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INTERVIEW: Why Pro Wrestler ‘MVP' Made the Trip to Ferguson
The Nation ^ | 8-16-2014 | Dave Zirin

Posted on 08/17/2014 5:57:49 PM PDT by Citizen Zed

His name is Hassan Hamin Assad. But pro wrestling fans know him as Montel Vontavious Porter, otherwise known as MVP.

DZ: Why did you, MVP, decide to make this trip to Ferguson?

MVP: Because, I was sitting on the couch, watching the footage coming in.… And, I've been saying this over and over, I just got tired of shaking my fist at the TV. My biggest issue was watching the militarized St. Louis County Police come in with a heavy-handed approach, to peaceful protesters. Media blackout, arresting journalists, and I just felt like I had to speak up about our Constitution being trampled on and our constitutional rights being violated.

You've now been there a couple of days, what's your sense of what's happening on the ground?

I've had had the opportunity to speak to a lot of the local residents who were there in the chaos. One guy who was actually, according to him, beaten up by the police in the process. And last night was extremely calm, there were peaceful protests… no violence. But there was no police presence. Earlier in the evening, there were a few black police officers, and I think the local police chief—it was, I think, a minimized police presence. The night, as it got darker and as it got later there were even less police. And, I'm sad to say, that much, much later in the evening—probably around 1 am—a few police responded to minor incident at a McDonald's. There was nothing going on and they left. They didn't bother anyone, and as they were leaving, some were throwing rocks and bottles at the police cars as they left. Which is counterproductive to do, but unfortunately you always have that angst.

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1 posted on 08/17/2014 5:57:49 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
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To: Citizen Zed

BFD MVP, ESAD and GTFOOMC.


2 posted on 08/17/2014 5:59:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: Citizen Zed

So basically, because he’s an idiot.


3 posted on 08/17/2014 6:00:05 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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To: Citizen Zed
It's about time that MVP weighed in on this.

Wait...who?

4 posted on 08/17/2014 6:01:08 PM PDT by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: Citizen Zed

So, a phony went to a phony riot. What a surprise.


5 posted on 08/17/2014 6:02:16 PM PDT by Dr. Thorne ("Don't be afraid. Just believe." - Mark 5:36)
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To: Citizen Zed

Where are the famous people coming out in support of the boys in blue????


6 posted on 08/17/2014 6:02:57 PM PDT by Friendofgeorge (Sarah Palin 2016 OR BUST)
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To: cripplecreek
So basically, because he’s an idiot.

And a criminal. That could have been him lying in the street. From Wikipedia:

Assad was born in Liberty City, Miami but grew up in Opa-locka, Florida. His father was a police officer.[12] He joined a gang when he was 12, describing it as "a graffiti gang", which later turned into a street gang.[12] He spent six months in a juvenile detention center after a robbery.[12] He later completed 9½ years of an 18½ year prison sentence for armed robbery and kidnapping which he started at the age of sixteen.[1][13][14] While in prison, he converted to Islam and changed his name from Alvin Burke, Jr. to Hassan Hamin Assad.[1][2] Due to his past criminal record, Assad's visits to other countries on international tours are subject to permits and background checks for recent behavior.[15]

7 posted on 08/17/2014 6:04:14 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

OMG, WTF, BBQ! MVP? GTFO.


8 posted on 08/17/2014 6:06:51 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Citizen Zed

the Muslim Brtoherhood seems to be making a move to get blacks and illegal immigrants to convert to Islam using social media lately. It makes me think that there will be a future movement to kill all white Christians or convert them


9 posted on 08/17/2014 6:07:42 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Zhang Fei

“Why Alvin Burke, Jr., made the trip to Ferguson.”

“Who?”


10 posted on 08/17/2014 6:08:01 PM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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11 posted on 08/17/2014 6:09:31 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Citizen Zed
We can now assume that the eyewitness/accomplice account of Saint Michael Brown being shot while on his knees with his hands in the air was disproved by the autopsy, because Eric Holder has demanded a federal autopsy.

Hopefully the pathologist will be smart enough to perform a full-body MRI on the corpse before handing it over to the evidence-manufacturing division of the Department of Justus.

12 posted on 08/17/2014 6:12:54 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: jsanders2001

They’re going to do what they’re going to do,and I’m going to do what I have to do to meet that threat.(See my tagline)


13 posted on 08/17/2014 6:17:49 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: cripplecreek

“So basically, because he’s an idiot.”

Low IQ,,, steroids,,,,, getting his head bashed around,,,,= stoopid!


14 posted on 08/17/2014 6:26:33 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing! Don't let anybody touch that thing! I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that th)
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To: Citizen Zed
So, if its militarized police that are causing this then what caused all the scores of other black riots when the police weren't militarized?

Militarization, Just the latest in the long chain of worthless scapegoats It's slavery's fault.
It's racism's fault.
It's poverty's fault.
It's profiling's fault.
and now its police militarization's fault.

(face palm)

15 posted on 08/17/2014 6:27:15 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (If you're on the same side of Ferguson as Al and Jesse, then you F-ed up somewhere. Rethink it dummy)
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To: Citizen Zed
one tooo many pile-drivers i see...
16 posted on 08/17/2014 6:37:33 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I really don’t trust the Feds doing an autopsy.


17 posted on 08/17/2014 6:40:37 PM PDT by healy61
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To: Dr. Thorne
So, a phony went to a phony riot.

Which was written up by a phony reporter for a phony magazine.

18 posted on 08/17/2014 6:45:42 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig, es ist nicht einmal falsch!)
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To: Citizen Zed

Hey DWA(Dim Wit Arab).

You mention nothing about the stealing and looting from neighnorhood
businesses who had nothing to do with the shooting.


19 posted on 08/17/2014 7:00:42 PM PDT by tennmountainman (True conservatives don't like being rained on by their own party!)
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To: Flycatcher

I’ll hold my opinion until Kim Kardashian weights in on the subject thank you.


20 posted on 08/17/2014 7:11:44 PM PDT by davetex (Location: The Alamo)
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