Posted on 08/15/2014 12:36:56 PM PDT by IChing
Breaking new revelations in the controversy over the police shooting of 18-year old Michael Brown have not only changed the narrative completely, they probably guarantee that the police officer in question, Dennis Wilson, will be exonerated.
If not for new video evidence showing a person who has been positively identified as Brown committing strong-arm robbery nearby (at the same store which was looted and burned in the aftermath of his death), and just prior to the shooting incident, officer Wilson might have been railroaded as George Zimmerman nearly was last year, and falsely convicted of a very serious crime.
Lo and behold; the key witness at the scene of the shooting was Brown’s companion, Dorian Johnson, now revealed by published police reports to have been positively identified as being involved in the robbery himself. That means his account of what happened is not credible in the slightest, besides being logically impossible and absurd to begin with.
Still images released from the damning store surveillance video show the massive, giant Brown physically manhandling and shoving the much smaller store clerk when the clerk tries to prevent Brown from exiting the premises with stolen items, items which the official incident report (also just recently published online) describes having been handed off to Brown’s companion.
VIDEO LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbsiFFPPdW4
At first, things were not looking very good for Wilson. Multiple “eyewitnesses” went on record in the media over the last few days, claiming that Wilson needlessly gunned Brown down in the street while Brown was running away, then firing more shots into Brown after he allegedly stopped, turned, and put his hands in the air.
While those witnesses do not dispute that there had been an altercation between Brown and Wilson at the door of Wilson’s patrol car, along with an initial gunshot by Wilson from inside the vehicle, they nonetheless insist that Brown had been doing nothing wrong except walking in the middle of the street with his friend before being violently accosted by Wilson “for no reason” other than jaywalking.
Brown’s companion, Johnson, alleged that Wilson had first reached up through the window from inside the car and grabbed the 6′ 4,” 300lb Brown by the neck–an unlikely and virtually impossible scenario, based on the reality of physical circumstances. Johnson also claimed that Wilson then tried to pull Brown into the vehicle with him, which also makes no sense whatsoever in terms of tactics.
From the start, the police version has been that Brown attacked Wilson when the officer tried to exit his patrol car to confront him; Brown shoved Wilson back inside the vehicle and proceeded to beat him and grab for his gun, prompting Wilson to shoot Brown in self-defense, inside the vehicle.
Official reports are that officer Wilson has lacerations and contusions on his face from Brown beating him, and a spent shell casing was retrieved from inside the patrol car.
The newly discovered fact that Wilson confronted Brown not merely for jaywalking, but for robbery (a violent crime) means that Wilson not only had a perfectly good reason to shoot Brown in the first place–self defense of his own life when Brown attacked him and tried to grab his gun–but that after that, Wilson was also justified in shooting Brown if he indeed fled. Use of deadly force policy warrants it if the person is deemed at the time to be a further threat to the community, which after the act of robbery and of trying to kill a cop, Brown certainly would have been.
After those first shots, whether or Brown was actually capable of voluntarily stopping and surrendering, as his friends allege, is so dubious as to be not even worthy of a grand jury’s consideration. But as with the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman fiasco, there will probably still be an official push for the mobs to be appeased, to whatever extent.
Adding fuel to the fire of massive protests, looting, arson, and violent rioting sparked by the false narrative pounced upon and spread across the land by Trayvon Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump (who swooped in and cliented-up faster than you can say “Black Grievance Industry”), none other than Barack Hussein Obama himself once more contaminated what would have been the jury pool in the case, abusing his powerful office yet again (as he did in the similarly racially-charged Trayvon Martin and Henry Louis Gates controversies) by commenting on a local law enforcement matter, expressing prejudicial sympathy for one side–the BGI side–in an official White House press release and televised remarks before any facts were vetted.
Ignoring the police department’s account of what happened, and the jeopardy posed to the life of the officer, Obama expressed only outright sympathy for the Michael Brown camp. On TV, Obama said:
“We lost a young man, Michael brown, in heartbreaking and tragic circumstances. He was 18 years old, and his family will never hold Michael in their arms again.”
The Obama White House also issued an official press release, “Statement by the President on the Passing of Michael Brown“:
The death of Michael Brown is heartbreaking, and Michelle and I send our deepest condolences to his family and his community at this very difficult time. As Attorney General Holder has indicated, the Department of Justice is investigating the situation along with local officials, and they will continue to direct resources to the case as needed. I know the events of the past few days have prompted strong passions, but as details unfold, I urge everyone in Ferguson, Missouri, and across the country, to remember this young man through reflection and understanding. We should comfort each other and talk with one another in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds. Along with our prayers, that’s what Michael and his family, and our broader American community, deserve. As usual, Obama’s message is easily understood: Always assume that a black person who met with an unfavorable fate didn’t deserve it, and therefore, grieve over it.
Someone needs to tell president Skittles and his sons that robbery and attempted cop-killing result in the deserved, justified use of deadly force against the perpetrator, regardless of skin color.
As with the Trayvon Martin case, mainstream sources are running only the non-thuggish pictures of Brown–pictures of him smiling and posing with family, and pictures of him as a young child and toddler. You have to turn to non-mainstream sources to see pics of the thuggish, adult, aspiring rap star Brown, posing with other thuggish-looking black men, flashing gang signs and flipping the double middle fingers of the criminal gangsta-rap subculture.
One of Brown’s last Facebook posts was, “If I leave this earth today, at least you’ll know I care about others more than I cared about my damn self.” Very eerie. Or, did the gangsta-thug Brown deliberately seek out a confrontation with police, and successfully force his own “suicide by cop”? Seems to me there’s a good chance that he did.
I strongly suggest you actually read the article.
Regarding the issue of Darren Wilson not knowing that Michael Brown had just robbed the store: So this shows that Wilson knew nothing about the robbery and Brown did because he committed the robbery. Was Brown agitated? Do you know how many cops have died when they pull over a car at a traffic stop and the persons inside the car have just committed a crime but the cop doesn’t know that they committed a crime? The assailants/robbers think that the cop making a traffic stop knows.
After all, what do FACTS have to do with the case?
Who thinks there will be a few freepers who wish they hadn’t gone off before all the facts were in?
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Hell, there is a FReeper right now - on another thread - still stuck on stupid arguing that Brown was shot from 35 feet away.
I’ll not say anything more.....
Maybe the cops didn't want to rush to judgement, like the media and protesters wrongly did.
That was one of the takes of an ex-fed prosecutor on Fox today.
And another thing, what the hell is it with people that think Fat Bastard just dropped in his tracks? Look at the size of him-— he was hit with pistol shots not a Browning 50 cal. He couldn’t have maybe staggered off a little?
I read the article. For one thing, much of the article’s arugment that the shooting was justified even if Brown was fleeing is based on the premise that the officer knew that Brown was a suspect in the robbery. That has not been established, and the Chief has made statements today that suggest that the officer may not have known.
Also, the article ignores the eyewitness statements that Brown was shot at least once while attempting to surrender (hands up, etc.). While there are arguments in favor of justifying shooting Brown in his initial flight from the officer, there is simply no way to justify shooting someone who has his hands up and is trying to surrender. (assuming that is what happened, of course - if not, then it’s a whole other story).
It actually nauseates me that you and I were born in the same city, and that I currently live in the county were you allege that you were a prosecutor for 25 years.
Are you senile? You’re basing your remarks of how you’d exercise official power over the cop’s fate based on blatantly spurious allegations, and you expect us to take you seriously?
You didn’t even read the article.
YEP
Notice that the Chief did not release any of that information today even though it was sitting in his lap.
I could make neither heads nor tails of what he was saying. I did distinctly hear him frequently use the dreaded "n" word quite clearly, though.
So now, two sides of the story are coming out. Which side will the POTUS take, do you think? More to come.
Next Benjamin Crump gambit, "Shoplifting does not deserve the Death Penalty."
Crump knows the cop will probably walk, but someone with deep pockets (City of Ferguson?) has to pay off Michael's relatives .... and Crump ... of course ... before this "crisis" is allowed to pass.
If the Chief states there are 35 feet of shell casings and
seven shots fired, they have just poured concrete around
those as facts.
When did he switch from “Unarmed” to “Fat Bastard”?
And why wasn’t I notified?
For the record, I’ve been calling him “Sweetums”.
“The cop committed a crime”.
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Right.... He should have voluntarily HANDED OVER his weapon to Big Mike instead of shooting him.
As dozens of others have alrady concluded.... YOU are a moron.
Well, the curious bit now is that the store he robbed was the store burned down. How convenient...
...that explains the subsequent looting, others just getting in on the action started by those inflicting retribution on who they presumed a snitch (”how DARE the victim call the cops!”).
Free Republic used to be a gathering place of thinkers, wisdom and common sense. Knee-jerkery and hyperbole is becoming all to common place here.
When I sais so.
I don’t think that’s going to happen, but I’ve been wrong before. We’ll see.
The fambly of the Angel is now on TeeVee riling up the homies again.
Saying that whatever pictures the PoPo put out showing the Darling robbing a store are irrelevent.
NOTHING else matters except the 18 year old chile’ was not doing anything while just walking down the middle of the street.
Seems to me that little Mikey KNEW he robbed a store earlier and when the Coppers came, whether or not the cops were looking for lil’ Mikey as a suspect...lil Mikey THOUGHT he was gonna be busted. Hence, the struggle in the cruiser etc.
Oe even said.
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