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Darren Wilson identified as the officer who shot Michael Brown
Washington Post ^ | 08/15/14 | By Mark Berman and Wesley Lowery

Posted on 08/15/2014 7:39:25 AM PDT by BunnySlippers

Edited on 08/15/2014 7:58:31 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Nearly a week after a police officer shot and killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., police on Friday identified the officer as Darren Wilson.

Wilson is a six-year veteran of the Ferguson police with no disciplinary record, Ferguson police chief Thomas Jackson said at a news conference on Friday morning.

Jackson provided few other details about Wilson at the news conference and did not take any questions. He said that Wilson had been responding to a call shortly before noon on Saturday when there was a 911 call regarding a “strong-arm robbery” at a convenience store.

A description of a possible suspect was given over the radio, saying this person was walking toward the QuickTrip convenience store in Ferguson. An incident report handed out by police on Friday labeled Brown as a suspect in the convenience store robbery, which involved the theft of some Swisher Sweets cigars.

Wilson left the call he had been responding to and encountered Brown on Canfield Drive at 12:01 p.m., Jackson said.

Police also released these stills depicting a confrontation between Brown and a convenience store worker:

Excerpt, read more at Washington Post


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brown; ferguson; leo; wilson
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To: Hegewisch Dupa

LOL!


141 posted on 08/15/2014 8:38:54 AM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll defend your rights?)
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To: harwood

Makes no difference if he’s black. Most cops are republican so he might as well be white as snow. His life is ruined from this day forward.


142 posted on 08/15/2014 8:38:55 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: Red Badger

Well, if you smoke em, you’re the first person I will have met that buys them to actually smoke the tobacco!


143 posted on 08/15/2014 8:39:00 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: PA-RIVER

Crime Scene Photo

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/trayvon-martin-george-zimmerman/os-pictures-evidence-photos-released-in-the-shooting-death-of-trayvon-martin-20120517,0,4085055.photogallery?index=os-20130522-001


144 posted on 08/15/2014 8:39:37 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Night Hides Not
:) I can imagine. I didn't know they called us crackers until I worked with a kid from New Orleans. He I became fast friends in Maryland. I was always worried about him though. White girl and black guy hanging out. We didn't date he was a little to young for me. He was more like a little brother.

Funny story one about people looking at us. He and I and another girl went to this redneck bar to play pool. We decided to play some music. They has Sinatra in the juke box. So here we are drunk as skunks singing Sinatra songs. The red necks were thankfully, quite amused.

145 posted on 08/15/2014 8:39:49 AM PDT by defconw (Both parties have clearly lost their minds!)
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To: TexasGator

I guess the next step is for NBC news to manufacture some racist statements for any person with any connection to the cop.

Like this.

“Are you a friend of Darran Wilson?”

“Yes, we drink coffee together. He hates black coffee. “

NBC edited version:

“Yes, he hates blacks”


146 posted on 08/15/2014 8:40:09 AM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

“That’s all he’s done since day one: Destroy the US internally while empowering radical Islam, yet Congress just sits back and laughs at it all.”

Congress got mugged, just like the clerk in the pictures. Obama is walking out laughing with his Swisher Sweets because he knows he can get away with it. That’s the culture he represents.


147 posted on 08/15/2014 8:40:35 AM PDT by RaveOn ("No amount of logic can shatter a faith consciously based on a lie." Lamar Keene, "True Believers")
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To: Paladin2

“Honkie-O’s”

ROFL


148 posted on 08/15/2014 8:40:36 AM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I do?)
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To: defconw

The black officer posted on this thread is St. Louis policeman, not the one named in Ferguson shooting.


149 posted on 08/15/2014 8:40:49 AM PDT by shoedog
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To: BunnySlippers
How about this guy? Or maybe there are 2 Darren Wilson's on the force.
150 posted on 08/15/2014 8:40:58 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: wheat_grinder

I don’t think so. I think he’s white.


151 posted on 08/15/2014 8:43:10 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: <1/1,000,000th%

I understand that guy was not in the force six years. I don’t know. I’m waiting for confirmation.


152 posted on 08/15/2014 8:44:23 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: okie01

I’ve noted that discrepancy and I’m betting that you are right.

I did find that there are only 3 blacks out of the 53 officers on the Ferguson Police Department. If so, the likelihood that the Ferguson Darren Wilson is black is about one chance in sixteen.

OTOH, maybe this guy transferred from the St. Louis PD to the Ferguson PD six years ago. Possible.

In any case you can bet there is a real race on to find a photo of the real guy. The WP, the NYT, the LAT and the rest need to put this “Black Darren Wilson” story in the trash heap mucho pronto.


153 posted on 08/15/2014 8:45:05 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (Remember Mississippi)
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To: FourtySeven

It’s like the crazies in the middle east ... that the USA makes films of things that happen but never did happen.

Crazy!


154 posted on 08/15/2014 8:45:24 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: <1/1,000,000th%

That’s not him.

http://twitchy.com/2014/08/15/st-louis-police-org-no-thats-not-the-darren-wilson-who-shot-michael-brown-photo/


155 posted on 08/15/2014 8:45:26 AM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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To: harwood; MNDude
The officer is black! Haaaahahahahahaha! What a friggin joke, the whole thing. I'm wiping tears. What's next?

These people (yes THESE people) are the killer bees of the human race. They produce nothing and are provoked by nothing. Just getting too close to the nest is enough to stir the whole swarm to a homicidal frenzy.

156 posted on 08/15/2014 8:47:12 AM PDT by PeteePie (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: BunnySlippers

Very interesting that they burned the QT isn’t it?


157 posted on 08/15/2014 8:47:18 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: shoedog

I’m waiting to see an actual confirmed picture of the officer. The fact that the MSM has not plastered the guys face every where,leads me to believe he is black. But I am going to wait.


158 posted on 08/15/2014 8:47:42 AM PDT by defconw (Both parties have clearly lost their minds!)
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To: BunnySlippers

Exactly.

People in general have become too quick to dismiss contradictory evidence when it crushes a particular favorite thought or theory.

Maybe human beings have always been this way but it seems easier in today’s world to believe in a “conspiracy” than face the ugly uncomfortable truth. At least for some.


159 posted on 08/15/2014 8:48:03 AM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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To: demshateGod

Was the QT where the robbery took place????


160 posted on 08/15/2014 8:48:04 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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