Posted on 12/01/2014 7:42:38 AM PST by detective
The murder bore some earmarks of a hit. The young man was found behind the wheel of his white Pontiac Grand Prix, shot to death through the driver’s side window. There also was possibly something unique about him:
That he might have witnessed the Michael Brown shooting.
The young man was 20-year-old DeAndre Joshua, widely reported as the first casualty of the Ferguson riots. He was found dead Monday night mere yards from where robbery suspect Brown was shot in self-defense by Officer Darren Wilson on August 9. And Joshua’s alleged status as a possible witness to that fateful summer incident is raising some eyebrows.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...
Is it in anticipation of new charges against Officer Wilson by the Obama DOJ?
Officer Wilson still faces some civil charges from the thugs family, I believe?
If you can’t get to Ft. Marcy Park bring the park to you!
DOJ would have to go in front of a federal grand jury and show the same evidence. A majority would have to agree, and it’s hard to say it would change. I would also that if the Fed case were put in front of a regional grand jury and they tossed it out like this group did.....the whole reputation of President Obama would drain out rather quickly. They’d say he could not deliver.
For this reason, I don’t think the DOJ will attempt the case. It’d really bring down their entire reputation to fail in such a grand jury setting.
....Brown was shot in self-defense by Officer Darren Wilson...
WOW, first time I have seen it stated in text like this. Hats off to this writer.
Could the bar ever possibly be any lower?
Thanks for posting. The police silence as to the motives for the killing would seem to indicate Joshua was a Grand Jury Witness.
At some point someone will leak the information as to whether Joshua was or was not a witness.
Shot IN THE HEAD AND BURNED
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cops-body-of-man-found-in-car-in-ferguson-was-burned/
Pressure sure can work remarkably well when the recipient of said pressure is a retired florist, software developer, teacher, bank teller, dentist...or anyone who might be vaguely concerned about perhaps suffering a bizarre, one-vehicle, fatal, accident while driving home.
I know that I am being completely overly-dramatic and that President Obama and Eric Holder would never be personally involved in such a "message" being delivered...yet one can certainly envision something like that happening with this crooked administration.
I hope that someone let them know that their addresses and personal information were made public.
I’d like to see their responses. Probably scared to death. Especially, if they have families. And there are always nuts out there that will try to do something.
Good luck to them and I hope that they learned something.
They believed it was in the public interest to give out the address of this fine officer so now I think it is in the interest they should have to get their address up there..
In my opinion they did it to see the goon squad kill this officer and yes kill his wife and new baby also..That was their idea of a news story..
Yup. And “get the scoop.” Could be like NBC and the Pinto of a few years ago.
Or maybe they were too stupid to realize what might happen. Or maybe they thought that no one would do it to them, ya know... ivory tower Liberals.
Either way, they probably now live in fear and are contemplating moving. Worst of all, their pictures were posted, too. Not good.
If the DOJ were inclined to bring charges against Wilson, they most certainly would NOT have to "show the same evidence." Prosecutors are under no obligation to do what the St. Louis prosecutor did here by showing all of the evidence (inculpatory and exculpatory), and most do not.
That said, I think a Federal prosecution here is highly, highly unlikely. Not only would such a prosecution have to overcome Wilson's (very strong) self-defense argument, but a federal prosecution would also need to prove that Wilson acted specifically because of racial prejudice. Even if the DOJ could prove that the shooting was not justified (e.g., in a hypothetical world where Brown did not, in fact, present a threat to Wilson), that alone would not be enough to sustain a federal prosecution.
I doubt that. I think the NY Times writers (a) saw that Wilson's address (or, rather, the name of his street) had been published months ago, right after the shooting, and (b) did not even consider the consequences of publishing it again, in the middle of everything going on in Ferguson and elsewhere, and right before the grand jury announcement (the announcement had not been made at the time the article was published, but there were reports that it was forthcoming).
Where is ERIC the RED on this atrocity?
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