Al Sharpton: ‘We Must Distinguish Between Those Protesting Peacefully and Those Inciting Others’

‘In Ferguson, young people [were] being incited’

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SHARPTON: "And we must distinguish between those that are angry and protesting peacefully and that are out there saying things, trying to gear toward the neglect of dealing with these issues, and those that are taking advantage of it, and those that are inciting others. Let me remind people that when we had the uprisings in Ferguson, and many of us went in there — I preached a funeral there of Michael Brown in Ferguson and many of us were talking to the young people that were being incited. Some of those young people went to jail, and the people that incited them left town. We had to help some of those young people get lawyers. One of them, I know, got seven years for arson, that was arguing with me about violence and now we’re some of the only ones that stayed in touch with him."

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