Posted on 08/17/2014 4:26:13 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
President Barack Obama's mentor and Harvard Law professor Charles Ogletree said Darren Wilson, the officer who reportedly shot and killed Michael Brown, should be arrested.
"I think the first thing that needs to happen [is] we need to arrest Officer Wilson," he said on Meet the Press. "He shot and killed a man, shot him multiple times. And he's walking free. No one knows anything about him, no one knows why he did it. We need to have that done, number one."
Ogletree made his remarks while agreeing with substitute host Andrea Mitchell that nobody really has all of the facts regarding the shooting. Witnesses have said the officer gunned down Michael Brown in cold blood after Brown put his hands up to surrender. Another witness claimed he saw Brown "double back" and charge at the officers before he was gunned down.
Ogletree also said that the residents of Ferguson, Missouri, should learn from Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) and engage in non-violent protests. Ogletree described Lewis as someone who "was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge" and "was a young, nonviolent person, and still believes in nonviolence."
"I think that his message has to be listened to by not just seniors but young people who were wondering, 'What am I going to do?'" Ogletree said. "Because they're coming out. They're very angry. And they're going to be mad until something happens to make that change."
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if they keep raising such a ruckus everytime a black is killed by a white or Hispanic (police), there will be no people (police) other than blacks in black areas..let me change that there will be no (police) in black areas yeah that’s the ticket
Wow, Meet the Press has surely fallen a long way. Nonsensical.
To arrest someone, don't you still need to charge the man?
The cop wasn’t arrested because the autopsy cleared him. Release the results of the autopsies.
Ogletree, aren’t you smart enough to know the cop has already given his statement and report a dozen times but it’s really none of your business what he said so shut up. You already know plenty about him because the msm leaked his entire story, his address, his SS number, his wife’s name, and that a few months ago he was given an honorary award. And, no, he’s not roaming the streets free as a bird or he’d have attacked on sight. So, again, SHUT UP!
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- Now we see what their heads have been dipped in…
- This is HAMAS and Iraq in - spades…
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I'm not sure that the profession is allowed to do it, but the police brotherhood should have been VERY vocal over the attempted railroading of George Zimmerman.
That was a dry run for this type of incident. Now the shoe is on the other foot.
Normally, I'm very critical of the police, but it's looking like "a good shoot".
“...No one knows anything about him, no one knows why he did it...”
Ogletard acted stupidly.
Being a stupid professor should be a felony.
How many legitimate law school professors started their careers at Harvard Law School?
Other facts were in play.
While we're at it, let's point a finger at Stanford as well. Ogletree has two degrees from Stanford and was on the Stanford Board of Trustees.
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