Not be silent. Injustice has no seat in our democratic institution. Dont shoot. Joining us, reverend michael faulkner, former congressman allen west. First to you, congressman, to both of you. First you, these are your old stomping grounds. The house of representatives, was it appropriate or inappropriate to use the house floor for this demonstration . I think it was clearly inappropriate, greta, because one of the things we have to understand, why are members of the Congressional Black Caucus promoting a false narrative . We know from the forensic evidence, we know from all of the evidence and the testimony that has been released by a prosecutor, mr. Mcculloch, it was not a case of hands up and dont shoot. Michael brown never raised his hands. You cannot have people putting out this false information and, once again, you know, truly deceiving the American People. And furthermore, if the Congressional Black Caucus doesnt want to be silent, why are they talking about the deaths and shoo
Not be silent. Injustice has no seat in our democratic institution. Dont shoot. Joining us, reverend michael faulkner, former congressman allen west. First to you, congressman, to both of you. First you, these are your old stomping grounds. The house of representatives, was it appropriate or inappropriate to use the house floor for this demonstration . I think it was clearly inappropriate, greta, because one of the things we have to understand, why are members of the Congressional Black Caucus promoting a false narrative . We know from the forensic evidence, we know from all of the evidence and the testimony that has been released by a prosecutor, mr. Mcculloch, it was not a case of hands up and dont shoot. Michael brown never raised his hands. You cannot have people putting out this false information and, once again, you know, truly deceiving the American People. And furthermore, if the Congressional Black Caucus doesnt want to be silent, why are they talking about the deaths and shoo
that we re facing in our nation. congressman west, was this an issue of racism or is this sort of the long, lack of better word, poster child for racism in america? or was this a racism issue? of course it was not a racism issue. darren wilson was responding to a call previous to the phone call about michael brown about a small little girl in the community and then got the subsequent call on the issue of mike dell brown. but the important conversation we should be having are the consequences of the actions that michael brown took. michael brown without any doubt or debate, committed several felony offenses. he robbed a store, assaulted a store owner, attacked a police officer, he charged at a police officer. and again, i just don t understand why we always have to defer to the discussion about race when we should be talking about respect and regard for law enforcement, respect and regard for the rule of law,
that we re facing in our nation. congressman west, was this an issue of racism or is this sort of the long, lack of better word, poster child for racism in america? or was this a racism issue? of course it was not a racism issue. darren wilson was responding to a call previous to the phone call about michael brown about a small little girl in the community and then got the subsequent call on the issue of mike dell brown. but the important conversation we should be having are the consequences of the actions that michael brown took. michael brown without any doubt or debate, committed several felony offenses. he robbed a store, assaulted a store owner, attacked a police officer, he charged at a police officer. and again, i just don t understand why we always have to defer to the discussion about race when we should be talking about respect and regard for law enforcement, respect and regard for the rule of law,