The AP Carries Al Sharpton's Jock Strap; A Thrill Runs Up Their Leg.

Powerline notes that the AP (and the rest of the MSM) has a shameful history of covering up their anointed race hustlers and charlatans, even of they incite murder. The AP deserves to wear a white robe and pointed hat.

The AP averts it bigoted eye from what really happened:

At Gavin Cato's funeral, Sharpton criticized the Jewish community and thereafter organized a series of massive, angry demonstrations. He declared that Cato's death was not merely the result of a car accident, but rather "the social accident of apartheid." The contentious activist then challenged local Jews--who he derisively characterized as "diamond merchants" --to "pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house" to settle the score. Finally he claimed, without proof, that the Jewish driver had run over the Cato child while in a drunken stupor.

Stirred in part by such rhetoric and false accusations, hundreds of Crown Heights blacks took violently to the streets, pelting Jewish homes with rocks, setting vehicles on fire, and shouting "Jew! Jew!" The riots continued for three days and nights. Sharpton's response: "We must not reprimand our children for outrage, when it is the outrage that was put in them by an oppressive system." Five days after the original car accident that had triggered the violence, Sharpton led 400 shouting protesters through the heart of the Crown Heights Jewish community, shouting "No justice, no peace!"

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1995: When the United House of Prayer, a large black landlord in Harlem, raises the rent on Freddy's Fashion Mart, Freddy's white Jewish owner is forced to raise the rent on his subtenant, a black-owned music store. A landlord-tenant dispute ensues; Sharpton uses it to incite racial hatred. "We will not stand by," he warns malignantly, "and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business." Sharpton's National Action Network sets up picket lines; customers going into Freddy's are spat on and cursed as "traitors" and "Uncle Toms." Some protesters shout, "Burn down the Jew store!" and simulate striking a match. "We're going to see that this cracker suffers," says Sharpton's colleague Morris Powell. On Dec. 8, one of the protesters bursts into Freddy's, shoots four employees point-blank, then sets the store on fire. Seven employees die in the inferno.

You have to go to the much maligned Internet to find out what the AP does not want you to recall. Powerline comments ...

The best one can say of Sharpton is that he doesn't commit murder himself, he only incites it. Lucky Al! He is never personally present when the blood starts to flow. And yet the Associated Press is happy to run interference for him.