Ferguson's chief of police should never have apologized for the shooting of Michael Brown, which touched riots in the predominantly African-American suburb of St. Louis, Mo., radio host Kevin Jackson says.
"You never apologize. He didn't pull the trigger, he has to back his cop [who shot Brown] and say I believe that my police officer acted correctly," Jackson said Monday on "The Steve Malzberg Show" on
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"[He has to say] if we need to get to the bottom of it, we will get to the bottom of it and if he did do something incorrectly, he'll be punished. But I'm not apologizing. I'm not apologizing for the condition of the society that we live in."
Last week, Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson offered an apology to the parents of Brown, an unarmed black teenager shot by a white cop.
But Brown's parents, Lesley McSpadden and Michael Brown Sr., instead rejected the apology in an interview with The Associated Press on Saturday.
"By the way, one of Chief Jackson's cops got shot recently because he was stopping a crime in progress. Nobody has said it, but it was two black guys that he was stopping and one of his cops got shot," said Jackson, author of
"The BIG Black Lie: How I Learned The Truth About The Democrat Party."
"You're not going to see [the Rev.] Jesse Jackson coming in, you're not going to see the federal government … rolling in to talk about crime.
"[Attorney General] Eric Holder talks about the idea that he's leaving as a civil rights activist … But what Eric Holder is failing to mention is all the black-on-black crime that he's done nothing about."
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