Pat Robertson surprises everyone and hits out at police over shooting of Daunte Wright and death of

[applegrove]

Pat Robertson surprises everyone and hits out at police over shooting of Daunte Wright and death of George Floyd

Oliver O'Connell at Yahoo

Thu, April 15, 2021, 5:21 PM·3 min read

https://news.yahoo.com/pat-robertson-surprises-everyone-hits-212129744.html

Evangelical leader Pat Robertson gave a damning critique of American police for an “onslaught” of violence against Black Americans, blaming a “low-paid” force consisting of “not the best and brightest”.

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Employing prop weapons to make the point, Mr Robertson and co-host Terry Meeuwsen agreed there was no comparison in the weight of the two items.

Ms Meeuwsen reminded viewers the two weapons are also sited on different sides of an officer’s body, with the gun on the dominant side.

“There’s just no comparison,” said Mr Robertson. “Now how she made the difference, when she shot that poor guy to death, saying this is what I thought was my Taser. And if you can’t tell the difference in the feel of those things, it’s crazy.”

Mr Robertson then used the segment, which had followed a news report about the arrest of Ms Potter for the killing of Mr Wright, to rail against the police, much to the surprise of viewers.

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[applegrove]

1. I guess Robertson has figured out religion is tanking and Q is the enemy. Oh

and Jesus taught things other than what the GOP stands for.

[MyOwnPeace]

2. Sorry, not giving him credit...

for figuring out anything like that and having a "come to Jesus" moment.
With his history I can only believe that it was a momentary slip into reality - but I'm also believing that it won't really last that long.

[applegrove]

3. Oh i'm not giving him credit. It is about self preservation not Jesus. If

it was about Jesus religious leaders would have pushed to make abortion as rare as possible by promoting birth control and stood up against the anti-poor pro inequality policies from the Republicans 40 years ago.

[MyOwnPeace]

5. Didn't mean to imply......

you were 'defending' him - even though Lord knows (funny to use that here!) he could use SOMEBODY to 'defend' him.

And you are SO right - the 'line' that he and the RepubliQans have been following for the past however many years would leave Jesus wondering: WTF?

[alphafemale]

4. I heard about this on Morning Joe.

It surprised me.

[questionseverything]

7. He also said, the cop on trial deserved to be "buried under the jail "

I think it’s great that right wingers are finally denouncing this horrid behavior

[RockRaven]

6. Classism and misogyny are not strangers to Pat...

So I'm not sure how much credit he should get for this outburst.

[roamer65]

8. Pat must have gotten vaccinated.

I hear the chip turns you liberal.

[QED]

9. A broken clock is right twice a day...

[Kingofalldems]

10. He also came out as a believer in evolution.

Or at least that the earth is much older than 6,000 yrs.

[SheltieLover]

11. Someone show him a marketing proposal?

A few sympathetic words could net big $?