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Published August 20, 2014 | O'Reilly Factor | By Bill O'Reilly
I came back from vacation because I am furious. Furious about how the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown is being reported and how various people are reacting to it.
So let's run it down. Mr. Brown is a victim, shot six times by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson who up until August 9th had a very good record.

Now, some suspect Wilson of murder and a grand jury is hearing the case.
Also, Attorney General Eric Holder went to Ferguson Missouri today to meet with FBI agents and state authorities who are conducting separate investigations. Good. The feds should look into this case. And their investigation should be transparent. That is Americans should get hard information as it comes out.
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Then there is the looting, disgraceful. And one guy even has a gun, all right, shoots the lock off the door while his cohorts break in and steal the merchandise. It doesn't get any lower than this.
The people rioting and looting in Ferguson are dishonoring the memory of Michael Brown and his grieving family. They are insulting them. Again, flat out disgraceful.

THE FACTOR has been investigating those arrested. On Monday night, 78 people were taken into custody and we believe about 30 of them have criminal records. Only four, four out of the 78 are from Ferguson -- many of the others are trouble makers who just streamed into town.

But the liberal media will never report that. Nor will they report the true picture of criminal justice in the U.S.A.

Instead, NBC News pays Al Sharpton to deliver garbage like this.
[�] �SHARPTON video clip:A young man 18 years old shot down in the streets unarmed and rather than you address it, you tried to smear the young man, rather than uphold the principles of justice and dignity. I want you to know these parents are not going to cry alone. They're not going to stand alone. They're not going to fight alone. We have had enough.

O'REILLY:�Enough of what, Al? Enough of what? Police efficiency?
In 2012, the last stats available from the FBI there were about 12 million arrests in the U.S.A.
That averages out to 34,000 arrests per day. In 99.9 percent of those cases, the perpetrator was not killed by police.
In fact, just over 400 fatal police shootings a year are recorded in this country, according to the FBI.

So let me restate -- 12 million arrests a year, 400 fatal shootings, many of them justified.
And Al Sharpton has the nerve to insult the American police community, men and women risking their lives to protect us.

This charlatan has the gall to do that and NBC News is paying him.
My god -- why is that acceptable?
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But to the race hustlers, Officer Wilson is already guilty. They have convicted him. Their slogan is "no justice, no peace".
I guess that's lynch mob justice because those people will never accept anything other than a conviction of murder in this case.
They don't really care what happened. They want Officer Wilson punished.

And he should be punished if he murdered Michael Brown.
If a jury finds Wilson guilty he should be put in prison for the rest of his life.

But Officer Wilson is entitled to the presumption of innocence that we all have under our constitution -- something Al Sharpton will never give him because Sharpton only cares about his own self-aggrandizement.
And if he has to stoke racial hatred to get that, that's what Sharpton will do.

I know this man. His record defines him. Yet he has succeeded in bringing his brand of racial grievance to the White House. When President Obama announced his Brother's Keeper initiative, I was there, Sharpton was there...

I really don't think the great bloviator knows 'the truth' about anything. He only spouts popular talking points, and has zero philosophic integrity.

I seen that last night. It was well done.

He starts out with "Mr. Brown is a victim". Was he? O'Reilly is accepting as truth exactly what Al Sharpton is saying. He has, by his own admission, no knowledge of whether Brown is the victim or the assailant but he starts right out by putting the blame on the cop.

Anyone who has been shot is a victim of being shot.

O'Reilly is totally disagreeing with what Sharpton is saying about blaming the cops.
�But Officer Wilson is entitled to the presumption of innocence that we all have under our constitution -- something Al Sharpton will never give him because Sharpton only cares about his own self-aggrandizement.�

The way I read it , he's talking about how the MEDIA is presenting it, not that he thinks that way

However little credibility o'Reilly has, he is at least an intelligent and honest man. Sharpton has zero credibility. In fact, less than zero.

Steve.

The thing is we don't even have 10% of the story at this point.

Did you watch it? I'm gonna have to assume you didn't, because O'Reilly had more to say than what's in the text. He was spot on & he did a superb job at conveying his thoughts on the subject rather articulately & with a believable amount of conviction...
In no way did he portray "Mr. Brown" as a victim...if anything he got the point across that Brown was nothing more than the thug he was, without coming across as racist. His commentary on Sharpton & Jackson was also excellent.

I'm generally not a big fan of him, but last night he did a very good job.

Very true...that was also brought up in his commentary. Like I said, it was spot on. Probably the best commentary on the subject that has been done so far.

O'Reilly's middle name is "Stanley" because he is a TOOL!

When you are a thug and a punk, and a robber and thief, and a foul mouthed would-be rap artist whose lyrics denigrate women and you are an illegal drug user who's judgment was clouded when you attack a police officer and get your butt capped . . . you are not a "victim," you are not a "Mr." and it is impossible to "dishonour" your memory.

then the Rev. Al and O'Reilly share that trait. They are both only into this for the self aggrandizement.

No, I didn't watch it but for a good reason. I have a hearing problem and usually can't understand the words on tv or videos unless they're captioned. I wear hearing aids but they don't help with videos.

This!!

Why is it that when an investigation begins folks are not allowed to report that facts as they're uncovered?

Bill O'Reilly on the Ferguson Mess.

facts? When did a racial incident investigation ever deal with facts?

Oreilly talking about sharpton pimping race stuff --what a joke -Oreilly has had sharpton on his show a few times and all but kisses his azzz.

In addition to the fact that he's a window-licker who couldn't pass the GED exam.