FERGUSON, MISSOURI – Attorney General Eric Holder made a surprise appearance Friday at a parking lot protest rally in downtown Ferguson. Arriving by limo, Holder jumped up on the flatbed truck that served as a makeshift stage and waved to the hundred or so protesters before embracing Al Sharpton. When the attorney general lifted up his hands and yelled out, “Hands up! Don’t shoot!” the protesters erupted into loud applause. Although Holder only spoke a few minutes, he energized the demonstrators with his message of commiseration and personal victimization. “I may be the attorney general of the United States, but I am also a black man living in a nation of cowards,” Holder barked to the crowd. “I know how it feels to be followed around department stores. I know what it’s like to be chased down dark alley ways. I’ve been racially profiled so often I’ve lost count how many times my rights have been violated. It’s only by God’s grace that I’ve lived this long without being gunned down in the streets by a white cop. It’s time to put a white man in jail. And I pledge to you, if there’s no indictment, I am going to […]
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