Appearing on MSNBC’s “NewsNation with Tamron Hall,” rapper and Wu-Tang Clan alum Method Man said “you reap what you sow” in response to the shooting of two Ferguson police officers at a early Thursday morning protest. (VIDEO: MSNBC Guest: Capitalism Is An ‘Oppressive Force’ Against Blacks [VIDEO])
“With this thing that happened I guess in Ferguson just now with the two officers, sad, very sad,” Method Man said. “I hate to say that that FBI report kind of played into this, and these things shouldn’t be happening, but you reap what you sow in a sense. If the FBI report would have never came out and the scandal how they are giving – basically paying the city by giving people tickets and things like that.”
“But we knew this already,” he continued. “This is common knowledge in the ghetto. When they come in the hood — guys used to sit out and drink beer in public, never a problem at times. But when they are trying to make quotas…”
“That applies to drug arrests as well,” said host Tamron Hall. “The number of arrests with marijuana, the time that people are sentenced for drug offenses when they are black and brown versus white.” (VIDEO: Ferguson Protester on MSNBC: Police Part Of ‘Evil System’)