Rising protest star Deray Mckesson shared a photo last night on Twitter reportedly of a special badge the Baltimore Police Department gave to certain activists in an effort to identify those in the crowd who were exempt from the 10 p.m. — 5 a.m. emergency curfew.
Makes sense, right?
This is the badge that the @BaltimorePolice have given to those allowed to stay past curfew. #BaltimoreUprising pic.twitter.com/rVEAe8q4lx
— deray (@deray) May 1, 2015
Well, not to the protesters who are quite angry with everything about it:
https://twitter.com/stevozone4/status/593951199814144000
@deray Ohmyword.
— Elizabeth Rogers Drouillard (@ThingsBright) May 1, 2015
@deray PeaceKeepers like In hunger games when peacekeepers Abused the people more than they help the…nvm..the odds are never in our favor
— Queen Nzinga (@QueenNzinga13) May 1, 2015
https://twitter.com/TheShipped/status/593951872999784448
To be fair, it does look like it would be quite easy to forge a duplicate.
https://twitter.com/idlediletante/status/594106698987610112
@deray What a strange backstage pass that is, @BaltimorePolice.
— Rachel Weidinger (@rachelannyes) May 1, 2015
More anger:
@deray … Then all Citizens should have one & the cops should go home! #BaltimoreUprising
— Original “got God?”® (@ugotGod) May 1, 2015
@deray So "respectable" white folks who agree to comply with all police orders (snitches and collaborators)?
— No Name (@FuckthisshitNo) May 1, 2015
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@deray shouldn't come from "Baltimore Police" but from "The City." It's like it's designed to offend. @BaltimorePolice
— Bruce Godfrey (@BruceGodfrey) May 1, 2015
@deray @BaltimorePolice Slave freedom travel papers
— CherronRambles.com (@CherronLampkins) May 1, 2015
@deray @PatrickKearns @BaltimorePolice allowed to stay out passed curfew haha. What is this? Stalin's Russia?
— Who Killed Dove? ? (@damagecase1982) May 1, 2015
@BWGREENLEAF @deray peacekeepers are a divisive element of any movement
— Who Killed Dove? ? (@damagecase1982) May 1, 2015
And some Constitutional scholars weighed in, too:
https://twitter.com/sasnfbi1234/status/593959253032841217
@sasnfbi1234 True. But most of it still holds up pretty well. @TheShipped @deray @BaltimorePolice
— FiredUpNow (@liz_belcher) May 1, 2015
https://twitter.com/sasnfbi1234/status/593959698807689216
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