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Obama Administration Plans Autopsy of Michael Brown in Effort to Keep Peace
New York Times ^ | August 17, 2014 | MICHAEL D. SHEAR and MATT APUZZO

Posted on 08/18/2014 6:10:41 AM PDT by reaganaut1

EDGARTOWN, Mass. — Senior White House aides have made repeated, urgent phone calls to Gov. Jay Nixon of Missouri, to state police officials and to civil rights leaders in recent days as President Obama’s administration becomes more deeply involved in trying to maintain peace in Ferguson and to ensure an independent investigation of the fatal shooting of an unarmed African-American teenager by a white police officer.

White House officials also said Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who is the administration’s most outspoken voice on racial issues, had been in frequent touch with the governor and State Highway Patrol in Missouri as angry protests continued to simmer there. Mr. Holder is scheduled to provide a formal briefing to the president in Washington on Monday, officials said. Both men were returning Sunday from Martha’s Vineyard, where they had been vacationing for the past week.

Mr. Holder announced Sunday that a federal medical examiner would conduct an independent autopsy of Michael Brown, the 18-year-old who was shot Aug. 9 in Ferguson by Officer Darren Wilson. Officials said the decision was the result of “extraordinary circumstances” in the case, and was part of a civil rights investigation the F.B.I. is conducting.

The order for an additional autopsy may also help the Obama administration to reassure Mr. Brown’s family and others who are suspicious of the state’s investigation and are eager for an independent inquiry, something that Mr. Holder promised the family personally.

Brian Fallon, a Justice Department spokesman, said the department would also consider the results of the first, state-conducted autopsy. There was no indication that federal investigators saw any problems with the local examination. The family has also had a private autopsy conducted.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: autopsy; blackkk; ferguson; michaelbrown; missouri
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More NYT BS. By acting as if the state and local police cannot be trusted to investigate the death, Holder is throwing gasoline on the fire.

I doubt the article's assertion that Obama is working hard at anything in Martha's Vineyard, and even if he is, this should not be a federal matter.

1 posted on 08/18/2014 6:10:41 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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To: reaganaut1

“Keeping Peace”

is the furthest thing from their actual motives.

Agitation serves their agenda,
peace does not.


2 posted on 08/18/2014 6:12:25 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: reaganaut1

If the first pathologist has any sense he will subject the corpse to full-body MRI before handing it over the to evidence-manufacturing division of the Department of JustUs.


3 posted on 08/18/2014 6:12:48 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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The family had their own autopsy. WTH do the feds need another one for?


4 posted on 08/18/2014 6:15:18 AM PDT by TexasGator
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They’re going to continue carving up the young man until they get the results they’re looking for.


5 posted on 08/18/2014 6:17:28 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: TexasGator

The Feds act as if anyone believes them. That’s a laugh. By the time they get done with this perp’s body, it will look like mince meat laying there.


6 posted on 08/18/2014 6:17:42 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: TexasGator

They will keep desecrating the body until they “find” evidence that supports their agenda.


7 posted on 08/18/2014 6:18:38 AM PDT by null and void (If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
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To: reaganaut1

What does that even mean ‘keep peace’?


8 posted on 08/18/2014 6:18:49 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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Obama Administration Plans Autopsy of Michael Brown in Effort to Keep Peace Stoke the Fire

FIFY

9 posted on 08/18/2014 6:19:24 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (Health Care Haiku: If You Have a Right / To the Labor I Provide / I Must Be Your Slave)
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I'm of a mind to hope there is yet another autopsy after the Fed autopsy. I don't trust Holder's crowd to do honest work.
10 posted on 08/18/2014 6:19:40 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: fatnotlazy

Beat me by 1:10...


11 posted on 08/18/2014 6:19:41 AM PDT by null and void (If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
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To: Altura Ct.

It means that they will as always dither to pretend to be doing something to resolve an issue totally beyond their control

The autopsy will provide fodder for a speech that allows the propagandists to blather balderdash about the dither


12 posted on 08/18/2014 6:21:54 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: null and void

Brilliant minds think alike. :)


13 posted on 08/18/2014 6:22:04 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: reaganaut1

“Administration Plans Autopsy of Michael Brown in Desperate Effort to Keep Riling up Its Base For the Midterm Elections.”

The New York Times isn’t fit to train puppies.


14 posted on 08/18/2014 6:22:35 AM PDT by Junk Silver
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Holder/0bama ... it's already been done by Brown's own family, you douchebags.

Autopsy Shows Michael Brown Was Struck at Least 6 Times (All shots in front ... iow 'witness'/accomplice Johnson LIED)

15 posted on 08/18/2014 6:22:55 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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Just one memento from the most famous "federal autopsy" I am aware of.
16 posted on 08/18/2014 6:23:06 AM PDT by John W (Summer of Recovery VI: This Time We're Serious)
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as President Obama’s administration becomes more deeply involved in trying to maintain peace in Ferguson

If you like peace, you can keep it. (ya sure).

17 posted on 08/18/2014 6:24:23 AM PDT by MulberryDraw (Repeal it.)
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in Effort to Keep Peace

in Effort to Fan Flames

Fixed it.

18 posted on 08/18/2014 6:25:28 AM PDT by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Rempublicam)
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To: reaganaut1

BS, the Obama administration and his hacks at Justice are praying for some evidence to conduct a legal lynching.


19 posted on 08/18/2014 6:27:28 AM PDT by armydawg505
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““The sheer number of bullets and the way they were scattered all over his body showed this police officer had a brazen disregard for the very people he was supposed to protect in that community,” Mr. Crump said. “We want to make sure people understand what this case is about: This case is about a police officer executing a young unarmed man in broad daylight.””

Translation: The cop should have just shot him one time in the head like they do in the movies.


20 posted on 08/18/2014 6:27:44 AM PDT by TexasGator
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