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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/20/1372131/-Conservative-organization-busted-trying-to-get-peaceful-protestors-say-they-want-to-kill-police?detail=facebook_sfFri Mar 20, 2015 at 07:16 AM PDT
Conservative organization busted trying to get peaceful protestors to say they want to kill police
by Shaun King
Project Veritas sounds harmless, right? It isn't.
Started by shameless self-promoter James O'Keefe, Project Veritas sends undercover operatives with hidden cameras to try to trick people into making harmful statements. This past January, during a season of protests in New York City, O'Keefe and the Project Veritas pushed one of their employees too far and fired him when he wouldn't do their dangerous bidding.
O'Keefe, according to documents obtained by Talking Points Memo, ordered one of his employees, an American Muslim, to try and get peaceful protestors to say they'd like to kill NYPD officers. The man refused on the grounds that it violated his faith. His supervisor, who has brothers that are retired NYPD officers, also refused to follow through on it, and now claims in a lawsuit that he was fired for his refusal.
Here is Mohammed Alhomsi's account of what he was told to say:
Sometimes, I wish I could just kill some of these cops. Don't you just wish we could have one of the cops right here in the middle of our group? -PAUSE-
What would you do if we could get Officer Pantoleo (who killed Eric Garner) right here in this crowd? What would you do to him?
In the current climate, with sincere tensions between police and the community, this type of action is unethical, dangerous, and indeed crosses a line, even in the era of gotcha politics.
Gothmog
(145,231 posts)O'Keefe claims to be a journalist and that claim is sad and wrong
daleanime
(17,796 posts)blm
(113,061 posts)the incitement.
There is no way this can be legal.
JAIL this criminal.
babylonsister
(171,065 posts)you called this, didn't you.
blm
(113,061 posts)Last edited Fri Mar 20, 2015, 01:05 PM - Edit history (1)
we have very little corpmedia that will feature it as a news report, let alone the widespread coverage the subject deserves.
I try to keep it out there as a possibility when the story we are fed by some officials doesn't ring true.
As a longtime supporter of SPLC we tend to be more aware of the stories around the country that do not get national coverage.
PS: I am well aware some here would like to pretend this isn't a reality we need to deal with
.but
.it is. The Bundy Ranch episode and spate of cop killings afterwards should have corrected their perception.
world wide wally
(21,743 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)cyberswede
(26,117 posts)Asshole.
blm
(113,061 posts); )
FSogol
(45,485 posts)blm
(113,061 posts)considering his tactics over the last 10 years have contributed greatly to the tearing of this nation's fabric.
eppur_se_muova
(36,262 posts)apparently can't wait to get back on it.