MISSOURI PRO-POLICE RALLY COUNTERED; ORGANIZER MAKES RACIST COMMENT TO BLACK PASTOR IMPLYING HE'S ON WELFARE

Meet Trish Dennison of St. Louis Area Support Our LEO (Law Enforcement Officers), who this weekend made herself the poster child of the racism we all see with the Blue Lives Matter crowd.

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CLAYTON, MO – A pro-police rally outside police headquarters in St. Louis County Saturday brought out not only those supporting the police but also counterprotesters demanding an end to police violence. The situation became so heated that one person was arrested after an alleged shoving match and the White organizer of the pro-police rally insulted a Black counterdemonstrator suggesting he payed his taxes with welfare checks, an incident that has been captured on video.

According to news reports, about 200 persons, reportedly entirely White, came out to the St. Louis County Police Department to show support for the police, as they have in similar rallies in recent weeks not just in St. Louis and Ferguson, but all over the country. This rally was met however by about 30 counterdemonstrators of different racial backgrounds, many of who engaged the pro-police participants in discussion and in some instances heated rhetoric and physical confrontation. One person was arrested after one such incident.

Counterprotester Sana Cole noted to one news outlet that the media doesn’t always shows how the confrontations begin, showing only the incident itself. “These are the things you aren’t getting in the news…how they’re provoking us,” She said.

One such controversal exchange was captured on video and uploaded to the Vine social media network. The video shows Trish Dennison of St. Louis Area Support Our LEO (Law Enforcement Officers) and the main organizer of the pro-police rally yelling at Bishop Derrick Robinson of Kingdom Destiny Church, an African American, who tells her that he pays taxes. “Yeah you do? From your welfare check?” Dennison responds.

“Ma’am, I’ve never got a welfare check in my life, Bishop Robinson says. Dennison, who is the mother of four police officers, is seen in several videos either engaging in shouting matches with counterprotestors or talking with press.

The “welfare check” exchange.

The rally comes days after news reports came out saying Police Officer Darren Wilson will not be charged federally in the killing of 18-year-old Mike Brown, a development that many conservatives feel is a vindication of their stance that the recent protests across the globe calling for police accountability and an end to police violence displayed in hundreds of cases across the country are unwarranted. The local Fox affiliate reports that there may be another pro-police protest in the spring.