The son of a cop murdered by Republic of New Africa terrorists in 1971 doesn’t much care for Democrat Representative Bennie Thompson of Mississippi. And for good reason.
At the time, Thompson, then a public apologist for the black secessionist group, appeared at a news conference whose participants implied that Bill Skinner’s dad, Lieutenant W. Louis Skinner, got what he had coming. He shouldn’t have tried to serve warrants on the violent group.
Thompson, Skinner says, hates cops.
Thompson has come a long way since he quit his job defending terrorists, murderers, and insurrectionists. Now he’s chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, and in something of a darkly amusing joke on the country, head of the select committee investigating the “insurrection” at the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
Cop’s Fault He Was Killed
Reporter John Solomon divulged Thompson’s past with the insurrectionist RNA at his Just The News website this week. He also recounted RNA’s terrorist activities and what Thompson and his comrades thought about the murder of Lt. Louis Skinner.
When police tried to serve warrants at the violent group’s headquarters in Jackson, the terrorists, who envisioned going to war against the United States and seizing five states, opened fire. Skinner was killed in the 20-minute gunfight.
Thompson wasn’t involved in the shooting, but appeared at a news conference whose speakers justified it, Solomon reported.
The Associated Press quoted one of the participants, Aaron Shirley:
TimesPicayuneThompsonNewsConference8 28 71 PDF[While it is] indeed unfortunate that a policeman lost his life in the incident, we think it is just as unfortunate that law enforcement officers found it necessary to use tanks, shotguns and massive forces of men to serve simple warrants on black people….
This kill some n****rs attitude more than anything else is responsible for the policeman’s death.
Police and the FBI “found it necessary” because RNA was preparing for war. The lawmen found two bombs, the New York Times reported, and said “the front door of the house had a booby trap that was set to explode when the door was opened. And they said they found ‘a Vietcongtype bunker and a tunnel with firing ports’ in back of the house.”
“I was actually just 12 years old,” Skinner told Solomon. “You know, you’re watching all this stuff. And you know, you’re trying to comprehend, right? And they’re sitting there talking about your father being at fault for getting himself shot. And it’s mind-boggling, you know.”
The post-murder news conference “was so inflammatory, Skinner said, that police feared activists might try to harm his mother and brothers and put them into protective custody.” Solomon reported:
They hid us out for several weeks after he got killed, because they were worried about retaliation. For years, my family was, you know, had been threatened by all these different things.
RNA Activist Ran Jackson Police
Unsurprisingly, Bill Skinner doesn’t think Thompson is fit to run the committee probing the so-called insurrection of January 6 at the U.S. Capitol. Nor is he convinced of Thompson’s sincerity in defending cops.
“I don’t think there’s probably a more anti-cop person or anti-police-officer person in the country than Bennie,” Skinner told Solomon:
“He’s not pro-cop,” Skinner emphasized. “The only reason he’s doing this is because of his hatred of Donald Trump.”
Recalling that “Nancy Pelosi put somebody that had sex with a Chinese spy” on the Intelligence Committee, Skinner gibed, “I mean, she’s gonna put Bennie Thompson who hates police officers over this committee.”…
Thompson’s Jan. 6 committee “has nothing to do with police,” said Skinner. “His whole objective is to try to get Donald Trump, and it’s sad what they’re doing. I mean, it’s sad that this is a witch hunt. And it’s shameful. I can’t, I cannot personally watch it. Because I can’t watch Bennie Thompson sit there and spew this BS out of his mouth.”
Worse still is that a member of the group that murdered Skinner’s father, Chokwe Lumumba, became mayor of Jackson and cut the police department’s budget. Thompson campaigned for Lumumba in 2013 and officiated at his inauguration.
Thompson’s past as a terror and insurrection apologist has not, apparently, affected his standing with the Democrats so worried about the “insurrection” on January 6.
