Rep. Cori (radical D.Mo.) tweeted that the November 15th, Rep. That tweet was sent by “When we marched in Ferguson, white supremacists would hide behind a hill near where Michael Brown Jr. was murdered and shoot at us.” Where were the “Fact Checkers”? FactCheck.Org? No. The Washington Post No. PolitiFact ignored it, although they posted two “False” ratings on Kevin McCarthy on November 19.
Fact Check by AP? No, but AP’s Jim Salter reported Ferguson’s police chief “said he was unaware of any such incident.” Bush attempted to use another leftist’s claims as corroboration:
Bush’s campaign included a link that took him to a January 2015 Facebook post from an activist. He wrote that after a march that ended near where Brown was killed, “someone tried to take us (the movement) out. We must be killed. Stop us.” The tweet said more than 20 shots were fired, smashing the back window of a car and grazing a female protester.
According to local media, police were investigating but did not discover anything.It was unclear if arrests had been made.
Snopes.com at least picked up the question, but bizarrely used the rating “Unproven,” not “False.” As they explain:
The rating means that there is insufficient evidence to support the claimed claim, but it cannot be proved false. This rating typically involves claims for which there is little or no affirmative evidence, but for which declaring them to be false would require the difficult (if not impossible) task of our being able to prove a negative or accurately discern someone else’s thoughts and motivations.
But at least Dan McGuill was on the case, reporting Snopes sent a list of detailed questions to Bush’s congressional staff. “In response, we received an email from Anna Bahr, a progressive political consultant from the firm Left Flank. Bahr directed us to social media posts about an alleged shooting incident at an apartment complex in Ferguson, on Jan. 19, 2015,” similar to what AP reported.
McGuill also told readers that Cori Bush defender Osun Ashe didn’t respond to requests for comment, and a woman with the Facebook name Meechie Jordan, who did not respond. The city government also clammed up: “after we made repeated attempts to obtain a substantive response from police, Ferguson City Manager Eric Osterberg told Snopes both the city and its police department was declining to comment on Bush’s claims.”
Ferguson, like the Kyle Rittenhouse scandal, was one of 2015’s most talked about stories. Liberal reporters would not have missed the possibility that white nationalists had shot at black activists. Larry O’Connor is our partner in deep suspicion of Bush’s crazy tale.
It’s possible that I am wrong. However, it’s possible that there weren’t many sympathetic reporters who covered the Ferguson protests. It would have been interesting if white supremacists were making fun of protesters. https://t.co/FmRIZdwMKH
— Larry O’Connor (@LarryOConnor) November 15, 2021
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