CBS News White House Correspondent Mark Knoller tweeted out a list of individuals including Reverend Al “Off The Pigs” Sharpton to attend a meeting at the White House on “community policing and criminal justice” on Wednesday of this past week.
The list of attendees, including those within the Obama administration, was full of partisan anti-police activists such as DeRay Mckesson, Cecilia Munoz, Rashad Robinson and Reverend Al Sharpton:
Administration Officials
- Attorney General Loretta Lynch
- Neil Eggleston, Assistant to the President and Counsel to the President
- Broderick Johnson, Assistant to the President and Cabinet Secretary
- Cecilia Munoz, Assistant to the President and Director of the Domestic Policy Council
- Ron Davis, Director, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, U.S. Department of Justice
- Vanita Gupta, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice
Attendees
- Chief Todd Axtell, Chief of Police, St. Paul, MN
- Mayor Ras Baraka, Mayor, Newark, NJ
- Chief Charlie Beck, Chief of Police, Los Angeles Police Department
- Governor John Bel Edwards, Governor, Louisiana
- Cornell Brooks, President, NAACP
- Judith Brown Dianis, Co-Director, Advancement Project
- Chief John Carli, Chief of Police, Vacaville, CA
- Mayor Chris Coleman, Mayor, Saint Paul, MN
- Dawn Collins, Community Organizer, Baton Rogue
- Terry Cunningham, President, International Association of Chiefs of Police
- Colonel Michael Edmonson, Superintendent of Police, Louisiana State Police
- Chief Dean Esserman, Chief of Police, New Haven, CT
- Roland Fryer, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, Harvard University
- Mayor Eric Garcetti, Mayor, Los Angeles, CA
- Mica Grimm, Activist, Black Lives Matter Minnesota
- Reverend Frederick Haynes, Pastor, Friendship-West Baptist Church
- Wade Henderson, President and CEO, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and The Leadership Conference Education Fund
- Sherillyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Senator J.B. Jennings, Senate Minority Leader, Maryland State Senate
- Michael McHale, President, National Association of Police Organizations
- DeRay Mckesson, Co-Founder, Campaign Zero
- Chief Cameron McLay, Chief of Police, Pittsburgh, PA
- Marc H. Morial, President, the National Urban League
- Sam Olens, Attorney General, Georgia
- Brittany Packnett, President’s Taskforce on 21st Century Policing
- Jim Pasco, Executive Director, National Fraternal Order of Police
- Charles Ramsey, President’s Taskforce on 21st Century Policing
- Laurie Robinson, President’s Taskforce on 21st Century Policing
- Rashad Robinson, Executive Director, Color of Change
- Reverend Al Sharpton, President, National Action Network
- Bryan Stevenson, President’s Taskforce on 21st Century Policing
- Mayor Tom Tait, Mayor, Anaheim, CA
- Maria Teresa Kumar, President and CEO, Voto Latino
Here is the press release.
Tweeters were skeptical:
any actual policemen on this list??
— amy earp (@amyearp) July 13, 2016
https://twitter.com/CleteTorres/status/753313576442396672
Looks like preaching to the choir to me.
— Charles Rankin (@crankin1945) July 13, 2016
Obama list of invitees to conference re BLM conflict w/police..There's a fox in the henhouse & the fox caused the violence!
— Rogue Democrat. (@RogueDemocrat) July 14, 2016
Among this group are ppl wanting to defund police departments. Wonder how that will help relations? pic.twitter.com/A8wQGJaXAH
— Abel James Parsons (@AbelJamesParson) July 13, 2016
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