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Al Sharpton: What would King have done?
Washington Post ^ | January 19, 2015 | Eli Saslow

Posted on 01/19/2015 1:57:18 PM PST by MeshugeMikey

l Sharpton held a holiday breakfast for 300 at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C., where the goal was not so much to remember the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as to pull his teachings into the moment. “What would he have done?” Sharpton asked, as the crowd watched a video that combined some of King’s greatest speeches with recent footage of protests in Washington and Ferguson, Mo.

Two members of President Obama’s Cabinet spoke about the importance of health care and low-income housing, but the crowd’s ovation was loudest when Sharpton showed a slideshow that included photos of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner and Michael Brown — all unarmed black men who were killed in confrontations. Martin was shot in Florida in 2012 by a member of a neighborhood watch. Garner died last summer after being placed in a chokehold by a police officer in Staten Island, and Brown was shot by a police officer in Ferguson in August.

“We have to keep these issues in front until we resolve this,” Sharpton said. “We are in another pivotal moment, and we will be judged by how we respond now.”

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To: MeshugeMikey

Garner did NOT die from a chokehold. It wasn’t even a chokehold. Cops grab people by the neck all the time when they resist arrest. It’s a good way to get them on the ground. Garner died at the hospital, had asthma and other health issues. This narrative that the cops killed him is a lie. The MSM keeps repeating it.


21 posted on 01/19/2015 4:54:55 PM PST by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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the longer they repeat it.. the “more true” it aint gonna get


22 posted on 01/19/2015 5:09:31 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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