Posted on 12/02/2014 4:46:35 AM PST by mykroar
Several lawmakers took to the House floor Monday evening to make the “Hands up, don’t shoot,” gesture to protest the police shooting of the unarmed Ferguson teen, Michael Brown.
“Hands up, don’t shoot. It’s a rallying cry of people all across America who are fed up with police violence,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said as he took the floor. “In community, after community, after community, fed up with police violence in Ferguson, in Brooklyn, in Cleveland, in Oakland, in cities and counties and rural communities all across America.”
Jeffries added that people are fed up with injustice, a broken criminal justice system and “continuing to see young, unarmed African-American men killed as a result of a gunshot fired by a law enforcement officer.”
“Now this is a problem that Congress can’t run away from and the [Congressional Black Caucus] stands here today to make sure that Congress runs toward the problem,” Jeffries said. “That we come up with constructive solutions to breaking this cycle, this epidemic, this scourge of police violence all across America.”
Joining Jeffries was Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.), Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) and Rep. Al Green (D-Texas), who praised the handful of St. Louis Rams’ players for also making the “hands up” gesture as they entered the field for their game Sunday night.
“This has become the new symbol, a new statement, a statement wherein people around the country now, are calling to the attention of those who don’t quite understand that this is a movement that will not dissipate it will not evaporate. It is a movement that is going to continue,” Green said on the floor.
Is that picture real? Geesh, how stupid can those people be?
It’s shopped, but as Dan Rather would say, it’s “fake but accurate.” :-)
Well, I thought it was real. I see now that my expectations for our society are lower than I first believed.
Just pull ALL the police out of the inner city, problem solved.
Obama, Holder, Sharpton and the other liberal racists haven’t completely thought their new “War On The Cops” through to its final result.
Once they finish trashing the police, what white policeman is going to put his life on the line in the black ghetto?
And once they pump the police department full of black Affirmative Action policeman, how many of those blacks are going to put their lives on the line in the black ghetto?
Now that the results are back from a real grand jury, any more objection is just racism.
That’s photoshopped, right?
Every last one of these Congressmen should be censored. What an ‘in your face’ gesture to the U.S. Constitution.
Yeah. “Fake but accurate.”
It is funny. However, it is photoshopped.
'Hands up' is a transparent lie - and so tacky it's almost impossible not to feel pity for blacks trying this hard to appear as a 'victim'... ...
Almost.
Facts get in the way. The thief Brown didn't have his hands up with Wilson anymore than he had his hands up with the clerk he strong armed. Watch the store video. Nothing about Brown is anything other than thug... pure arrogance and entitlement.
He's a hothead bully. He's NOT Michael Schwerner, James Chaney or Andrew Goodman. He's not a martyr, he's a common low level thug. A man with hair trigger rage.
The civil rights movement of the 60’s was majestic... this current stuff is an embarrassment. On the lighter brighter side it's just stupid enough to be entertaining.
well at least we know which ones were too stupid to read the grand jury testimony
well at least we know which ones were too stupid to read the grand jury testimony
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