Sad, but true.
Exactly.
The cop was a pretty bad shot also.
It was racist of Officer Wilson to defend himself.
Step One.
Revrunt Sharpton will VILIFY the WITE MAN on his TV within the next 24 hours
Step Two...
T SHirts and Banners will appear In Ferguson Missouri and Chicago Illinois Insisting on the Arrest of Mark Fuhrman!
“Hey Hey Ho Ho...
this ole wite man got to go” courtesy of Jesse Jackson
The sad part about this is if and when the officer is exonerated, the riots will hit full pitch thanks to the idiot race-baiters in the media and politicians.
Thanks to them for whipping up the hysteria including Captain Midnight in the White House.
The Obama Marxist nation is like a cat covering up the lumps in the litterbox. Never quite finished and a new one pops up. Bad Kitty. Naughty Kitty!
His perception on the left is exactly what the problem w/ the POlice is seen to be.
Not only will it not convince anyone that Warren's actions were justified it will inflame additional passion on the left.
Don't shoot me, I'm just sayin'.
An Open Letter to Captain Ronald S. Johnson
Chief Ed Delmore |
I have to call you out.
I don’t care what the media says. I expect them to get it wrong and they often do. But I expect you as a veteran law enforcement commander—talking about law enforcement—to get it right.
Unfortunately, you blew it. After days of rioting and looting, last Thursday you were given command of all law enforcement operations in Ferguson by Governor Jay Nixon. St. Louis County PD was out, you were in. You played to the cameras, walked with the protestors and promised a kinder, gentler response. You were a media darling. And Thursday night things were better, much better.
But Friday, under significant pressure to do so, the Ferguson Police released the name of the officer involved in the shooting of Michael Brown. At the same time the Ferguson Police Chief released a video showing Brown committing a strong-arm robbery just 10 minutes before he was confronted by Officer Darren Wilson.
Many don’t like the timing of the release of the video. I don’t like that timing either. It should have been released sooner. It should have been released the moment FPD realized that Brown was the suspect.
Captain Johnson, your words during the day on Friday helped to fuel the anger that was still churning just below the surface. St. Louis County Police were told to remain uninvolved and that night the rioting and looting began again. For much too long it went on mostly unchecked. Retired St. Louis County Police Chief Tim Fitch tweeted that your “hug-a-looter” policy had failed.
Boy did it.
And your words contributed to what happened Friday night and on into the wee hours of Saturday. According to the St. Louis Post Dispatch, you said the following regarding the release of the video: “There was no need to release it,” Johnson said calling the reported theft and the killing entirely different events.
Well Captain, this veteran police officer feels the need to respond. What you said is, in common police vernacular—bullshit. The fact that Brown knew he had just committed a robbery before he was stopped by Officer Wilson speaks to Brown’s mindset. And Captain, the mindset of a person being stopped by a police officer means everything, and you know it.
Let’s consider a few examples:
On February 15, 1978 Pensacola Police Officer David Lee conducted a vehicle check. He didn’t know what the sole occupant of the vehicle had recently done, but the occupant did. Who was he? Serial killer Ted Bundy. Bundy attempted to disarm Lee. Lee was able to retain his firearm and eventually took Bundy into custody.
On April 19, 1995 Oklahoma State Trooper Charlie Hangar stopped a vehicle for minor traffic violations. He didn’t know that 90 minutes earlier the traffic violator, Timothy McVeigh, killed 168 people with a truck bomb at the Murrah Federal Building. But McVeigh sure knew it, didn’t he? Fortunately, given his training and experience Hangar was able to take McVeigh into custody for carrying a concealed firearm. It was days later before it was determined that McVeigh was responsible for the bombing.
On May 31, 2003 then-rookie North Carolina police officer, Jeff Postell, arrested a man digging in a trash bin on a grocery store parking lot—an infraction that would rise to about the level of jaywalking. Postell didn’t know that he had just captured Eric Rudolph, the man whom years earlier had killed and injured numerous people with bombs and was on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list.
So now, let’s consider Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson’s stop of Michael Brown. Apparently Wilson didn’t know that Brown had just committed a strong-arm robbery. But Brown did! And that Captain, is huge.
Allegedly, Brown pushed Wilson and attempted to take Wilson’s gun. We’re also being told that Officer Wilson has facial injuries suffered during the attempt by Brown to disarm him. Let’s assume for a moment those alleged acts by Brown actually occurred. Would Brown have responded violently to an officer confronting him about jaywalking? Maybe, but probably not.
Is it more likely that he would attack an officer believing that he was about to be taken into custody for a felony strong-arm robbery? Absolutely.
Officer Wilson survived the encounter with Brown as did Lee, Hangar, and Postell. Michael Brown didn’t survive and it’s too soon to say if Officer Wilson’s use of deadly force was justified and legal. You and I both know that not all officers survive such confrontations. Officers die in incidents like this Captain Johnson, including a couple that I remember from your own organization:
On April 15, 1985 Missouri Trooper Jimmie Linegar was shot and killed by a white supremacist he and his partner stopped at a checkpoint; neither Trooper Linegar nor his partner were aware that the man they had stopped had just been indicted by a federal grand jury for involvement in a neo-Nazi group accused of murder. The suspect immediately exited the vehicle and opened fire on him with an automatic weapon.
Just a month before, Missouri Trooper James M. Froemsdorf was shot and killed—with his own gun—after making a traffic stop. When the Trooper made that stop he didn’t know that the driver was wanted on four warrants out of Texas—But again the suspect knew it.
So Captain Johnson, I guess the mindset and recently committed crimes of the suspects that murdered those Missouri Troopers didn’t mean anything. The stops by the Troopers, as you have said, are entirely different events right?
Bullshit.
http://m.lawofficer.com/article/lifeline-training/open-letter-captain-ronald-s-j
In 1983 Fuhrman tried to get a disability retirement from the LAPD. He claimed that he had thoughts of violence and could no longer function as a police officer. The LAPD denied the request.
In 1996 Fuhrman was convicted of perjury, making him a felon. It was related to the OJ Simpson case. In that trial, Fuhrman was asked if he had used the n- word in the last 10 years. Fuhrman said no. The defense then produced multiple evidence that that was a lie.
This has stuck with me because after the Simpsontrial (a travesty if there ever was one) I read an article by lawyer. It was the lawyer's opinion the Simpson went free mainly because the jury was so disbelieving of Fuhrman. Maybe true, maybe not. But it does make some sense.
As far as as general public opinion is concerned, his opinion is considered valueless and suspect.
Unfair, but so is reality.
I can think of few things more worthless than the opinion of Mark Fuhrman. I hope this officer is exonerated, but this won’t be how it happens.
Good point. In the robbery video Nig Mike was walking away and then suddenly turned back and re-strong armed the clerk. It seems to be his modus operandus.
Unless Furhman has seen what the Ferguson Police and the prosecutors have then the only ‘evidence’ he has to base his claim on is the stuff floating around on the web and spread by the media.
Cops go through psychological assessments, interviews, psychiatrist examinations, lie detector tests; they're pretty solid people. How about we start with this, this individual was stopped for a reason, then displayed aggressive behavior, and now we have a sad ending. Jumping to conclusions and responding with more violence only will bring more skepticism and more violence. The media makes these into race stories and causes so much hatred and anger in society and the city in which the use of force occurs. That is the really sad part. It is the media which perpetuates racism to get a story.
<ark is my hero.
He was the best detective Los Angeles ever had.
Glad I no longer live there.
MARK is my hero.
He was the best detectives Los Angeles ever had.
Glad I no longer live there.
Of course, Mr. Fuhrman is 100% correct. However, he had been branded a ‘racist’ by the powers-that-were during the OJ trial. Therefore, he will have no credibility within the black community.