Early in the Ferguson case, Megyn Kelly conducted an interview with an ‘anonymous source’ who claimed that Michael Brown had severely beaten Darren Wilson to the point the latter required medical attention for an orbital socket blowout. It didn’t matter that it was a lie. The story took hold and, to this day, many continue to believe that Michael Brown attacked and severely beat Darren Wilson.
Thursday evening, Kelly condescendingly interrogated Jason Downs, a lawyer for the Gray family. Throughout, it was clear that she never for a second thought the police would be held accountable. Her prime and arguably only concern was whether or not the Gray family would accept exoneration of the police department.
As reported by Crooks & Liars:
Rather than discuss the substance of the case with Gray family attorney Jason Downs, Kelly seemed obsessed with ferreting out whether the family would properly react (as Kelly so determined) to the results of an official investigation into Freddie Gray’s broken spinal cord and death while he was in police custody.
Kelly’s racial hostility came out early and in what seemed a Freudian slip.
KELLY: So when you people, when you hear people say there need to be murder charges – ‘cause we’ve heard that, we’ve heard that from some of the folks leading these protests, they need to be charged with murder – you don’t agree with that yet.
The police were not exonerated. But rather than accept the result herself, Kelly instead turned her attention to smearing Freddie Gray.
Just as she did with Michael Brown, last night’s Kelly Files featured an anonymous guest from the Baltimore Police Department who claimed that Freddie Gray was a police snitch. The 'source' went on to say that his "personal guess" was that Gray ran from police after making eye contact because, at that moment, he had probably been "distributing narcotics in that alley". When asked by Kelly what Gray had been charged with, he repeated the now thoroughly debunked "switchblade" lie.
As reported by Raw Story:
Kelly said the officer, who went by the pseudonym “Mike,” had asked for his identity to be concealed out of concern for his safety. But instead of challenging the officer for his uncorroborated claims just hours after six of his fellow officers were indicted in connection with Gray’s death, she responded, “That’s interesting. That’s new information I had not yet heard.”
Kelly also alluded to a leaked medical examiner’s report saying that Gray injured himself while in the van after being stopped on April 12, pointing to footage of him standing and “apparently stepping into that van” as proof he was not injured outside. She did not mention reporting by the Baltimore Sun and WBAL-TV contradicting that claim.
Disgusting. Now we know how another dead man is going to be thrown to the wolves after having the audacity to lose his life to the police. And we once again have Megyn Kelly to thank for getting the ball rolling.