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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFox News Brings On Infamous Racist To Discuss Alton Sterling’s Death
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/07/07/3796170/fox-has-infamous-racist-discuss-sterlings-death/On Wednesday, the world woke to a scene that is all too familiar in America: A black man, Alton Sterling, was shot and killed by the police (an alarm tragically repeated again on Thursday). A cellphone video shows Sterling pinned to the ground beneath two police officers when he is shot several times at point-blank range.
Protesters immediately gathered outside the convenience store where Sterling was killed. Outrage has mounted online; his death has been called a murder, an assassination, and a lynching. The Department of Justice announced that they would open a civil rights investigation into the case.
Fox News, meanwhile, invited on Mark Fuhrman, who first came to national attention when he was exposed as a blatant racist during the O.J. Simpson trial. Fuhrman argued that Sterling deserved his death.
So they go there, and when you watch the escalation of force, first they verbalized, and he failed to comply with the verbal commands, Fuhrman said. They actually de-escalated the force that they could have used by tackling and then trying to grapple with the suspect.
Protesters immediately gathered outside the convenience store where Sterling was killed. Outrage has mounted online; his death has been called a murder, an assassination, and a lynching. The Department of Justice announced that they would open a civil rights investigation into the case.
Fox News, meanwhile, invited on Mark Fuhrman, who first came to national attention when he was exposed as a blatant racist during the O.J. Simpson trial. Fuhrman argued that Sterling deserved his death.
So they go there, and when you watch the escalation of force, first they verbalized, and he failed to comply with the verbal commands, Fuhrman said. They actually de-escalated the force that they could have used by tackling and then trying to grapple with the suspect.
I really hate this man. Anyone who watched the OJ Made in America Documentary could see what a complete ass he is. And of course Fox News would bring him on - why not!! That channel sickens me.
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Fox News Brings On Infamous Racist To Discuss Alton Sterling’s Death (Original Post)
RockaFowler
Jul 2016
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Else You Are Mad
(3,040 posts)1. What Furhman is saying...
Is that Sterling committed the only crime that is 100% of the time punishable by death: Disobeying a police officer while being black.
Furhman is one of the most despicable people I have ever heard on any news network.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)2. Uggh! Fuck FoxNews.
These are very upsetting times.
Initech
(100,079 posts)3. Furhman is persona non grata here in California.
Fuck that guy.