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Wesley Lowery unloads: "We have people like Joe Scarborough who are running their mouth"

Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery who was arrested and detained last night by Ferguson police, had some thoughts for MSNBC anchor Joe Scarborough who seemed to be blaming the victim of heavy-handed police tactics. Lowery suggested Scarborough might want to "get out of 30 Rock where he's sitting, sipping his Starbucks smugly" and check out the situation on the ground.

Lowery spoke passionately not just about his personal experience, but about things he'd witnessed "mothers, daughters crying ... having a 19 year-old boy crying and having to pull his 21 year-old sister out of a cloud of tear gas and thinking he's going to die.

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