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Fireworks Fly When Megyn Kelly Challenges ‘Hands Up’ Congressman With Ferguson Facts – Video
…a heated exchange with one of the members of the Congressional Black Caucus…
Norvell Rose / Western Journalism
The “hands up, don’t shoot” phrase and gesture has become a symbol for Ferguson protestors as well as the liberal lawmakers, sports figures, political commentators and media agitators who support and defend them.
However, as many people point out, the grand jury doubted that Michael Brown, in fact, had his hands up in a “don’t shoot” posture of surrender to police officer Darren Wilson, based on the testimony and evidence presented.
Critics of the use of the controversial phrase say that it essentially calls into question the integrity of law enforcement as well as the American legal system, promoting a cancerous distrust between the races.
Conservative economist Thomas Sowell, who is African American, goes so far as to say the “hands up, don’t shoot” narrative is being promoted for purely political reasons in a way that reminds him of Nazi propaganda.
In a Fox News interview, Dr. Sowell said:
I thought of Joseph Goebbels’ doctrine, people will believe any lie if it’s repeated often enough and loud enough.
They’re repeating it often enough and loud enough. And it will pay off for them personally and politically.
People who are out to forward their political careers say and do things that have no relationship whatever to reality or to anybody else’s interests but their own.
Read more & watch video at Western Journalism:
I THINK IT WILL RAISE AWARENESS AND SHAME VIOLENT COPS TO THROW UP OUR HANDS EVERY TIME WE SEE ONE. EVERY SINGLE TIME.