Sharpton faces criticism after NYC officers’ deaths

Washington Post ^ | Decemeber, 23 1024 | Sandhya Somashekhar and Wesley Lowery

[MeshugeMikey]

Veteran civil rights leader Al Sharpton, who has tried to play the statesman during heated protests over police shootings, now faces accusations of incitement after the killings last weekend of two officers in New York City.

The Rev. Sharpton has worked over the years to shed his reputation as a firebrand, and in recent months, he had provoked the ire of younger protesters who favor a more confrontational approach. Sharpton, for instance, angered some young activists by rebuffing them when they unexpectedly asked to speak at a march his nonprofit group organized in Washington.

But after the deaths of the two officers, momentum has shifted away from the protesters, at least temporarily, and now some of the most intense pressure is coming from those who say police have been unfairly vilified.

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Veteran civil rights leader Al Sharpton, who has tried to play the statesman during heated protests over police shootings
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I’m struggling to get past this opening sentence.

I guess it’s seeing the words Sharpton and statesman in such close proximity.

[uncitizen]

A less experienced civil rights figure might find these waters perilous, but Sharpton’s legitimacy goes deeper than the currents of public opinion. He has been working on issue

Code for we've got his back. He is untouchable.

[Sasparilla]

Sharpton faces criticism? Race hustling has been very financially rewarding for him for decades?
Tawana Brawley, Duke LaCrosse, and other major embarrassments haven’t slowed him down one bit.

[maddog55]

Sharpton faces criticism after NYC officers’ deaths... that’ll go in one ear and out the other. He needs to put a 9mm to his butt ugly face, pull the trigger and save humanity from any more of his BS.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Veteran civil rights leader Al Sharpton, who has tried to play the statesman during heated protests over police shootings

Sharptongue..."statesman"!!!?

He might as well have pulled the trigger himself. The racebaiting moron should have been in prison a long time ago.

[GBA]

Any movement with Sharpton as leader will have toilet paper as a follower.

[VerySadAmerican]

Al Sharpton? Sean Hannity’s “good friend”? That Al Sharpton?

[AmericanVictory]

What civil right has he ever had an effective lead on?
We'd like to know.

[bray]

When has this racist punk ever been a statesman? The dirty Marxist is full of white hate. Why do conservatives give him the time of day.

Merry Chrsitmas

[rawcatslyentist]

what do we want?

Al Sharpton

How do we want him?

Dead!

Since it seems to be acceptable and legal to publicly call for peoples death now.

[Steely Tom]

I don’t think Sharpton ever faces anything.

He’s the slipperiest piece of you-know-what since Slick Willy.

[Bon mots]

[FlingWingFlyer]

Al the race pimp has blood on his greedy paws.

[gov_bean_ counter]

I’m struggling to get past this opening sentence.

I didn't even try

[HotHunt]

[Vaquero]

should be arrested for inciting to riot, hence murder

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

(Translation) - “See, see you mean-old right-wing extremists! We condemned Sharpton, now can we just sweep this under the rug?”

[MeshugeMikey]

exactly!

a cone of faux compassion and “”fairness”

[MeshugeMikey]

statesman.....

state of CONFUSION perhaps?