NBC Legal Analyst Goes off on Scarborough: ‘Show Some Respect’
NBC legal analyst Lisa Bloom saw Joe Scarborough’s Ferguson #hottake from Monday and was not amused. Late Tuesday night she unleashed on Twitter numerous rebuttals to his framing of the shooting of Michael Brown and the subsequent protests over the lack of indictment, in which Scarborough claimed Brown was being falsely martyred. (The morning host, for his part, has taken a couple shots at his fellow MSNBC hosts over the network’s Ferguson coverage.)
Enjoyez-vouz:
.@JoeNBC No one has said Mike Brown was a hero. What we have said was that we don't give the death penalty to shoplifting teens.
— Lisa Bloom (@LisaBloom) December 3, 2014
.@JoeNBC If you concede massive racial bias in justice system, how do you not see it here? Or have you not read the grand jury transcript?
— Lisa Bloom (@LisaBloom) December 3, 2014
.@DonnyDeutsch says (and @JoeNBC seems to agree) Mike Brown was a "thug" –a dead kid who can't defend self + who had no advocate in GJ room
— Lisa Bloom (@LisaBloom) December 3, 2014
I missed the memo from black America asking a bunch of white folks to sit around a TV studio and wag fingers at them. But not @JoeNBC
— Lisa Bloom (@LisaBloom) December 3, 2014
Civil rights movement ignited over black kids being killed at horrific rates. @JoeNBC likens it to "flying saucers." Show some respect, Joe.
— Lisa Bloom (@LisaBloom) December 3, 2014
More than half the eyewitnesses say Mike Brown was shot from behind while running away. Contend w that truth @JoeNBC. http://t.co/ritgZkQ08d
— Lisa Bloom (@LisaBloom) December 3, 2014
What's most painful about @JoeNBC's rant is how one dimensional he paints Mike Brown, entirely believing his shooter's version of events.
— Lisa Bloom (@LisaBloom) December 3, 2014
Watch Scarborough’s bit below, via MSNBC:
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