‘Hands up, don’t shoot’ was built on a lie

Washington Post ^ | March 16, 2015 | Jonathan Capehart

[Second Amendment First]

The late evening of Aug. 9, 2014, I couldn’t sleep. I was due to substitute-anchor MSNBC’s “UP with Steve Kornacki” and should have been asleep. But after looking at my Twitter feed and reading the rage under #Ferguson, I felt compelled to type a reaction to the killing of Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson. Tying the shooting to the inane whine of certain politicians about a “war on whites,” I decried the next morning the death of yet another unarmed black man at the hands of a white police officer.

In those early hours and early days, there was more unknown than known. But this month, the Justice Department released two must-read investigations connected to the killing of Brown that filled in blanks, corrected the record and brought sunlight to dark places by revealing ugly practices that institutionalized racism and hardship. They have also forced me to deal with two uncomfortable truths: Brown never surrendered with his hands up, and Wilson was justified in shooting Brown.

[11th Commandment]

BOY, nothing gets by that WASHINGTON POST !!!!!!

[Second Amendment First]

I don’t usually agree with Jonathan Capehart.

[day10]

Do ya think?!?!?!?

[attiladhun2]

‘Hands up, don’t shoot’ was built on a lie

No $#!+ Sherlock!

[ealgeone]

Facts are irrelevant. Truth is irrelevant.

The narrative is all that matters.

[haircutter]

B.HUSSEIN OBAMA’S ENTIRE PRESIDENCY IS BUILT ON LIES..

Nothing new to read here..lets move on

NEXT TOPIC?

[MrB]

I’ve come to understand that truth is racist.

[seeker41]

The entire world seems to be built on a lie these days! Being honest seems to be an anomaly...

[stephenjohnbanker]

“I don’t usually agree with Jonathan Capehart.”

Telling the truth after all the damage has been done. What a brave man.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Umm...

Too late.

[tophat9000]

Dam..some looking in the mirror and sober refection.. from a sometime msnbc Host, writing in the Washington Post ???!!!????... maybe that east coast winter froze over hell but I will take it as a glimmer of hope

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The story teaser line on the Wash Post OpEd section [front page]:

“The Justice Dept. report on the shooting of Michael Brown forced me to face uncomfortable truths.”

[Pollster1]

I don’t generally agree with Jonathan Capehart, but it is nice to see someone on his side noticing facts. Good for him!

[El Cid]

They have also forced me to deal with two uncomfortable truths: Brown never surrendered with his hands up, and Wilson was justified in shooting Brown

Well, knock me down with a feather. Often when people have swallowed the lie, and run with it, the lie becomes their new reality - facts be damned.

[Hugin]

They have also forced me to deal with two uncomfortable truths: Brown never surrendered with his hands up, and Wilson was justified in shooting Brown.

Why should the fact that the officer acted correctly and there was no miscarriage of justice be an "uncomfortable truth"? Most people would be relieved by finding that out.

Answer; because exposes the author and his leftie media cohorts lying, agenda driven pseudo journalism.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Any objective, common sense human being would have known immediately that “Obamabot Gentle Giant”, thug, Michael Brown was a “would be cop killer” who deserved exactly what he got!!! End of story!!! African-American are badly adrift at sea without either a rudder or paddle, and certainly, no real worthwhile, leadership. You base a society on freebies and handouts....this is the result....low life, riots and destruction!!! Come on, only one hundred (100) people went on the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama....you got to be kidding.....MLK, the great man and American, must be crying and turning over in his grave at the vermin running loose these days in Ferguson, MO!!! Obama, Inc. is destroying American Blacks and the Republic at the same time!!! Sad!!!

[vpintheak]

REALLY!??? On the ball, they are!

[econjack]

... the false Ferguson narrative stuck because of concern over a distressing pattern of other police killings of unarmed African American men and boys around the time of Brown’s death. Eric Garner was killed on a Staten Island street on July 17. John Crawford III was killed in a Wal-Mart in Beavercreek, Ohio, on Aug. 5, four days before Brown. Levar Jones survived being shot by a South Carolina state trooper on Sept. 4. Tamir Rice, 12 years old, was killed in a Cleveland park on Nov. 23, the day before the Ferguson grand jury opted not to indict Wilson. Sadly, the list has grown longer.

True, these things have happened and this Republic would be better off if that were not the case. That said, however, to keep a posture of "balanced reporting", shouldn't you construct a list of blacks who killed white policemen, too? I have a feeling that list would be disproportionately larger.

[Bitsy]

Facts are irrelevant. Truth is irrelevant.
The narrative is all that matters.

It also holds true for our history. As long as a bone head leftist professor at an elite university says it that’s all that matters.