Michael Brown Case Suddenly Blows Wide Open: A Likely Slam-Dunk For The Police

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.

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 love it when we’re both right ha!

Your reasoning is similar to mine on this: Officer Wilson clears his call, heads off to assist at the QuikTrip to talk to the shopkeeper. Maybe keeping an eye out for somebody running away from the QT. Coming down the street, he sees two youts on a Sunday stroll and warns them out of the middle of the street. Doesn’t dawn on him until after he drives past, sees the ceegars, and puts two and two together. Throw it in reverse and off the story continues....I guess Wilson’s reaction time in seconds to seeing Brown would depend on how fast Wilson’s vehicle was going when he passed the youts - and reaction time of the ‘ole brain clicking together hat,shoes,height,weight- and - ceegars. Was he going 25mph or 45mph? Maybe he verified the description before he reversed it. Maybe he called assistance. But he may not have - knowing that he was a second responder he would have expected another unit to be around - but it arrived 3 minutes later.

Thanks for the links, Covenantor :) Now we wait for the forensics to fill in the 3 minutes ...

Based on what we knew yesterday, and logically assessing only what we knew yesterday as the truth spoken by witnesses, your assessment that the officer’s shooting of the suspect was either premature or wrong is probably correct.

But as the evidence comes out from the investigation, the witness statements seem to be less credible, especially the statement from the friend of the suspect who actually assisted in the thuggish robbery prior to the confrontation, and those of other supporting witnesses who know or know of the suspect. This makes whatever the officer says to be more credible and he has not said anything yet.

So, I think we need to wait for the rest of it, but it could be a “righteous shooting” as some call it. If a officer is assaulted, we are talking about seconds here to react and the truth of what happened does not seem to be clear to me yet. Pictures seem to say he was not shot in the back, to add to the questions.

So I think judgment needs to be withheld until the questions are answered.

Logically speaking, of course..

On a more personal and emotional note, I think he did the citizens of the city a favor by taking him down. The suspect was becoming a rolling crime spree.

Stuff happens..

I can get kinda wordy so I broke this out into another post, but another thing I wanted to mention was, just like Brown and his friend may not have expected such a quick response from PD, (they didn’t anticipate the shopkeeper to call the police in the first place) they also didn’t anticipate that the first police vehicle they saw would be the only responder. Otherwise, they probably wouldn’t have blocked the door/shoved it back on the officer in the first place.

I will give the buddy, Darian, 2 points tho. He may be lying to protect his streeet cred, but in the store video he took the cigars Mike Brown handed off to him, but then put them up on the side counter - he didn’t steal them. CNN has a great video isolation on this.

(shopkeeper probably didn’t figure out Brown only had the one box until later, if it all, in the confusion - if the cops had made it to the store first, they might have picked up on the out-of-place box sitting there)

“Maybe the cops didn’t want to rush to judgement.”

Bingo. Only one foolish department would rush to the mic to publish “facts” without first knowing all the facts. ESPECIALLY, in that area of town, and knowing it would be a volatile situation.

“you don’t chase and shoot multiple times for 35 feet.

It was reported he fired seven times.”

You do if the threat is still coming towards you. We don’t know that isn’t what happened. Witnesses in these types of situations often lie about LEO. It’s a race thing coupled with a hatred towards cops.

If this guy was high on some kind of drug no taser is going to stop him and indeed, it may take multiple bullets to stop him. My understanding is that officers are trained to shoot to kill and to keep shooting until the threat is stopped.

You have to get reasonably close to someone to taze them. That may not be the best plan in all cases. Especially when a suspect is combative, has already reached for your weapon and you have literally a split second to make a decision.

Wait until all information is gathered. All we really have right now is a lot of yakity yak from the news media and unreliable eye witnesses, one of whom was in on the robbery and may be afraid to tell the truth.

“Josie,” a friend of Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson, called into The Dana Loesch Radio Show today. Josie gave Officer Wilson’s side of the story.

Here’s the transcript:

“He pulled up ahead of them. And then he got a call-in that there was a strong-arm robbery. And, they gave a description. And, he’s looking at them and they got something in their hands and it looks like it could be what, you know those cigars or whatever. So he goes in reverse back to them. Tries to get out of his car. They slam his door shut violently. I think he said Michael did. And, then he opened the car again. He tried to get out. He stands up.

And then Michael just bum-rushes him and shoves him back into his car. Punches him in the face and them Darren grabs for his gun. Michael grabbed for the gun. At one point he got the gun entirely turned against his hip. And he shoves it away. And the gun goes off.

Well, then Michael takes off and gets to be about 35 feet away. And, Darren’s first protocol is to pursue. So, he stands up and yells, “Freeze!” Michael and his friend turn around. And Michael taunts him… And then all the sudden he just started bumrushing him. He just started coming at him full speed. And, so he just started shooting. And, he just kept coming. And, so he really thinks he was on something.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3193375/posts

This corroborates officer Wilson’s account as relayed by Josie, background audio at 6:28 and 8:31 captures an eyewitness, not knowing he was being recorded, describing the same thing Josie described:

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2014/08/15/exceptional-catch-the-jj-witness-video-eye-witness-audio-of-mike-brown-shooting-sharing-brown-doubled-back-toward-police/

....I was a prosecutor for 25 years. I don’t care WHAT the kid did before the cop confronted him. His hands were in the air. He was shot. He was murdered. My Office, based on the facts I see here, would have prosecuted the cop. I don’t care if it was Charles Manson who had his hands up. The cop committed a crime....

how is your complaint looking? got the cop convicted yet?
you were a prosecutor for 25 years, did you not learn to evaluate evidence especially eyewitness statements? consider the source do they have an axe to grind or agenda? would you not interview them after you had other facts in order to judge their credibility before putting someone on trial?

should we be worried that some of the people you prosecuted were rushed to judgement and didn’t get a fair shake? maybe take a look at some of your convictions? as a lowly PI who has seen both cops and robbers lie, I would never come to a conclusion based only on any person’s statements.

point: hands almost up not shot in the back..she would be undermined on cross if she was ever put on the witness stand..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FTSPGly6NM

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