The people causing all the trouble, they aren’t from Ferguson,” said resident Mike Marion, 26. “They’re from all over. They’re not trying to make things better or stand up for Michael Brown. They’re just taking advantage of the situation.” Among the groups that traveled to Ferguson to participate in the protests is the Revolution Club of Chicago. Community leaders, gathering at a local church last week, singled out the group as primary instigators. Justin Glawe of the Daily Beast reported that members of the group helped gin up support for defying the curfew Saturday night. And numerous protesters said they had seen members of the Revolution Club “embed” with protesters to provoke the police. “We have a responsibility to be here,” Lou Downey of the Revolution Club told The Star on Monday afternoon. “We are revolutionaries.We’re working to do this in a way that puts an end to the system that for generations has criminalized youth, especially black youth, and rounds them up into prisons.”
Posted on: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 07:35:17 +0000
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