I read somewhere today that only 4 of the 120 protestors arrested were actually from Ferguson. Let That little fact rattle around the ol tin hat a while.
There are a LOT of claims floating around with similar figures. However,
ABC reported this:
People arrested during protests in Ferguson, Missouri, have come from as far away as New York City and California, but the overwhelming majority of those detained for refusing to disperse are from Ferguson and the surrounding area, according to jail records.
Capt. Ron Johnson of the Missouri Highway Patrol, who is in charge of the law enforcement efforts in Ferguson, said this morning that those arrested mainly had come from out of town.
"As I've said, many are a criminal element that have been coming to Ferguson and are not from this area. Tonight some of those arrested came from as far away as New York and California," he said this morning.
Johnson initially said 31 people were arrested overnight, but jail records show that 78 were arrested overnight.
So, ABC is claiming that "jail records" show most are from Ferguson and near by, but don't show links to the actual data.
Breitbart cites Fox News correspondent Steve Harrigan, who reported that only three of the 78 protesters arrested last night during last night’s clash between the police and protesters in Ferguson were actually from the city on Tuesday’s “The O’Reilly Factor.”
The
GatewayPundit claims that of the 120 arrested only 4 were from Ferguson.
KDSK Channel 5 in St. Louis
reported that
Of 75 protesters arrested Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, none were from Ferguson, but 60 were from Missouri, including 12 from the adjacent city of St. Louis, according to jail records. The others were from such places as Des Moines, Austin, Chicago, Cincinnati, Brooklyn and the Bronx, N.Y., and Mount Vernon, Ill.
It's the "fog of war". The best source should be the Ferguson jail, and other locations where protesters might have been taken, but no source I found provided verified jail records. One posted some jail photos, but not enough to verify the claims that "most" were from out of town.
The BIG question facing the folks at Ferguson now is "How many of their businesses which were looted and/or burned will rebuild, or move to safer locations?" The 1967 Detroit riots resulted in several thousand burned out businesses and other buildings, triggering a massive flight of the middle class (of all races) out of Detroit. Ditto for Watts.
City-data for Ferguson shows that a majority of the homes in the vicinity of its main street are in the $150K to $170 range. Since the housing bubble burst, homes in that range aren't usually owned or occupied by those on welfare. I doubt the owners of those homes, probably most of whom marched, weren't planning on burning down businesses of their neighbors, with whom they shop. So, I suspect that the majority of the "team B" (late night) rabble WERE from out of town, and exploiting the situation. I also recall that the FBI sent a team from their Community Resource Service to Sanford, FL, to "orchestrate" (and pay for) "protests". They did the same thing at Ferguson. Out of town in deed.
