Posted on 08/29/2014 6:16:53 AM PDT by safetysign
Charles C. Johnson, the Editor-in-Chief of Got News and the investigator who debunked the Everytown shootings map, is suing the St. Louis County Court to release Ferguson shooting victim Michael Brown’s juvenile arrest records. As relayed by the website YoungCons.com, Johnson claims that he has “confirmed” Michael Brown was arrested in a case involving second-degree murder: record Johnson earlier reported on Twitter that he had two contacts in the St. Louis Police Department tell him that Michael Brown had a juvenile criminal record, thus prompting the lawsuit: record2 The reporter has been challenged on his rationale for seeking the juvenile records of Brown, and this is his response today: lawyers As reported by Ryan Gorman of AOL News, the citizen journalist wants the alleged arrest records released to the public: “To find out if those police officers are correct requires seeing Brown’s juvenile arrest record, which ought to be freely available given that he is dead and therefore has no right to privacy remaining,” insists Johnson.
“Knowing the truth about Brown’s past will help us gauge the credibility of his parents and family who have called him a ‘gentle giant.’”
Attorney Johnathon Burns, who is arguing the case, told KMOX that since the teen is deceased, his records are no longer sealed. The lawsuit follows below, via SCRIBD: Lawsuit to Release Michael Brown Juvenile Record
The lack of transparency involving the Michael Brown shooting was a major factor in the conflagration in Ferguson. After the initial reports of the Ferguson shooting arose, numerous major news media outlets jumped on the story to frame it as a racially prejudiced police officer shooting an unarmed “gentle giant” when he either had his hands up or was running away. When video surveillance photos of Michael Brown surfaced, the media questioned the police’s release of the information, which the Holder Justice Department wanted withheld from the public. The story of the strong-arm robbery accomplice Dorian Johnson that Brown was running away appears to be falsified with an initial autopsy failing to show gunshots in the back of Michael Brown. The police deparment’s version of the story, as well as that of Wilson’s friend, and an unidentified witness commenting on the case, appear to corroborate the story that Brown continued to come at the officer after being initially fired at. The background evidence of the strong-arm robbery and any prior criminal incidents speak to the potential state of mind of Michael Brown during the fatal confrontation. In any event, since the Ferguson rioting, the matter of Michael Brown’s death and how it occurred is a matter of public interest. The facts of the case must be divulged to the public, and that is the only way the second-guessing and the speculation will end. CBS News reported a hearing for the lawsuit is scheduled for September 3rd.
Brown was shot in self defence by a police officer with a damaged eye, blurring vision, with Brown rushing him straight on for a 2nd assault.
Brown deserved what he got for assaulting a police officer and causing grievious bodily harm. I want to see the result of a complete toxicology report. That info. seems to have gone under the rug.
Gentle Giant? Brown was a gentle piece of shit, hoodwinking his parents at home and bullying his peers and the neighborhood. He was out of control. The police did exactly what they should have done with Brown.
No he didn't do that, he expressed regret and sympathy for Foley and his family.
Good try at marginalizing someone who is digging up facts quite well.
If the officer was truly only racially motivated in his shooting of an unarmed black teen, why didn’t he also shoot Johnson, the main witness who is also black? It seems to me one can’t argue that the officer is a deranged killer shooting one of the black victims but I guess kind enough to spare the other.
I read a while back that the authorities have said DJ won’t be charged with anything regarding the C-store issue, Brown did hand him a box of cigars but DJ put it back on the counter and took no further activity there.
I heard his lawyer say that.
That’s being seen more and more as the case.
Just a large turd that got flushed.
He helped himself to stogies at the Quckie Mart,
Excitable Boy they all said,
And roughed up the clerk as he made his depart,
Excitable Boy they all said!!
This is big!
Wilson’s lawyers should demand the release of the “Gentle Giant’s” juvie reords.
Whenever there’s a crisis
The President sends his home-boy in
Holder in St. Louis
Let the charges of racism begin
Yeeee-ahhhh
Dorian Johnson needs to be charged.
But can the people of MO understand that? Maybe we can “show them”, but I am skeptical.
Question for any legal types on this board. Would the info in Brown’s juvenile criminal history be available under discovery for the defense in criminal or civil court? I think it would as it goes to show the character of Brown.
A report this morning on CNN was unclear, but they made it sound like a judge ruled against the release of records already?
A report this morning on CNN was unclear, but they made it sound like a judge ruled against the release of records already?
I see here that the judge has taken it under advisement
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/43c9bbbb-356f-5ea6-b9e2-7dde7e3e5c83.html
I hear he was in the church choir, visited homeless shelters, and delivered food baskets to senior shut-ins in his spare time.
> I hear he was in the church choir, visited homeless
> shelters, and delivered food baskets to senior shut-ins in
> his spare time.
Yes, and he mentored kids having a tough time in school, took out the trash and washed the dishes, too.
His beloved mama said she NEVER saw a hint of aggressiveness in the boy-—except once when Michael hit a high note in the church choir.
> His beloved mama said she NEVER saw a hint of
> aggressiveness in the boy-—except once when Michael hit a
> high note in the church choir.
LOLOL!!!
And Trayvon’s grillework was because he was too poor to get good dental care.
And that wasn’t a gang sign he was making with his hand, that was Ameslan for “love”.
And that wasn’t a single-digit expletive gesture, he was in the middle of counting to two.
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