Fox News' Megyn Kelly Monday accused the Rev. Al Sharpton, who is now an MSNBC show host, of "stoking the fires" in Ferguson by putting out misinformation to the public.
Sharpton "went out there and stoked the fires by giving them misinformation after misinformation, never to be corrected,"
Kelly said during her show Monday night following the announcement that police officer Darren Wilson would not be prosecuted for the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
The civil rights activist was quick to criticize the decision in the Wilson case, saying the grand jury's ruling was "expected, but still an absolute blow to those of us that wanted to see a fair and open trial,"
reports The Huffington Post.
During her show, Kelly played a clip of St. Louis Prosecutor County Bob McCulloch's comments about the lengthy grand jury investigation, during which he said that there were several African-American witnesses who testified Brown was coming toward Wilson when he was killed.
"I guarantee you that sound bite’s not gonna go everywhere tomorrow," Kelly said. "They’re not gonna play that for the protesters who are saying that this is a racial thing and that … the fix was in."
Meanwhile, Fox legal analyst Arthur Aidala noted that many of those protesting likely did not know about those witnesses, and that the evidence given to the grand jury about the shooting "must have been so bad, so shabby, that they couldn’t even indict on the lowest count."
Sharpton has been
calling for action for some time in Ferguson, demanding last month that Wilson face federal prosecution for shooting Brown.
"The grand jury is tainted. The confidence of the family has been shattered," Sharpton said at the time.
Leaks about the St. Louis County grand jury deliberations were seen by many as undermining the local inquiry about whether to indict Wilson. The deliberations were done independently of Justice Department investigations into both Brown's death and the broader practices of the Ferguson Police Department.
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