Friday, August 15, 2014

Has Jesse Jackson ever defended a black from a black?

Rev. Jesse Jackson: Like a ‘state execution’
By: Jonathan Topaz
August 15, 2014
Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson on Friday likened the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by a Ferguson police officer to a “state execution.”
“[H]ow many times was he shot?” Jackson asked on MSNBC, in a series of rhetorical questions about Brown. “And where was he shot? And why was he lying in the street for several hours? That was kind of a state execution.”
He went on to link Brown’s killing with other incidents of unarmed black men killed by police, including 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida in 2012 and 22-year-old Oscar Grant in California in 2009. “There’s a pattern of this behavior.”
Jackson called for a White House policy aimed to combat problems that plague black urban communities. In a USA Today op-ed published earlier this week, he argued that the urban middle class like that in Ferguson is “under economic assault.”
He also offered praise for State Highway Patrol Capt. Ron Johnson, whom Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon dispatched to take over security operations in Ferguson. “I really want to say Capt. Ron Johnson has made himself eligible to be the next police chief of Ferguson,” Jackson said. “He has handled himself in such a way that he has brought calm to a very chaotic situation.”
On Thursday evening, Johnson was seen marching with protesters and embracing some in hugs, a marked contrast from the night prior when St. Louis County police forces used tear gas and had armored vehicles, riot gear and sniper rifles.

Since he only shows up when a white is involved it's easy to assume he has a grudge and an appetite for extortion..

Democrat Mayors like Rahm Emmanuel are excluded from attack. The murder rate there is as we know pretty horrific. But Republican Mayors like Rudy Juliana who reduced the murder rate in NYC from the highs of David Dinkins to the lows that existed at the end of the Bloomberg administration was lambasted repeatedly by Jackson. He called Rudy all kinds of things but to this day never thanked him for all the lives saved. Jackson never to my recollection said anything negative about David Dinkins handling of the NYC crime statistics.

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