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Sharpton praises South Carolina mayor where officer shot black man

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Civil rights leader Reverend Al Sharpton on Sunday praised the mayor of a South Carolina town where a white patrolman was charged with murder after the fatal shooting of a black man and said that other officers there should face charges.

Read the article here: http://news.yahoo.com/sharpto-preach-south-carolina-town-where-officer-shot-150058652.html

Al Sharpton has never been one of my favorite people, but I do believe that he said a few good things in this case.

Judge for yourself.
 
What was done is what should be done, regardless of racial identity of victim or officer.
 
What was done is what should be done, regardless of racial identity of victim or officer.



As I understand it, that's basically the gist of what Sharpton said, which was surprisingly moderate coming from him. That's why I posted this thread.

Maybe the man has learned something.
 
As I understand it, that's basically the gist of what Sharpton said, which was surprisingly moderate coming from him. That's why I posted this thread.

Maybe the man has learned something.



One can hope.
 
Civil rights leader Reverend Al Sharpton on Sunday praised the mayor of a South Carolina town where a white patrolman was charged with murder after the fatal shooting of a black man and said that other officers there should face charges.

Read the article here: http://news.yahoo.com/sharpto-preach-south-carolina-town-where-officer-shot-150058652.html

Al Sharpton has never been one of my favorite people, but I do believe that he said a few good things in this case.

Judge for yourself.

It is a tough call. Saying a few good things in this case is one thing, but in the balance is so many other things he has said over the years for all sorts of events and issues. For this case it is somewhat refreshing to see Sharpton praise these actions but I agree with Goshin, the actions were warranted and would be still be warranted no matter the race of the officer or victim.

I do think though that Sharpton went to far with his statements. From your article, Sharpton said it seemed providential that "way down in South Carolina, where we are still protesting the Confederate flag, that in the Deep South, a mayor and police chief did what we couldn't get mayors in the North and the Midwest to do." These are not apples to apples comparison cases here where we can blanket say all these events should have been handled the way the South Carolina case was.

When you read all of what Sharpton says about these things you end up with a sense of ideology trumping reality for what really happened for each of these events. We have no choice but to take issue with these generalities, which means taking issue with Sharpton's usual habit of ensuring a conclusion for his own benefit.
 
As I understand it, that's basically the gist of what Sharpton said, which was surprisingly moderate coming from him. That's why I posted this thread.

Maybe the man has learned something.


Maybe the family telling Sharpton to stay home because they didn't want him there had something to do with his subdued response.
 
I
t is a tough call. Saying a few good things in this case is one thing, but in the balance is so many other things he has said over the years for all sorts of events and issues.
For this case it is somewhat refreshing to see Sharpton praise these actions but I agree with Goshin, the actions were warranted and would be still be warranted no matter the race of the officer or victim.

I do think though that Sharpton went to far with his statements. From your article, Sharpton said it seemed providential that "way down in South Carolina, where we are still protesting the Confederate flag, that in the Deep South, a mayor and police chief did what we couldn't get mayors in the North and the Midwest to do." These are not apples to apples comparison cases here where we can blanket say all these events should have been handled the way the South Carolina case was.

When you read all of what Sharpton says about these things you end up with a sense of ideology trumping reality for what really happened for each of these events. We have no choice but to take issue with these generalities, which means taking issue with Sharpton's usual habit of ensuring a conclusion for his own benefit.


I totally agree.
 
It is a tough call. Saying a few good things in this case is one thing, but in the balance is so many other things he has said over the years for all sorts of events and issues. For this case it is somewhat refreshing to see Sharpton praise these actions but I agree with Goshin, the actions were warranted and would be still be warranted no matter the race of the officer or victim.

I do think though that Sharpton went to far with his statements. From your article, Sharpton said it seemed providential that "way down in South Carolina, where we are still protesting the Confederate flag, that in the Deep South, a mayor and police chief did what we couldn't get mayors in the North and the Midwest to do." These are not apples to apples comparison cases here where we can blanket say all these events should have been handled the way the South Carolina case was.

When you read all of what Sharpton says about these things you end up with a sense of ideology trumping reality for what really happened for each of these events. We have no choice but to take issue with these generalities, which means taking issue with Sharpton's usual habit of ensuring a conclusion for his own benefit.



I agree. What Sharpton is saying in that statement is that the only action he would accept in any of these cases is a murder charge, regardless of the evidence.
 
I agree. What Sharpton is saying in that statement is that the only action he would accept in any of these cases is a murder charge, regardless of the evidence.
I haven't followed too closely the last couple of days...is there evidence which shows the cop didn't murder the unarmed black person who was running away from him?
 
I haven't followed too closely the last couple of days...is there evidence which shows the cop didn't murder the unarmed black person who was running away from him?

You miss the point. Sharpton is comparing the SC shooting with the Ferguson shooting and saying that SC did the right thing and Ferguson didn't. He ignores the fact that the reason Ferguson ended differently was because the narrative pushed by Sharpton and the race hustlers in Ferguson was a lie.
 
What was done is what should be done, regardless of racial identity of victim or officer.

It was also done (with only slight differences) in Ferguson, MO (Brown) and in NYC (Garner) - both of those cases were presented to a grand jury which decided not to indict. What Sharpton feils to grasp is that what a grand jury (eventually) decides to do (or not do) has little to do with the mayor. One big difference in the SC case is that the officer(s) involved could be immediately terminated without any union hoops to jump through.
 
As I understand it, that's basically the gist of what Sharpton said, which was surprisingly moderate coming from him. That's why I posted this thread.

Maybe the man has learned something.

A leopard can't change his spots, and Al Sharpton is still and will always be a low life, race baiting criminal.
 
A leopard can't change his spots, and
Al Sharpton is still and will always be a low life, race baiting criminal.



Maybe so,but I'm going to wait a while before I pass final judgement on this guy.

In any case, I doubt that he'll ever be one of my favorite people. :roll:
 
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