And now we have an answer.
MN Gov. Dayton is not only failing to retract and apologize for his comments exacerbating hysterical and sometimes deadly protests across the country, he's actually doubling down on them.
I'm coming to realize that liberals actually don't care that they are spreading lies and insults. Their goal is simply to stir people up, inflame passions, and they will use anything they have to accomplish that. If all they have are lies, then that's what they'll use. The end absolutely justifies the means for these people.
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Despite criticism, Mark Dayton stands by comments that race a factor in Philando Castile shooting
Despite criticism, Mark Dayton stands by comments that race a factor in Philando Castile shooting
By
Rachel E. Stassen-Berger
rstassen-berger@pioneerpress.com
PUBLISHED: July 8, 2016 at 6:06 pm
UPDATED: July 10, 2016 at 12:13 pm
Amid local and national criticism, Gov. Mark Dayton on Friday did not retract his comments that race played a role in the fatal police shooting of Philando Castile, an African-American man.
“I said them. I’m not going to go back and rehash them. I stand by what I said yesterday,” Dayton said, who added that law enforcement officials have “expressed their displeasure” at his comments. “What I said yesterday, I stand by.”
In response to the shooting of Castile by police after a Falcon Heights traffic stop Wednesday evening, Dayton, a Democrat, said: “Would this have happened if … the driver and passenger would have been white? I don’t think it would.”
On Friday, the head of a national police group joined those rebuking Dayton.
Bill Johnson, executive director of the National Association of Police Organizations, told The Washington Post on Friday that Dayton had “exploited what was already a horrible and tragic situation.”
“Whether race had something to do with it or not, I don’t know, because I can’t get into the officer’s head,” Johnson told The Post. “And neither can the governor.”
“Gov. Dayton’s extraordinarily presumptive conclusion that the tragic incident in Falcon Heights was motivated by race is the height of political malfeasance that could lead to a miscarriage of justice, if not more violence,” Dennis Flaherty, executive director of the Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association, said Friday. “Now is the time to pull people together, to heal as one Minnesota. The Minnesota Police and Peace Officers stand by civil rights for everyone, as well as due process … Unfortunately, in his comments, the governor appears to be taking justice into his own hands.”
African-American activists and their allies have held protests outside Dayton’s official residence in St. Paul since the wee hours Thursday.
