made the decision. A right one in my estimation.
And the last thing we need to be doing is telling people how many kids they can have, like they do in Red China.
If this guy hadn't have confronted some protestors blocking a road (which I applaud), his FB page would be a source of scorn and ridicule around here for days. And the mods would do nothing, nor should they. Situational hypocrites attacking the poster whose comment was removed.
There’s virtually nothing on his FB page at the link. Maybe I’d see more if I logged in, but I don’t have an account, and never will.
What is there that is so damning?
It’s immaterial to me. This discussion of his sex life took the entire thread off-target.
What sort of history do I have of irritating people?
Too bad other drivers didn’t join him. I would have. Children who throw fits and cause disruption need to be spanked.
Just a lot of your typical “gangsta” stuff. Flashing gang signs (with children). “Liking” pages about women with fat butts. Oh, and he is engaged, not married, which means nothing to me, but it does prove that wastedyears’ original comment was not inappropriate.
He has a family, therefore he is a "family man." He has a job, therefore he is worthy of being termed "hard-working." Any conclusions drawn from a Facbook profile are much more likely to be exaggerations than the simple conclusion that he is a hard-working family man. I don't use Facebook, don't like it, and don't believe that it is admissible in court. I would be much more likely to draw a conclusion based on the fact that he is trying to get to work. While we are at it, lets get a look at your facebook page so we can see what you are exaggerating about yourself.
Probably no one would really get hurt, but by the end of running that gauntlet, none of those cars would be worth squat.
Just like we shouldn’t expect the faint of heart to be Navy Seals or spies, the faint of heart wouldn’t have walked up to these protestors and told them where to get off.
I really don’t care what is on his or anyone else’s FB page. I’m glad it is not admissible in court, and I would go so far as to say that I think that employers should be banned from looking at employee’s FB pages. That’s not the point. Also, I respect what he did on the highway with the protesters. My beef is with the posters and moderator who had a perfectly valid comment removed and had such a hissy fit over it that it hijacked the thread.
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