Only the grand jury hearing testimony in the Ferguson, Missouri case had all the facts about what happened when a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed black teenager who attacked him, according to Rep. Peter King of New York.
“This is false equivalency between Michael Brown, who was a thug on one hand, and Officer Darren Wilson, who had an unblemished record as a police officer,” King said on
Newsmax TV's "America's Forum" on Wednesday.
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“He (Wilson) never fired his weapon before and yet, we were supposed to accept the fact that a cop who never fired his gun before suddenly in the middle of the day, in the middle of the town, is going to empty his revolver into a young man who meant no ill will to anyone?”
King said he kept mum on commenting on the case until the grand jury reached its conclusion because he wanted to hear the facts.
He derided members of the Congressional Black Caucus who took to the House floor this week with a
“hands up, don’t shoot” posture, calling their actions “totally inexcusable and wrong.”
“We're leaders in Congress and we can have honest differences about policy,” King said. “In this case, we know this is not true. The grand jury rejected it. There's absolutely no evidence to believe at all that his hands were up. That demeans the civil rights movement and it takes away from honest protest. You can see why people are driven to violence for four months when leaders have been telling them that African-Americans are being shot dead on the streets for no reason.”
The New York Police Department is awaiting a grand jury’s decision there about whether to indict a white police officer in the
chokehold death of a black man suspected of selling illegal, untaxed cigarettes last summer.
Law enforcement’s greatest concern there is said to be whether Mayor Bill de Blasio will support them in their efforts to curb any unrest following a decision.
“They operate under a handicap right now in that Bill de Blasio is an extremely liberal, left wing mayor and tries to hold the police back,” King said.
“Al Sharpton has direct access to the police department and to the mayor. If any police department can handle services that is the NYPD. Cops on the street are afraid if there is an incident that occurs, which gets highlighted in the media, is the mayor going to stand with them? Is the mayor going to defend the cops? If a cop is not going into something knowing that he has 100 percent support, human nature holds back a bit.”
“There's this false equivalency when the mayor says we have to improve relations between the community and the police,” he said. “In New York, no one has done more to protect the lives of African-American youth than the NYPD. Since Rudy Giuliani became the mayor back in 1993-1994, the total murders have gone down from 2,200 to 300 and the overwhelming majority of murders have been carried out in the African-American community.”
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