Former NBA great Charles Barkley trunk again. Following the announcement that Darren Wilson wouldn’t be indicted for killing Michael Brown, Barkley told Philly sports radio station 97.5 that “The Truth Came Out From The Grand Jury Testimony”. Adding that the black witnesses who spoke out all said the same thing Darren Wilson said. Barkley felt the media assisted in the story becoming so big.
This isn’t Barkley’s first time being in hot water due to comments made referring to the black community. Barkley spoke out about George Zimmerman a few years ago stating that he felt sorry for Trayvon Martin’s death but that there wasn’t enough evidence to convict him. Barkley had these things to say to 97.5:
“Those aren’t black people, those are scumbags,” the NBA Hall of Famer and TNT basketball analyst said of rioters, who targeted mostly minority-owned businesses.
“There is no excuse for people to be out there burning down people’s businesses, burning down police cars.”
Barkley also said that authorities got it right by not prosecuting Wilson, who shot 18-year-old Brown six times on Aug. 9 in a controversial incident that sparked nationwide protests while pushing Ferguson to the forefront of the country’s racial divide.
“The true story came out from the grand jury testimony,” Barkely said, adding that “three or four witnesses, who were black, said exactly what the cop [WILSON] said.”
Much of the misinformation surrounding the case, according to Barkley, is due to the press.
“[THE MEDIA]love this stuff, and lead people to jump to conclusions. The media shouldn’t do that. They never do that when black people kill each other. “
Well known for his controversial positions on race, Barkley called on the black community to stop automatically seeing police as the enemy.
“We have to be really careful with the cops, because if it wasn’t for the cops we would be living in the Wild, Wild West in our neighborhoods,” he said. “We can’t pick out certain incidentals that don’t go our way and act like the cops are all bad…. Do you know how bad some of these neighborhoods would be if it wasn’t for the cops?”
Listen to Charles Barkley’s full interview above.
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