(Newswire.net — May 21, 2015) — Is the protesting a spontaneous act or a business like any other? Spontaneous expression of community may not be that spontaneous, at least not in a Ferguson’s case, Investors Business Daily reported.
According to IBD, “most of the protesters getting arrested weren’t local residents.” The news agency reported in December 2014 that most of the people arrested in Ferguson riots are members of activists groups, some more aggressive than others.
IBD reported that some arrested people during riots in Ferguson are members of the New Black Panthers, the US Human Rights Network and the ANSWER Coalition, which “shed a new light” on chaos that maybe wasn’t that chaotic.
IBD recall Fox News report saying “as many as 50 social media accounts were tied to both those and the Ferguson protests, suggesting the presence of ‘professional protesters.’”
Allegedly, some of the “protesters” themselves are complaining because they never were paid.
Millennial Activists United organized a week ago a sit-in at the Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment offices. According to activists representatives, they protested because MORE owe them money for their role in protests.
According to the protesters, MORE “created a joint account in which national donors from all over the world have donated over $150,000 to sustain the movement,” however “the poor black people of this movement … have seen little to none of that money,” IBD quoted the source.
“Organizers and protesters depleted $50,000 of the available funds and dispersed it among the people in the movement in no particular order,” the group argued. They even started a Twitter hashtag to encourage MORE to cough up the money: #cutthecheck.
There’s nothing wrong with protesters getting paid, IBD report concludes, adding that “it’s a free country, and they have to make a living, too.”
Paid protesters apparently are reality of any larger protests, however, it doesn’t diminished the reasons why the community protested in the first place.