Elizabeth Warren Defends False Claim Michael Brown Was ‘Murdered’

breitbart ^ | 14 Aug 2019 | JOEL B. POLLAK

[MarvinStinson]

Elizabeth Warren defended her false claim that Michael Brown had been “murdered” by police.

Brown was shot and killed by police officer Darren Wilson on August 9, 2014. That much is true.

Left-wing activists said Brown had been shot in the back and had put his hands over his head and said, “Don’t shoot!”.

None of those claims were true.

The incident revitalized the “Black Lives Matter” movement, bringing unrest to many American cities. Race relations suffered a decline from which they have not recovered.

The Obama Justice Department found Brown had not been murdered, that he probably attacked Wilson first, concluding Officer Wilson’s use of force could not be described as “objectively unreasonable.” ”

When a grand jury likewise declined to induct Wilson, a riot ensued, damaging many Ferguson minority-owned businesses. The neighborhood has struggled ever since.

Warren tweeted last Friday:

"5 years ago Michael Brown was murdered by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. Michael was unarmed yet he was shot 6 times. I stand with activists and organizers who continue the fight for justice for Michael. We must confront systemic racism and police violence head on."

The Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association wrote Warren, “Your reckless tweet will only serve to create hatred towards Police Officers and place them in danger of more assaults and perhaps death.”

Asked if she still thought Brown was “murdered,” Warren refused to retract her claim or to apologize:

"What happened is that a man was shot — an unarmed man, in the middle of the street, by police officers, and left to die. And I think that’s where our focus should be. It is the fifth anniversary of that occurring, and we need to talk about how to make real change in this country. "

[Renkluaf]

Fauxcohontas has much experience defending false claims.

[Brown Deer]

Fauxcohontas has much experience defending false claims unsuccessfully.

[Phil DiBasquette]

Psychojawea - dangerously stupid

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

A senator can say what s/he wants, in the Senate (altho the fact that the Senate is televised actually makes that problematic, in that such senator is virtually “in” the TV viewers’ homes, as well as physically in the capitol building).

But a Senator who goes to a public event and lie about the officer who found it necessary to fire at someone, and who was acquitted, is exposed to a suit for slander.

The New York Times v. Sullivan 1964 SCOTUS decision is used to protect members of the journalism cartel from libel suits by Republican - but I can’t conceive that Senators have a right to libel private citizens.

[Jumper]

The inflammatory speech of the democrats may one day transport them to a time and place where it is not the mentally ill or politically motivated that use guns to kill, but otherwise rational people who see the only logical consequence of this type rhetoric that forces the capture by force or murder of their own kind in order to separate this cancer from the host.