First Person Account: From Inside the Protest in Ferguson, From Inside Jail, From Inside the Mind
First Person Account: From Inside the Protest, From Inside Jail, From Inside the Mind : No free speech in California! Says the author. L.A. sucks from this perspective. Someone much wiser than I once said, “every time you solve one problem you create two." She says: In Ferguson, I actually felt that the cops respected our right to be there, to voice our opinions loudly - to assemble in the name of we the people I have never gotten that feeling in LA. In fact, harkening back to the protests in DC where officers made loud and clear orders to disperse followed by three warnings of arrest, in LA, cops preferred a mass hostage approach. On Wednesday night, cops ordered protestors to disperse at 7th and Flower following a barricade at 7th and Figueroa. Protestors were kettled in and initially not allowed to even leave via the sidewalks. Cops in riot gear pushed back against a few clearly unarmed protestors. When asked whether anyon...