By Christopher Tremoglie
Saturday, August 10, 2019
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
yesterday tweeted:
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.
This is an outright lie, one day after Warren complained
of the dangers of rhetoric.
Michael Brown was not murdered. Michael Brown was shot by
officer Darren Wilson in an act of self-defense. This is why the grand jury
declined to indict Wilson for murder or manslaughter, and it was also the
conclusion of the Obama administration’s Department of Justice.
“Every police officer in America should be offended by Sen.
Warren’s ill-informed, inflammatory tweet today,” Jeff Roorda of the St. Louis
Police Officers Association told me via email. “Holding a would-be cop killer
out as some sort of victim or worse yet, a hero, does no justice to the truth
or to reconciliation. Her careless words disqualify her from fitness to serve
impartially as commander-in-chief.”
“I was a Democratic Missouri State Represenative for 8
years,” Roorda also wrote. “But, I’m sick of uninformed members of my party
attacking cops. It’s just wrong.”
Attempts to
contact Senator Warren’s campaign by phone and email were not returned.
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