Reports: Aid Station Adjacent to Church Raided by Police in Ferguson
A building used by Ferguson, Mo. protest groups as a safe space and aid station was raided by police earlier today—apparently for the third time since protests started last week.
Reporters actually in Ferguson went to the scene and apparently discovered the source of the confusion: it was the school building next door to St. Marks that the police had visited. It seems some organizers — including at least a group called Dream Defenders — had been using it as a "safe haven," and were storing supplies there. The historian and New Yorker contributor Jelani Cobb was on the scene and explained that police had indeed visited the building under the pretense that it was violating occupancy laws.
The organizers there are telling reporters they provided food and shelter and other first aid supplies.
But reports continue to conflict as to whether or not the police actually took anything from the building. Another Instagram video from reporter Errin Haines Whack shows an organizer saying that police "took some of the supplies that people need to alleviate the symptoms of tear gas in their eyes"
http://gawker.com/reports-aid-station-adjacent-to-church-raided-by-polic-1624563427
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I guess looting is okay as long as the cops are the looters.
