In a radio interview Friday, a radical black leader based in Washington, D.C., delivered a message regarding the shooting of two police officers during a protest in Ferguson, Missouri, yesterday: “What comes around goes around.”
Senghor Baye is president general of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and the African Communities League. He is also a long-time consultant to the Collective Black People Movement, a partner of the controversial New Black Panther Party.
Speaking in a new daily podcast edition of “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio,” the popular weekend talk-radio show, Baye said he was “not surprised” by the shooting early Thursday.
Baye described the shooting as vigilante protest actions that are “bound to happen.”
“We do not condone shooting police officers or police officers creating brutality against the people,” he began. “But it’s very important for people to understand that some people who are oppressed and down-pressed don’t have many ways of getting the kind of justice that they deserve. So things of this nature are bound to happen eventually.”
Klein asked Baye whether he believed the shooting of the two police officers in Ferguson was justified.
“No, I don’t think it is justified. But I think it should be understood because the attacks on the African people or the black people of that community have been going on for a long, long time," he said.
“And it’s only a matter of time – what they say is, 'what comes around goes around' for some of those things that are perpetrated against people unjustly – is for that injustice to rise up and come back at those folks.”
Baye blamed the shootings on “systemic racism” and police “brutality.”
“Any time there is any kind of killing or shooting of anyone that is not necessarily deserving of it is not good. However, with the nature of the systematic racism, and the brutality and the injustice that has been confronting people of African descent in that particular area for years now, I am not really surprised at all.”
Protests resumed in Ferguson Friday, with NBC News reporting protesters congregated once again near the city’s police headquarters and chanted slogans such as, "The whole damn system is guilty as hell."
thursday’s shooting, described by authorities as an “ambush,” took place while about 50 protesters and nearly 30 police officers remained outside the police department shortly after midnight local time following an anti-police rally there.
The two police officers shot were released from the hospital. St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar told reporters at a news conference that three or four shots were fired at the police from about 125 yards away.
“Aaron Klein Investigative Radio” is broadcast Sundays on New York’s AM 970 The Answer and Philadelphia’s NewsTalk 990 AM. The radio host, who also is a WND senior staff writer, also broadcasts brief podcasts during the week for subscribers at ConnectPal.com.
See WND's Friday report on Ferguson:
Ferguson protester: Shooting was 'setup'
Black leader on Ferguson: 'What comes around goes around'