MSNBC Guest: Police Shooting of Teen Was ‘Execution-Style’ Murder
‘He was an upright young man who did exactly what his mother told him to do’
MSNBC Guest: Police Shooting of Teen Was 'Execution-Style' Murder; Chris Hayes Fails to Rebuke Heated Charge (NewsBusters)
Given a national platform on tonight's All In with Chris Hayes, Democratic State Senator Jamilah Nasheed (Mo.) charged that the shooting death of teenager Michael Brown by a Ferguson, Missouri police officer was an "execution-style" killing.
At no point, however, did host Chris Hayes object to such rhetoric and protest that the facts have not been established in an impartial investigation. Producers and Mr. Hayes should well have known, however, that Ms. Nasheed might make such a heated charge on air. In an August 10 tweet she condemned Brown's shooting as an "execution-style murder."
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