Posted on 07/10/2016 10:23:28 AM PDT by janetjanet998
About 100 people protesting late Saturday and early Sunday in a sometimes violent response to the police killing of Philando Castile were arrested, either during an hourslong human blockade of Interstate 94 in St. Paul or during a follow-up gathering elsewhere in the city, authorities said.
The violence perpetrated by some of the protesters against the police prompted denouncement in the strongest terms by St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman and Police Chief Todd Axtell, who called the pelting of officers with rocks, bottles and other items “a disgrace.”
Axtell said 21 officers from all law enforcement agencies on the scene were injured in the mayhem. The State Patrol said six of the 21 were troopers who suffered minor injuries from what the protesters were throwing.
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When the divine timing is right, martyrdoms and confessions (of faith) will occur. Did you ever expect anything different? Are you going to boycott Jehovah?
Wait a minute. I recall you now. You’re one disingenuous piece of work. See ya!
I don’t think we’ll see a significant drop in recruitment numbers. Nature abhors a vacuum. What worries me is the quality of the recruits that will fill it.
Keith Ellison the black moslem is in Congress from MN...
Nothing will happen to them...
hes the one who swore in Obama on the Koran...
Just another peaceful protest. They keep telling us they’re peaceful protests.
the goal is obamalaw
Somebody must have told them that the interstate highway system was built on the backs of the poor black slaves.
A sad day when mobs rule
Solution: Designated marksmen in overwatch. Anybody cocks back with a Molotov Cocktail, a rock, or anything...bang.
Individual officers can defend themselves at close range.
Of course, you’re obliged by standards of fairness to warn the mob first. Once.
Very true. But the desire to avoid certain ends does keep us closer to the straight and narrow.
and Amen
Obstructing interstate and intra-state commerce
is a Federal Offense.
Let the FEDs charge them .
LaVoy Finicum was not available for comment. Cliven Bundy is in solitary since February, and Ammon is behind bars, too.
don’t forget “the FEDs” is Loretta Lynch...
The current Federal regime would be like asking a fox to prosecute henhouse violations, and I’m not ever sure that highway blockage protests have ever been treated in that manner.
Not with respect to the alternative between a hell and a heaven destination, however.
This makes Christian faith look like cheating. But it is cheating. It cheats death and it cheats sin.
Where is Czar Nicholas when we REALLY need him? Now THAT guy knew how to clear streets!
It doesn’t cheat anything. The bill has been paid in full.
Had this happened in Russia, the authorities would have filled both lanes of the interstate with snow plows, blades touching and simply plowed the road.
From a mortal point of view, for those who complain that it is too forgiving.
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