THE FOURTH DAY OF PROTESTS BEGAN IN ST.
LOUIS TODAY OVER THE
ACQUITTAL OF AN EX-COP BY THE NAME OF JASON STOCKLEY.
JASON STOCKLEY WAS A COP WHO SHOT AND KILLED A 24-YEAR-OLD BY
THE NAME OF ANTHONY LAMAR SMITH BACK IN 2011 AND IT ALL OCCURRED
WHEN THERE WAS A HIGH-SPEED PURSUITS FOLLOWING
SUSPICIONS THAT LEMAR SMITH WAS ENGAGED IN A DRUG DEAL.
AFTER THERE WAS A CRASH AS A RESULT OF THAT HIGH-SPEED
PURSUITS, THE COP, STOCKLEY, WAS HEARD SAYING THAT HE WAS GOING
TO QUOTE KILLED THIS MOTHER FOKKER AND THEN HE PROCEEDED
TO GET OUT OF THE POLICE CAR AND SHOOT AND KILL LEMAR SMITH.
THAT COP HAS BEEN ACQUITTED.
HE OPTED FOR THE TYPE OF TRIAL WHERE A JUDGE GETS TO MAKE THE
DECISION AND THE JUDGE DECIDED THAT JASON STOCKLEY WASN'T
NECESSARILY GUILTY OF WHAT HE WAS CHARGED WITH WHICH WAS
MURDER.
OF COURSE, PEOPLE WANTED TO SPONSOR THAT THERE WERE
NUMBER OF PEACEFUL PROTESTERS IT TOOK TO THE STREET TO DO
THAT BUT UNFORTUNATELY, SELECT FEW DECIDED TO GET VIOLENCE
AND THAT IS WHAT IS MAKING HEADLINES TODAY.
LET'S TAKE A QUICK LOOK AT WHAT THE CNN REPORT AND I WILL
FILL IN THE BLANKS.
SOMEONE TRIED TO BREAK THE WINDOW HERE AND AS YOU WALK
DOWN, YOU CAN SEE ANOTHER GLASS THAT WAS SHATTERED HERE.
WE SAW SOMEONE PICKING UP LARGE OBJECTS AND TRYING TO THROW
THEM INTO THE WINDOW.
IF YOU LOOK BACK IN THE DIRECTION YOU CAN SEE THE
FLOWERPOTS THEY TURNED OVER AND WHAT THEY DID WAS THEY TRIED TO
PICK UP THESE PIECES AND THROW THEM INTO THE WINDOWS AS WELL.
WE WATCH POLICE OFFICERS ALL NIGHT TRYING TO CHASE ON
SOME OF THE SUSPECTS.
WE KNOW THEY MADE A FEW ARREST, BUT RIGHT NOW, EVERYONE'S
ON EDGE ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON, WHAT THEY SEE IN THE STREETS.
THIS IS AFTER A DAY OF PEACEFUL PROTEST WHERE WE SAW PEOPLE
MARCHING FOR MILES AND MILES WITH NO ISSUES, BUT ALL OF
A SUDDEN, LATE AT NIGHT, ONCE AGAIN, THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT
HAPPENED.
A SMALL GROUP OF STAR RUNNING THROUGH THE CITY AND START
CREATING ISSUES.
IT'S SO FRUSTRATING BECAUSE IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW PEACEFUL
THE PROTESTS WERE DURING THE DAY, IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW MUCH
THOSE PROTESTERS FOLLOWED THE LAW AND JUST WANTED TO
PRACTICE THEIR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS OF PROTESTING THE
OUTCOME OF THIS CASE.
ALL OF THE ATTENTION IS ON THE SELECT FEW WHO DECIDED TO
GET VIOLENT AND DESTROY AND VANDALIZE PROPERTY AFTER
NIGHTFALL.
AGAIN, THIS IS NOT REPRESENTATIVE OF ALL THE
PROTESTERS, IT IS A SMALL GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO DECIDED TO
UNFORTUNATELY GET VIOLENCE AND AGAIN, ALL OF THE ATTENTION
IS FOCUSED ON THAT.
ALSO:
CARSON ALSO TWEETED THAT AMONG THE ARRESTEES WAS POST DISPATCH
JOURNALIST MIKE FAULK, AND SAID IT WAS MASS ARREST.
THEY WERE TOLD TO DISPERSE AND IT WAS DIFFICULT TO DO SO
AND AS A RESULT, SINCE THEY COULDN'T DISPERSE, THEY
WERE VICTIM TO MASS ARREST, AT LEAST ACCORDING TO ONE OF
THE PHOTOJOURNALISTS THAT WAS THERE.
SO IT'S JUST LIKE THE SITUATIONS THAT HAPPENED IN BERKELEY
WHEN A CONSERVATIVE SPEAKER SHOWS UP.
IF YOU WANT TO PROTEST THE SPEAKER, FINE, BUT UNDERSTAND
THAT PEOPLE ARE, PEOPLE WHO GET VIOLENT AND CAUSE TROUBLE, YOU
LOSE THE MORAL HIGH GROUND AND WHATEVER POLITICAL MESSAGE
YOU ARE TRYING TO SPREAD, UNFORTUNATELY GETS HINDERED
OR DESTROYED BY THE SELECT FEW THAT DECIDE TO GET VIOLENT
AND IT IS SO FRUSTRATING.
I APPLAUD THE ACTIVISM AND ACTIVISM IS SOMETHING, I
THINK WE'VE LOST SIGHT OF IN THIS COUNTRY.
ANTIWAR ACTIVISM WAS IN SHORT SUPPLY BEFORE WE GOT INTO A
ROCK.
I THINK THE KIND OF ACTIVISM WHEN IT COMES TO THE SITUATIONS
THAT ARISE ALL TOO FREQUENTLY WHEN A WHITE COP IS ACQUITTED OF
VIOLENCE TO A BLACK CITIZEN WHO IS BEEN PULLED OVER AND
OFTENTIMES, THESE AND IN LETHAL CONFRONTATIONS.
ACTIVISM IS NEEDED, BUT AS ANNA SAYS, THIS ACTIVISM THAT
BORDERS ON VIOLENCE AND THAT OF COURSE SPILLS OVER INTO
VIOLENCE, IT SEEMS ALMOST INEVITABLY INTO VIOLENCE,
THAT ONLY HURTS THE CAUSE.
FERGUSON, IT'S WEIRD, TO SEND HAPPENED AFTER THIS INCIDENT
HAPPENED, EVEN THOUGH THIS JUDGMENT CAME DOWN AFTER
FERGUSON IF YOU ALSO CHRONOLOGICALLY THE KIND OF
RESERVES BUT FERGUSON IS ONE OF THE SITUATIONS WE HAVE ALL THESE
PEOPLE TAKING TO THE STREET AND THERE WAS VIOLENCE AND THERE WAS
AS I RECALL, AND THIS IS VERY HIGH-PROFILE,
AND THE DISBURSEMENT OF THAT CROWD WAS SOMETHING
THAT REALLY BECAME THE FOCUS OF THE STORY.
THAT SITUATION HAD VIDEO ASSOCIATED WITH IT, I FEEL,
WHICH MAYBE GOT PEOPLE TO SORT OF REFOCUS ON THE FACTS BUT
I THINK THE FACTS HERE ARE GETTING LOST IN WHAT YOU'RE
TALKING ABOUT WHICH IS THE VIOLENCE THAT SPILLS OVER
FROM THAT ACTIVIST PROTESTING TO BEGIN WITH.
RIGHT, EXACTLY.
AND EVERY REPORT THAT I'VE READ SAYS THAT DURING THE DAY,
THE PROCESS WERE LARGELY PEACEFUL AND THERE WERE NO
ISSUES WHATSOEVER.
AT NIGHT A SMALL GROUP COMES IN AND THEY CAUSE ALL THESE
PROBLEMS.
THEY VANDALIZED STOREFRONTS.
IT'S SO INCREDIBLY STUPID.
IT'S SO STUPID AND WHO KNOWS WHO THEY ARE.
THEY PROVOCATOURS?
ARE THEY PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY BELIEVE IN THE POLITICAL
STATEMENT THAT'S BEING SHARED DURING THESE PROTEST?
OTHER PEOPLE WHO ARE JUST LOOKING FOR TROUBLE SO THEY
ARE CO-OPTING THIS?
WHAT I DO KNOW IS THAT IT'S INCREDIBLY COUNTERPRODUCTIVE
AND FRUSTRATING BECAUSE WE ALL KNOW WHAT THE MEDIA IS LIKE.
THE MEDIA LATCHES ONTO THE DRAMA, THE SENSATIONAL STUFF.
THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT A POLITICAL MESSAGE OR PEOPLE
WHO WANT TO SEE TRUTH TO POWER.
THEY ARE ACTIVELY AGAINST PEOPLE WHO SPEECHES THE POWER
WHICH IS WHY SO INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT TO DO ANYTHING
AND EVERYTHING YOU CAN TO NOT LET THESE PROTESTS EVOLVE
INTO THIS TYPE OF VIOLENCE.
EVEN THAT LIVE STUFF THAT WE SAW FROM CNN FOCUSED ON A
PLANTER THAT WAS TURNED OVER ON ITS SIDE.
REALLY?
I CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE YOU HAVING SOLD AS A LOCATION WHERE
YOU ARE GOING TO DO YOUR REPORT WITH A STRAIGHT FACE.
TAKE ME LIVE FROM THE PLANTER THAT IS BROKEN.
AGAIN, OBVIOUSLY THERE WAS A STOREFRONT THAT HAD BEEN DAMAGED
AS ANA SAYS AND AGAIN, THE STOREOWNERS HAVE NOTHING TO DO
WITH THIS POLICE OF VIOLENCE, IF THAT'S WHAT YOU ARE CONCERNED
WITH, I THINK IT IS JUST PEOPLE WHO ARE OUT FOR THE MAYHEM
OF IT.
THAT HIGH THAT COMES FROM DESTROYING SHIT.
ITíS SO DUMB.
IT UNDERMINES THE ENTIRE PROCESS BUT THEY'RE NOT
CONCERNED WITH THE PROCESS TO BEGIN WITH GENERALLY
SPEAKING THOSE WHO DO THIS.
THIS IS SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT BUT ALSO RELATED, BEEN
SCHAPIRO WAS GOING TO GO SPEAK AT BERKELEY.
I BELIEVE HE DID SPEAK AT BERKELEY AND THE HEADLINES
PRIOR TO HIS SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS WERE EMBARRASSING.
THEY WERE SO EMBARRASSING.
BERKELEY BRACES FOR BEEN SCHAPIRO.
BERKELEY SHOULDN'T HAVE TO DO THAT.
I DON'T AGREE WITH BEEN SCHAPIRO AND A NUMBER OF THINGS BUT
IT DOESN'T MATTER IF I AGREE WITH HIM OR NOT.
HE SHOULD BE ABLE TO GO ON TO A COLLEGE CAMPUS, A FEDERALLY
FUNDED PUBLIC COLLEGE CAMPUS AND SPEAK AND SHARE IDEAS AND
INSTEAD OF TRYING TO MEET SPEAKERS THAT YOU DISAGREE WITH
WITH VIOLENCE, AND A LOT OF THE PROTESTERS DON'T, THEY JUST WANT
TO PROTEST BUT FOR THOSE WHO DO WANT TO USE VIOLENCE TO PROTEST,
INSTEAD OF DOING THAT WHICH IS INCREDIBLY COUNTER PRODUCTIVE
AND MAKES YOU LOOKS LIST, WHY NOT SHARE OPPOSING VIEWS?
IN BY A DIFFERENT SPEAKER ON TO SHARE HIS OR HER POINT OF
VIEW ON A SIMILAR ISSUE THAT BEEN SCHAPIRO IS DISGUSTING.
SUPPOSED TO BE A FREE MARKETPLACE OF IDEAS.
JUST BECAUSE YOU DON'T LIKE THE IDEA DOESN'T GIVE YOU A
WARRANT TO BE VIOLENT.
AGAIN, THOSE WHO WANT TO PEACEFULLY PROTEST, HERE
YOU, FIND I THINK IT'S MUCH MORE EFFECTIVE TO JUST IGNORE
INSTEAD OF DOING WHAT PEOPLE LIKE BEEN SCHAPIRO AND ANN
COULTER WANT WHICH IS THE ATTENTION,
RIGHT, OF COURSE IS COUNTERPRODUCTIVE.
THAT'S A GREAT EXAMPLE OF WORDS JUST COUNTERPRODUCTIVE.
YOU BRING ALL THESE ATTENTION TO THE SPEAKERS AND YOU MAKE
IT A HOT TIP TICKET IF YOU WANT TO THINK OF IT THAT WAY.
THEY LOVE IT, WHAT DO YOU THINK THEY WANT TO KEEP GOING TO
BERKELEY TO SPEAK WITH YOU THINK IT'S AN ACCIDENT OR COINCIDENCE?
THEY LOVE TO POINT TO LIBERALS WHO ARE SO FREE SPEECH
WHO WON'T LET THEM NOW SPEAK OPENLY AS ANNA SAYS,
STATE-FUNDED UNIVERSITY AND NOW, THIS PRICE OF SECURITY IS
GONE WAY UP AND HOW THEY NEED PERSONAL SECURITY.
IT LETS THEM PURSUE THAT NARRATIVE THAT THEY WANT TO TELL
AND SO IT HURTS AND UNDERMINES THE CAUSE ACROSS THE BOARD.