At an event in South Los Angeles rallying for the family of Trayvon Martin, Rev. Al Sharpton, a host on MSNBC, was interviewed in the parking lot by Breitbart News reporter Christian Hartsock.
Here’s the transcript:
HARTSOCK: Excuse me, Reverend … Given your role in inciting the Crown Heights riots –
SHARPTON: I wasn’t in the Crown Heights riots.
HARTSOCK: You weren’t involved in the Crown Heights riots?
SHARPTON: No, I came after the Crown Heights riots. Read the state report. We got there three days later and brought the peace. So get your facts right.
Sharpton didn’t get his facts right. The Crown Heights riots occurred after young black New Yorker Gavin Cato was hit by a car driven by an Orthodox Jew. Sharpton spoke at the funeral.
Here’s what he said: “Talk about how Oppenheimer in South Africa sends diamonds straight to Tel Aviv and deals with the diamond merchants right here in Crown Heights. The issue is not anti-Semitism; the issue is apartheid …. All we want to say is what Jesus said: If you offend one of these little ones, you got to pay for it. No compromise, no meetings, no coffee klatsch, no skinnin’ and grinnin’.”
Later, Sharpton said, “If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.”
The riots resulted in the murder of an Orthodox Jew, Yankel Rosenbaum.
As Rosenbaum’s brother wrote, “Based on everything we have seen and read, Sharpton never called upon the rioters to stop their anti-Semitism-inspired violence. He never called on the rioters to go home. To the contrary, he stirred them up. And three days of anti-Semitic violence became the Crown Heights riots.”
The bigger the lie, the easiest it goes through.
No shame, anyway, from whom to whom.
He did not care and he does not care of any classes or individuals, he is an egoistic maniac.
I lived on Balfour Place, corner of Empire, and from my window could clearly hear his group marching and shouting – “Get the Jews! Get the Jews!” It was Shabbos night, my husband was at shul, and I feared for his safety.
Hashem will take care of Sharpton, as He has done with all those who seek to harm BNY.
how incredible it is that any person could live a life of lies and be able to sleep at night. must be a Personality Disorder. How pathetic that he is living his life entirely on lies. How does one go to sleep and wake up in the morning having been thoroughly steeped in falsehood.
I guess if you believe a lie long enough it becomes a reality of sorts.
Sharpton is a fat racist pig. Period!
he is a lier i live on a block where i was the only luabivitch jew and one of my black neighbor came to tell me that al sharpton is coming to night with 2 buses to make trouble and he said leave town i will sit by your house so they will think black people live here so we left. when the FBI came to speak to me they did not what to write the truth what i new so i said you only what to hear what sounds good them do not speak to me byby
And he was a major player, mover and shaker. Maybe without his agitation the riots might never have occurred.
My brother knew about Breitbart and his gadlus before anyone else in Lubavitch
(SCENE IS EASTERN PARKWAY NEAR UTICA AVENUE DURING THE CROWN HEIGHTS RIOTS-2ND DAY, IF i REMEMBER CORRECTLY.) The lying b–^$#! We lived there then. We saw him in the streets, we heard him on the radio he was openly urging people from all over the city to come and ‘protest’ in CH. He ended one of his speeches on the radio by saying(close to actual words-I won’t forget them)”anyone who won’t come out tomorrow….should take off his pants and put on a dress”. He has made himself rich by hurting others. Just before the riots in CH he had a… Read more »
First hand witnesses to Sharpton’s riotous agitation must publicly rebut him. It is time for him to fall! This monster has innocent blood on his hands. His flagrant lies are the ultimate chutzpa! It’s time for truth and justice! Moshiach now!
and saw that rosho rat leading the murderous animals from the very start…just look his hateful face and the faces around him…
he is only fooling the oilom goilom idiotic liberals and black…
G-d protect us from his sort! MR
As one that was out on the streets of Crown Heights for 72 hours straight from the onset of the riots, I can personally testify that Al Sharpton was out there organizing and LEADING the riotous mobs. To fuel the flames he arranged busloads of outside agitators to be brought into Crown Heights. One has only to look at the newspaper clippings from those nefarious days to see him at the head of these marauding mobs leading the chanting of Anti-Semitic slurs. His statements today hold as much water as his statements in the Tawana Brawley situation. He might be… Read more »
and he thinks he thinks he can fool the entire world.
Sharpten is used to lying and having the media give him free credibility nothing new with this .