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Full Measure After Hours

EP 014 | "Hands Up, Don't Shoot!" Never Happened

Full Measure After Hours

Sharyl Attkisson

News, News Commentary

4.91.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

"Hands up, don't shoot!" started a national movement. Problem is, it never actually happened, according to the Obama Justice Department.

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Hi everybody, welcome to another podcast.

0:40.4

Hands up, don't shoot, never happened.

0:44.0

Somebody tell that to the Democrats running for president.

0:47.8

In the years since Michael Brown was shot and killed in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014, perhaps one of the most serious misconceptions as a result

0:56.5

of widespread misreporting has persisted and still persist to this day. Even amid the heated political rhetoric that dominates the news

1:05.1

media and social media resurrected false claims about the shooting stand out as

1:09.9

egregious. Earlier this month marking the fifth anniversary of the shooting, the following Democrats

1:16.7

all running for their party's nomination for president,

1:19.5

tweeted out statements containing disproven claims or false implications about Michael Brown.

1:26.5

Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Representative Tim Ryan of Ohio, Senator

1:31.5

Cori Booker of New Jersey, Senator Camilla Harris of California,

1:36.0

former Representative Beto O'Rourke of Texas,

1:40.0

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York,

1:42.0

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and New York City Mayor Bill

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