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Joshua Hampton saw the big black police truck from down the block. He saw the lights, and the officers in military garb clinging to the sides. He wasnt worried. It was around 2 a.m. Sunday, two hours after the new curfew mandated for Ferguson, Mo., but Hampton was sitting in his own car, smoking a cigarette in his aunts driveway. He thought he was obeying the law.
But the truck stopped and suddenly, Hampton says, his car was surrounded by police. Put your (expletive) hands up! he says they told him.
And then Hampton and his friends became among the seven people arrested the first night after Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (D) declared a state of emergency in the St. Louis suburb. Nixons decision came a week after 18-year-old Michael Brown was killed in an officer-involved shooting, sparking protests in the community.
They kept telling me to get out of the car, but I didnt want to make any kind of movement, Hampton, 30, told The Post in a phone interview Sunday.
The officer by his window had a gun pointed at his chest, says Hampton, who provided a copy of his arrest report to the Washington Post. He wanted to make sure the police could see his hands at all times, and he was afraid to reach down for the door lock. Finally, the officer reached in through the open window and opened the door himself.
MORE:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/08/17/i-just-kept-asking-why-am-i-being-arrested-for-sitting-in-my-aunts-driveway/
elleng
(131,104 posts)and someone provides suitable training for those thugs ('police,' that is.)
valerief
(53,235 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)OnlinePoker
(5,725 posts)According to this DU article, Ferguson issued 24,532 arrest warrants in 2013. Only 519 of them were enforced?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025404667
IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)I'm confused, too. I would like an explanation because I've been quoting Newsweek, and I don't want to be quoting mis-information.
santroy79
(193 posts)if 60% of the people are black then maybe they should vote black people into office. Seeing the the school board, council and mayor are elected offices
or maybe 90% of those 60% dont give a shit to take the time to vote and then only have themselves to blame
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Where are some of these posts?
leftstreet
(36,112 posts)Logical
(22,457 posts)greiner3
(5,214 posts)So far.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)will not be acknowledged by the "provide a link" people. Easiest way for all of them to escape responsibility for the wilson-zimmerman crowd under the surface here. I've enjoyed your 'in the face' attitude. Don't even sweat that "enjoy your stay" implied threat BS.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)It works every time.
This shit is personal for me.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025402922
heaven05
(18,124 posts)Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)Please link to one single post that says, or even implies, that the Ferguson police are "people of honor".
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)MindPilot
(12,693 posts)terrorism and intimidation.
OnlinePoker
(5,725 posts)I thought you had the right to free assembly and free speech? Has this gone to your supreme court?