Legal Insurrection by William A. Jacobson November 26, 2022
Elon Musk Was Right About “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” BLM Narrative – “The Whole Thing Was A Fiction”
The truth still matters. Elon Musk was right, the “hands up, don’t shoot” narrative from the Michael Brown shooting “was a fiction.” Deal with it.Elon Musk tweeted a hard truth about the “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” false narrative from the Michael Brown shooting, which led to the Ferguson (MO) riots and national prominence for the Black Lives Matter movement, which adopted the slogan.
It started when musk tweeted about some shirts he found stocked at Twitter headquarters with the hashtag #StayWoke
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Found in closet at Twitter HQ fr 🤣🤣
https://twitter.com/i/status/1595250835096621057According to Business Insider, Musk’s mockery upset some people because #StayWoke was a BLM slogan:
The shirts, which date back to 2016, were made to support the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and were promoted by Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey, who spoke in support of the BLM movement at a Recode event in 2016.
Dorsey said that he took two weeks off to work with the civil rights organization in 2014, creating a Twitter hashtag to promote the movement following the shooting of Michael Brown, a Black teen who was shot by police in Ferguson, Missouri. Brown was unarmed at the time, and the shooting sparked protests over police shootings of Black people.
In response to the faux outrage, Musk tweeted a hard truth:
#StayWoke shirts stem from the Ferguson protests. Obama’s own DOJ proved this & exonerated the cop. “Hands up don’t shoot” was made up. The whole thing was a fiction. [links to DOJ report]
But that didn’t stop more outrageous outrage, such as from Tech Times, Elon Musk Deletes His Tweet, Defending the Ferguson Cop Who Shot Unarmed Michael Brown. John Sexton did a good job dissecting how various lefty outlets tried to whatabout the DOJ report in response to Musk’s now-deleted tweet.
Well, yes, Brown was unarmed. Including when just prior to the shooting he strong-armed a local convenience store.
And Brown also was unarmed when he sucker-punched officer Darren Wilson in the face as Wilson sat in a patrol car, and tried to steal Wilson’s gun. That was the first time Brown was shot, and then he was shot fatally when he made a second charge at Wilson.
More:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/11/elon-musk-was-right-about-hands-up-dont-shoot-blm-narrative-the-whole-thing-was-a-fiction/
