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Posted on 03/13/2015 7:04:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Missouri Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D) said it could have set race relations back by several decades if police had fired back at the shooter of two officers in Ferguson late Wednesday.
Cleaver, the former chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, along with Ferguson Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay (D-Mo.) has offered a $3,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the shooter(s) responsible for wounding two officers outside of the Ferguson Police Department.
Cleaver told CNN today that “what I think most people can agree on including the police in Ferguson is that the shots didn’t come from the demonstrators.”
“It came from a hill. We don’t know race or ethnicity,” he said.
He and Clay “believe that there’s no excuse for shooting at police officers, law enforcement officers who get up in the morning and go out and put their lives on the line to protect us.”
“We don’t know the hearts of the gentlemen who were shot, the police officers who were shot. But we think that it’s something that we all abhor,” the congressman said, adding that they’ll be talking later in the day about potentially raising more reward money. “We think somebody called in. We have a nice sum of money.”
Cleaver stressed that whoever shot at the police officers — wounding one in the shoulder and one in the face — “did a tremendous amount of damage to race relations.”
“Just think about this. What if when the shots were fired the police — just one police officer had picked up to use his revolver shooting into the crowd. Today we would be talking about massacre and we would be talking about race relations dipping back 75, 80 years. And I’m also wondering if that was one of the goals. If somebody, whoever did it, wanted to continue to damage race relations. And all people of good will ought to be about the business of trying to reduce racial tension,” he said.
“It’s kind of like embroidery that I saw my grandmother doing. Racial progress in terms of race relations is made stitch by stitch and we hope that what we just did will be a stitch in a big embroidery piece that no one should tolerate this kind of thing and people ought to speak out,” Cleaver continued.
“I mean, you know, people will make nasty comments about the President or Mrs. Obama and there are people who are asked should they have said that he’s a Muslim. And we have people all the time, well, he says he’s a Christian. Let’s start condemning things that are wrong.”
Gee, ya think?
“”Revolver?” Where do police still use revolvers? “
On Mayberry reruns silly, everyone knows that :)
And he drives a white van.
Could be a black flag operation run by the administration to start the race war Bammy appears to want. If he has a good reason to declare martial law, he’s going nowhere in Jan.’17.
Really, seriously, what average citizen shoots with accuracy with handguns at over 100 yards?
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Of course.
Well, D'OH!!
Obviously, it was a plot by Sarah Palin and Tea Parties nationwide
< /sarc >
Cognitive dissonance, lying, or both ? These race-baiting hustlers have the market cornered.
Obama Vintage Car Club offers $3,000 reward for information about vandals whose acts may damage prized vehicle.
Yeah, but I bet he speaks Jive.
The reports say:
Thursday's shooting left a 41-year-old St. Louis County Police officer with a shoulder wound and a 32-year-old officer from nearby Webster Groves Police Department with a bullet lodged near his ear.
This means that out of three shots two landed into a circle less than 1 foot in diameter, at 120 yards, at night. I'd say that no common, recreational shooter can do this with any level of certainty without trying ten or twenty times. Professional pistol shooters can do that, though.
Also note that the gun had to be zeroed in for the target distance, otherwise the shooter has to aim about 12" above the target - and he has to know that little number for his ammo and his firearm. How many recreational pistol shooters can tell off the top of their head the bullet drop of a 9mm or a .40 at 100 or 120 yards? Even if you remember the chart, you still need to know the exact distance. A sniper knows all this and carries a laser rangefinder. A common man does not know any of that - not without special preparations for the assassination.
And the Hearts of the shot Officers !!?!
something to be abhorred !?!
insane asshat.
Maybe it's just me ... but, when I'm shooting at someone, I'm well aware that all aspects of our relationship are beyond repair.
I would say ,yes he was.
True dat.
Not just once but with two shots, at night and in rapid succession. I was thinking the same thing. Your average gang banger probably does not get enough range time to pull that off.
All this talk about pistols, did we ever find out the type of ammunition used?
Don’t know all that much about the case, but apparently the shots came from a hill.
Shooting downhill, at night, 120 yards with a pistol. Either very lucky or highly skilled.
gang bangers are not single shooters.
They are spray and prayers...
They spray the area with bullets and hope they hit the target.
This shooter, regardless of color is a good shot.
To bad they are playing for the loosing side.
Hanity had the Mayor on (I think it was the mayor) they where speculating a small caliber rifle.. I think they floated a .22 or something of that size.
Oh, so the shooter DOES work for the Democrats.
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