Large Protest in Support of Darren Wilson Policed by Five Cops on Bikes
by David Harris Gershon (The Troubadour) at dKos
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/17/1322439/-Large-Protest-in-Support-of-Darren-Wilson-Policed-by-Five-Cops-on-Bikes
A nearly all-white protest in Saint Louis supporting Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, who gunned down Mike Brown, an unarmed black teenager, drew about 150 people this afternoon. The protest was held in front of the city's NBC affiliate (KSDK), with the throngs upset by a perceived media bias and for the network's showing up at Wilson's residence once it finally became known that he was Brown's killer.
The large gathering, held before a major media outlet in downtown Saint Louis and just up the road from Busch Stadium, where the Saint Louis Cardinals played an afternoon game, should have elicited a large police response. After all, downtown was bustling today with commerce, and while protesters descended upon a major media center with peaceful intentions, everyone knows what happens when large groups of unarmed, disaffected demonstrators gather together.
Trouble. Always trouble.
Of course, curiously, if not predictably, the police response at this protest consisted of merely 11 bored officers, five of whom lounged on bicycles, including this serious fellow on the left, captured by The Guardian's Jon Swaine.
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They weren't of a certain continental origin. Not Blah people. 
