Megyn Kelly Loses It over Ferguson Report: ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot Did Not Happen!’

Following the release of a Justice Department report concluding insufficient evidence to charge Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson for civil rights violation in the shooting death of Michael Brown, Fox News’ Megyn Kelly got into a heated argument with guests Wednesday night over what she views are unfair treatment of Wilson by the court of public opinion.

Kelly got into it with Democratic strategist Mark Hannah over suggestions that the protests that engulfed that Missouri city were not prompted by the narrative of “hands up, don’t shoot” that became a rallying cry for Brown’s cause but has since been called into question. While Hannah said the protests were a result of the “perception” of a racist police force, as borne out by the DOJ’s investigation, Kelly argued it was more about Al Sharpton “out there stoking the fires.”

On the pattern of racially-biased policing in Ferguson, Kelly asked, “That justifies this, Mark? What we saw, all these folks with their ‘hands up, don’t shoot,’ which did not happen!”

Watch video below, via Fox News:

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