The Black Lives Matter movement started as a result of the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. But the movement’s central contention about its inciting incident is a lie.
On Tuesday, the eight-year anniversary of Brown’s death, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) claimed that Brown was murdered and that “we need to honor Michael’s life with action” and “dismantle white supremacy.” Attorney Ben Crump, the race-baiting ambulance chaser who tries to capitalize off of every high-profile incident in which a black person is killed, claimed that Brown had his “hands up in surrender.”
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