New York – In an eye-opening new video released by conservative activist group Project Veritas, Al Sharpton and his group National Action Network (NAN) is targeted as being all about the money and publicity for their involvement in high-profile legal cases of Eric Garner, Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin.
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In video footage taken during a protest in Staten Island last month, an undercover Project Veritas investigator asks Erica Snipes, 24, daughter of Eric Garner, if Sharpton is somewhat of a crook. Snipes responds, ““He’s about this,” as she rubs her fingers together, according to the New York Post (http://bit.ly/18hxGC3).
“He’s about money with you?” the undercover then asks. “Yeah,” responds Snipes.
Snipes also said that NAN director Cynthia Davis “attacked” her for handing out fliers about Garner’s case that didn’t have the NAN logo on them.
“She started attacking me. ‘Oh, I see that you got this flier out, how come you didn’t add the logo?’’’ said Snipes. The undercover investigator asks Snipes, “They want their logo on your fliers?”
“Instead of me, he wants his face in front,” says Snipes, talking about Sharpton.
However, when interviewed by The New York Post, Snipes denied saying Sharpton was all about the money.
Sharpton is also criticized in the video by supporters of the Michael Brown police shooting case in Ferguson, Missouri, and the Trayvon Martin shooting in Florida.
Jean Petrus, a Brooklyn man who attended a Trayvon Martin Foundation fundraiser in Florida, says in the video, “He knows how to make money and get money. They’re shakedown guys to me. You know, let’s call it what it is, they’re shakedown.”
Petrus later told The New York Post that he considers himself a “friend” of Sharpton when asked about the tape.
Bishop Calvin Scott of Believers Temple in Ferguson said in the video that Sharpton, “incites people for the wrong reason,” and that during meetings he attended that included Sharpton, “He got them all fired up. But I just sense this is not the way you want to go.”
Sharpton says that he helped all three families – including paying for their funerals – and does not take money from them and accused Project Veritas of “exploiting” Snipes and an argument in the Garner family.
In a statement to CBS News (http://cbsloc.al/1adyQ2c) Sharpton was quick to latch onto Snipes’ denial of making those statements, despite the video.
“It’s is very interesting that they, when they reached the people in the video, the people contradicted what was in the video,” said Sharpton. “My response is it’s a headline of a story that they contradict in their own article.”
“Not only do I think the video was taken out of context, there is nobody in that video that said I did anything with money,” he continued. “The New York Post has more explaining to do than I do in this case.”