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The Rev. Al Sharpton, right, visits a makeshift memorial where Walter Scott was fatally shot by a white police officer after he fled a traffic stop, Sunday, April 12, 2015, in North Charleston, S.C. The officer, Michael Thomas Slager, has been fired and charged with murder. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Al Sharpton praises response to fatal S.C. police shooting

By Phillip Lucas - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan,. 28, 2015 file photo, Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on her nomination. Racing the calendar, Senate leaders are pushing toward final congressional approval of a bipartisan compromise reshaping how Medicare pays physicians as Congress returns from a two-week spring recess ensnarled over domestic and foreign policy issues. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Activists: Vote now to confirm Lynch as U.S. attorney general

By JULIE WALKER - Associated Press

Rev. Al Sharpton, center, and Rev. A.R. Bernard, right, listen as Dr. Ben Carson speaks to a plenary session of the National Action Network Convention 2015 in New York City. (Photo by: Aaron J. / RedCarpetImages.net)

CARSON: National action begins in personal responsibility

By Ben S. Carson

The Rev. Al Sharpton is surrounded by other civil rights leaders while he speaks during a news conference at the National Action Network headquarters in New York, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) ** FILE **

Al Sharpton moving? Talk turns to MSNBC host losing prime nightly spot

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

The Rev. Al Sharpton speaks during a news conference at the National Action Network headquarters in New York in this Thursday, Dec. 4, 2016, file photo. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Al Sharpton, Comcast sued for racial discrimination

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

The Rev. Al Sharpton, center, arrives with Eric Garner's mother Gwen Carr, left, his widow Esaw, center behind Sharpton, and daughter Erica, second from right, to lay a wreath at the site where Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were killed, Monday, Jan. 19, 2015, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) ** FILE **

Erica Snipes, Eric Garner’s daughter, slams Al Sharpton as ‘all about’ the money

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

New York state Republicans mocked Mayor Bill de Blasio's cozy relationship with Rev. Al Sharpton by issuing a parody poster of the two as "Fifty Shades of Grey" characters. (NYGOP)

Bill de Blasio, Al Sharpton depicted as ‘Fifty Shades’ characters in GOP ad

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama at the 2014 National Action Network conference in New York with the group's founder, Rev. Al Sharpton, right. (AP Photo/The Daily News, Julia Xanthos, Pool)

ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS: Al Sharpton: The Teflon don of civil rights

By Armstrong Williams

President Barack Obama greets film director, producer, writer and actor Spike Lee, left, and the Rev. Al Sharpton, Friday, April 11, 2014, at the National Action Network conference, in New York. (AP Photo/Newsday, Craig Ruttle, Pool)

Al Sharpton touts message from Obama: ‘To Rev. Sharpton. A fellow warrior for justice!’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Radio host and columnist Armstrong Williams. (Image courtesy of New Chapter Publisher)

ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS: The Teflon Don of civil rights

By Armstrong Williams

Milwaukee's tough-talking sheriff, David Clarke. (Fox News via The Daily Surge) ** FILE **

David Clarke, Wisconsin sheriff: ‘Al Sharpton ought to go back into the gutter he came from’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

The Rev. Al Sharpton speaks during a news conference at the National Action Network headquarters in New York in this Thursday, Dec. 4, 2016, file photo. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Al Sharpton sends sympathy Ted Cruz’s way for speech slip: ‘Trust me, it happens’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

The Rev. Al Sharpton, center, arrives with Eric Garner's mother Gwen Carr, left, his widow Esaw, center behind Sharpton, and daughter Erica, second from right, to lay a wreath at the site where Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were killed, Monday, Jan. 19, 2015, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) ** FILE **

Al Sharpton, at National Action Network, insists: ‘We are not anti-police’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Illustration on accusations of racism against the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences by Alexander hunter/The Washington Times

MICHAEL TAUBE: Al Sharpton vs. Academy Awards over diversity

By Michael Taube

Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell speaks at the Treasury Department in Washington in this July 28, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Sylvia Burwell, HHS secretary, uses MLK Day speech to promote Obamacare at Al Sharpton event

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

The Rev. Al Sharpton, center, speaks about Saturday's killings of two New York City police officers, Sunday, Dec. 21, 2014, during a news conference at the National Action Network headquarters, in New York. Behind him are, from left, Esaw Garner, widow of Eric Garner, attorney Michael Hardy, Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner, and attorney Jonathan Moore. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) ** FILE **

Al Sharpton calls ‘emergency meeting’ over Hollywood’s all-white Oscar list

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times