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Judi Lynn

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Mon Sep 18, 2017, 04:11 PM Sep 2017

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.

More:
http://www.ebony.com/news-views/st-louis-police-chant-whose-streets-streets-arresting-protesters
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St. Louis Police Chant Whose Streets? Our Streets! While Arresting Protesters (Original Post) Judi Lynn Sep 2017 OP
Pretty brazen..nt 2naSalit Sep 2017 #1
Thugs, gangsters and cowards with badges. jcmaine72 Sep 2017 #2
Where there tiki torches? underpants Sep 2017 #3
fuckin' assholes... Blue_Tires Sep 2017 #4
The next time one of these worthless St. Louie pigs gets shot, Dawson Leery Sep 2017 #5

Dawson Leery

(19,348 posts)
5. The next time one of these worthless St. Louie pigs gets shot,
Mon Sep 18, 2017, 06:59 PM
Sep 2017

I do not want to hear about it. It will be a waste of time and un-newsworthy.

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