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Sharpton defends Foxx on Smollett case by hammering Mayor Emanuel on Laquan McDonald shooting
Chicago Tribune ^ | 3/30/19 | Bill Ruthhart

Posted on 03/30/2019 2:30:17 PM PDT by Libloather

The Rev. Al Sharpton portrayed Mayor Rahm Emanuel as a hypocrite Saturday for criticizing Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s handling of the Jussie Smollett case when the mayor long was silent on the police murder of Laquan McDonald.

**SNIP**

“The reason this is of national significance to me, there is a marked difference between how they reacted to this and how they reacted to the Laquan McDonald case. They were not outraged when the video was withheld until after the mayor’s election,” Sharpton said of Emanuel, police Superintendent Eddie Johnson and other top police officials. “There was a fox in the henhouse then, but the fox wasn’t Kim then. The name of that fox was whoever was in the mayor’s race.”

Emanuel spokesman Matt McGrath said, “This isn’t worthy of a response.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: alsharpton; chicago; cookcounty; emanuel; empire; foxx; georgesoros; illinois; jussiesmollett; kimfoxx; laquanmcdonald; lorilightfoot; mattmcgrath; michelleobama; rahmemanuel; sharpton; smollett; tonipreckwinkle
You just knew it would happen. The Rev doesn't keep his mouth shut for very long.

Full title - Rev. Al Sharpton defends Kim Foxx on Jussie Smollett case by hammering Mayor Emanuel on Laquan McDonald shooting

1 posted on 03/30/2019 2:30:17 PM PDT by Libloather
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When your enemies are busy destroying themselves, get out of the way...


2 posted on 03/30/2019 2:35:58 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: Libloather

Both the gay ballerina and the race Hustler are both part of the act are both lying. This is just all part of Clive Piven strategy. All run by Valerie Jarrett and Obama.


3 posted on 03/30/2019 2:39:45 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (But the noble man makes noble plans, and by noble deeds they stand. Isaiah 32:8)
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To: CincyRichieRich

Indeed. This whole incident is filled with bad acting. There is no sincere outrage here at all. It’s just people reading their lines in accordance with the role that has been assigned to them. Pathetic.


4 posted on 03/30/2019 2:51:52 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: CincyRichieRich

Cloward-Piven?


5 posted on 03/30/2019 3:01:42 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: traderrob6

“Cloward-Piven?”

Yes.


6 posted on 03/30/2019 3:15:49 PM PDT by dljordan
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To: Libloather

A prosecutor threatening to prosecute to extract money is unethical, and might even be a crime. It’s similar to the crime of compounding.


7 posted on 03/30/2019 3:17:58 PM PDT by Spok
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To: Libloather

More popcorn.


8 posted on 03/30/2019 3:21:58 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Libloather

I guess the rock flipped off him when money/crisis occurred. My history was 3 days


9 posted on 03/30/2019 3:48:20 PM PDT by keving (We the government)
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To: Libloather

One question for these reverends, the men of the cloth:

How do Sharpton and Rev. Jackson have time to prayerfully and reverently prepare their Sunday sermons for their large congregations in church Sunday morning?/s


10 posted on 03/30/2019 3:55:00 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finishid.)
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To: Libloather

Interesting that the Obama gang (which includes the Revrun) is going after Emanuel. I posted earlier that I had read a couple of years ago...perhaps even around the time that Emanuel ran for office...that there had been a noticeable cooling between him and the Obamas.

I don’t know what was behind it. Possibly that he wanted to run Chicago for the left, and they thought it was their turf. Chicago politics are complicated, in addition to being corrupt to the bone.


11 posted on 03/30/2019 4:10:05 PM PDT by livius
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The Rev Al portrayed Mayor Rahm as a hypocrite....dissing airhead Kim Foxx’s utter stupidity in handling of the Smollett case......
b/c AL says the mayor was silent on the police murder of Laquan McDonald.

Emanuel's spokesman said, “This isn’t worthy of a response.”

I'm really beginning to like Rham.......just a little.

12 posted on 03/30/2019 4:11:06 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. testimony nder)
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To: Libloather
Sharpton is the hypocrite here (that goes without saying); he's been involved in enough criminal and civil cases to know it.

When a city is sued for wrongful death by police, the city's officials as a rule avoid talking about the case. Van Dyke was convicted for second degree murder for killing McDonald and the City of Chicago settled out of court before a suit was filed. There was nothing for Emanuel to say.

Smollets faked a hate crime. The DA's office went to a grand jury, who indicted Smollets on sixteen counts. Foxx then rejected the grand jury's indictments, after texting with a former staffer for Michelle Obama and "recusing" herself from the case. The fact that Foxx rejected a grand jury indictment may end her career.

Sharpton looks like he's trying to help Foxx. The best thing he could have done was not say anything.

13 posted on 03/30/2019 5:11:28 PM PDT by Widget Jr
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To: Libloather

Yea! Like this bastard can talk!!!!


14 posted on 03/30/2019 5:33:40 PM PDT by ontap
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To: Liz
I'm really beginning to like Rham.......just a little.

Just relax....you'll get over it!!!

15 posted on 03/30/2019 5:36:20 PM PDT by ontap
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To: ontap

BOL.......


16 posted on 03/30/2019 5:43:57 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. testimony nder)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

17 posted on 03/31/2019 11:25:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Libloather

If two white guys had been walking in that Chicago neighborhood in the middle of the night - their lives would have been ruined, their families’ lives would be ruined and the country would blame Trump and his supporters..

What the creepy little twit Smollett did was a potential act of great violence against innocent citizens. Smollett is worse than a thief... worse than a common liar, worse than bully.

May the thug Smollett rot in hell when this life is over...along with his enablers.


18 posted on 04/01/2019 9:05:18 AM PDT by GOPJ (FBI: Did the Southern Poverty Law Center assist with organizing(and funding) Charlottesville?)
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