JEFFERSON CITY — U.S. Rep. Cori Bush said in a tweet on Monday that white supremacists hid behind a hill and shot at protesters in Ferguson following the 2014 police killing of Michael Brown Jr. there.
Reaction to the statement on the social media site was swift and angry, with many accusing the congresswoman of lying.
Asked for more information about incidents of white supremacists shooting at protesters, a spokesperson for the Bush campaign issued this statement Monday night:
“While on the frontlines of the Ferguson Uprising, Congresswoman Bush and other activists were shot at by white supremacist vigilantes. The question we need to ask is why white supremacists feel empowered to open-carry rifles, incite violence, and put Black lives at risk across our country.”
Ferguson Police Chief Frank McCall Jr. said Monday he didn’t know that there was any record of such an incident.
“Not that I’m aware of,” he said, adding he wasn’t aware of any incidents that the tweet might be referencing.
McCall was named as police chief in July; prior to joining the Ferguson Police Department, he was a veteran officer and chief at the Berkeley Police Department.
Bush, who rose to prominence in the aftermath of the Ferguson protests, was tweeting about Kyle Rittenhouse, who is standing trial for shooting three people and killing two of them at racial injustice protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year.
“When we marched in Ferguson, white supremacists would hide behind a hill near where Michael Brown Jr. was murdered and shoot at us,” Bush tweeted. “They never faced consequences.
When we marched in Ferguson, white supremacists would hide behind a hill near where Michael Brown Jr. was murdered and shoot at us.
They never faced consequences.
If Kyle Rittenhouse gets acquitted, it tells them that even 7 years later they still can get away with it.
— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) November 15, 2021
“If Kyle Rittenhouse gets acquitted, it tells them that even 7 years later they still can get away with it,” Bush said.
Ohun Ashe, who has been active in local protests, said on Twitter that Bush’s account was true.
“I vividly remember hiding under porches in Canfield as shots were fired at us,” she said. “No one came to help us. Ferguson police would be nearby. We would come from under porches using cars as shields in between gun shots to make it out.”
She shared a 2020 article about a man accused of driving through a crowd of protesters in Brentwood and firing shots. “White folks have shot at us in broad daylight. Nobody has to lie,” Ashe tweeted.
State Rep. Rasheen Aldridge, a St. Louis Democrat who has been involved in protests for years, said it was common for agitators to show up at protests and cause trouble.
Aldridge said he didn’t doubt Bush’s account because of his personal experience.
In March 2015, two police officers who were part of a security line outside the Ferguson police headquarters were shot, causing some protesters to flee and others to drop to the ground. One officer was hit in the shoulder; the other, in the cheek. Then St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said at the time he believed the officers were targeted, and the shooting brought swift condemnation from a wide range of public officials, as well as protest leaders, who insisted they repudiated violence.
Jeffrey Williams, convicted in December 2016 in connection with the shooting, said he wasn’t aiming at police, but rather was returning fire after an unidentified person shot at his vehicle.
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“While on the frontlines of the Ferguson Uprising, Congresswoman Bush and other activists were shot at by white supremacist vigilantes. The question we need to ask is why white supremacists feel empowered to open-carry rifles, incite violence, and put Black lives at risk across our country.”
You mean like BLM and Antifa? And who is killing all the Blacks in Chicago? This knee-jerk reaction that occurs every time a Black gets shot—without any factual basis—just an unsupported claim that you know will incite anger and violence—is doing absolutely nothing to to relieve whatever racial tensions exist—if anything, it is making matters worse.
Even if Cori Bush was not lying to the core, which she was, white people shooting at black people in St. Louis during a riot or even imagined times of peace would not be a declaration of their supremacy but of their equality with blacks who murder each other in Democrat cities like ducks in a shooting gallery. True equality would be for store owners to enter the homes of blacks or people of any color holding their stolen goods, trashing their homes and burning them to the ground to hide the evidence. When the dangerous few who pitter patter about the streets setting fires and breaking windows to never let the opportunity of a riot go to waste in stealing, and Democrat inspired social redistribution of wealth, never fail to be surprised then the social response by the honest aroused citizens sounds more like the thundering hooves of a stallion stampede. The squad’s days are numbered and that herd of Democrat donkeys is destined to be run over, and if not totally crushed, made as lame as the excuses they offer for their failures and proposed social crimes.
Pity there’s no LEGAL CRIMINAL CHARGE one can arrest liars like this for.. When they WILLFULLY create a false crime, just to accuse whites of racism..
This racist bigot needs to be expelled from congress, then expelled from America. There his no place for such a lying pig as this.
SHE needs to be expelled from the HUMAN RACE….
AND take all her fellow race baiters with her.
Looking For Attention, Cori Anika Bush is an American Negro Democrat Party politician, registered nurse, pastor, and Black Lives Matter activist serving as the U.S. Democrat Representative for Missouri’s 1st congressional district. U.S. Rep. Cori Bush said in a tweet on Monday that white supremacists hid behind a hill and shot at protesters in Ferguson following the 2014 police killing of Michael Brown Jr. there.
Note: Yusra Khogali co-founder of the anti-racial “Black Lives Matter” movement, does not hide her hatred of white people in her comments on social media. Yusra Khogali wrote on Facebook that “Whiteness is not humxness” and that “white skin is sub-humxn,”
(Khogali intentionally misspells “human” in order to eliminate “man” from the word, a common practice among radical feminists)
Notice that “racism” and “sexism” DO NOT require any proof to be found guilty by the dishonorable, dishonest. destructive Democrat Party. All that is required to be found guilty by this dishonorable, dishonest. destructive Democrat Party are accusations, no proof required.
Nancy Pelosi admitted an unfortunate truth about her
Orchestrate and fabricated impeachment “farce”
– It hinges on witness’s “allegations” not “proof”.
It’s Not A Question” Of “Proof”, It’s About “Allegations”
https://youtu.be/7dzhIxeF204
AHHHH….another infamous “grassy knoll” sniper …there was more than one shooter! Just study the fraudulent physics behind it. I’m sure the “White Supremacists” has collusion ties to the Russians leading back to President Trump and how they …ALL… stole the 2016 election. If this insanity wasn’t so concerning it would be laughable. I’m starting to feel sorry for these Regressive Liberal Socialist Democrats with the embedded detachment from reality they have front and center in their thought process.
I ain’t.. I HAVE NOT ONE LICK of pity or sympathy for them.. I UTTERLY DESPISE ALL of them, and that includes EVERY Damn fool, that keeps VOTING THESE evil SOB’s into office!
Yeah… I guess your right Ituser… I lost my head for split second. I hope all these race baiting merchants die a long horrible painful and grueling death before God sends them to hell.
“When we marched in Ferguson, white supremacists would hide behind a hill near where Michael Brown Jr. was murdered and shoot at us,” Bush tweeted. “They never faced consequences.”
Apparently “they” never hit anything they shot at.
And, my goodness, why has she waited so long to start complaining? Why has the media (staunch supporters of BLM) not taken the opportunity to point out the white supremacist criminals?
With all the video being shot during the “mostly peaceful protests” we should have seen some evidence.
No timely complaint, no video evidence= It didn’t happen!!
AND if this DID happen, why wasn’t ONE SINGLE PIECE OF evidence presented ABOUT “Being shot at’?
You know what? If YOU want to start (or should I say CONTINUE) making these claims and assertions – START WEARING a Body Camera.
I’m sorry, but I DON’T BELIEVE YOU anymore!
You and your “community” have been crying wolf (racism) for SO LONG, it’s falling on deaf ears!
SHOW ME THE PROOF of your allegations!
THEN (maybe), we’ll consider you credible.
At present, you’re just a LOUD MOUTH, trying to foment civil unrest!
Forcing Congressmen, Congresswomen and the Congressional sexually confused to wear body cameras while inside the Capitol would solve a lot of prevarication problems not to mention the true intentions of the evil socialist collective of power grabbers. I’m for it. If they can force our protector Cops to wear one, why not the so-called protectors of our Constitution which is getting killed by inches in creeping socialism, and murdered in miles by Bernie. Joe, Pelosi and Schumer. It would go a long way to reveal the true source of most of America’s current social unrest and what is really behind the masks, and could have avoided at least two fake inpeachments.
Cori Bush is a RADICAL RACIST , BIGOT , RACE BAITER and GUTTER TRASH. She looks like something out a Freaken
HORROR Movie. She talks like she has Donkey Manure in her Butt Ugly Face and it probably Smells like it Too.
Is that the same trip where both Hillary and Brian Williams were dodging .50 cal machinegun fire? …. But, seriously, folks…. if any white supremacists were shooting at Cori, they wouldn’t have missed!
AND if they WERE shooting at her, we’d be CELEBRATING< as there would be one less commucrat in office!
and one less festering boil on the *** of the world.
And we care what bushy has to say because?
If the shots really did happen, too bad they missed you, Cori.
She must have been near a drive by from her fellow hoodrats.. THEY ARE well known for their aim being screwy…
If such an incident had really happened it would have spread like wildfire through th liberal media, as it is, no one seemes to know it happened except for Cori Bush. With all the burning and looting with the protests in Ferguson who had time to nitice who was doing any shooting?