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St. Louis Police Chant Whose Streets? Our Streets! While Arresting Protesters
St. Louis police made a tyrannical exertion of their authority during the Sunday night protest.
BY ZAHARA HILL, SEPTEMBER 18, 2017
On the third day of protests following the recent acquittal of ex-St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley in the 2011 killing of Black motorist Anthony Lamar Smith, St. Louis police made a tyrannical exertion of their authority.
Officers were reported to have been chanting: Whose streets? Our streets!
The St. Louis Police Department (SLPD) denied the reports. But a Twitter video posted early Monday morning confirmed the officers were verbally harassing the protesters with chants after arresting over 80 demonstrators.
While the march was initially nonviolent, a group of approximately 100 people began to disturb the peace when they joined the protest by breaking windows, throwing trashcans and accosting officers. SLPD made a point of posting pictures of weapons and chemical bottles they confiscated to their Twitter account.
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St. Louis Police Chant Whose Streets? Our Streets! While Arresting Protesters (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Sep 2017
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2naSalit
(86,073 posts)1. Pretty brazen..nt
jcmaine72
(1,773 posts)2. Thugs, gangsters and cowards with badges.
No more, no less.
underpants
(182,284 posts)3. Where there tiki torches?
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)4. fuckin' assholes...
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)5. The next time one of these worthless St. Louie pigs gets shot,
I do not want to hear about it. It will be a waste of time and un-newsworthy.