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Fox’s Mark Fuhrman Blames Obama Admin For Police Shootings In Ferguson

Posted by Ellen -7835.60pc on March 12, 2015 · Flag

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Tragically, two police officers have been shot in Ferguson, Missouri tonight. Fox News went live with, among others, Mark Fuhrman. Sure enough, he blamed the Obama administration – by suggesting they had catered too much to a thuggish community.

As I’ve written previously, it’s a slap in the face of African Americans for Fox to call on Fuhrman in any racially sensitive story. But Fox does this repeatedly. For those not familiar with Fuhrman's past:

During the 1995 murder trial of O.J. Simpson, the defense produced a tape of Fuhrman, who collected evidence in the case, using the word n*****more than 40 times over a 10 year period. The person who made the tape said Fuhrman used the slur “in a very casual ordinary pattern of speech. It was nothing extraordinary. It was just conversation.” During the O.J. Simpson trial, a number of other witnesses testified that Fuhrman was a racist. Fuhrman, who testified during the trial that he had not used a racial slur in the past 10 years, pled no contest to perjury charges and was sentenced to three years of probation.

On Fox tonight, host Jackie Ibanez spoke to Fuhrman over the phone. Fuhrman didn’t name President Obama or Attorney General Eric Holder as he pointed the finger at “federal influence” but it was clear whom he meant:

FUHRMAN: Once the Michael Brown shooting occurred, you had a bunch of politicians. You had federal agents, you had federal agencies, you had federal influence, you had political influence that tried to come up with a new game plan for the same old game.

And the same old game is people that are breaking the law and they’re vandalizing property, they’re injuring people, they’re injuring officers, you have to take control of that. And they have hesitated to do that.

And you know, the unfortunate part about this whole situation is there were people in the know that knew from the first day what this investigation was actually revealing and exactly what the forensics stated and exactly what the officer stated and the witnesses and they gave a vast majority of the public, if not this nation, a false hope, an unreasonable hope that Officer Wilson would be indicted for the shooting of Michael Brown and they knew on the onset that would not happen. And then the civil rights violation, the same is true. They knew that that bar being higher, if they couldn’t reach the first bar, they certainly couldn’t reach the second. And then, unfortunately, people expected something to happen and they’re angry.

But Fuhrman left out a few important points about the federal investigation. Holder started the federal investigation partly to calm the waters in Ferguson – and he succeeded. But more importantly, his federal investigation uncovered serious, systemic wrongdoing.

From The New York Times:

The report gave credence to many of the grievances aired last year by African-Americans in angry, sometimes violent protests after the deadly police shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old. Though the Justice Department separately concluded that the officer, Darren Wilson, who is white, violated no federal laws in that shooting, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said investigations revealed the root of the rage that brought people into the streets.

“Seen in this context — amid a highly toxic environment, defined by mistrust and resentment, stoked by years of bad feelings, and spurred by illegal and misguided practices — it is not difficult to imagine how a single tragic incident set off the city of Ferguson like a powder keg,” Mr. Holder said.

In other words, the community's resentment and rage go deeper than the shooting death of Michael Brown and they certainly go deeper than any disappointment over a possible indictment. The fact that Fuhrman either deliberately ignored or deceptively failed to mention those findings suggests he hasn’t changed much in all these years.

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Bob Harrow commented 2015-03-13 05:36:22 -0400 · Flag
Furman spent his life livin up to oj racist rants. Lost that case. Thank fckn christ for fox neuuse. What a fckwit. I love obama. Eat poo loser…
Antoinette commented 2015-03-12 20:59:01 -0400 · Flag
Read Hannocchio’s Facebook page to see the ignorance of his elderly viewers. These people are beyond insane.
Aria Prescott commented 2015-03-12 17:07:02 -0400 · Flag
@steve: Was it Stewart or Colbert who said that the only way to stop making it Clinton’s fault was for them to find a way to make it black people’s fault?
Steve St John commented 2015-03-12 15:33:47 -0400 · Flag
It’s Obama’s fault? Whatever. Isn’t everything these days? Just like everything that went wrong in the 90s was Clinton’s fault. This point has been made many times before, but it’s amazing how the “party of personal responsibility” is so good at blaming others for things.
Aria Prescott commented 2015-03-12 14:26:01 -0400 · Flag
Conservative logic on shooters:

White shooters= Troubled individual who acted alone, and does not represent anyone but themselves.

Black shooters= Hate-filled racist thugs, from a racist thug culture, and we need to rein them in by force.

On a side note, I wonder how many white people in Ferguson do whatever the hell they want, because they know conservatives will blame black people, and may even show the video of a different crime.
Sandman2 commented 2015-03-12 11:36:21 -0400 · Flag
With apologies to the family’s of the Police Officers who were shot, but, there’s an old Biblical saying “Reap what you sew.”
That said, I don’t want anyone killed for any reason on our streets.
truman commented 2015-03-12 10:37:44 -0400 · Flag
Years of systemic racism enforced by cracker cops. All boiling over now. Obvious to everyone despite the spins of MarKKK Fuhrerman and Fux Noise.
Brian McGill commented 2015-03-12 09:38:03 -0400 · Flag
Funny, I thought the shooter was always to blame. Not the gun, or society, but the shooter alone. Seems the right will drop their heartfelt convictions when it’s convenient to bash Obama.
Anita Hall commented 2015-03-12 09:02:41 -0400 · Flag
Those poor racist, hypocritical morons ~ guess they didn’t start at the beginning [several thousand years ago] ~ “So God created man in his own image”. I have searched and searched and searched & have yet to find where HE is described as “white”! A little help here, please. Thank you.
NewsHounds posted about Fox’s Mark Fuhrman Blames Obama Admin For Police Shootings In Ferguson on NewsHounds' Facebook page 2015-03-12 07:51:35 -0400
Fuhrman ignored Ferguson's institutional problems uncovered by the DOJ - and proved he hasn't changed much since the O.J. Simpson days.








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