And here's another reason why people don't take the "peaceful protesters" seriously.
http://news.yahoo.com/protester-st-louis-area-charged-arson-204951252.html
BERKELEY, Mo. (AP) — A protester who advocated for peaceful demonstrations in Ferguson was charged Saturday with setting fire to a convenience store in a neighboring suburb.
A St. Louis County jail official said Joshua Williams, 19, of St. Louis, was being held on $30,000 bond. He is charged with arson, second-degree burglary and stealing less than $500.
Williams, who was frequently quoted and photographed protesting Michael Brown's death, is accused of using lighter fluid to set multiple fires inside and outside a QuikTrip in Berkeley. Court records said Williams confessed in a videotaped interview, and that his actions were captured by surveillance video and by news media.
The QuikTrip was looted after a white Berkeley police officer shot and killed Antonio Martin, a black 18-year-old, late Tuesday at a nearby gas station. Separate surveillance footage appeared to show that before the shooting, Martin pulled a gun on the unidentified 34-year-old officer.
St. Louis County police spokesman Shawn McGuire said it wasn't immediately known if Williams had an attorney. Williams didn't immediately return a phone message.
Williams has been arrested at least twice during Ferguson-related protests for unlawful assembly as well as refusal to disperse.
An MSNBC profile of Williams in September quoted him as saying, "We have to come together as one and show them we can be peaceful, that we can do this. If not, they're going to just want us to act up so they can pull out their toys on us again."
During a Ferguson Commission meeting earlier this month, Williams said black people should be able to walk into stores without being followed around like thieves.
"When the police go out there in their uniforms, they don't see nothing but thugs," he said. "All they see is targets in the streets."
http://www.latimes.com/nation/natio...n-activist-arson-burglary-20141227-story.html
Some activists gathered outside the St. Louis County Justice Center on Friday and Saturday to protest his arrest.
"Josh is one of the young activists, and all of us have taken close to him. We got to know his heart, and he got to know ours," Bishop Derrick Robinson, of Kingdom Destiny Fellowship International
told the St. Louis Post Dispatch. "He's a great kid, an educated kid, a child who knows what he wants and is very active in the community."
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The hypocrisy here is staggering. Also he confessed and was on video, yet protesters went to the jail to demand his release. When you support and defend people who couldn't be more guilty, your credibility goes entirely out the window for any other cases where it might actually be questionable.