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 think they said they did but that might have been before they later said they didn’t.
Of course I am. Others insist that Wilson had not gotten the bolo, and are giving me grief about that. So either way, we can second guess the cops tactics all day long, but the bottom line is that it was a deadly force situation, not a taser situation. Could he even reach it while wrestling with Brown inside the vehicle, assuming tasing was more appropriate (which it wasn’t)? How does he have a hand free to get taser off his belt, while fending off brown with one, and trying to secure his weapon with the other, etc? Sheesh.
For one reason and one reason only.
To stuff them with MJ.
It would be informative to know the timing of when the BOLO went out for Fat Bastard and Mini-Me and when Wilson shot him.
Did for instance, Wilson hear a description of Fat Bastard as he was in the process of yelling at them to get out of the street? Did he ever hear it at all? Details matter.
Thug Life includes getting shot by the cops.
Homey got that Thug Life yo.
ABC radio news is terrible isn’t it? And Ann Compton with her hushed tones (especially when talking about Obama) is a Liberal lapdog.
The fact that you don’t know the definition of first-degree murder adds to the tiresomeness and vapidity of the rest of it.
Besides, the 21-ft rule applies not to field interviews, traffic stops, and stop & talks, but to subjects known to have edged weapons.
Well, he climbs out from under the rock and scurries like the rest of those critters. Let me guess...the cop should have let the guy kill him so that he could walk his dog with the stolen merchandise. And, you want them to send all the illegals over to your house because you don’t believe in laws or enforcement, right?
Wilson gets a radio message pertaining
to a STRONG-ARM robbery with a BOLO
description of the perp.He responds, finds two or more gang-bangers
blocking the street.Does he recognize the perp ?
or does he engage two or more
gang-bangers?See Uncles Chip's remarks above.
Brown is built like a NFL linebacker
with two or more thugs.What has he been trained to do ?
Engage them for jay walking ?
or take the call ?How did he place himself in this position ?
I have to ask another question for you I-Ching:
You just got a 911 emergency dispatch call and are headed to that call location with all haste —
Why then are you wasting time stopping 2 kids in the street and having a battle over whether to walk there or not???
There is an emergency 911 call on the table that you are supposed to be responding to — hop to it.
As far as he knew those two had nothing to do with the emergency dispatch, and if it later turned out that they did, he now knew where they were and where they were headed and could have gone there with backup with an entirely different result.
Where am I wrong???
Brown didn’t look like a “kid”. Where do you think that he was in the street when he was stopped? Could it be that he was in the middle? Partially obstructing traffic?
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He was in the middle of the street according to witnesses.
“Descriptions of the suspect were broadcast over the police radio... Wilson had been responding to a nearby call involving a sick 2-month child from 11:48 am until noon, when he left that place. A minute later, he encountered Michael Brown walking down Canfield Drive”
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2014/aug/15/police-missouri-teen-shot-cop-suspect-robbery/
“Documents released by Ferguson police Friday suggested that Wilson had reason to believe he was encountering a suspect in what Jackson said was a “strong-arm” robbery at a convenience store.
Jackson said that on the day of the shooting, the officer had responded to a call about a sick person before receiving a call about the convenience store robbery shortly before noon. Wilson had received a description of the suspect over the radio and tried to stop Brown on the street, Jackson said.”
http://www.ketknbc.com/news/us-ferguson-missouri-cop-profile
“The police chief said that Wilson was originally investigating a “sick call” before noon on Saturday, and then responded to a reported robbery at a nearby Ferguson convenience store, of which Brown allegedly was a suspect.
Wilson was sent to investigate the robbery, before encountering Brown shortly after.”
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/ferguson-police-officer-shooting-id-110049.html#ixzz3AVEiPIFa
“The documents said Wilson, who was treated for injuries after the shooting, was in the area searching for the suspect when he spotted Brown.”
Not really. I watched the press conference and Jackson did not say that Wilson responded to the robbery call. That error is the fault of the reporting news org. They confused the information.
Jackson said Wilson was on a sick call from 11:48 until noon. While he was at the sick call, dispatch sent out a description at 11:52 of a robbery suspect, which according to the incident report was of a black male in a white t-shirt. While Wilson was still at the sick call, dispatch sent out a further description of the suspect at 11:57:47, which according to the incident report was that he was wearing a red Cards’ cap and yellow socks.
Wilson left the sick call at 12:00:07. He encountered Brown at 12:01 according to Jackson. Brown was dead by 12:03 according to the first live tweet of the incident.
Why are you wasting your time stopping to deal with this minor irritation if you are on an emergency 911 dispatch call???
I wasn’t there, actually.
You have been the victim of misinformation.
The Chief of Police set the record straight today saying that the shooting had nothing to do with the robbery and that the altercation was over the guys walking in the street.
thanks I saw the conference today and think jackson denied saying the officer was responding...media messed up a big point..retraction coming?lol...
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