Especially when it is controlled opposition receiving massive amounts of propaganda pre$$ coverage.
Unfortunately, it has become a standard rule here that the more press an agenda is given and the harder it is pushed, the less I want to cover it. That is particularly true when I get shell-game censorship in the form of updated rewrites:
"Thousands protest Eric Garner case in downtown Boston" by Travis Andersen, Evan Allen, Nestor Ramos and Jeremy C. Fox, Globe Staff | Globe Correspondent December 04, 2014
Thousands of protesters gathered at the tree-lighting ceremony at Boston Common on Thursday before fanning out across the city, assembling amid the festivities to register their outrage over a New York grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer in the choking death of an unarmed black man.
That's the focus even though the police are killing all kinds of people across this country every day.
Protesters blocked traffic in several locations across the city and disrupted MBTA service, but the demonstrations remained largely peaceful. At least 10 protesters were arrested by State Police and Boston police, spokesmen said.
Yeah, the sports guys were really hammering them this morning when I went to get my Globe. You kids get a life and don't block traffic!
The demonstration came a week after 1,400 protested in Boston following a similarly controversial grand jury decision in Missouri, where a white police officer was not charged in the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager.
Related: The Black Friday Protests
Coverage of those faded rather quickly.
Also see:
Michael Brown’s stepfather investigated for comments
Michael Brown’s stepfather apologizes for comments
Damaged Ferguson businesses receive donations to repair, rebuild
We good now?
“We stand in solidarity with the rest of the people across the world who see there’s a problem and it needs to be fixed,” said Hyde Park resident LaTeisha TJ Johnson, 29. “We’re not going to tolerate that disregard for black lives and black bodies.”
It shouldn't be tolerated for anyone, and yet the mass-murdering wars based on lies roll on.
Protests took shape Thursday afternoon, and grew as the city’s holiday kick-off event continued at Boston Common — an unusual juxtaposition with the normally cheery annual celebration.
Outside the event’s barricades, call-and-response cries of “We want!” . . . “Justice!” echoed over the holiday celebration. Meanwhile, dozens of protesters made their way close to the ceremony, chanting “I can’t breathe!” — a reference to Eric Garner’s repeated plea while in the deadly grip of a New York City police officer — during an a cappella version of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.”
The protesters were largely ignored by the spectators, as well as by Canadian dignitaries who were escorts for the huge tree that graces the Common every year. Addressing the crowd during the tree-lighting ceremony, the mayor of Halifax, Mike Savage, shouted over protesters chanting “Hands up! Don’t shoot,” which has become an anthem in the wake of the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., that followed the shooting death of 18-year-old Michel Brown.
By the time the tree’s lights went on shortly before 8 p.m., hundreds of protesters were marching toward the State House, where three were arrested as a crowd surged into a State Police line. Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh made no mention of the protest just up the hill.
This is looking scripted.
“Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate tonight,” said Walsh, as the crowd roared with delight.
This reedited rewrite took out the part where Walsh cited the kids, seniors, his mom coming in, and excoriated the protesters.
During the course of the next few hours, overlapping chants cascaded through streets from Beacon Hill to the Bulfinch Triangle, along the North End’s edge and into Charlestown and Cambridge. Marchers periodically stopped to sit or lie down in the street — “die-ins,” mimicking deaths like Garner’s — then rose with their hands in the air.
Look, I'm glad people are protesting police brutality and criminality in AmeriKa; however, I resent the mouthpiece media turning it into a race issue.
Some groups diverged from the main march only to rejoin a few blocks later. One group, thousands strong, attempted to get on Interstate 93 near the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge but was thwarted by police. Protesters paused near Leverett Circle, staged a die-in near the Zakim Bridge, and marched into Charlestown and Cambridge, closing off traffic at several points.
That won't win you any support. Just ask those in Hong Kong.
Related:
Hong Kong protest group urges end to demonstrations
3 Hong Kong protest leaders surrender
So do I.
Wherever they went, police in bright yellow jackets lined the route. Confrontations between protesters and police were few, as some marchers held their signs up to officers’ faces, and another group carried mirrors — “for the cops, so they can see what they look like on the wrong side,” said Becca Chapman.
None of the officers said anything to her, Chapman said; they mostly adjusted their hats.
As the protests gained steam Thursday, Boston Police Superintendent in Chief William Gross said officers planned to handle the latest round of unrest with the same “soft approach” with which police engaged demonstrators last week.
Gross said he had spoken with some of the protesters, and understood their frustration with the failure to indict in the New York case on Wednesday. He said he supported their right to protest and was glad to see that so far it had been peaceful.
Shortly after 9 p.m., more than 200 demonstrators rushed onto the highway off-ramp located near the intersection of Kneeland Street and Atlantic Avenue, stopping traffic on Interstate 90 for several minutes.
Virtually all of the demonstrators voluntarily walked back off the ramp, and were followed down by State Police, who reported one arrest there for disorderly conduct.
Colonel Timothy P. Alben, commander of the State Police, credited the protesters and troopers in a statement.
“On the whole, protesters behaved appropriately, except for those few who became disorderly and those who walked onto one of our highways — an unacceptable and dangerous action that will always be met with a swift police response, as it was tonight. I am grateful that no one suffered a serious injury, and I am proud of the restraint and integrity showed by all the troopers and officers tonight.”
Among the early demonstrators on the Common was Peggy Murphy, 63, of Brockton, who wore a pin with a picture of her grandson, D.J. Henry, a black college football player from Easton who was fatally shot by a white police officer in New York state in 2010.
“I just felt compelled to come out here for him,” Murphy said. “To show that he’s not forgotten.”
Anybody remember Jimmy Lee Dykes?
How about Kenneth Howe?
She noted that the officer who shot her grandson was named officer of the year by his union after the killing. A grand jury in New York declined to bring charges, but a federal inquiry is ongoing.
Related: Remembering Reynoso
Notice there are never any indictments?
“We pray every day that everyone might come to see the truth,” Murphy said.
I've given up on finding it in the Globe.
The New York and Ferguson cases — and a litany of cases from Henry’s back through decades before — have fueled a heated debate about policing in minority communities.
Garner’s death in Staten Island in July was captured on video, and the decision not to indict Daniel Pantaleo, the officer seen administering the fatal chokehold, reignited demonstrations in several still-seething cities such as New York, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.
To many, the decision not to indict Pantaleo mirrored a St. Louis County grand jury’s decision — barely a week before — not to indict Darren Wilson, the officer who fatally shot Brown.
At the Common on Thursday, Richard Pina, 53, of Dorchester, held a sign that read, “I am Eric Garner. Come Choke Me.”
Pina said that when he heard the news that the officer who choked Garner was not indicted, “I felt sick to my stomach.
“There’s a saying that you can indict a ham sandwich, but an officer choking someone on video doesn’t get indicted,” he said. “Without justice, there is no America.”
That's why it is AmeriKa now.
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And what caused all that?
Grand jury lets Eric Garner’s killer off the hook
Strong words from the Globe!
N.Y. officer won’t be indicted for fatal choking
Another rewritten reedited pos.
The officers involved, part of a plainclothes unit, suspected Garner of selling loose cigarettes on the street near the Staten Island Ferry Terminal, a complaint among local business owners.
Oh, so they didn't even have uniforms on and they killed him over some cigarettes?
NYC mayor striving to back police and protesters
He's the new voice of Occupy and the defender of death squads!!!
Related: Stairway to Heaven Begins in New York City
The ma$$ media stopped climbing!
NY court says chimps don’t have same rights as humans
What rights would those be, the right not to be choked to death or shot by out-of-control law enforcement?
Mayor: $130M to revamp NYC jails for mentally ill
Yeah, you don't want to end up at Rikers.
De Blasio’s bill bans horse carriages
What a bunch of horse sh....
Police body cameras could come to New York City soon
Related:
Police across Mass. mull use of body cameras
But cost and legality questions are raised when it comes to themselves being monitored like authority monitors you with bits data collection and cameras.
Walsh, in a shift, endorses pilot program for body cameras
Boston’s 1st diversity chief vows inclusion
Time to honor the heroes:
Rangers stabbed on Common are honored
Just ranging around a bit.
Boston police add eight fallen officers to Wall of Honor
Trooper recounts attack on 74-year-old Logan worker
Congressional Medal of Honor Society to gather in Boston
Hero of Korean War, 90, honored at Hanscom air base
Nobel medal sells for record $4.1 million
Cleveland police abuse pattern cited by Justice Department
As if the Feds were somehow complete angels. Investigations of that kind are more public relations and an applying of pressure to local police departments.
Officer who shot boy had no choice, cop’s dad says
Yeah, he just let a fusillade of bullets fly a few feet away from the kid after immediately exiting his cruiser?
Ex-Police Chief in South Carolina Faces Murder Charge
A case that instantly drew comparisons to the Ferguson shooting and the chokehold death in New York.
The Globe has all the answers to these problems.
Police: W.Va. shooter was upset over ex’s trysts
Maybe you should listen to someone else there.
Time for me to choke down some lunch.
NEXT DAY UPDATES:
Staten Island, chokehold case setting, is NYC’s ‘outsider’ borough
Turns out the whites are now a minority, as predicted.
Attorney general nominee also leading inquiry in N.Y. chokehold case
Obama AG Outed
As a tool of Wall Street.
Obama to impose profiling curbs, with exceptions
It's allegedly in reaction to Ferguson, and yet it seems to have more to do with increasing surveillance using immigration as the excuse.
Hundreds of protesters take to Somerville, Cambridge streets
Charges reduced for 10 people arraigned after Boston protests
Wrongful death suit filed in shooting of 12-year-old in Cleveland
The cop jumped out of the cruiser and shot him in the stomach within seconds from about there yards away.
Delay denied in autopsy of man shot by Phoenix police
And the cover-ups continue.
FURTHER UPDATES:
Indicting a police officer is rare occurrence
Killings by police a horrific pattern in black community
Boston clergy to meet with DA, police
Black Cop Kills Unarmed White Youth — Media and Feds Silent
And it is not only shootings where the cops get special treatment.
Body-camera companies see their business skyrocketing
Protesters rally in Lexington after deaths in N.Y., Ferguson
Trend of peaceful US protests broken in Berkeley, Calif.
Family of boy killed by Cleveland officer to push for criminal case
Destructive downtown LA fire snarls traffic
Why didn't the buildings collapse?
Prince William meets Obama, gives speech on wildlife
Protesters rally against Olympics bid for city
I will vouch for them.
