Thugtown USA: North Tulsan Insurgents Riot

[tim huntzinger]

Insurgents in a North Tulsa apartment complex protested the arrest of a popular cell leader Saturday night/Sunday morning.

There are significant variances in the reporting of the uprising.  The number of insurgents, whether or not any officers were injured, whether shots were fired at officers, and length of the occupation are all in dispute.

KTUL, KOKI, T.WORLD, & KJRH all disagree at some level of the details.

[NellieBly]

It made it onto Fark.com.

[cannon_fodder]

insurgents huh?  I thought this was a group of lowlife's trying to defend an accused murder from being taken into custody by assaulting the police.

Here is the CNN article:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/15/tulsa.standoff.ap/index.html

What's more interesting is people's comments on the article:
http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=2741514

It certainly doest bode well for Tulsa.  And people cant figure out why police dont go into North Tulsa. Why, oh why, are black communities left to crumble?

[iplaw]

Leave them to deal with their own problems then; our cops don't deserve this.

[South_Tulsan]

Interesting blog on this from the KTUL site:

http://209.200.89.94/blog/readblog.cfm?blogid=155

Sounds almost like its a third-world country over there.

[Conan71]

Where was Reverend Al in all this?  He never fails to grab a headline.[B)]

[dsjeffries]

Apparently some Malawis had the same idea:

quote:MCHINJI, Malawi (Reuters) - Malawi police and stone-throwing school students blocked journalists from covering pop star Madonna's visit to an orphanage on Tuesday where the boy she is adopting was due to meet his biological father.

Teenaged students in black and yellow uniforms from the secondary school at the Mchinji Home of Hope orphanage hurled stones at journalists' cars and formed a protective ring around the building...