Posted on 11/27/2014 5:54:17 AM PST by the scotsman
'Pharrell Williams, one of the biggest black figures in the music industry, has spoken out about the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, saying he is 'troubled' a grand jury decided not to indict the white police officer responsible.
But the 'Happy' singer also sparked heated debate by calling Brown's behavior leading up to his August 9 death 'bully-ish'.
Before he was shot dead, Brown was caught on surveillance camera stealing a handful of cigarillos from a convenience store in Ferguson, Missouri, and intimidating the shop owner.
While Pharrell says that was no excuse for Officer Darren Wilson to use lethal force against the unarmed teen, he thinks Brown's actions are being overlooking in the national discussion about the tragedy.
'It looked very bully-ish; that in itself I had a problem with,' Pharrell told Ebony magazine. 'Not with the kid, but with whatever happened in his life for him to arrive at a place where that behavior is OK. Why aren't we talking about that?''
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Edited a few things to more correctly describe what Brown did! Media sugar coats it! Even the Daily Mail, who is usually fair and fairly conservative.
The fool was a criminal and a thug. He’s dead. Civilization thanks the Officer. End of story.
Well, there’ll be no White Hut party invite for him this year
Agree.
I’m not sure the robbery works in the leftist interest. It blew a huge hole in the “gentle giant” myth. It also gives Brown an excellent motive for his assault on the cop. As detailed by the guy who was with him in his grand jury testimony. He explained that Brown was acting oddly that day and freaking him out. Didn’t help the leftist case of police murder at all.
None of which matters, because the leftists have no interest in the facts of the case. Wilson and Brown aren’t people who made certain choices with consequences. They’re symbols of “their peoples” and their guilt or innocence.
Bear Brown punched Officer in face and tried to get his gun. What would have been the outcome if Bear Brown got the gun?
Abdolutely agree. The strong arm at the convienience store is supporting evidence that Brown was both violent and in a state of mind to commit violence.
It really undermines the overall case against Wilson, but we will hear the continued Left drumbeat that it alone “wasn’t enough” while ignoring how it fits into the overall scenario that apexed with Brown assaulting Wilson.
Brown’s behavior was larcenous before it was “bully-ish”.
What did Lars Larson say in response to the idiotic comments of the “guest” on his radio show?
“Pharrell says that was no excuse for Officer Darren Wilson to use lethal force...”
One person I saw said that instead of shooting Brown that Officer Wilson should have just pushed him to the ground. Sigh. Brown was 6’4” and weighed almost 300 lbs.
Lars was momentarily stunned but managed to recover and TRY to get this asshat to understand what occured. Sadly, we got out of the car before the conclusion but most likely the “nay sayer” would not be convinced. That’s how they are. Facts have no place in the discussion. Even more ridiculous, I read some dumbasses post yesterday and he claimed that LEO Wilson shot mb from 125 feet away. WHAT? Pretty good shooting from 40 yards in a stress situation eh?
Well said.
Thank you. When I’ve said something similar in the past, I’ve generally been severely flamed for implying that guns might not be entirely positive in their effects.
Personally, I’m with Mark Steyn. American LEOs kill WAU too many Americans. It’s not a white/black thing, it’s a cop thing.
By some counts, there are about 1000 American killed, in one way or another, by cops every year.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/another-much-higher-count-of-police-homicides/
Meanwhile, German cops killed 6 Germans last year. Since Germany has about 4x the US population, that means American cops kill Americans at roughly 40x the rate German police kill Germans.
That’s a pretty big differential. Without saying anything in particular about a specific case, surely our cops kill more often than necessary. And, yes, most German police are armed.
Note: There are all kinds of reasons the above figures might be off in one way or another.
We know. The case has been front page news here since it happened.
If we keep ignoring the realities of our cultural problem with violence, we will be left with not other option other than to severely restrict or ban guns. It doesn't have to be like that.
Gun and non-gun violent crime rates are higher in the US than in other developed counties. Likewise, police probably shoot more people that in our other peer countries. Our violent culture (criminals with guns who are hardened by violence with other criminals) is part of that, our mental health care system is part of that too.
I'd like to see better survey work on the philosophy of police in the US vs in the UK, Germany, Canada, France, etc; to see whether they view their roles in society differently. But, to many people, that's anti-police.
I'd like to see whether we have fewer violent demonstrations and riots compared to say the UK, France, Germany. Might be something there about our “individualistic” culture that makes it less likely that people people will get swept up into mob violence (it happens, but it's relatively rare, compared to Southern Europe where labor strikes turn into riots).
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