Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson taken into custody by Baton Rouge police

[Misanthrope]

Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson taken into custody by Baton Rouge police

DeRay McKesson, one of the most prominent activists associated with the police reform protest movement, is in police custody in Baton Rouge, where he traveled earlier Saturday to demonstrate in solidarity with residents angered by the recent death of Alton Sterling after an officer-involved shooting that was captured on video.

McKesson was taken into custody around 11 p.m. in what two fellow activists who witnessed it described as a physically violent arrest.

“The officers won’t give their names,” said Brittany Packnett, one of Mckesson’s co-founders of the group Campaign Zero, a prominent activist collective. “He was clearly targeted.”

Packnett said McKesson was using his smartphone to live stream the ongoing protests when police began forcibly dispersing the crowds. As McKesson and a group of about eight people walked down the street an officer approached him and told him that he had been “flagged” and that if he left the sidewalk again he would be arrested.

Moments later, she said, two officers forcefully arrested McKesson.

“They tackled him, one officer hit the top of his body and another officer the bottom,” Packnett said.

The altercation knocked the phone from Mckesson’s hand, ending his live broadcast of the demonstration, she said.

Blurry video of the moments before McKesson was taken into custody provided to The Washington Post captures his verbal exchange with the officers.

“The police continue to just provoke people,” McKesson said after an officer yells to a group of people that if they step on the roadway they will be arrested.

Then an officer says the man in the “loud shoes” has been “flagged”: “You in them loud shoes, if I see you in the road, if I get close to you, you’re going to jail,” an officer can be heard saying on the video.

In response, Packnett says, “We’re on the shoulder, there is no sidewalk, sir.”

McKesson is known for wearing a pair of red Nike sneakers and a blue vest to all protests he attends.
The group was walking away from a protest and rally that had been dispersed, traveling alongside road traffic on a street that they said does not have a sidewalk.

Activists continued to talk as they walked up the side of the street. Moments later an officer’s voice is heard.

“City police you’re under arrest,”

“What?!” McKesson exclaims. “I’m under arrest y’all.”

Then the video and audio feed cuts out.

As Packnett and Johnetta Elzie, another prominent protester, tweeted in outrage word spread quickly through the ranks of national police reform activists, who fear that McKesson had been targeted deliberately and may be harmed in police custody.

In a text message from within police custody, McKesson said he and 33 others were in custody together, wrists tied, and being taken to a police precinct. There is no word yet on what charges McKesson may be facing.

Just going to leave this here.

 

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Hell be fine... Soros people probably western unioned the bail money before he even got booked

 

[tmonster]

I am growing proud of this generation of black youth

 

[Brown_Pride]

They keep poking the bear...

 

[Meta Reign]

I love how the social engineers made sure they put in place a flaming black fruitballball to be the face of "our" "civil rights ".

Many of you don't know how social engineering works, but Soros and hus buddies are playing a long game here. They are literally creating black history here. In the future your children will be learning about how "instrumental faqs were in "freeing" blacks.

Guys, wake up. You're being taken for a ride.

 

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I love how the social engineers made sure they put in place a flaming black fruitballball to be the face of "our" "civil rights ".

Many of you don't know how social engineering works, but Soros and hus buddies are playing a long game here. They are literally creating black history here. In the future your children will be learning about how "instrumental faqs were in "freeing" blacks.

Guys, wake up. You're being taken for a ride.

lgbt and blm are one in the same both corrupt

 

[Meta Reign]

lgbt and blm are one in the same both corrupt

Not just corrupt but being used to strip Americans (both black and white) their rights under the guise of civil rights.

Think of how many strong straight black men there are out there to be the face of any movement for the betterment of black folks there are. But some how these homos are at the forefront of this fight?!?!

There are so many moving parts here. They are making it where gays, blm, now even ISIS are supposedly all buddies now against the white man? WTF IS THIS? And n!ggas are falling for this?

Yo listen up. There is NOTHING on your side as a black man other than your black woman and black children. No other alliance is legit. Don't let the media fool you. This is who you are meant to protect and nurture.

 

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I love how the social engineers made sure they put in place a flaming black fruitballball to be the face of "our" "civil rights ".

Many of you don't know how social engineering works, but Soros and hus buddies are playing a long game here. They are literally creating black history here. In the future your children will be learning about how "instrumental faqs were in "freeing" blacks.

Guys, wake up. You're being taken for a ride.

"Fruit balls" have been down with movement since day 1. Since its inception.

A fruit ball created and laid the groundwork for the Montgomery bus boycott

bayard rustin.

Get your head out of your ass.

 

[Meta Reign]

"Fruit balls" have been down with movement since day 1. Since its inception.

A fruit ball created and laid the grown work for the Montgomery bus boycott

bayard rustin.

Get your head out of your ass.

Shut the fukk up!!!

You think i dont know that faqs have been around forever? Not the point im making you idiot.

This is about stripping black masculinity. Believe that. My God you people are so easily manipulated.

 

[10:31]

Shut the fukk up!!!

You think i dont know that faqs have been around forever? Not the point im making you idiot.

This is about stripping black masculinity. Believe that. My God you people are so easily manipulated.

nikka him getting locked has nothing to do with stripping black masculinity

I'm not easily manipulated lol your all over the place with your points

 

[NZA]

if gays do nothing then homophobes use that against them as well

 

[Meta Reign]

nikka him getting locked has nothing to do with stripping black masculinity

I'm not easily manipulated lol your all over the place with your points

Ofcourse it doesn't. And I'm not all over the place. I was speaking on the points I was making. Not his arrest. Stop it.

 

[Meta Reign]

if gays do nothing then homophobes use that against them as well

It's not about if they do nothing or not. It's about who is being CHOSEN to be the face of civil rights for our generation. This is not organic or grassroots. It's a purposeful long game.

Guys, stop acting like I'm typing nonsense here. You all fully get my point, but you're so brainwashed to just dismiss such arguments. These are legit points.

 

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"Fruit balls" have been down with movement since day 1. Since its inception.

A fruit ball created and laid the grown work for the Montgomery bus boycott

bayard rustin.

Get your head out of your ass.

He didnt put it clearly but i get what he is saying...They PICKED the leadership

The LEADERSHIP is chosen specifically to exclude straight Black men...The same way govt programs exclude straight Black men...they dont want your son to grow up looking at you as a leader

They want your son to look at Deray and those lesbians and feminists as the symbols of strength ...the young cats will grow up feeling powerless because they dont see straight men in action.

 

[10:31]

He didnt put it clearly but i get what he is saying...They PICKED the leadership

The LEADERSHIP is chosen specifically to exclude straight Black men...The same way govt programs exclude straight Black men...they dont want your son to grow up looking at you as a leader

They want your son to look at Deray and those lesbians and feminists as the symbols of strength ...the young cats will grow up feeling powerless because they dont see straight men in action.

Yeah, he clarified himself in the post above yours. I get it. All I was saying is they've been here since the beginning (hand picked or not) and they aren't going anywhere.. This is just some rinse and repeat shyt on a modern level. Bayard Rustin was hand picked before Deeray. Bayard was MLKs right hand man

Anyways

A lot of elders in my family still think MLK was an agent who went rouge before the govt had to kill him. They laugh at the Tariq's and Umars who think sub-forms of resegregation in 2016 is the answer.

They always say that a lot of blacks were doing fine after slavery, however, the media propagated a different narrative to force their desegregation agenda. They said we had black school, businesses, churches, grocery stores etc etc