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KAMALA HARRIS COMPARES
FERGUSON RIOTS WITH THE
BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Kamala Harris
made an outlandish comment
that has gone largely unchecked
when she compared the 2014
Ferguson riots with the 1863 Battle
of Gettysburg. The vice president,
who is prone to non-nonsensical
word salads, made
the absurd statement during
a speech in South Carolina on
Martin Luther King Day, the Post
Millennial reported.
Harris said both events were
examples of Americans fighting
to “make the promise of freedom
real.” What she failed to mention
was that more than 300 arrests
were made in Ferguson, Missouri
for all manner of violent crime
while law enforcement tried
to keep the peace, or that more
than 350,000 Union soldiers died
during the Civil War in order
fulfill the hope of freedom for
enslaved people.
“The 1863 Battle of Gettysburg
eventually led to the end of the
Civil War two years later and
secured victory for the North,
while quashing the Confederate’s
ambition of forming a
separate nation. It also helped
set the country on path towards
the abolition of slavery, the Post
Millennial noted.
The Civil War cost tens of
thousands of lives on both sides.
Yet the North, fighting to abolish
slavery, suffered more losses
than the South.
“The 2014 Ferguson riots
should never be categorized
with anything noble. The ongoing
violence was the result of a false
and politically twisted narrative
that Officer Darren Wilson fatally
shot Michael Brown—a strongarmed
robbery suspect—as he
had his hands raised in the air.
Evidence revealed that Brown
violently attacked Wilson, forcing
the officer to resort to lethal
force.
Wilson was exonerated for his
actions at the state and federal
level, despite lies being perpetuated
to disparage his name and
the institution of law enforcement.
The riots that soon followed
the shooting were among several
landmark events in the past
10 years that have undermined
the rule of law and upended the
institution of law enforcement,
which has further damaged
marginalized individuals living in
high crime areas in America.
CALIF. PD ALMOST FULLY
STAFFED 10 MONTHS AFTER
IT ANNOUNCED $75K HIRING
BONUSES
By Will McCarthy
Bay Area News Group
ALAMEDA, CA. — During the
pandemic, California lost thou-
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