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Hannity Gets Schooled By Criminal Defense Attorney About Police Brutality

Posted by Ellen -7859.80pc on May 05, 2015 · Flag

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Sean Hannity got quite an earful about police brutality from criminal defense attorney Rebecca Nitkin – and "tough guy" Hannity couldn’t take it.

The pretext for the discussion was the tragic death of NYPD officer Brian Moore who was shot and killed in the line of duty. Rather than honor Officer Moore’s life, Hannity exploited it to denigrate #BlackLivesMatter protesters.

Hannity attacked the protesters for not protesting Moore’s death. “Where’s the outrage for the tragic loss of this life?” Hannity complained. “Everybody wants to just race out there and condemn the cops.”

So where was Hannity’s and Fox News’ outrage when, after promoting Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s armed insurrection against federal law enforcers, a Bundy supporter executed two Las Vegas police officers? Answer: nowhere to be found.

Fox's ubiquitous Sheriff David Clarke was on hand again for this discussion. Clarke complained that “cops lives don’t matter” to the public. Then he suggested that maybe black lives don’t matter, that African Americans should just accept being killed by the police and shut up about it.

CLARKE: In one of those rare instances when a law enforcement officer has to use force to defend himself or the life of somebody else and takes the life of a black individual, you know, all of a sudden the sky is falling.

Next came Nitkin. She was hardly a wild-eyed liberal. She agreed with Hannity that the Maryland prosecutor “overstepped her bounds,” “overcharged these officers and rushed to judgment.” Nitkin also said, “Most of America is not thrilled with these demonstrations” and “most of us are extremely sick of Al Sharpton and the civil rights attorney who come preaching their stories which are usually inaccurate and then we’re sick of the violence that then comes with it.”

But then there was this:

NITKIN: I’m in Montgomery County (MD). I am dealing with police abuse every single day. I have a case tomorrow, I brought a picture of my gentleman whose face is bashed in, his lip is gone, his eyes are crushed. The jail wouldn’t even take him. They made the police bring him back to the hospital. And the report says he beat up five police officers and then he flung himself off of the stairs. Even though his legs are all scratched up from being dragged down the stairs. I can go on and on.

She also told of two jury trials she had conducted pro bono on behalf of other brutality victims. “It used to be that cops were wonderful. I love them all,” Nitkin said. “And it is heartbreaking for someone who’s a true believer, whose Dad’s a Marine, who loved police officers, that they don’t protect and serve any more. They look at you, they order you…”

Hannity became agitated. He never allowed Nitkin to speak without being interrupted again. He accused her of “making money off of this.” As if he wasn’t.

But Nitkin was not about to be intimidated. “Every time a police officer is killed, it is heartbreaking. But the one thing is, they have their support. Sean, there’s hundreds of police officers that line up and support the police officer. …I have six dead (civilian) bodies in Montgomery County. Not one person protested.”

It was devastating commentary and Hannity knew it. He quickly ended the segment.

Watch it below, from the May 4 Hannity.

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Oliver Hakim commented 2015-07-28 19:47:44 -0400 · Flag
Hannity was right about one thing though. Nitkin made an incredibly broad statement. “They don’t protect us anymore”. That is saying that all cops do not protect. Which is completely false. I do believe that her cases dealing with police abuse are real and those officers are clearly in violation of their job. However, simply because of her experience dealing with police misconduct, she makes a very broad, anti-police statement, “They don’t protect us anymore”. When she’s too dumb and ignorant to realize that it’s the cases that she’s dealing with and what’s shown in the news that involve police brutality. Not every cop in the U.S. If she meant to say that the police in Montgomery County don’t protect as much, then I would agree with her. But that’s not what she said, it could’ve been what she meant, but worded it horribly and really needs to work on her communication skills. Hannity did not get schooled. Hannity was talking about the death of an officer, she was talking about police misconduct in Montgomery County that she personally deals with. How in the fuck is that getting schooled? That was simply just a poorly engaged debate. Two people arguing about two irrelevant subjects. Now I understand that why people may say they’re relevant to each other. They’re both about police, except one side’s trying to honor an officer’s life, the other’s complaining about the police abuse cases that she personally deals with in Montgomery County. They were trying to argue about pro-police and anti-police. But that was just an incredibly shitty way of debating those topics.
Anne-claire Souza commented 2015-05-06 12:59:46 -0400 · Flag
This is classic KKKlannity.
Ellen commented 2015-05-05 23:30:05 -0400 · Flag
John McKee, I do not get why liberals don’t do this as a matter of course. I will say that one guest, Malik Shabazz, did have the guts to confront Hannity on his association with white supremacist Hal Bergen. http://www.newshounds.us/2008/03/20/hannity_denies_past_association_with_white_supremacist_but_evidence_suggests_otherwise.php

Shabazz wound up on Hannity again a week or so ago, during the Baltimore violence. One of the Fox reporters on the scene brought him on the air. I thought Hannity would plots, but he didn’t say anything.
Kyle Dorfdorfendorf commented 2015-05-05 17:10:20 -0400 · Flag
“….that’s swept over the rug.”
????????
Bob Roberts commented 2015-05-05 14:31:18 -0400 · Flag
Antoinette, I called up four different right-wing AM radio talk shows, including Klannity’s, within two days of the execution of the two Las Vegas police officers by two members of the Bundy protest. Not one of the four call screeners would put me on the air. Two of them said, at least, that the host(s) weren’t discussing it right now. I came back with, “Well, let’s start a discussion right now about it.” One of them actually sighed, I guess he had been getting calls about it most of the show and was under orders not to bring anyone on to talk about it. Klannity’s call screener told me to call back when he was talking about it (he was doing his usual Obama sucks schtick). Then hung up on me. Of course, he never talked about the two officers once, on radio or TV.

I too love his “We gotta run” whenever he is getting schooled. Don’t his guests understand not to get off the script?? Slanthead doesn’t do ad-lib very well.
Brian McGill commented 2015-05-05 12:01:26 -0400 · Flag
She kicked Hannity’s ass. “We gotta run!” Every time Fox wants to say something that would be considered racist if a white person says it, they bring on a black guy to say it for them.
Antoinette commented 2015-05-05 02:54:06 -0400 · Flag
Since Race Bait Hannocchio refuses to bring up Cliven Bundy supporters killing cops in Nevada, the Stop Hannity Express encourages all the masses to call every radio talk show and remind the conservatives masses of these murders. Use a copy of the article to back up claims.

No love for officers

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/13/nevada-bundy-cattle-ranch-armed-protesters

The link includes a bonus photo of an armed protesters pointing his weapon at law enforcement.

Remind everyone in the streets, 24/7 about Bundy and his armed supporters.

Given his thuggish and fetish history, Hannocchio is in no position to call anyone out. His elderly fans are unaware of his TRUE personality. The one he keeps hidden from the public. He’s not the saint he portrays on television, and he knows it. This cafeteria Catholic has broken most of the Ten Commandments.
John McKee commented 2015-05-05 02:27:59 -0400 · Flag
I do wish one of the gutsier spokesliberals would drop the despicable Cliven Bundy’s connection with the even more despicable Hannity into the conversation.

Or the waterboard promise. Or his execrable mate ‘Come to a taping. Bring your boy!’ from Bergen. Or his cosy little arrangement with traitorous felon North whereby they both soaked the rubes (and the talent) through those (pewk!) ‘Freedom’ Concerts.
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