Posted on 08/02/2015 9:35:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A year ago Darren Wilson killed Michael Brown. What has followed has been the greatest national reckoning on racism since the beating of Rodney King.
On Aug. 9, one year ago, Officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown after a brief scuffle in the middle of a small street in Ferguson, Missouri. There wasn’t any video of the encounter, but many bystanders and local residents saw the aftermath. For four hours, Brown’s body sat in the summer sun, slumped and face down, blood pooling in the street where he was killed. Neighbors, shocked at the violence and the police’s disrespect for Brown’s corpse, took photos and shared video. “They killed him for no reason … they just killed this n—er for no reason,” said one man in a video recorded just after shooting. “Do you see a knife? Do you see anything that would have caused a threat to these [expletive] police? They shot that boy because they wanted to shoot that boy in the middle of the [expletive] day in the middle of the [expletive] street.”
But Brown wasn’t the first unarmed black person killed by police officers in 2014, although he was the first to inspire mass demonstrations, riots, and an unprecedented, draconian police response of armored vehicles, automatic weapons, and tear gas. He wasn’t even the first unarmed black person killed that summer. That was Eric Garner, a Staten Island man who was killed a month earlier. In the video of his arrest and death, he’s surrounded by police, arguing. “I didn’t do nothing,” he tells an officer. “Every time you see me, you want to harass me, you want to stop me.” An officer puts him in a chokehold, while others hold him face down on the sidewalk. He pleads, “I can’t breathe,” but police continue...
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
Another one for the fire.
Compared to Bammy, he looks authentic. And after all, what really matters?
Is Slate busy writing a story on the Memphis officer murdered this weekend?
Michael and Cecil the Lion are together now in MSM heaven.
Yeah, about how he had it comin’ and how to off the next pig, and $#*+... That’s what you meant, right?
Never mind the truth of the matter, the hatred, guilt, and lies continue. Never let the truth get in the way of your hatred for the truth, your blindness to the truth and your continued racism, nothing else matters. Who is the racist and what are you trying to promulgate other than lies and more lies? Please tell me.
Slate scum are probably celebrating that shooting.
[For four hours, Brown’s body sat in the summer sun, slumped and face down, blood pooling in the street where he was killed. Neighbors, shocked at the violence and the police’s disrespect for Brown’s corpse, took photos and shared video.]
Depending on where a homicide occurs it takes time for certified forensics officials to reach the scene. Sometimes these technicians come from state government and must travel hundreds of miles.
Ferguson may actually knock off Hiroshima and Nagasaki for this year’s early August media angst-fest for a change.
Oddly enough 100 years ago Birth of a Nation was released and it changed race relations too.
Both about as accurate in their portrayal of current events too.
Now that we got this Jamelle’s vomitus, how ‘bout hearing from Baba Bouie ?
Slate’s breathless, predictable hyperbole written by a frowning black man wearing birth control glasses.
Thanks, Vet. I needed a laugh.
Just imagine if the sainted gentle giant hadn’t been robbing stores using brute force, thuggin’ and threatening & running at cops, he’d have gone home that day in one piece. I guess asking certain groups of people to behave themselves (like everyone else) is just beyond the pale.
Jammy looks a bit like Zero, Senior.
Race grievance is a very lucrative business.. now on to some federal government facts. Then more people should pay attention to documented facts not a list of victims of police.. which in a few of the cases mentioned the policeman was at fault.
Which begs the question.. how many blacks and whites who killed policeman were at fault?
Federal crime statistics are a rebuttal to the race-grievance industry lies.
See Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA) and Arrest related Deaths (ARD) with links to FBI sources.
Column 11 Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA) by race of killer
See Column 12. Arrest-Related Deaths (ARD) by race of person being arrested.
“What difference does it make?!”
I’m coming less and less to give a damn what the seeming majority of blacks understand - or more likely don’t - as they appear to regard it as some sort of honor to be even more stupid than the majority of whites in American society, given the state of public education, holding to it as an accomplishment to actually be proud of.
I’m still waiting for someone to speak out for the little brown man who was robbed and assaulted.
All of this is Lincolns fault.
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