Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Cardinals fans confront Ferguson protesters at Busch Stadium

Cardinals Fans Get Ugly In Clash With Ferguson Protesters
At the Cardinals-Dodgers playoff game at Busch Stadium in St. Louis last night Black protesters outside chanted "Justice for Michael" Brown, the man shot in Ferguson by policeman Darren Wilson.  Some Cardinals fans responded by shouting "Let's Go Darren".  It got uglier.  We have a  long way to go. - gwc

VIDEO HERE
Deadspin reports
by Tom Lei
  • We start off with a bang. At about the 22-second mark, an old white Cardinals fan begins telling the protesters—all of whom appear to be black—that they need to get jobs. He looks right in the camera, proudly, and says, "That's right! If they'd be working, we wouldn't have this problem!"
  • At about the 1:30 mark, the crowd of Cardinals fans begin drowning out the protesters' chants with a "Let's go Cardinals!" chant. Well, they could be saying worse things...
  • At the 2:40 mark, they start saying much worse things. The "Let's go Cardinals!" chant has turned into a "Let's go Darren!" chant. Cool.
  • At 8:10 one of the Cardinals fans calls one of the protesters a "crack head" and tells him he needs to go see a dentist.
  • At 8:50 the "Let's go Cardinals" chant starts up again.
  • At 9:05 one of the Cardinals fans starts telling one of the protesters that if he ever "saw him in the street" he would "look at the ground." They argue for a bit about who would and would not whip whose ass.
  • At about 10:25 a small blonde lady starts yelling at the protesters: "We're the ones who gave all y'all the freedoms that you have!"
  • At about 12:14 an older female Cardinals fan begins telling the man holding the camera, who claims he is a former Marine, that she doesn't believe he is a veteran. The conversation does not go well for her.
  • At 14:54, the Cardinals fans start in on a very loud "USA! USA! USA!" chant.
  • At 16:07, another Cardinals fan begins yelling at the protesters, telling them that they need to get jobs.
  • At 16:43, a female Cardinals fan begins chanting "Africa! Africa! Africa!" at the protesters.
  • At 17:10, a Cardinals fans tells the protesters that they need to remove their hats and pull up their pants.
Go Dodgers.

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