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Rev. Al Sharpton had announced that he was going to deliver a eulogy at the wake (and/or funeral) of Akai Gurley, the 28-year-old Brooklyn man who was fatally shot by a rookie police officer in the Pink Houses last month. But apparently several members of Gurley's family want him to butt out of their affairs: "Al Sharpton came in, put his name on the situation, but has not even made one single call to the parents to Akai," Gurley's aunt, Hertenceia Peterson, told TMZ. She added that all he sees "is money and political gain and that he is turning the tragedy into a circus."

Peterson said she was speaking on behalf of Gurley's mother, Sylvia Palmer. "He just wants to take credit for this when hes never even contacted my sister [Gurleys mother]," she told the Post. "Who made you the spokesperson of our family? We just want to bury our nephew with dignity and respect."

Sharpton said he was asked to speak by Kimberly Ballinger, Gurleys domestic partner and mother of his 2-year-old daughter. He told the News that he wouldn't go to either event and blamed the confusion on a "dispute in the family." "I dont want to get in the middle of it, he said yesterday. "I didnt know until today that the mother and the sister and the domestic partner werent together."

Ballinger defended Sharpton, who held a press conference after the shooting on behalf of Gurley, before attending the wake on Friday: "Rev. Al Sharpton has been here for us since day one," she said, according to the News ."We want justice. I want to see an indictment."

At a press conference earlier in the day, Gurley's mother addressed the public and press for the first time since the fatal shooting: "There is nothing in this world that can heal my pain and my heartache," Palmer said. "And I pray to God that I get justice for my son." Brooklyn DA Kenneth Thompson announced late on Friday that there will be a grand jury convened to look into the shooting.

This news comes a day after a damning report by the Daily News, which quoted anonymous sources alleging that rookie cop Peter Liang and his partner chose to text their union representative before calling for help for the victim. Those sources also said the officers weren't even sure of what the exact address was for the Pink Houses, where the shooting occurred; and they weren't even supposed to be doing a vertical patrol (and were instructed by their commanding officer to stick to the outsides of the building or the lobby).

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Dear Editor: Not long ago President Obama had a meeting at the White house with community and law enforcement leaders from around the country to discuss the events in Ferguson, Mo. Included in this meeting was the nation's leading race hustler, the Rev. Al Sharpton. In addition to being a race baiter, Sharpton is a tax cheat. The reverend has been able to avoid paying over $4 million in back taxes. If an individual or small business (especially a conservative one) had done this, their assets would have been seized, tax liens would have been placed against their property, and they would probably be spending time in a federal prison. They certainly wouldn't be sitting across the table from the president and other influential people discussing law enforcement procedures and race relations. The president thought it was important enough for Sharpton to be at this meeting but not important enough to have a representative from the Ferguson Police Department attend this meeting.

The Internal Revenue Service and other federal agencies have the time to target and harass conservative groups, as well as release confidential financial information, mismanage their email system and lie to Congress. If they have the time for these activities, why don't they have the time to prosecute the nation's most prominent and conspicuous expert on race relations and known tax cheat?

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After a week of Al Sharpton speaking at the side of and at times for the Eric Garner family, and a weeks worth of criticism for Sharpton doing so while also hosting a political show on MSNBC, Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter wondered whether Sharptons roles as cable news host, civil rights activist, unofficial White House advisor, Gotham co-mayor, and counselor/media impresario to grieving African-American families posed one or multiple conflicts.

Stelter noted that Sharpton and Garners widow Esaw Garner both appeared on NBCs Today show the day after the grand jury decision, just one example of Sharptons roles conveniently reinforcing each other; NBC is the parent company of MSNBC, on which Sharptons show appears.

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He wants to pick and choose issues that can keep himself relevant, Minister Jonathan Gentry said. This man wants to come in and just perpetuate hate into generations, when a lot of these incidences dont even have to do with race. But when he comes into the equation, he makes it about race. He forces that down your throat, and wants to change the way you think, and poison a community into thinking its all about black and white.

National Urban League President Marc Muriel saw no problem with it. We are in an age of opinion journalism, he said. Its a different world when it comes to television hosts. When you look at cable television, you see lots of hosts who wear different hats. Sharpton may be more well-known, but I dont think hes that different.

CNN commentator Errol Louis pointed out that Sharptons new platforms were a savvy evolution of his previous work.

In the past, before Sharpton had the media platforms that he has, he would walk [families] over to the New York Times or Daily News and put them in touch with a media source, Louis said. Now it so happens youve got, I guess, vertical integration. Now he is that media source.

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