This video is called Ferguson protest leaders get engaged & apply for marriage license at St. Louis City Hall.
These two women, now married, Alexis Templeton and Brittany Ferrell, have been featured on this blog before.
From SheWired in the USA:
Love Through Activism: Two Ferguson Protesters Get Engaged
Alexis Templeton and Brittany Ferrell proclaimed their love with a marriage proposal at St. Louis City Hall.
By: Trudy Ring
December 17 2014 6:22 PM
Love has blossomed through protests: Two women active in the protests over the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., are engaged to be married.
Alexis Templeton, 20, and Brittany Ferrell, 25, met in August at demonstrations calling for police accountability after Brown was shot to death by a Ferguson officer. Both are Ferguson residents and students at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, but they didn’t know each other previously. In an interview with The St. Louis American, Ferrell recalled when she first saw Templeton.
“She had on an UMSL shirt,” Ferrell said. “I was like, ‘Oh, hey.’ I embraced her just because she was there. You hug people and you welcome them, especially in a time like that.”
Their attraction to each other grew quickly. Templeton’s sister, Bre, said she learned about the relationship in mid-September. “Alex came up and sat with my son and she fed him,” she told The Huffington Post. “She was like, ‘Dude, I got a crush.’ I was like, ‘OK, that’s cool.’ And she was like, ‘No, I got a crush on a girl.’ I asked her how she felt about it and she said good. I asked her if she wanted to talk about it and she said no.”
Templeton and Ferrell discussed marriage in private Monday night, then made a public declaration Tuesday at St. Louis City Hall. “One hundred and thirty days ago, I fell in love with somebody and her 6-year-old mini me,” Templeton said to Ferrell in her proposal, in front of friends, strangers, and media, the American reports. “I didn’t expect you to want to be with me … other than fight on the front lines with me. You have every single piece of my heart.”
And now, today.
From daily The Guardian in Britain:
Ferguson protester faces four years’ jail over charges of kicking SUV
Brittany Ferrell accused by St Louis police of causing $5,000 damage to car as driver forced her way through demonstrators at Michael Brown anniversary
Jon Swaine in New York
Thursday 13 August 2015 02.09 BST
A protest leader in Ferguson, Missouri, could face up to four years in prison after being charged with a felony for allegedly kicking a vehicle as it ploughed through a line of peaceful demonstrators who were blocking a highway.
Brittany Ferrell was accused of causing damage worth more than $5,000 to the SUV as its driver forced her way through the group, which had gathered on Interstate 70 near Ferguson during events to mark the anniversary of the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old, by a police officer.
Ferrell, 26, was charged with first-degree property damage, which is a class D felony in Missouri. She was also charged with trespassing and disturbing the peace, according to Bob McCulloch, the prosecuting attorney for St Louis county, who oversaw the grand jury inquiry into Brown’s death. Ferrell was released on a $10,000 bond on Wednesday.
Ferrell’s wife, Alexis Templeton, was charged with misdemeanour assault for allegedly punching the driver through her vehicle’s window, and misdemeanour charges similar to Ferrell’s for alleged trespass and disturbing the peace. Templeton, 21, has also been released.
The charges prompted a furious reaction among the wider Black Lives Matter protest movement. Brittany Packnett, an activist who sat on President Obama’s White House taskforce on police reform, said several demonstrators were struck by the vehicle.
“Feet don’t cause $5K worth of damage to cars,” Packnett said on Twitter. “McCulloch meant ‘drive over’, not past. They were almost hit.”
Soon after being released on Wednesday Templeton was defiant. “I’m not worried & y’all shouldn’t be either,” she said on Twitter. “We gon get free whether they like it or not!” She urged St Louis county police department to “quit lying”.
The two women are the co-founders of Millennial Activists United, an activist group that grew out of the demonstrations in Ferguson last summer. They married in December 2014 after months of protesting against the deaths of Brown and other people killed by police.
They were arrested the day after the rush-hour highway shutdown, which took place on a “Moral Monday” of civil disobedience, when they went to inquire about dozens of other people arrested during the protest action.
From Poynter.org in the USA:
Aug. 12, 2015 2:07 pm
The News Guild this afternoon condemned charges brought against two Washington-area journalists stemming from their brief detention while covering civil unrest in Missouri last year, joining the chorus of news organizations and journalists who have also voiced their concerns.
The charges, brought by St. Louis County against Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery and Ryan Reilly of The Huffington Post, came nearly a full year after the pair were arrested in a Ferguson, Missouri McDonalds amid protests against the police in the wake of Michael Brown’s killing.
Lowery and Reilly have been charged with trespassing and interfering with a police officer and have been ordered to appear in a St. Louis County court. They could be arrested if they refuse.
In the statement, the News Guild President Bernie Lunzer called the charges “a gross abuse of power” and a “vile assault on the First Amendment.”
Edward Fitzpatrick: From Missouri to Iran, press freedom under attack: here.
From daily The Morning Star in Britain today about Ferguson:
PARAMILITARY vigilantes took to the streets of the US city of Ferguson on Tuesday as protests against police violence began to wind down.
Right-wing libertarian militia the Oath Keepers patrolled the streets of the racially divided city for a second night in a row, even as police outnumbered peaceful protesters.
The group, which purports to protect the US constitution, was first seen in the small hours of Tuesday on West Florissant Avenue, the centre of protests on the anniversary of the police shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown.
St Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar criticised the arrival of the militia, whose members openly carried assault rifles and handguns, as “both unnecessary and inflammatory.”
But Missouri Oath Keeper leader John Karriman said that police had approved their presence.
“We checked in with law enforcement when we got here, we told them what we were doing and who we were with,” said Mr Karriman.
“We walked up and they came over and we shook hands and smiled. We said we’re here to protect Info Wars,” referring to far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s website.
“They nodded and said: ‘Good on ya, just, if you would, please don’t walk through us’.”
Rexdale Henry, 53, a Choctaw activist, died on July 14 in unexplained and suspicious circumstances in the Neshoba County Jail in Philadelphia, Miss. He was being held for unpaid traffic fines, a minor misdemeanor charge: here.
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Earlier this month, Oath Keepers, a right-wing, anti-government militia group, announced it was going to arm Black protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, with assault rifles. The move was to challenge Missouri’s open carry law and to show that the organization was not racist. But the announcement of the march caused dissension among Oath Keeper national leadership who, according to the Oath Keeper website, are all former cops.
Ferguson Oath Keeper chapter leader Sam Andrews says race played a role in the decision by the national organization to pull support from the march and he has left Oath Keepers. Andrews is quoted in a conservative anti-government website as stating, “I can’t have my name associated with an organization that doesn’t believe Black people can exercise their First and Second Amendment rights at the same time.”
The decision by the national Oath Keepers board has also caused other chapters across the country to split from the parent organization. In Florida, an Oath Keeper who uses the alias James Wise stated in part, “I have to believe that an organization that is OK with a bunch of White guys pointing guns at cops in Nevada over grazing rights shouldn’t turn into complete [multiple expletives deleted] [cowards] at the thought of Blacks just holding guns in a march protesting people getting beaten and killed by cops. You know there’s something wrong there …” Wise, like many Oath Keepers, is a former member of the military. A number of Oath Keepers are reportedly former Green Berets.
Andrews has stated that he intends to make sure the march still takes place and that it was important that “every minority child sees that Black men can openly carry to protect their rights.”
http://rollingout.com/2015/08/27/oath-keepers-split-arming-black-protestors-ferguson/
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