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(51,907 posts) Tue May 5, 2015, 04:26 AM May 2015

Megyn Kelly Starts Ball Rolling On Smearing Freddie Gray

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/02/1381987/-Megyn-Kelly-Starts-Ball-Rolling-On-Smearing-Freddie-Gray

Early in the Ferguson case, Megyn Kelly conducted an interview with an ‘anonymous source’ who claimed that Michael Brown had severely beaten Darren Wilson to the point the latter required medical attention for an orbital socket blowout. It didn’t matter that it was a lie. The story took hold and, to this day, many continue to believe that Michael Brown attacked and severely beat Darren Wilson.

Thursday evening, Kelly condescendingly interrogated Jason Downs, a lawyer for the Gray family. Throughout, it was clear that she never for a second thought the police would be held accountable. Her prime and arguably only concern was whether or not the Gray family would accept exoneration of the police department.

As reported by Crooks & Liars:

Rather than discuss the substance of the case with Gray family attorney Jason Downs, Kelly seemed obsessed with ferreting out whether the family would properly react (as Kelly so determined) to the results of an official investigation into Freddie Gray’s broken spinal cord and death while he was in police custody.

Kelly’s racial hostility came out early and in what seemed a Freudian slip.

KELLY: So when you people, when you hear people say there need to be murder charges – ‘cause we’ve heard that, we’ve heard that from some of the folks leading these protests, they need to be charged with murder – you don’t agree with that yet.

The police were not exonerated. But rather than accept the result herself, Kelly instead turned her attention to smearing Freddie Gray.