Ferguson marchers met with fried chicken, Confederate flags, and gunshots

Hunter

Daily Kos Staff

Thursday December 04, 2014 · 1:08 PM PST

2014/12/04 · 13:08

A girl holds a sign during a peaceful demonstration, as communities react to the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri August 14, 2014. Missouri's governor Jay Nixon moved on Thursday to calm days of racially charged protests over the police sho

Missouri's racist dregs certainly are in fine form of late.

About 200 people met the [Journey for Justice] marchers as they reached Rosebud around noon, activists said. A display of fried chicken, a melon and a 40-ounce beer bottle had been placed in the street. A Confederate flag flew. Counter-protestors shouted racial epithets. [...]
Somebody shot the window out of the back of one of the buses traveling with the march, dubbed by the NAACP as the Journey for Justice. The outer pane of glass broke. The bullet landed in the windowsill, the driver said.

Racial epithets, taunting crowds, and people shooting at the buses. Surely, a post-racial society.

Ferguson marchers met with fried chicken, Confederate flags, and gunshots

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