Posted on 09/14/2015 9:06:47 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
An independent commission in the state of Missouri has released what it calls the "people's report" on the issues that it concludes ultimately led to riots last year after a Ferguson police officer killed unarmed Michael Brown.
In nearly 200 pages of recommendations and conclusions, the commission not only targets police departments and court systems, but it analyzes broader societal and generational issues that the authors say must be addressed to make the state "stronger, fairer" for everyone.
Among the issues addressed, the commission cites inequalities and "unconscious bias" at schools, and hunger throughout the state, where more than one out of every five children live in homes that have to worry about their next meal, according to the commission's report.
http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releases/attachments/2015/03/04/doj_report_on_shooting_of_michael_brown_1.pdf
[01] The evidence, when viewed as a whole, does not support the conclusion that Wilson’s uses of deadly force were “objectively unreasonable” under the Supreme Court’s definition. (Page 5)
[02] when the store clerk tried to stop Brown, Brown used his physical size to stand over him and forcefully shove him away. (Page 6)
[03] Wilson was aware of the theft and had a description of the suspects as he encountered Brown and Witness 101. (Page 6)
[04] Autopsy results and bullet trajectory, skin from Brown’s palm on the outside of the SUV door as well as Brown’s DNA on the inside of the driver’s door corroborate Wilson’s account that during the struggle, Brown used his right hand to grab and attempt to control Wilson’s gun. (Page 6)
[05] there is no credible evidence to disprove Wilson’s account of what occurred inside the SUV. (Page 7)
[06] autopsy results confirm that Wilson did not shoot Brown in the back as he was running away because there were no entrance wounds to Brown’s back. (Page 7)
[07] witnesses who originally stated Brown had his hands up in surrender recanted their original accounts (Page 8)
[08] several witnesses stated that Brown appeared to pose a physical threat to Wilson as he moved toward Wilson. (Page 8)
[09] The physical evidence also establishes that Brown moved forward toward Wilson after he turned around to face him. The physical evidence is corroborated by multiple eyewitnesses. (Page 10)
[10] evidence does not establish that it was unreasonable for Wilson to perceive Brown as a threat while Brown was punching and grabbing him in the SUV and attempting to take his gun. (Page 11)
[11] Wilson’s account is corroborated by physical evidence and that his perception of a threat posed by Brown is corroborated by other eyewitnesses (Page 12)
[12] Wilson’s account was consistent with those results, and consistent with the accounts of other independent eyewitnesses, whose accounts were also consistent with the physical evidence. Wilson’s statements were consistent with each other in all material ways, and would not be subject to effective impeachment for inconsistencies or deviation from the physical evidence.8 Therefore, in analyzing all of the evidence, federal prosecutors found Wilson’s account to be credible. (Page 16)
[13] Witness accounts suggesting that Brown was standing still with his hands raised in an unambiguous signal of surrender when Wilson shot Brown are inconsistent with the physical evidence, are otherwise not credible because of internal inconsistencies, or are not credible because of inconsistencies with other credible evidence. (Page 78)
[14] Multiple credible witnesses corroborate virtually every material aspect of Wilson’s account and are consistent with the physical evidence. (Page 78)
[15] several of these witnesses stated that they would have felt threatened by Brown and would have responded in the same way Wilson did. (Page 82)
[16] there are no witnesses who could testify credibly that Wilson shot Brown while Brown was clearly attempting to surrender. (Page 83)
[17] There is no witness who has stated that Brown had his hands up in surrender whose statement is otherwise consistent with the physical evidence. (Page 83)
[18] The media has widely reported that there is witness testimony that Brown said “don’t shoot” as he held his hands above his head. In fact, our investigation did not reveal any eyewitness who stated that Brown said “don’t shoot.” (Page 83)
[19] Wilson did not know that Brown was not armed at the time he shot him, and had reason to suspect that he might be when Brown reached into the waistband of his pants as he advanced toward Wilson. (Page 84)
[20] Wilson did not have time to determine whether Brown had a gun and was not required to risk being shot himself in order to make a more definitive assessment.
[21] In addition, even assuming that Wilson definitively knew that Brown was not armed, Wilson was aware that Brown had already assaulted him once and attempted to gain control of his gun. (Page 85)
[22] Wilson has a strong argument that he was justified in firing his weapon at Brown as he continued to advance toward him and refuse commands to stop, and the law does not require Wilson to wait until Brown was close enough to physically assault Wilson. (Page 85)
[23] we must avoid substituting our personal notions of proper police procedure for the instantaneous decision of the officer at the scene. We must never allow the theoretical, sanitized world of our imagination to replace the dangerous and complex world that policemen face every day.” (Page 85)
[24] “It may appear, in the calm aftermath, that an officer could have taken a different course, but we do not hold the police to such a demanding standard.” (citing Gardner v. Buerger, 82 F.3d 248, 251 (8th Cir. 1996) (same))). Rather, where, as here, an officer points his gun at a suspect to halt his advance, that suspect should be on notice that “escalation of the situation would result in the use of the firearm.” Estate of Morgan at 498. An officer is permitted to continue firing until the threat is neutralized. See Plumhoff v. Rickard, 134 S.Ct. 2012, 2022 (2014) (“Officers need not stop shooting until the threat has ended”). For all of the reasons stated, Wilson’s conduct in shooting Brown as he advanced on Wilson, and until he fell to the ground, was not objectively unreasonable and thus not a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 242. (Page 85)
[25] Given that Wilson’s account is corroborated by physical evidence and that his perception of a threat posed by Brown is corroborated by other eyewitnesses, to include aspects of the testimony of Witness 101, there is no credible evidence that Wilson willfully shot Brown as he was attempting to surrender or was otherwise not posing a threat. (Page 86)
For the reasons set forth above, this matter lacks prosecutive merit and should be closed.
Hunger !?!
In the middle of an obesity epidemic these people are claiming HUNGER is causing them to riot!!?!?!
ROFL!
what a complete joke
Sure. And does Wilson get his job and reputation back? Does he get an apology from the America-hating black crowd for sacrificing him to the great god of political correctness?
Stalin would approve.
Here’s a few things that should be added ......
- A lot more blacks need to take some responsibility. All the illegitimate births are beneath a civilized society.
- Enough of the baby daddy garbage (regardless of race). They need to be fixed if they cannot behave like a responsible parent.
- All parents (regardless of race) need to take responsibility for their children.
- It’s past time to get some decent moral values.
Michael Brown didn’t appear to suffer from hunger.
Bastardity and fatherlessness caused by liberal welfare policies is the underlying cause.
Fix that and you fix the problem.
Was fatso Michael Brown so stricken with hunger that he mistakenly stole cigars instead of food?
A laundry list of leftist complaints.
One of the ‘broad changes’ should be that Soros shouldn’t fund these things, and the muslim in chief shouldn’t send his ‘representatives’ to butt in!!!
“broad change”???
The FemiNazis might have a problem with this!
Police officer shoots a thug and blacks burn down other blacks businesses......some one explain that to me!!!!
The muslim in chief had a great opportunity to show these people what they could be, granted he’s only half black...
Moosebutt, being all black, could have shown all the black women and children what great opportunities they had if they did certain things....
But no, the muslim in chief was to busy getting his muslim brotherhood lined up to destroy American, and play golf, and give the ‘low lives’ anything they wanted to get them to shut up...
Moosebutt was to busy shoving crap down our kids throats, the kind of food she doesn’t even eat, and to busy going on vacations every month on our dime....
You want to change something, lead by example and that’s exactly what the black people are doing....
Ferguson Commission Report
http://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?embed=true&id=2413166-fergusoncommissionreport-091415
Burn down the KFC and then complain about hunger.....sheesh!
#TruthMatters
“Calls for Broad Change”
Is this more of the ‘War on Women’?
ABC found the silly, but they didn’t recognize it.
downloadable pdf
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2413166/fergusoncommissionreport-091415.pdf
Michael wasn’t hungry when he stole from the ‘Quickie-Mart’, he was after Swisher Sweets to roll up a blunt to get high.
Who are you going to believe...clueless libs or your own lying eyes? lol
The "hunger crisis" is another liberal generated scam to make people think a capitalist country can't feed its people. The fact is Americans are on average the fattest people in the world. If there's one thing that's not a problem in this country, it's large numbers of hungry people.
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