The events last night in Ferguson, Missouri certainly hasn’t stopped Cornel West and all his protestor buddies from continuing with their inflammatory rhetoric. They declared today to be Moral Monday and marched downtown to the courthouse. While there, due to the protestors crossing the police barriers, many were arrested.
This is Cornell West getting arrested in St. Louis http://t.co/j61PVsR9Wa pic.twitter.com/HXIbu6bXwS
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There are more events on tap from the protestors for the rest of the day and evening. In the past, their ideas of “civil disobedience” have included shutting down highways and blocking entrances into major businesses across the area.
Keeping that in mind, and with the violence of last year still fresh in everyone’s memory; is it any wonder that St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger declared a State of Emergency this afternoon?
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