Kamala Harris compares Ferguson riots to Battle of Gettysburg in MLK Day speech

While addressing a crowd in South Carolina on Martin Luther King Day, Kamala Harris compared the Ferguson riots with the Battle of Gettysburg.

The vice president said both events were examples of Americans fighting to "make the promise of freedom real."

Kamala Harris says the Ferguson riots and the disruptions by a few far-left Tennessee state representatives are just like what happened "on the fields of Gettysburg" and "in the schools of Little Rock" pic.twitter.com/axM6U5buHj

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"I do believe the true power behind the promise of America is in the faith of her people," Harris said at the NAACP South Carolina State Conference's King Day at the Dome event on Monday. "The promise of America, I do believe, is in the faith of the people – our faith in the founding principles of our nation and our profound commitment to make those principles real."