Arab Company Scores Win Against Midwest County Who Helped Police Riots

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Arab news outlet Al Jazeera is having one of those some you win, some you lose kind of years. A few weeks ago their big headquarters in Gaza got bombed into rubble but Ferguson, Missouri agreed to fork over $280,000 after their disfavored police department mistook reporters for terrorists. Simply because the AJ film crew disobeyed police orders to vacate the spot they staked out for their cameras. This isn’t related to the past year of Antifa® insurrection, it dates back to 2014.

Not an Arab uprising

Officials in St. Charles County, Missouri decided not to even bother fighting when they got sued by three alleged journalists working for Arab news network Al Jazeera. They got miffed when cops lobbed a little tear gas in their direction.

The streets of Ferguson were a battlefield back in 2014. That Black Lives Matter™ riot broke out in response to Michael Brown’s death. Al Jazeera argued that someone owed them reparations because it wasn’t their film crew hurling water bottles at the cops.

The county lawyers kicked it around until they came to the conclusion that the Arab lawyers are better than they are. They will be writing a check to Al Jazeera for $280,000. That’s according to a grinning attorney from Lathrop GPM, representing the emotionally injured journalists.

Years before anyone ever heard of George Floyd, Michael Brown was killed after the 18-year-old hoodlum tried to take a cop’s gun away from him to shoot him with it. Officer Darren Wilson was not charged for the justified use of defensive force but that didn’t keep the local Black population from burning the city down and looting everything they could carry away.

Just like the insurrection of the past year, Democrat city officials stood back and did nothing while protests raged nightly for months. There were almost as many reporters as rioters on the streets in those days.

At one point, the Arab network’s U.S. branch, Al Jazeera America, sent correspondent Ash-har Quraishi, producer Marla Cichowski and photojournalist Sam Winslade to prepare for the fateful live broadcast. They picked the wrong place to set up.

Bottles and rocks

Police from every agency in the greater St. Louis region converged on Ferguson. It happened to be the St. Charles County SWAT team who attacked the Arab reporters with tear gas. According to the lawyers, “video evidence contradicted police claims that tear gas was used in response to protesters throwing bottles and rocks at officers.”

Oh sure, there were lots of missiles flying at the cops that night but not from the news crew or anyone nearby “The firm said several videos showed that there were no protesters in the area and no one was throwing anything at police.”

It turns out that the real reason the Al Jazeera crew got fired on is because they didn’t evacuate for their own safety. “See,” the police said with a teargas cannister, “we warned you that you were in harms way, even if we have to cause the harm.” They were really just frustrated that nobody would listen to them. St. Charles County spokeswoman Mary Enger admits that “a SWAT team deputy fired the canister.”

He did it “to clear an area.” He “did not know at the time” Al Jazeera was beaming the action live to an Arab audience. She said “the county and the deputy continue to maintain that the deputy exercised proper judgment in firing a single tear gas canister during a period of unprecedented public disorder in the region.”

Still, they decided to pay the Arab outlet and be done with it. Bernie Rhodes, attorney for the journalists, is grinning all the way to the bank. This award was a whole lot bigger simply because of the George Floyd madness. There have been other settlements reached regarding similar claims in the Ferguson riots but they all settled for peanuts.

“The jury’s verdict finding Chauvin guilty of George Floyd’s murder represents a turning point in America. Jurors will no longer rely on law enforcement’s version of what happened, especially where there is video that affirmatively disproves the police.”