St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Protester Joshua Williams who advocates peace charged with setting fire at Berkeley QT [Reminds me of a sign someone put up in Berkeley, California during the first Bush administration: "Get Quayle First!" Just a joke? Sure, to emphasize Quayle's seeming Bambi-like unimportance, but it still somehow illustrates how the Left, the Peace and Tolerance Police, can easily slip back and forth between supporting and condemning violence, depending on the target. --tma]

Protester who advocates peace charged with setting fire at Berkeley QT



Joshua Williams (left center) and Nicholas Austin Jackson shout at St. Louis police chief Sam Dotson (left) as he tries to give a presentation during the second meeting of the Ferguson Commission 

One of the most frequently quoted and photographed Ferguson protesters was charged Saturday with setting fire to a Berkeley convenience store last week.

St. Louis County police arrested Joshua Williams, 19, of St. Louis, on Friday after several local media outlets and store surveillance captured images of him trying to set a pile of wood on fire outside the QuikTrip on North Hanley Road early Wednesday.

Williams confessed to setting fires at the store in a videotaped interview, according to court documents. ...

The Post-Dispatch, Bloomberg, USA Today and the Associated Press have quoted and photographed Williams. On Oct. 13, he was photographed walking arm-in-arm with author and activist Cornel West toward the St. Louis University campus where protesters staged a sit-in. ...

An MSNBC profile of Williams in September quoted him as saying, “We have to come together as one and show them we can be peaceful, that we can do this. ...

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/protester-who-advocates-peace-charged-with-setting-fire-at-berkeley/article_ad4006c5-06ab-5b7e-8a7f-3fd2ed4dbbcb.html