Protesting for justice for Michael Brown gets little sympathy from Cardinals fans —
A protest during the intermission at a St. Louis symphony performance, in contrast, got done support from the audience and the stage.
Sounds like two groups of people who are both completely wrong for completely different reasons.
I’m not sure I understand the point of the OP. Should baseball fans and concert attendees expect or appreciate protestors disrupting the performances, or at least serve as a distraction? I would be pissed if I paid good money to see a baseball game or concert and have to put up with loud protestors.
Note this my opinion has nothing to do with either side of the Ferguson issue. But that seems like a separate topic to me.
Exactly. I paid money to see an event and you stage a protest? You are going to protest social injustice by disrupting a paid event? You are protesting to ME? Like I have some control over the police or local government?
I see this less as an instrument of change and more of narcissists wanting to get news coverage.
Disgusting. Let’s go Dodgers.
The protesters were on the street. They weren’t interrupting the Cardinals game. They weren’t anywhere near the field of play.
And I do think that even people at a paid event should have the decency to treat protesters on a serious issue with respect. And, yes, everyone is responsible for their government.
The baseball protest happened outside the stadium. Those protesters weren’t disrupting the event.
The question remains: What role do they believe the St. Louis Cardinals, their management, or their fans had in the Brown incident?
So if the Westboro Baptist Church shows up at the next Cardinals game, are the fans obliged to greet them with good cheer and a stiff upper lip?
A few racists also happen to be Cardinal fans: News at 11.
Did this guy show up?
No, because the Westboro Baptist Church people are malicious and evil.
At 1:10 the crowd is chanting “Who do we want? Darren Wilson! How do we want him? Dead!”
Are you sure you want to call that “protesting for justice”?
That’s distasteful. Good thing people in the crowd knew the best way to defuse the situation- racist insults!
10, actually. StL is on Central time.
Justice for Michael Brown? Were you there? Do you know what actually happened? So far most of the witness testimony has been sketchy at best. There’s even a possibility that he did get justice.
That’s not justice. The good news - for you, if this is what you believe - is that the man who killed him will probably never go on trial, so the rumors and innuendos and lies about what happened that day will never be formally challenged.
The fact that we don’t know exactly what happened is an injustice.
The fact that the police department withheld the name of the cop in the situation for so long is an injustice.
The fact that the Ferguson police avoided ever filing an initial incident report in this case is an injustice.
And there are a dozen more injustices before you ever get to the question of whether the shooting was justified.
Extrajudicial execution of an unarmed person is never justice.
Regardless, it is clear that the government and police force of Ferguson are structurally unjust.
And regardless of that, seeking justice for a shooting in this situation means something a lot more than knowing whether the shooting was justified.
And further, regardless of that, decent people don’t respond the way that the people did in this video to demands for justice in a questionable shooting situation.
But it would be a political protest outside a sports venue.