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6 churches set on fire near Ferguson in 10 days

Six fires at churches in predominately black neighborhoods near #Ferguson occurring over just 10 days have been classified as arson. There have been no injuries and officials don’t yet have a suspect.

Mosby said the possibility of a hate crime for religious or racial reasons “is part of the dynamic” in an ongoing joint investigation currently being conducted by the St. Louis Regional Bomb Unit and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The ATF has jurisdiction over fires at all houses of worship.

All the fires took place in predominately black neighborhoods within a three-mile radius of Ferguson, and all were lit at the front doors of the churches.

The first hit the Bethel Non-Denominational Church in Jennings on October 8. Two days later, the New Northside Missionary Baptist, also in Jennings, suffered from fire.

In addition, fires were set at Minerva-St. Augustine Catholic Church on October 14 and New Testament Church of Christ on October 15, and over the weekend there were blazes at the New Life Missionary Baptist Church and Ebenezer Lutheran Church.

“We just can’t understand why someone would go around setting churches on fire,” Alderman Frank Williamson, who attends St. Augustine Catholic Church, told. “It has us very puzzled.”

“This is alarming because domestic terrorism is alive and well, It is such a problem that the US Department of Justice recently predicted increases in violent acts by white extremists who are responding to a new reality in which people of color will become a majority in America.”

“It is interesting, and more than coincidence, that St. Louis has also witnessed a great deal of racial tension and violence in light of the events in Ferguson. In an environment which fosters government sponsored racism – police violence against black residents, racial profiling and economic exploitation through a system of court fees amounting to a black debtors’ prisons – it does not take such a stretch of the imagination to consider that some private citizens may feel emboldened to take matters in their own hands.”  David Love

The fires in St. Louis come four months after a string of six church fires occurred in the days following the deadly June 17 rampage by a white supremacist, who fatally shot nine people at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Four were in southern states, and some were accidentally started or caused by lightning, but authorities said that three had been the work of arsonists.

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We shouldn’t retaliate but we should arm ourselves. I’m a proponent of the 2nd Amendment. I’ve also carried a firearm (sometimes multiple) every day for many years without fail. If you ask a lot of the old school people that marched for civil rights, a lot of them will earnestly tell you without firearms the civil rights movement would not have been possible.

Black people (hell all law abiding people) need to seek training, arm themselves and mentally prepare for the possibility of being targeted for their race.

Retaliation isn’t necessary but responsible self defense is certainly welcome and encouraged.

#Black Lives Matter #Ferguson #Black ppl #2nd Amendment #Second Amendment #Guns #Churches #White Supremacist #Racial Crime #Hate Crime

#StayWoke

How will America’s whites justify this story and find a way to shift blame on to blackpeople. and ys, these is a race thing.