Spike Lee Hopes 'Things Will Really Blow Up' if Ferguson
Officer Is Acquitted
by Tony Lee 20 Aug 2014, 6:40 AM PDT
After a week of rioting and confrontations in Ferguson,
Missouri, filmmaker Spike Lee said he hoped
that "things will really blow up" if Officer Darren Wilson is tried
and the people of Ferguson are unhappy with the verdict.
Lee made his incendiary remarks on Tuesday's Anderson
Cooper 360 on CNN,
saying that, even though he does not have the facts, "something smells
bad in Ferguson, and it's not just tear gas."
"And I'm not saying that people should burn down stuff
and riot and loot," Lee told host Anderson Cooper. "But this is not
the first time we've seen this. And I just hope that things will really blow up
if the people aren't happy with the verdict of this upcoming trial."
Cooper let Lee's inflammatory comments slide without even
asking a follow-up question or calling him out.
Lee also pushed conspiracy theories, saying he could not
believe that "when the police finally say who this officer is, the same
day they release this video tape [of Michael Brown engaging in a strong-arm
robbery of a convenience store]." He then alleged that "Josie"
called into a radio station on Monday just when the autopsy results showing
that Michael Brown was shot six times were released.
In fact, "Josie" actually made her remarks last
week, before the autopsy results were revealed. "Josie" also claimed
that Michael Brown bumrushed officer Wilson multiple times, punched him in the
face, discharged his gun, and then taunted him. At least 12 witnesses have reportedly
corroborated Wilson's alleged version of the story. A witness on the scene was
captured in a YouTube video saying that Brown "doubled back" before
charging Wilson in the moments before Wilson fired at him, corroborating what
"Josie" said. The autopsy results showed that all of the bullets
entered Brown from the front, which Lee never mentioned. Cooper did not bring
up these points, either, and Cooper, whose network first widely played what
"Josie" said, also did not jump in to tell Lee that "Josie"
did not call into the radio station the previous day. Nevertheless, Lee
continued, asking, "Who knows who the hell she is?"
"Is she reading a script?" Lee asked before saying
that "all of a sudden, everyone's taking her words--which is really a
third person witness--as Gospel."
"How can that be? How can you call a radio station and
say this is what's happened?" he asked incredulously. "How do you do
that?"
When Cooper asked Lee if he thought all of this was orchestrated,
Lee replied, "Oh, yes."
"It's orchestrated, Anderson," he said.
"There's a playbook. They are doing what they want to do. They're
there to protect their own." Lee said he "will not believe that it's
a coincidence that the day the autopsy comes out ... all of a sudden this lady
calls into a radio station ... and that's what the officer says. Of
course, she's reading from the same script, I think."
Lee said President Barack Obama did not usher in a
"post-racial era" and equated the riots and unrest in Ferguson to what
happened in Los Angeles after Rodney King, the Liberty City riots, Detroit in
the 1960s, Harlem, and cities that saw rioting after Martin Luther King's
assassination.
Lee said that people "get to a tipping point"
where "they can't take it anymore."
Though all of the facts are not yet out, and a grand jury
has not even heard the evidence in the case, Lee implied that Brown was killed
because he allegedly stole cigars or was high on marijuana.
"I don't think you should be killed in this country
because allegedly you steal some cigarillos," Lee said. "I don't
think you should be killed in this country if there's marijuana in your
system."
Anderson
Cooper
Anderson Cooper
is an anchor at CNN.
Note:
Charlayne
Hunter-Gault was a correspondent for CNN,
and an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner.
Spike Lee is an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner, and tweeted the wrong-address in the Trayvon
Martin case.
Spike Lee pays
up for wrong-address tweet in Trayvon Martin case
March
30, 2012
Stephen L. Carter
is an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner, and
a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think
tank).
Henry Louis
Gates Jr. is an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner,
and a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think
tank).
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Professor Jailed; Officer Is Accused of Bias
By
ABBY GOODNOUGH
Published:
July 20, 2009
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think
tank).
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Walter Isaacson
is the president & CEO for the Aspen Institute (think tank), and was
the chairman & CEO for CNN.
Anderson Cooper
is an anchor at CNN.
Charlayne
Hunter-Gault was a correspondent for CNN,
and an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner.
Charles J.
Ogletree Jr. is an Oak Bluffs (MA)
homeowner, was Barack Obama’s
college mentor, and edited a campus
Black Panthers newspaper called The Real News.
Obama Mentor Charles Ogletree on 'Three
Days of Rioting' in Ferguson: 'It's Just Starting' (PAST RESEARCH)
Sunday, August 17, 2014
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