Breitbart – by Warner Todd Huston
The family of New Yorker Akai Gurley has a warning for MSNBC host Al Sharpton: stay away.
The 28-year-old African-American was shot on Nov. 20 by New York City Police Officer Peter Liang in the stairwell of a public housing complex in Brooklyn. Liang has testified that the shooting was an accidental discharge that caught the young man in the chest.
Gurley’s mother, Sylvia Palmer, called on New York Mayor Bill de Blasio to launch a full investigation into the incident that took her son.
“My son’s heart was taken away so innocently. He did nothing wrong,” Palmer said. “Nothing in this world will heal my pain and heartache.”
But Palmer also had a warning for at least one person looking to become involved in the family’s time of grief.
MSNBC’s Al Sharpton had planned to show up to Mr. Gurley’s funeral, but Palmer and the victim’s other family members had warned Sharpton to keep his “circus” away from them.
The family criticized Sharpton for trying to elbow his way into their time of grief.
“It’s been a nightmare,” the vicim’s aunt, Hertencia Petersen, told the New York Post. “He just wants to take credit for this,” she said, even though Sharpton never took the time to contact the family and ask if he was wanted.
The family says that they were shocked when they heard that Sharpton had scheduled himself to give a eulogy for Gurley.
“How can you do a eulogy for someone you don’t even know? It’s heartbreaking,” Peterson said.
Eventually, the cable TV host decided not to attend the service, leaving the family to mourn in their own way.
Gurley’s family also hastened to point out that they got no help from Sharpton with the services or the burial, not monetarily nor in the planning stages.
“There is no piece of the pie for Mr. Sharpton here,” Peterson said. She also said that, in her opinion, when Sharpton shows up to capitalize on a national tragedy, “It’s not pretty, there’s confusion.”
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Dear Gurley Family, I am saddened by your tragic loss. Nothing can replace your son, and to lose him in this way is truly heartbreaking. Many thanks for your integrity at this difficult time. You honor him by rejecting the charlatans.
“Liang has testified that the shooting was an accidental discharge that caught the young man in the chest.”
A BLATANTLY obvious lie.
NYPD can’t even hit ‘targets’ when they’re AIMING, let alone ‘accidentally’.
I’d call this one a ‘lucky’ (from the pig’s pov) intentional shot.
exactly , how do you accidental pull out your gun and squeeze the trigger.
By training in Israhell, or being trained here by them.
That’s how.
Sharpton is a bottom feeder. This POS has set America back 50 years. Get a rope and drag this garbage down the road.
Just doing his job, Mark. Where else does he get his paycheck from other than the feds? Rabble rouser for hire is all he is but even the blacks are catching on to him and his true purpose.
Keeping us looking left to right and black and white has kept us from looking up to see the puppet master and his strings. We can sort out all the other crap once we address the main issue at hand.
Stick him with the gorillas in the congo, maybe they straighten this jerry curl asshole out.
LOL!!! 😀 Not the hair! NOT the hair! God I miss Billy Dee Williams
Good for you Ms. Palmer!
And good for all blacks who are finally starting to wake up and stop putting up with race-baiting, seeing who the REAL enemy is! Wish Michael Brown’s family was as righteous as you are!
Sharpton reminds me of that house n-word (sorry, I cannot say that word!) in the movie “Django Unchained” who while trying to lick the boots of his master refuses to cooperate with the bounty hunter who freed Django who is trying to free his wife (who speaks German), and who really wants blacks and whites to hate each other for the benefit of his master (and himself of course).
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