Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) said on Monday morning during an interview on MSNBC that protestors in Ferguson, Missouri are upset that the person who shot two police officers there had hurt the Black Lives Matter movement.
“The protestors despise this guy who damaged what they consider to be a movement,” Cleaver said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “People of good will wanted this guy captured and put on trial.”
He added that the protestors worked to help the police identify the suspected shooter, who was arrested and charged on Sunday.
Cleaver, who started a church in the racially troubled suburb of St. Louis, went on to say he wasn’t surprised when the Department of Justice uncovered a pattern of racial bias in the city.
Ferguson is “a little town that the Civil Rights movement bypassed,” he said, adding: “It’s 1960 in Ferguson.”
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Teatrolls: “Oh yeah? Well then why did they plant him in their protest?”
There’s no getting thru…none…
Emanuel Cleaver and Dick Durbin are the two most trusted and honest cats in Washington.
He is pretty humble too. The other day he walked into my 20 something daughter’s store. She sort of recognized him. When it came time to pay he presented his credit card. Stumbling she asked if he was “the Emanuel Cleaver.” He smiled and quietly responded saying he “was one of them.”