Showing posts with label Chokehold. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chokehold. Show all posts

Monday, January 5, 2015

Who needs facts? We've got "reporters"

January 05, 2015 Chokehold , Darren Wilson 0 Comments
LA Times's Matt Pearce Joins Parade Of Brown-Wilson Evidence Distorters

Tom Blumer, Jan. 4, 2015, Newsbusters

In the final three paragraphs of a "Year in Review" item at the Los Angeles Times on December 31 (HT Patterico), reporter Matt Pearce joined the long list of journalists who have failed to properly characterize the evidence in Michael Brown's death in Ferguson, Missouri in August. You had to know that distortions were coming based on the rest of the article content which preceded it. The most obvious giveaway was Pearce's description of Eric Garner's death on Staten Island.

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Monday, December 15, 2014

"illegal" and "out of policy" are two different things

December 15, 2014 Al Sharpton , Chokehold 0 Comments
Sharpton Spews Demonstrable Lie Police Chokehold Illegal

Jack Coleman, Dec. 7, 2014, Newsbusters

In what imaginary world does it make any sense that advice is sought from an arsonist on putting out fires?

There was Sharpton on Meet the Press this morning, duly armed with kerosene, doing his part to make matters worse in the aftermath of a Staten Island grand jury deciding against indicting a New York City police officer in the death of Eric Garner last July in a so-called chokehold.

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Monday, August 11, 2014

"Commissioner Sharpton"?

August 11, 2014 Bill de Blasio , Chokehold 0 Comments
Police-Mayor Tensions Mount Over Chokehold Death

NY Police Commissioner William J. Bratton,
Rev. Al Sharpton and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio
Source:  www.newsday.com
Credit:  AP
By Tom Hays, Aug. 9, 2014, Abcnews.go.com

Police have become increasingly at odds with Mayor Bill de Blasio over the appearance he is taking sides against them after the chokehold death of a black suspect last month — a conflict that has prompted the city's top law enforcement official to do damage control by calling the mayor "very pro-cop."

What angered many was a recent forum in which the Rev. Al Sharpton, one of the biggest critics of the New York Police Department, was seated alongside the mayor, a liberal Democrat, and the police commissioner as he lambasted law enforcement and suggested the mayor's mixed-race son would be a "candidate for a chokehold" if he were an ordinary New Yorker. The image was seized on by critics of the administration and plastered on the cover of the New York Post with the headline "Who's the Boss!"

"It is outrageously insulting to all police officers to say that we go out on our streets to choke all people of color as Al Sharpton stated while seated at the table right next to our mayor at City Hall," said Patrick Lynch, head of the powerful Patrolmen's Benevolent Association. Another union official, Ed Mullins of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, hinted at a work slowdown at the nation's largest police department.

Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani even weighed in, saying in a radio interview that de Blasio made a "big mistake ... setting up a press conference like that and putting a police commissioner in that situation. That's extremely damaging to the police commissioner, to keep up the morale of the police."

In recent days, emails have circulated among police officers showing a mock identification card with a picture of Sharpton and the title "Police Commissioner." The activist has shot back by claiming he has the ear of federal officials who have the authority to bring civil rights charges in the death of Eric Garner.

"It is time to have a mature conversation about policing rather than immature name calling and childish attempts to scapegoat," Sharpton said in a statement.

Police Commissioner William Bratton responded to the uproar by giving a series of interviews Friday defending his department's record on race and de Blasio's attitude toward the department.

"We are not a racist organization," Bratton told The Associated Press. "And I will challenge anybody despite their perceptions of police on that issue. This is a department that goes where the problems are — whether it's crime or disorder."

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