Tea Party Congressman: All Ferguson Protestors ‘Appear To Be Of A Single Continental Origin’
Tea Party Congressman Steve King explains why he thinks there’s no need to investigate racial profiling in Ferguson, Missouri, after the shooting death of an 18-year old.
Tea Party Republican U.S. Congressman Steve King sees no need to respond to the Congressional Black Caucus’ request for the Department of Justice to investigate racial profiling by police in Ferguson, Missouri.
“This idea of no racial profiling,” King told Newsmax TV, “I’ve seen the video. It looks to me like you don’t need to bother with that particular factor because they all appear to be of a single, you know, of a single origin, I should say, a continental origin might be the way to phrase that.”
Rep. King also told Newsmax he saw a video on Twitter from “an African American man” that he agreed with.
“He called upon them all to settle down and said ‘I’m getting tired of this. I’m tired of you burning down our communities, my communities’ and essentially said straighten up and fly right.”
King also took the opportunity to attack President Obama.
“The President should just be the moral leader at this point and call out the community to settle down,” King said. “I’m not hearing that happen.â€
Even his fellow Tea Party conservative, Newsmax host J.D. Hayworth, had to correct King, noting the President indeed had made a statement denouncing violence and looting.
King is infamously anti-immigrant, having claimed that practically every undocumented immigrant is a drug smuggler.
“For every one who’s a valedictorian, there’s another hundred out there who — they weigh 130 pounds and they’ve got calves the size of cantaloupes because they’ve been hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert,†King said last year.
King also earlier this month told an immigration activist, “I’m really sorry that you come from a lawless country. I hope that you can have a happy life. But please, do not erode the rule of law in America.â€
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Hat tip: Talking Points Memo

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