In a tweet that garnered immediate backlash, Bush wrote, “When we marched in Ferguson, white supremacists would hide behind a hill near where Michael Brown Jr. was murdered and shoot at us.”
“They never faced consequences,” she went on. “If Kyle Rittenhouse gets acquitted, it tells them that even 7 years later they can still get away with it.”
Bush rose to prominence as an activist during the Ferguson riots and was eventually elected to public office.
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Questioned about additional information regarding the alleged incidents of white supremacists shooting at protesters, a spokesperson for her campaign issued a statement on Monday night to STL Dispatch, doubling down on the Democrat representative’s earlier claim.
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“While on the frontlines of the Ferguson Uprising, Congresswoman Bush and other activists were shot at by white supremacist vigilantes. The question we need to ask is why white supremacists feel empowered to open-carry rifles, incite violence, and put Black lives at risk across our country,” the spokesperson stated.
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The use of the claim “vigilante” is a self-evident reference to the Rittenhouse trial. Rittenhouse is on trial for the deaths of Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber, and the wounding of Gaige Grosskreutz, whom he shot on the night of August 25, 2020.
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In response to Bush’s claim, Ferguson Police Chief Frank McCall Jr. confirmed to the publication that there were no records of any such incident in which vigilantes, white supremacists or otherwise had shot at protesters in 2014.
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“Not that I’m aware of,” he said, adding he wasn’t aware of any incidents that the tweet might be referencing. McCall was named as police chief in July; prior to joining the Ferguson Police Department, he was a veteran officer and chief at the Berkeley Police Department.
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Despite the lack of media or police reports about the alleged shooting Bush referenced, fellow activist Ohun Ashe backed up Bush’s account on Twitter to state that she “vividly” remembers “hiding under porches in Canfield as shots were fired at us.”
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“No one came to help us. Ferguson police would be nearby. We would come from under porches using cars as shields in between gunshots to make it out,” she wrote.
Asked for evidence of the alleged 2014 shooting, Ashe shared an article about a man accused of driving through a crowd of protesters in Brentwood and firing at them in 2020. She was unable to substantiate the earlier alleged incident.
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In March 2015, two police officers were shot outside the Ferguson police headquarters, causing some protesters to flee. One year later, a man named Jeffrey Williams was convicted of the shooting. Williams told police that he wasn’t aiming at police but rather returning fire after an unidentified person fired at his vehicle.
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