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
The rioters and looters weren't dealt with correctly, the po po should have been right in the middle of the action arresting and rounding up the opportunists soon after the massive law breaking started.
But that would have been seen as racist.
It's pretty much a given that when Holder's people get upset because one of their own gets hurt or killed in an altercation with authorities they “deserve” to get some free stuff anyway they choose.
It could have been quelled quickly I imagine if they started filling up paddy wagons in the very beginning.
I wonder if Johnson will go back to that club of motorcycle riders and kiss and hug them and apologize for aiming his gun at them for their attempting to ride together on an organized outing?
My gosh, he apologized for the police tear gassing looters!
Jackson and Sharpton were criticized sharply by several black commentators, one of them Niger Innis [who rightfully called them racist arsonists] with the message that them showing up just makes things worse.
When Jackson was asked by Andrea Tantaros, one of The Five hosts filling in for Hannity last nite, about Chicago where about 20-30 black children were killed in the same week the strong armed robber was he said he is working on that.
He and Sharpton won't do much in Chicago because they know they won't get camera time there. Obama doesn't want attention brought to Chicago even though it is much more dangerous than being in Afghanistan or Iraq right at this moment!
No, I read on another thread that he is white.
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