This report just out of Ferguson from Rosa A. Clemente, national activist & 2008 Green Party Vice-Presidential Candidate . Rosa A. Clemente on Twitter: @rosaclemente: An hour ago, Jessica Care Moore Talib Kweli, folks from the Fellowship of Reconcillation, Philp Agnew of Dream Defenders, Bgyrl ForLife, Malik from Occupy the Hood and Trymaine Lee from MSNBC and many others were chased like animals by the cops. We ran to get away and were surrounded on a small path on bridge, surrounded by all types of police and told to lie down and put our hands up. We complied and we were told if we did not stop moving we would be shot. The young brother lying on my feet as I was holding him was not able to control his breathing he said Im choking the cop told him to stop or he would shoot him. I told him try not to move, just lay still I got you. The gun was at his chest. I looked at the cop and said please, he is not doing anything I tried to record but the cop had his finger on the trigger. I could feel Talibs hand on my back and Jessica behind me. We laid there until one Black officer said Let them go, we got who we wanted. In all my life I have never been so terrified. The young brother Devin said thank you I think you saved my life. What is going down here in ferguson in all my years of activism, organizing, I have never seen. This is a war zone, a military occupation.
Posted on: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 07:25:30 +0000
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