Right-Wing Gala Gave Freddie Gray Cops Standing Ovation

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The Daily Beast:

The Media Research Center paid tribute to three Baltimore police officers involved in the arrest of the young black man who later died.

Andrew Kirell, Asawin Suebsaeng

09.26.16

 

The conservative Media Research Center took a victory lap on behalf of the six Baltimore police officers who arrested Freddie Gray before he died from the result of an injury sustained in their custody last year.

 

The self-appointed “media watchdog” organization, which owns right-wing hand-wringing blog NewsBusters, hosted its annual black-tie gala in Washington, D.C. last Thursday roasting the “liberal media” and handing out “DisHonor Awards” to MSNBC hosts and the like.

 

This year, the guests of honor at the awards ceremony were three of the six cops who were charged in relation to Gray’s death in April 2015. (In July, charges against three of them were dropped after the rest had already been acquitted.)

 

After awarding ex-MSNBC weekend host Melissa Harris-Perry the “Dan Rather Memorial Award for Stupidest Media Analysis,” frequent Fox News guest Deneen Borelli delivered a monologue lamenting the “allegations of police brutality” that have led so many Americans to view law-enforcement officials with disfavor.

 

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