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Vietnam Vet confronts police in Ferguson (Original Post)
cal04
Aug 2014
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jwirr
(39,215 posts)1. What did he say? I could not understand him?
csziggy
(34,137 posts)4. I think he said "I would lay my life down"
Maybe a couple of times. Something about "If the police" at the very beginning. Then he says, "We have a constitutional right to rest when we get tired." When the reporter asked his name, he said "Walter."
At least that is what I am hearing.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)5. I meant to reply to you. I think he said he fought in Vietnam?
See reply below yours.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)2. They have to keep moving or risk arrest.
The vet said that they have a constitutional right to rest when they get tired.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)6. Good for him. I suspect there are other veterans out there who are not to happy about this whole
thing.
JEB
(4,748 posts)3. Shameful treatment of a veteran.