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Ferguson Protesters Will Keep It Up; Government Violence Escalates Street Violence
As Police Continue Ferguson Crackdown, Protesters Vow to Keep Taking the Streets. People in Ferguson, Missouri, have been protesting for 10 days now and are showing no sign of stopping, following the killing 18-year-old Michael Brown, by a local police officer. Protesters have made their point: If there is no justice for Michael Brown, there will be no peace.
Violence By Government Escalates Street Violence. In 1966, Martin Luther King started to campaign against segregation in Chicago only to find his efforts thwarted by violent mobs and a scheming mayor. Marginalised by the city’s establishment, he could feel that non-violence both as a strategy and as a principle was eroding among his supporters. “I need some help in getting this method across,” he said. “A lot of people have lost faith in the establishment … They’ve lost faith in the democratic process. They’ve lost faith in non-violence … [T]hose who make this peaceful revolution impossible will make a violent revolution inevitable, and we’ve got to get this over, I need help. I need some victories, I need concessions.” He never got them. The next year there were more than 150 riots across the country, from Minneapolis to Tampa.
