Catherine Ferguson Arrests Protest 4-15-2011

[tomitstube]

more proof cops are assholes.

[RawFoodKevin]

Independent studies show that the best way to spend tax dollars is on education, because better educated people earn more money, and thus pay more taxes.

The worst way to spend tax dollars is to not collect them at all from the wealthy, and to give corporate welfare to multinational corporations. The only thing that trickles down is huge deficits and a poor economy.

[redviper2GAMER]

Obama!

[RawFoodKevin]

@redviper2GAMER You must mean, Obama, the in the closet Republican.

Next year, vote out all DINOs, especially DINO Obama. Vote only for Progressives!

[TheCaliCapitalist]

Judging from what has happend to this school and the comments being left on this page dont ever believe it when conservatives say they support blacks and they like blacks. Its a myth. They will swear to god that they will fix the inner cities and look at the stuff they pull.

[hozelda]

Looking at some of these comments, I see some people have not taken religion classes or they would have realized they were laughing at themselves.

When we come back in the next life, those that were poor will be rich and those rich will be poor. Those tall will be short and those short will be tall. Those with solid business skills will lack them and vice-versa.

Wait! It gets better.

Those white in this life will be black and those black will be white.

U can't escape it. Laugh while you can

[hozelda]

A school with huge success rate and helping pregnant women break a poverty cycle.

Some people in our nation unfortunately have this idea that if others are born with less access and privilege, that its fair competition and just to lean on them until they crumble. Don't ask me how that helps them or how it invigorates them, but apparently it does.

And so the very wealthy continue to skimp on taxes they owe this nation and our society, forcing everyone else to try and fight each other for crumbs

[TheTroll342]

Hahaha, no more special schools for sheboons who shit out kids by the dozen! The gravy train is over negroids!

[RawFoodKevin]

@TheTroll342 Yes, how dare they try to better themselves with education. Don't they know the Gilded Fascist Elite deserve to get all the tax breaks and generous corporate welfare at the expense of educating the poor and middle class?

[catothewiser]

Do these people ever NOT protest something? I guess they don't have jobs or anything better to do. Apes will never be able to run anything.

[seductionpsi]

@catothewiser first off some of the shit we have today is because somebody protested for it the liberties you have today are because somebody protested for it i bet if somebody said NASCAR and beer were banned you would protest that you know what i was always taught you either stand for something or fall for anything well i guess we know where you fall

[Tremley5]

How about someone teach these sheboons to stop shitting out nigets that they can't afford to take care of! They expect whitey to pay for everything

[strandwolf]

Eminem ought to fork over...and some other gangsta rappers.

[NephelimApocalypse]

this is just sad ... those cops should be ashamed, rapists ,murders,and thieves everywhere and they are arresting students ...fucking pathetic

[rivermikerat]

And while the Detroit cops were arresting teenage girls for wanting to go to school, how murders, rapes and robberies happened because there was no police presence?

[raintree93]

@EMEACGreenScreen- thanks for the footage. As to your comment on the police officers comments of "we're next" I think I would have asked- then why are you doing this? That seems a trifle lacking in courage to me.

[Boonehams]

Right to protest? What the hell is that?

[cardcreekdesign]

@Boonehams It's part of your first amendment right to free speech.

The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights. The amendment prohibits the making of any law "respecting an establishment of religion", impeding the free exercise of religion, infringing on the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances.

[xxnorthcountryxx]

I also saw this on Maddow - WHY is only one national news show covering this? There's time for post-post-post-Royal Wedding "looking back at the highlights" coverage, but the selling off of public institutions and the dissolving of democratically elected bodies is just too much to squeeze into the 24 hr news cycle, I guess.

Absolutely fucking appalling.

[MsFuckPenis]

theyre closing schools and these fucking pigs are driving around with brand new cars. Take your country back america kill every member of the federal reserve board to make an example of what will happen to the next group of banksters and criminals who try to take over your country by getting control of the money supply

[EMEACGreenScreen]

I took this footage and I wish I had recorded a very interesting conversation afterwards where a couple of auxillary police officers talked with protesters afterwards. The police are very much aware that (in their words) "we're next" that their jobs, pensions and rights are on the cutting block as well. This black vs white, male vs female, police vs community stuff needs to stop. The corporate interests that run this country are literally forcing the population to cannibalize ourselves.

[xxnorthcountryxx]

@EMEACGreenScreen

re:"This black vs white, male vs female, police vs community stuff needs to stop."

This is so true: one of the great advantages our protests in Wisconsin have had is the support of our police. They marched with us, and there was mutual respect and restraint between the protestors and the police assigned to the "Palace Guard" in the Capitol. Seeing this video, I'm thinking how much harder it would be for the govt. to squash the community if the police were with them.

[bradleyandrew13]

@EMEACGreenScreen I heard that too. Unfortunately my camera phone's battery was dead at that point.

[Groth1175]

This is proof that the Michigan Republicans are nothing more than power hungry racist fascists, this nonsense has to stop before it spreads too far.

[nightshadesk8r]

So, this shit needs to go viral... now

I'm ashamed to live in Detroit

and @kenandkids It's a school in the middle of Detroit, there are almost no white children in the Detroit school system anyways, what do you expect?

[demetriusbiggs]

I guess next they will just start shooting the protesters when the cameras go away!!!

[edyken77]

Wisconsin is with you Detroit - media isn't watching but you are not being ignored by us! Brave ladies here.

[vada2000]

i can understand the protest but why instigate a disturbance with an officer by blocking a driveway and not letting him in? this video just makes these people look like the are in the wrong?

[ranchai100]

they should leave this school open.dollars to donuts it some fanatical christian nuts pulling the strings to get it closed because it doesnt conform to their bible.Something more needs to be done,perhaps a bigger peaceful protest.younge women and girls who get pregnant are often times ostrisized by people,especially christians,and they have just as much right to be in a safe environment where the stress has been lessened,which helps with their study.they are trying to better themselves.

[kenandkids]

If you are white and hate gays, spreading filth and vileness wherever you go, cops won't interfere with your "freedom of speech." If you are black and want a great school to continue operating for girls with few chances left, the cops will blare their sirens to drown you out. And yet the criminally corrupt Teapublican Corporatist dictators keep swearing that they aren't racist...

[ephilihp]

@kenandkids those cops looked pretty black, and those protesters looked pretty white.

[kenandkids]

@ephilihp Did you happen to notice that the white protesters were not the ones in cuffs? The protesters doing a sit-in were black.

[ephilihp]

@kenandkids skip forward to 6:00, a white male is being arrested.

[jlscout]

What is happening to U.S.A.? All that police against girls fighting for their education looks nosense for me. What are they? Criminals?

Political leaders care? Denying education, health care and decent working conditions to the least of its citizens?

Keep up the good fight teachers, students, children and parents of Catherine Ferguson Academy.

The world is watching. You’re a light that shines. Greetings from Europe.

[rebecaha]

If the police have nothing better to do in Detroit, then maybe the GOP thugs are right, we need to cut the police funding. The police departments need to wake up and start arresting the real criminals. Starting with Mr. Rick Snyder, the fake governor of our once great state.

[kayleejorene]

I saw this on TRMS and I'm appalled that it's happening in my country. These girls did nothing violent and nothing wrong. Closing schools may help with the budget in the short term, but it would be devastating long term. Education is an investment with great rewards. Stay strong sisters, there are people that will fight with you all across the country.

[statelybird3]

Hey, I just got back from a weekly meeting where the young man with braids at the beginning chanting gave an update on this protest, explaining that they weren't able to actualy occupy the school as planned, because of a lack of coordination between the organizers and the protesters of the event. This is on the East Side of Detroit, fo ranyone reading this. What was cool is that members of the community themselves came out and joined the protests, and even chanted from their porches!

[SeanThePoet]

They say cut back...WE SAY FIGHT BACK!