With the St. Louis Cardinals competing in the playoffs many wondered if the Mike Brown Ferguson protestors would target the Cardinals stadium and indeed they have. Unfortunately they were countered by Cardinals fans who engaged in a nasty standoff. On Monday night as the Cardinals played against the Los Angeles Dodgers for a trip to the NL Championship Series, Ferguson protestors gathered and Cardinals fans went off and it was all captured on tape.
The video courtesy ofArgus Streaming News is long so Deadspin pointed out some of the lowlights…
- We start off with a bang. At about the 22-second mark, an old white Cardinals fan begins telling the protesters—all of whom appear to be black—that they need to get jobs. He looks right in the camera, proudly, and says, “That’s right! If they’d be working, we wouldn’t have this problem!”
- At about the 1:30 mark, the crowd of Cardinals fans begin drowning out the protesters’ chants with a “Let’s go Cardinals!” chant. Well, they could be saying worse things…
- At the 2:40 mark, they start saying much worse things. The “Let’s go Cardinals!” chant has turned into a “Let’s go Darren!” chant. Cool.
- At 8:10 one of the Cardinals fans calls one of the protesters a “crack head” and tells him he needs to go see a dentist.
- At 8:50 the “Let’s go Cardinals” chant starts up again.
- At 9:05 one of the Cardinals fans starts telling one of the protesters that if he ever “saw him in the street” he would “look at the ground.” They argue for a bit about who would and would not whip whose ass.
- At about 10:25 a small blonde lady starts yelling at the protesters: “We’re the ones who gave all y’all the freedoms that you have!”
- At about 12:14 an older female Cardinals fan begins telling the man holding the camera, who claims he is a former Marine, that she doesn’t believe he is a veteran. The conversation does not go well for her.
- At 14:54, the Cardinals fans start in on a very loud “USA! USA! USA!” chant.
- At 16:07, another Cardinals fan begins yelling at the protesters, telling them that they need to get jobs.
- At 16:43, a female Cardinals fan begins chanting “Africa! Africa! Africa!” at the protesters.
- At 17:10 a Cardinals fans tells the protesters that they need to remove their hats and pull up their pants.