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Darren Wilson identified as the officer who shot Michael Brown
Washington Post ^ | 08/15/14 | By Mark Berman and Wesley Lowery

Posted on 08/15/2014 7:39:25 AM PDT by BunnySlippers

Edited on 08/15/2014 7:58:31 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Nearly a week after a police officer shot and killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., police on Friday identified the officer as Darren Wilson.

Wilson is a six-year veteran of the Ferguson police with no disciplinary record, Ferguson police chief Thomas Jackson said at a news conference on Friday morning.

Jackson provided few other details about Wilson at the news conference and did not take any questions. He said that Wilson had been responding to a call shortly before noon on Saturday when there was a 911 call regarding a “strong-arm robbery” at a convenience store.

A description of a possible suspect was given over the radio, saying this person was walking toward the QuickTrip convenience store in Ferguson. An incident report handed out by police on Friday labeled Brown as a suspect in the convenience store robbery, which involved the theft of some Swisher Sweets cigars.

Wilson left the call he had been responding to and encountered Brown on Canfield Drive at 12:01 p.m., Jackson said.

Police also released these stills depicting a confrontation between Brown and a convenience store worker:

Excerpt, read more at Washington Post


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brown; ferguson; leo; wilson
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To: Red_Devil 232

Thank you. I suspected as such.

QT is a huge market.


221 posted on 08/15/2014 9:27:07 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: FourtySeven
Furgeson police force has 3 blacks on it, in a force of hundreds.

just to clarify ... Ferguson has a force of 53 according to reports.

222 posted on 08/15/2014 9:34:03 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: BunnySlippers

It’s sad that I’d think there’s a 1% chance of the cops making it up. They’ve brought a lot on themselves.


223 posted on 08/15/2014 9:34:46 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Liberals were raised by women or wimps. And they're all stupid.)
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To: dfwgator

Man, that is funny!


224 posted on 08/15/2014 9:36:00 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Liberals were raised by women or wimps. And they're all stupid.)
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To: dfwgator

Throughout this whole thing, I keep thinking, if this were a white kid, I highly doubting whites would be out in the streets protesting and causing riots, let alone judging before getting the facts.

And they want to call us the racists? heh...


225 posted on 08/15/2014 9:36:44 AM PDT by Lucky9teen (Justice will not be served until those who r unaffected r as outraged as those who r. B Franklin)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

No

http://twitchy.com/2014/08/15/st-louis-police-org-no-thats-not-the-darren-wilson-who-shot-michael-brown-photo/


226 posted on 08/15/2014 9:37:45 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Would love to see Drudge post that officer’s photo.


227 posted on 08/15/2014 9:39:17 AM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: PeteePie

I never thought of comparing them to bees but it’s spot on. The male bees don’t work. In fact, the only reason for their existence is to impregnate the queen. And as many of them as can get in on it. You could call them the “bay-bee daddy”. Then they disappear. Bees die but .....


228 posted on 08/15/2014 9:41:32 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Liberals were raised by women or wimps. And they're all stupid.)
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To: FourtySeven

If he were white it would be all over the news. He’s black.


229 posted on 08/15/2014 9:42:33 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: BunnySlippers

is there a pic of the cop?


230 posted on 08/15/2014 9:46:25 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: no-to-illegals

Ok thanks I stand corrected. That’s still only a 6% chance he’s white though.


231 posted on 08/15/2014 9:47:31 AM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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To: BunnySlippers

no... the store was a mom & pop style store near the QT but some thug on the street probably got it wrong and burned the wrong store down. We all know what good listeners thugs are and they always wait until they get the facts straight. The mom & pop store will probably end up burned down by the thugs eventually. I grew up in North County of STL and know mentality of these aholes.


232 posted on 08/15/2014 9:49:52 AM PDT by stlnative
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To: wheat_grinder

“The officer is BLACK”

Uh, no. He’s a white African American.


233 posted on 08/15/2014 9:50:43 AM PDT by ryan71 (The Partisans)
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To: stlnative

” the store was a mom & pop style store near the QT “

I think it was reported that Brown was headed in the direction of the QT when he was ‘stopped’.


234 posted on 08/15/2014 9:51:35 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: NKP_Vet

I disagree. If he were black the police MUST know (by now at least) the quickest way to diffuse this situation would be to release his color as well as his name. So they would’ve done so in some way already, if he were black.

They could have phrased it this way for example, “Darren Wilson, an African-American currently serving on the Fergeson police force...”

It would be foolish of them to keep his race under wraps if he is indeed black. Foolish and irresponsible.


235 posted on 08/15/2014 9:51:42 AM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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To: no-to-illegals

I mean a 6% chance he’s black.


236 posted on 08/15/2014 9:53:35 AM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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To: CodeToad

Guy’s it would probably be quicker to identify the three black officers names on the Ferguson PD than to find a picture of Wilson.


237 posted on 08/15/2014 10:02:40 AM PDT by the_boy_who_got_lost (Real men scare liberals)
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To: the_boy_who_got_lost

There you go again, being SMART! Haha

Really that’s a good idea.


238 posted on 08/15/2014 10:05:36 AM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This is the wrong Darren Wilson. Pic is from South Carolina.


239 posted on 08/15/2014 10:06:36 AM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy (Settled science.)
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To: Hegewisch Dupa
why are there always two Darren’s?

ROFLMAO! Your post made my day.

240 posted on 08/15/2014 10:07:17 AM PDT by lonevoice (Life is short. Make fun of it.)
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