Ferguson Protester Accidentally Burns
Down Own House
A protester in Ferguson , Missouri accidentally burned down
his own house last night after mistaking the building for a convenience store.
According to a report in the Ferguson Post-Gazette,
32-year-old Tyler Jackson threw a Molotov cocktail into a window not realizing
he was setting ablaze his own residence. The home, which was empty at the time,
subsequently burned to the ground.
“It was dark. I got all turned around. I thought it was a
7-11 or something,” he told the newspaper.
Witnesses describe Jackson shouting expletives after he
realized what he had done. He then tried to put out the flames himself with a
garden hose, but eventually called 911 and asked the fire department for aid.
“They told me they were too busy with other fires to come
help,” he lamented. “I couldn’t believe it. I mean we pay these people’s
salaries! What do you mean you're too busy?
“A black person’s house burns down and suddenly you’re ‘too
busy’ to put the fire out? This is what racism in America looks like.”
Ferguson was the site of a controversial shooting on Aug. 9
when Michael Brown, an 18-year-old unarmed black teenager, was shot by police
officer Darren Wilson.
Protests have raged
in the town after a grand jury refused to indict Wilson on Monday. Although the
majority of protests have been peaceful, a substantial minority of protesters
have attacked law enforcement officers, looted stores and set fire to buildings.
These attacks have been called self-defeating because they
usually target stores located in their own community and owned by local
businesspeople. The damage has been compounded by the fact that many fires go
unattended due to concerns for the firefighter’s safety.
Nevertheless sources say Jackson is considering filing a
civil rights lawsuit against the fire department for not responding to the
blaze.
“If it weren't for those racist firefighters I’d still have
a home,” he says.
5 comments:
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This story sounds too good to be true.
This man who burned his own home is eating the fruit of his own doings. Why were you playing with fire? Thought you couldn't get burned? The racist muslim black preacher who is advocating all of this violence (you know the one....he keeps saying G D America) should be arrested for all of these arson counts and thrown in jail for inciting people to do stupid things like this!
Another "Darwin Award Winner". Why isn't this guy in jail for arson?
I cannot even believe what I am reading..this guy thinks it is OKAY TO BURN DOWN SOMEONE ELSE'S BUILDING..setting HIS OWN HOUSE ON FIRE INSTEAD and has the AUDACITY, WITH A PURE ENTITLEMENT ATTITUDE, SELF RIGHTEOUSLY BLAME SOMEONE ELSE FOR HIS OWN LAWLESSNESS, IRREGARD FOR HUMANITY AND STUPIDITY...He deserved his house to be burned down. Most people would have been humbled, if not humiliated and learned something from what they did--HE CAN'T EVEN GET THE MESSAGE THAT YOU DON'T DO THOSE THINGS TO INNOCENT PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY PEOPLE THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM'S VERDICT. INSTEAD HE ACTUALLY BLAMES SOMEONE ELSE..He has no moral core, no shame...God help us...these are people that this country is producing,and they produce more like them..and they VOTE.
“If it weren't for those racist firefighters I’d still have a home
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