Megyn Kelly: Black Teen Thrown To Ground By Texas Cop 'Was No Saint'

[Capt. Obvious]

Fox News host Megyn Kelly on Monday said that while the white Texas police officer who threw a black, teenage girl to the ground on Friday was "brutal," she said that the girl was not properly following the officer's orders.

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"I’m sure he didn’t know she was 14 at the time," Kelly said on Monday night during "The Kelly File." "Maybe he did, we can’t assume it. But now we know, and she looked like a young woman. It’s brutal."

"And now people have made this into a race thing. Are we there yet?" Kelly asked one of her guests, radio host Richard Fowler.

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He said that many of the teens likely ran from the cops because they "are used to seeing police brutalizing young African-American men." Fowler noted that Becton repeatedly asked for someone to call her mother.

"The girl was no saint, either," Kelly responded. "He had told her to leave, and she continued to linger. When the cop tells you to leave, get out. I’m not defending his actions. Let me make that clear."

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C'mon Megyn. Couldn't you find some Instagram photos of someone that looked like her acting thuggish and scary? I'm sure the Gateway Pundit has a big scoop on her criminal past that you could push out there.

Fox is slipping. Their dog whistles are usually more air hornish.

[alcibiades_mystery]

1. "When the cop tells you to leave, get out..."

Unless the cop is employed by the Bureau of Land Management, apparently, in which case, you point your rifle at him or her and blather on about the 18th century.

[KeepItReal]

2. Despicable. Par for the course for that channel.

Standard operating procedure.

[Gormy Cuss]

3. Megyn Kelly's no saint either.

She gave the Duggars a sympathetic national platform rather than asking them hard questions. Too bad there aren't roid-raged media cops.

[MoonRiver]

4. Put a white girl in that bikini and, surprise, no brutalization.

Yeah, it's ALL about racism Ms Kelly.

[MADem]

5. Sooooooo.....in order to avoid being slammed to the ground by krazy kops,

one must affect the garb and lifestyle of a Roman Catholic icon??

I'd say Faux hasn't just slipped, they've fallen ... and they can't get up.

[hobbit709]

6. I'm not sure what Megyn is but human being isn't on the list.

[JustAnotherGen]

7. Megyn Kelly

Is of zero worth to me. Not everyone has to like or say or write nice things about everyone else.

She can have a nice big sandwich of shut the fuck up with her race baiting bullshit.

She's such a worthless piece of shit. Just worthless.

[treestar]

8. Oh well OK then

If one does not qualify for sainthood, then have at it.

[joshcryer]

9. Racist BS.

Judging black people for being "older than they are." We had this sort of racist judgment for Trayvon.

[spanone]

10. 'news' my ass

[gollygee]

11. Is that our standard? If you're black, you have to be a saint

to not be assaulted by the police?

[n2doc]

12. Victim shaming. Every. Single. Time.

If you are a minority, then expect to be blamed for everything.

[gordianot]

13. I notice there are no halos at Fox News but they come close.

Billo the war hero, husband and father is a martyr persecuted tirelessly by liberals. Megyn and her position at Fox News is an inspiration on what women can achieve in journalistic media. Who could doubt the keen wit is Sean Hannity or the deep intellectual observations of George Will. Yes Fox News goes a long way contrasting good and evil.

[Bad Thoughts]

14. I guess Christian Martyrs are no Saints

If a Roman Centurion tells you to get into the ring, you get into the ring.

[City Lights]

15. Saints are extremely rare in the human race.

What's your point, Megyn? Spell it out for me.

[Betty Karlson]

16. 14 year old children - of either age - are generally no saints

It's called puberty, an age when the child tries to shape its self-identification by rebelliously severing ties with parents and other childhood authorities.

Question 1: Are the police in Texas collectively oblivious about the existence of puberty?

Question 2: Under Texas law, are African-American children somehow not allowed to go through puberty?

Question 3: Even if there is a law against puberty, where in that law is police brutality sanctioned - brutality against a minor no less?

Question 4: Is Megyn Kelly "making clear that she is not defending the cop" by accusing a 14-year old of going through puberty?

[underpants]

17. Heard the same party line on Hannity last night

His radio show is on tape delay here.

"There is a troubling trend in this country with people not doing what police TELL THEM TO DO" emphasis added.

See if you just respect authority unquestionably then everything will be just fine. Know your place. Now.....in other news - How can we stop Obama's radical control on all our lives?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

18. I'm so tired of this excuse when it comes to police/quasi-police brutality.

They did it with Trayvon Martin. They did it with Michael Brown. They did it with Eric Garner. They did it with Walter Scott. They did it with Freddie Gray. And they're doing it again.

Please, stop.

Whatever sins someone may have had in the past does not excuse whatever ridiculous, overreaching act of brutality or unnecessary force perpetrated by a police officer (or in the case of Trayvon Martin, someone who thinks he's a police officer without a badge.)

[Kingofalldems]

19. Santa IS white!

[CanonRay]

20. I don't think I've ever seen anything MORE about race that this video

Just look at who is on the ground, and who is standing around unmolested. It smacks you right in the freaking head. Megan Kelly should be ashamed of herself.