Throughout Game 4 of the Cardinals vs. Dodgers playoff game, ticketed St. Louis Cardinals fans were publicly racist and unashamed of it. To say they were "caught" on camera being offensive would be inaccurate—these Cardinals fans wanted journalist Mustafa Hussein, who was filming the peaceful protest for Mike Brown, to film their bold and ugly racism.
In an interview with Mustafa, of Argus Streaming News, I asked what disturbed him the most about this up close encounter. He said, "People have lost all social control over what they say or do, even if a camera is present. What used to be discussed in barber shops, hair salons, or at dinner parties, is now openly expressed without regard for reproduction. The division of our society is often exposed when events like the shooting death of Mike Brown are pushed into national attention, and the false pretense that we live in a 'post-racial society' is exposed. The most disturbing fact of this entire situation is that many people still believe that racism is a past problem for the United States."
In addition to telling the protestors to "get jobs" and declaring, "We're the ones who gave y'all all the freedoms you have anyway," protestors tape on hand-made "I am Darren Wilson" flyers to their St. Louis Cardinals jerseys and chant their love for him over top of the protestors. In an apparent allusion to Mike Brown laying face down on the concrete, one of the fans tells one of the protestors "if I ever saw you, you'd be face down."
In its article on the video, Deadspin helped annotate where some of the most egregious parts of the video take place:
**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 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.
**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!"
Get the full annotations from the Deadspin article
here.