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Originally Posted by Arya Stark
I know, it just seems inevitable. I can not believe this is happening in a first world country, I really am dumbfounded. Anyone who hasn't watched that live stream should go and watch every second of it.Protestors were doing nothing illegal, and were fired upon with tear gas and rubber bullets.
How is this allowed? The officers should be ashamed of themselves.
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I've been watching this since 1963 and not much has changed. Bull Connor became a household name.
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King’s saving grace was Connor. He had a notorious temper and he saw what were in fact relatively low key protests as a threat to his ‘rule’ in Birmingham. He set police dogs on to the protesters and suddenly Birmingham got national attention. King was arrested for defying an injunction that denied his right to march. He was kept in solitary confinement and was refused the right to see his lawyer. Only the intervention of J F Kennedy got his release.
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http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk...ngham_1963.htm
Not saying things can't be changed.