Collector of Bones: For Sharpton Inc., Police Killings Are An Industry (Part 2)
Leid Stories completes yesterday’s commentary on how police killings have become a macabre industry for the Rev. Al Sharpton and his handpicked group of associates.
“Justice,” the clarion call they regularly sound, is a distant second to their personal and professional interests and agendas; instead, they mine the value of these cases for their own benefit—from plum political connections and lucrative media contracts to getting (via media coverage) a competitive edge against other lawyers in high-profile police-brutality cases that will yield multimillion-dollar settlements.
Sharpton, tutored by the Rev. Jesse Jackson in the fine art of running with the foxes while hunting with the hounds, is to stage a “March for Justice” in Washington, D.C., on Saturday. It is his latest purely symbolic engagement with “the system” and major public-relations effort to affirm himself as a modern-day Martin Luther King Jr. and undisputed King of the Blacks.
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