Literally, some people showed up.
The Post-Dispatch has the best written story, but the number of attendees who were non-press appears to damn near nil. Even bettr, from the KSDK story:
Gladney is not connected to Move-On-Up.org. Gladney’s attorney, David Brown, said Gladney does not have a problem with the way the NAACP has handled the situation.
Crack work there by Chris Arps and Move-on Up. But it gets better (from the P-D):
ST LOUIS — A conservative African-American social networking group set out Monday morning to criticize the city’s NAACP chapter for not supporting a black man who said he was beaten outside a forum on aging earlier this month.
But the effort was cut short when the head of the civil rights group showed up at the news conference and said that no one had asked the NAACP to investigate the claims.
“The St. Louis branch of the NAACP will and does accept and investigate all written complaints filed with us, regardless of the complainant’s ideology,” said Claude Brown Sr., president of the St. Louis City NAACP. “We regret that a group has decided to protest outside our office before contacting us or filing such a complaint.”
The Saint Louis NAACP has long had a history of disorganization and organizational strife. It also just outmanuevered Chris Arps of Move-On Up and Missouri Political News Service. You almost have to try and be that incompetent. Perhaps it’s just a natural talent for Arps.
Adding to it, Arps was there to criticize the NAACP for not acting to take a role in a potential felony situation, while Arps was found guilty of felony non-support of his children.
Interestingly, from what I’ve been told 97.1 never mentioned the protest/press conference before hand, nor did any of the sane Missouri political blogs.
Fail. Defined.