Posted on March 17, 2015

Missouri Lt. Gov.: Justice Dept. More Racist Than Ferguson Cops

Newsmax, March 17, 2015

Peter Kinder, lieutenant governor of Missouri, has come out swinging against the Justice Department, saying it is more racist than the Ferguson police force.

“There is more racism in the Justice Department than there is in anywhere I see in the St. Louis area,” Kinder said Monday on “The Steve Malzberg Show” on Newsmax TV.

“We’ve come an enormous way in 50 years. That’s not to say we don’t have still more to do. But it is the left–the [Attorney General] Eric Holder and [President Barack] Obama left–and their minions who are obsessed with race while the rest of us are moving on beyond it.”

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Kinder, a Republican, also ripped into the Show Me State’s Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon, a bitter political adversary, for keeping him in the dark about Ferguson developments.

“The governor communicates effectively with no one, not the mayors when their towns were burning,” he said. “Except he does get on the phone to [Obama senior adviser] Valerie Jarrett in the White House.”

Kinder said the Ferguson protest movement was based on a lie–a discredited claim that Brown had his hands up and begged, “Don’t shoot!” before he was shot dead by Wilson.

“It’s bad enough the protestors were behaving that way, but we have a right to expect much more from the attorney general . . . and the president of the United States,” he said.

“Instead, what we got too often from them was incitement of the mob and encouraging disorder in Ferguson and disrupting the peaceable going about of our daily lives in the greater St. Louis region. It’s been enormously destructive and enormously hurtful.

“Ferguson is not a slum area, it is not even a declining area. It is a stable community filled with good people, solid businesses, and it was experiencing something of a renaissance of small businesses in the area where the rioting broke out before the 9th of August.”

Kinder said the Obama White House was guilty of an “enormous injustice perpetrated upon the good citizens of Ferguson.”

“We’ve never seen an administration like this. We’ve never seen a Department of Justice like this: staffed with radical, hard left, radical, leftist lawyers. They are not like any Justice Department in American history. Eric Holder is unlike any previous attorney general,” he said.

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