Posted on 08/26/2014 3:07:18 AM PDT by markomalley
An Al Sharpton-led memorial service yesterday for Michael Brown, the black 18-year-old thug who gave a white Ferguson, Mo. police officer a severe head injury while trying to seize his handgun, became the grotesque political rally some observers feared it would be.
The distinctly anti-police tone of the service was proof that the lie that Brown tried to surrender to white police officer Darren Wilson, rather than trying to beat the life out of him, won’t die. The racial-grievance industry, egged on by President Obama, won’t let it go.
The Left’s narrative that the nearly 300-lbs. Brown, who had just robbed a convenience store on Aug. 9 mere minutes before encountering decorated policeman Wilson, is under withering evidentiary assault every day. As federal officials scour the riot-torn St. Louis suburb in a desperate search for material to justify federal civil rights charges, Sharpton is pressing on with his campaign to foment race-based hatred.
The funeral sets the stage for the mob-led lynching of Officer Wilson, an outcome eagerly sought by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Missouri’s governor, Jay Nixon (D). Nixon has been covering his left flank in recent days, terrified because activists noticed that he seemed to support law and order and oppose mobocracy, rioting, and looting in the early hours of the crisis that followed Brown’s death. But after criticism from the Left, Nixon, like the Democratic members of the local congressional delegation, wants Wilson indicted, evidence or not.
Brown was remembered at a star-studded Baptist church funeral choreographed by racial grievance profiteer Sharpton. From Hollywood, movie director Spike Lee and actor Wesley Snipes attended the service, along with purported civil rights leader Martin Luther King III, U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), and U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), a left-wing extremist who believes urban riots constitute legitimate political activism. Lee is on record praying that Ferguson would explode in racial violence. Also in attendance were three officials from the Obama White House — a greater number of representatives than Obama sent to the recent funeral for a murdered brigadier general, the highest-ranking U.S. officer to be killed in a war in decades.
But despite growing evidence suggesting Brown wasn’t such a good kid, Sharpton pontificated that the decedent was a gentle giant who only wanted the best for his fellow human beings.
“Michael Brown does not want to be remembered for a riot. He wants to be remembered as the one that made American[s] deal with how we gonna police in the United States,” Sharpton thundered before a crowd estimated at 4,500, in a eulogy that was more like a spirited pep talk before the Left’s planned lynching of Officer Wilson.
Given that the decedent’s rap music recordings focused on the joys of illicit drug use, criminal violence including rape, and “hos” it is hard to imagine Brown gave much thought to law enforcement best practices.
Sharpton howled that Brown’s body laid out in the street for a whole 90 minutes before a police detective arrived to begin an investigation into the shooting, as if it had been an intentional insult to Brown on the part of racist police:
And when I saw Michael lying there, I thought about how many of us were just considered nothing. How we were just so marginalized and ignored. Whatever the circumstance an investigation leads to, to have that boy lying there, like nobody cared about him. Like he didn’t have any loved ones, like his life value didn’t matter … I told his grandfather, I don’t care what happened, but whatever we can do I’ll be there to do it.
And if the corpse had been scooped up from the ground right away Sharpton and his ilk would now be screaming that the evidence hadn’t been properly preserved by bungling Keystone Kops who didn’t care if a dead black man got justice.
Sharpton also showed his paranoid side, ranting that people were coming after African-Americans because of their “blackness”:
So that they are justifying trying to come at us because some of us act like the definition of blackness is how low you can go. Blackness has never been about being a gangster or thug. Blackness was no matter how low we was pushed down, we rose up anyhow. Blackness was never surrendering our pursuit of excellence. It was when it was against the law to go to some schools, we built black colleges and learned anyhow.
At one point in the address, Sharpton shouted:
America, it’s time to deal with policing! We are not the haters, we’re the healers!
What does it require of us? We can’t have a fit; we’ve got to have a movement. A fit you get mad and run out for a couple of nights. A movement means we’ve got to be here for the long haul, and turn our chants into change, our demonstration into legislation, we have got to stay on this so we can stop this.
After Brown died violence erupted in Ferguson, Sharpton said, pretending not to approve of said violence. With no obvious oratorical segue, Sharpton screamed:
This is not about you! This is about justice! This is about fairness! And America is going to have to come to terms when there’s something wrong that we have money to give military equipment to police forces, but we don’t have money for training, and money for public education, and money to train our children!
Which is what it is all about for Sharpton: the money.
Shakedowns are the name of the game for Sharpton and his group, National Action Network, whose motto is the cry of the rioter, “No justice, no peace.”
Every time a black person dies tragically, especially when it happens in a newsworthy way, Sharpton sees dollar signs — and his business partner, Barack Obama, sees votes.
Non Rev al stuck on STUPID FOREVER. . . . .
No doubt that the cops are under fire but make no mistake at it's base this is against whitey.
They did the mash
They did the Monster Mash.
$harpton calling himself “reverend” is about as honest as me calling myself “god”.
If he is a reverend then I am a 747 pilot.
I can't even fly a kite. . . .
I remember one Christmas he said Jesus was homeless.
You can spend a couple days doing stuff like that if you don’t work.
He probably also said that Jesus was black and he was lynched by the Jews.
“Cop-Lynching Pep Rally”............
“Pep Rally” or not, if the Street Rats of Ferguson decide to go all out like they did in LA, they will be on the receiving end of some major “smack down”. The directive, “shoot to kill” would certainly be in order.
The fires have been well stirred by the race baiters, the “blacks” pot is about to boil over, who has the fire extinguisher?
Prediction: The cop will walk.
On state charges maybe but he still will have to deal with holder and fed "hate crime" charges.
Remember, George Zimmermna still may face those charges. They are still on the table
Black Democrats, Black Panthers and The Nation of Islam will learn a hard lesson if they start pulling white people out of cars and trucks again. It's a different time. Millions of fire extinguishers are now instantly within reaching distance.
A lot of black souls in that building.
I believe you as correct sir. If it had been a black cop killing an unarmed white guy, like what happened in Salt Lake City, we would have never even heard about it.
If the jury don't convict
you must have a fit.
Seriously
Local police involved in 400 killings per year
Citing data gathered by the Bureau of Justices Statistics in 2008, the IACP [International Association of Chiefs of Police] said less than 2% of the 40 million people who had contact with police reported the use of force or threatened use of force.
"In large part, the public perception of police use of force is framed and influenced by the media depictions which present unrealistic and often outlandish representations of law enforcement and the policing profession," the group said in a 2012 report."
The article points out that there has never been a comprehensive effort to gather the data needed to prove one way or the other.
So the victim's industry citing its Black Privilege can freely shout "unrealistic and often outlandish" claims at each and every individual personal tragedy involving a black citizen and police.
This needs to be our counterpoint talking point... Every time a liberal says 'unarmed teenager shot 6 times" We say, "black thug who gave a white cop a severe head injury while trying to seize his handgun"...
Standby EMS?
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Send treats to the troops...
Great because you did it.
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No reason to sweat the liars... It’s like the threat they’ll ‘loot if they don’t get their way. Fine. We all recognize a bully... and the more people who see it the less ‘white guilt’ will exist to fuel this.
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