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Rep. Cori Bush honors Ferguson activist
known for heckling cops with 'pigs' chant

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Posted By: Ribicon, 5/15/2021 5:57:27 PM

Rep. Cori Bush, Missouri Democrat, honored in a House floor speech a deceased Palestinian-American activist known for heckling police as “pigs” and telling them he prayed for their deaths during the 2014 Ferguson protests. Ms. Bush spoke “in memory of our brother” Bassem Masri, who died in November 2018 at age 31, praising him as “a Ferguson activist who was with us on the front lines of our uprising for justice following the police murder of Michael Brown Jr.” “So today we remember Bassem,” she said in her Thursday speech. “We remember his resistance in the face of militarized police occupation,

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Omen55 5/15/2021 6:08:37 PM (No. 786754)
I look forward to dem following.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: DVC 5/15/2021 6:24:05 PM (No. 786766)
Another, far distant, branch of the Bush family....... /s off Cori is a nasty, hateful racist.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: enemyofthestate 5/16/2021 11:15:59 AM (No. 787322)
Bush and the voters who elected her are willfully ignorant, pround of that ignorance, and belligerent about it.
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