The Obama administration has been throwing "gas on the flames'' of racial tension in Ferguson, Missouri, says Ben Shapiro, editor-in-chief of Truth Revolt and editor-at-large for Breitbart News.
"President [Barack] Obama just two days ago in his press conference suggested a certain moral equivalence between the cops and the rioters," Shapiro said Wednesday on "The Steve Malzberg Show" on
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"He continues to put out the suggestion that we know now that this was a race-bait incident or that there's something deeply racial going on in Ferguson, Missouri, from the police department."
He said the Obama administration seems to have "a vested agenda in the continuation of the belief that is so prominent in the black community, unfortunately, that law enforcement and the justice system are wildly biased against black folks.
"The more that that belief is pushed and forwarded, especially by people in power, the more of these riots you're going to get."
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