Fights breaking out at an MLK celebration or WTF is WRONG with you?!?!

[malkavia]

This is sickening.

A bunch of stupid fucking teenagers decided it’d be a good idea to beat the piping hot shit out of eachother in the streets following an MLK **Peace ** Celebration yesterday afternoon in beeautiful downtown Phoenix.

Furthermore, it would also appear that our Mayor Phil Gordon is on some kind of boiled Ajax in rubbing alcohol high that causes him to spew nuggets of wisdom like,

@Mayor Gordon

“With respect to the parents of these children, you know… first of all, shame on the children. And I ask the parents, you need to take some responsibility. This is our city and your city and your children are the ones that almost caused uhh, just a horrific event that we would not be uhh… one that would want to uh… have to come to you and say your child now is the one responsible but uhh… there we are. We’re in front of you today.”

At least we know the teenagers weren’t on crack, as our mayor has apparently already smoked all of it. Jesus Christ.

After watching the footage, I can’t help but feel absolutely terrible for those poor parents trying to shield their children from both violence and police intervention alike. The first video shows a father walking with his son, both appear to have been exposed to pepper spray (I think it’s pepper spray, I’ve never been involved in a riot though, so don’t quote me).

What did we teach those children yesterday afternoon? A goddamn celebration for PEACE and DIGNITY and we have girls with their shirts half off trying to score one more punch to some other girls head. We have young men blindsiding one another with force and for what?! What the fuck could be so important that you had to disgrace an entire community with your ugly and selfish antics?

@MLK

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. we must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

Indeed, Dr. King.

[Zabali_Clawbane]

Do the links require Real player to run? I’m not able to run them. Can you give a different link please?

[Mauvaise]

“Fights breaking out at an MLK celebration or WTF is WRONG with you?!?!”

I had the same reaction when I watched the news yesterday. Don’t you people know what Dr. King was all about?! For shame!

[World_Eater]

Morons fighting and morons fighting each other is a big distinction.

Can we get some clarification?

[Tapioca_Dextrin]

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“It’s burning my eyes,” Bobby Kitchen, 18, said moments after he was pepper sprayed by an officer on horseback. “This happens every time people get together. It makes me sad sometimes but it happens every year so we just get used to it.”…Phoenix police Lt. Steve Soha said the outbursts occur almost every year and came as no surprise to officers. Last year, one person was arrested on suspicion of disorderly conduct as police attempted to disperse crowds of brawling youths.

It’s definitely a WTF moment.

[World_Eater]

Screw it. I think the important distinction is that morons are involved.

[malkavia]

@Tapioca Dextrin

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It’s definitely a WTF moment.

Yep, that’s the article. Sorry, I got stuck in a meeting.

[Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew]

I participated in the Freedom March on MLK day in San Francisco last year. Right at the beginnng, a man of a different race swatted me in the head with his picket sign.

Of course, it was a total accident–a gust of wind had caught the sign. The poor guy was mortified…