Baton Rouge police report arresting 102 at protest by 'out-of-town' agitators

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Source: nola.com / Times Picayune

Baton Rouge police arrested 102 people Saturday (July 9) at a protest over the officer-involved shooting of Alton Sterling, according to a press release issued by Sgt. Don Coppola Jr., public information officer for the Baton Rouge Police Department.

"The protest last night at Baton Rouge Police Headquarters organized by individuals from outside our Baton Rouge community resulted in 102 arrests. In addition to the arrests, 3 rifles, 3 shotguns and 2 pistols were confiscated. A Baton Rouge Police Officer had several of his teeth knocked out as a projectile was thrown from the protest,'' the release states.

The press release, which had the title "A Tale of Two Protests,'' stated that a protest march organized by local community leaders from City Hall to the steps of the State Capitol on Saturday night "was very peaceful, as no arrest were made. We would like to extend our gratitude to those local community leaders."

The release states: "It appears the protest at Baton Rouge Police Headquarters have become more violent as out of town protesters are arriving. Any protest which becomes violent will be immediately dispersed."



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[XemaSab]

1. Lemme guess: Jews, Reds, and Yankees

[forest444]

2. "I know nothing!"

"Y'all."

[Teamster Jeff]

3. A Baton Rouge Police press release. Hard to think of anything that could be more full of shit

[hobbit709]

4. Ah yes, the old "outside agitators" ploy.

[Zambero]

25. Mississippi and Alabama circa 1963

"Outside agitators", as described back then. Some were killed, some were beaten, the world witnessed, and changes were implemented. Decades later, by appearances the guarantee of civil rights protections for ALL citizens seems like a bitter pill to swallow in places like Baton Rouge and no doubt elsewhere.

[hobbit709]

26. The best use of it was at a riot at a state prison where the warden blamed it on "outside agitators"

[uppityperson]

5. Because only people with in town addresses should protest?

[NobodyHere]

8. If you're going to be violent

then you shouldn't 'protest' at all.

[Feeling the Bern]

12. I'm sure the native Americans thought that too. Their actions were protests against imperialism.

Same with the "patriots" in 1776.

White people have had no problems being violent at protests. As soon as it is a minority, then we get "be peaceful." White people violently broke up labor protests, civil rights protests. . .yet minorities do it and it's wrong.

I love sophistry.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

6. Heard this all before in the fifties and sixties

Blame it on outside agitators coming in and causing trouble.

What they didn't understand then and now, is that we have the right to go anywhere in this country and petition for change as we see fit.

We are not just citizens of a certain town, county, or state, we are citizens of the whole United States of America and we will exercise our rights accordingly.

[rurallib]

9. don't you love it when they play the oldies?

can almost hear the caricature of the southern sheriff in my mind.

[Feeling the Bern]

13. Similar to this?

[rurallib]

15. imported outside agitators!

[UnFettered]

7. Sure sure

Like people from across the country know better

The protests have been pretty positive up to the past night or so. Community leaders and even the famly of the victim have been advocating for keeping things positive and non violent. The past weekend there have been more from all over showing up. The past night or two things have escalated more. Stands to reason there is some truth to what's in the press release.

[Judi Lynn]

10. Who ever expected these "South'reners" to drag out that old stupid racist gibberish yet again? n/t

[UnFettered]

11. Hmmmm

I won't even comment on that. Facepalm

[Feeling the Bern]

14. I don't see them saying shit like this outside the south. This is what the klan lead people in

the South said about protesters in the 1950s and 1960s. I hope your facepalm opened your mind a little.

[UnFettered]

16. Well

This isn't fucking 1960. The governor stepped in and handed the investigation off to the DOJ and FBI straight away. I'm normally critical of the BRPD shit I've even been arrested by them before, but I believe the hole thing has been handled pretty well up to now.

The thing is we are the ones that has to put this community back together after everybody leaves.

[Feeling the Bern]

17. Alton Sterling thinks otherwise. Oh, not he doesn't. He's dead.

[Judi Lynn]

18. Had he been a white "south'rener" he, too, could also say he didn't see anything wrong with them. nt

[UnFettered]

20. Well

There was a case a few year back of a unarmed man shot by BRPD during a traffic stop. One of my friends brothers was shot by police during a domestic disturbance call.When he approached the cop the officer unloaded the clip on him. He was also unarmed. He was a very large man and the officer said he feared for his life we he approached him. I guess being a white south'rener didn't helpe these people.

What we need is police and justice reform. Not hate!

[UnFettered]

19. So

Blame a while region because of the actions of two bad cops. I don't believe they represent us all. The offices involved handled the whole situation terribly.
I whole heartedly agree with a change in law enforcement and the juctice system.

[Feeling the Bern]

21. Typical response. It's the bad apples response

Farmers throw away the bad apples. Police agencies promote the bad apples.

Pleae go away, Mr. Low Count poster. Your free republic talking points are showing too much.

[romanic]

22. Im wary of what the BRPD have to say

but I wouldn't be surprised if it were true. It seems like the local protests always get hijacked by outsiders or professional anarchists.

[JustinL]

23. I'm reminded of passages from the writings of Martin Luther King and John Donne

From King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"

:

But more basically, I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the prophets of the eighth century B.C. left their villages and carried their "thus saith the Lord" far beyond the boundaries of their home towns, and just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco Roman world, so am I compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.

Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.

From Donne's "Meditation XVII":

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

[Zambero]

24. Yes, and of course Selma AL in the 60's had "outside agitators" as well

who helped advance the cause of civil rights and voting rights legislation. It appears that 50+ years later, First Amendment protections are being selectively applied here, if at all.