Posted on 11/18/2015 4:42:22 PM PST by markomalley
A Black Lives Matter founder who is being heavily courted by the Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders presidential campaigns said on Wednesday that French police raids on suspects in last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris “seem like witch hunts.”
DeRay McKesson made the observation as French police surrounded an apartment in Saint Denis, a suburb north of Paris, where Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the mastermind behind the attacks was believed to be holed up.
I want to learn more about the French raids underway. But from what I've read so far, they seem like witch hunts.
— deray mckesson (@deray) November 18, 2015
The standoff ended with two terrorists dead, including Abaaoud and a woman who detonated a suicide vest. Seven others were arrested, and four police officers were injured.
McKesson, who rose to fame as an activist during the Ferguson protests last year, was criticized by some of his 250,000-plus Twitter followers for doubting the purpose of the raid.
I was finally able to read up more on the French raids & now understand the situation better. It seems like they're getting close.
— deray mckesson (@deray) November 18, 2015
McKesson is no stranger to making false and inflammatory statements. He helped spread the now-disproved “Hands up, Don’t shoot” narrative that became a rallying cry during protests following the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson. In April, as the Freddie Gray case was unfolding in Baltimore, McKesson tweeted that the 25-year-old was “beaten” by police. Gray died while riding in the back of a police van, but an autopsy found no indication that he was beaten by anyone. And in July, McKesson asserted that police officers “murdered” Sandra Bland while she was in jail in Waller Co., Tex. Autopsies conducted on Bland determined her cause of death to be suicide by hanging.
Despite his being wrong so often, both the Clinton and Sanders campaigns have gone to great lengths to McKesson’s support and that of his growing Black Lives Matter network. Both Democratic candidates met with McKesson and company in separate closed-door meetings last month.
Well, they did find a coven of witches!
Some people just don’t like it when the good guys hunt down the bad guys.
Wonder why that is?
He’s such a POS. Meets with the WH, BTW.
Some people just want to see dead white people. They say it if you let them.
I hope DeRay taped the reporting and watches it several times. Then he won’t be surprised when it happens to his sick BLM group.
Stupid is as stupid does.
A witch hunt ? Close. The French are ( very belatedly) hunting Satan’s legions — dangerous Moslem invaders May they have the courage to root all five million of them out ( repatriate the Moslems to their own countries tries) ASAP And then round up the traitor - Frenchmen who sold out the French Republic to the islamonazis
More proof that the left and not just the fringe left have become unhinged. that Bush derangement certainly did a number on them.
It must have shattered her dreams of visiting violence on Americans by seeing what can happen when you act like a mad dog.
#BlackLivesMatter(UnlessYourNameIsLudovicBoumbasOrRandolphHolderJr)
Hey DeRay,
It must be terrible to have reality conflict with your world view, but...a few things:
The terrorists are real, witches are not.
The terror is real, the spells are not.
90 % of the issues that BLM is whining about are also not real.
If you were capable of recognizing the difference, you may find some support for the 10% of your complaints that have some merit.
This bunch of miscreants are going to hook up with ISIS and turn 2016 into a nightmare. They will do this with Obama’s blessing.
DeRay most probably believed it was a witch hunt because he, like his leader Louis Farrakhan, believed it was Jews or the white leaders of France behind the bombing. 200 Jews never showed up to the concert...
“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.”
Voltaire
“He was seeing the enormity of the smallness of the enemy who was destroying the devastation, past the ruins of great factories, the wrecks of powerful engines, the bodies of invincible men, he had come upon the despoiler, expecting to find a giant - and had found a rat eager to scurry for cover at the first sound of a human step. If this is what has beaten us, he thought, the guilt is ours.”
Ayn Rand
Victory will be ours.
Well, the current inhabitant of the White Hut is a POS, so why wouldn't Obungler meet with him?
Zulu warrior wannabes. We are surrounded by enemies within and without our borders.
Plenty of witches to hunt, at the rate France has let Islime take up residence.
I guess he must be muslim.
The far left amd Islam are working in conjunction, yes.
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