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We Interrupt Ta-Nehisi's Praise of Looters and Murderers To Bring You Some Facts About Police Violence

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Jack Baruth
Nov 28, 2014
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While Ferguson burned this week, The Atlantic's village idiot and race huckster "Ta-Nehisi" Coates sat in hipster Harlem and earned a couple thousand dollars calling for more looting and violence in a place where he most emphatically does not live and has no plans to ever do more than briefly visit.

What clearly cannot be said is that violence and nonvio…

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