Body Cameras and the Ferguson Problem: Video won’t convince people who aren’t moved by facts.

National Review ^ | 12/02/2014 | Mona Charen

[JudyinCanada]

They won’t help.

They will just say that nothing would have happened if they weren’t targeting for being black.

[driftless2]

No facts present on a host of topics from race, rape on campi, “starving” Americans, and many other subjects have ever stopped liberasl/leftists from projecting their narrative which is: America is an evil, capitalist country dominated by evil, nasty white males who oppress everybody in the world. They, leftists, will never change their narrative just for a simple thing like the truth.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Blacks have come to the point that they think it is their right to assault any white person they see for any reason they want.

[Jeff Head]

Exactly. You have a mob, in every sense of the word, that has been created by and for the prgressive liberals. The truth does not matter to them...just the narrative and getting their "stuff."

What has to change in America with respect to all of this is that the facts associated with how people like Michael Brown grow up to be thugs and criminals must be publicized and dealt with for the truth that it is.

Most of it is due directly to the demographics created by the welfare state and the progressive liberal programs and agenda put into place over the last 50-60 years.

Those programs have created an environment that is fertile for producing such individuals.

The liberal progressives continually wrest the truth about this in order to avoid these facts. They willfully ignore them and then blatantly pervert the truth into their false narratives in order to continue to advance their ideological goals.

The fact is, they are willing to lie to people in ordewr to get them to react in this manner.

That's what is really happening.

What Happened in Ferguson, MO...and Why

I do not care what color a person is, what their religion is, what their culture is, etc. when these set of facts come together, the outcome is not only predicatable, it is just:

• A big, strong, (6'4" almost 300 pound) 18 year old man robs a convienence store. (Robbery)
• When confronted by the clerk, on his way out with the stolen material, the big, strong 18 year-old man grabs the clerk by the throat and shoves him away. (Strong-arm Robbery)
• After robbing the store, the bigh strong 18 year old man walks with his accomplisce right down the middle of the public street. (Jaywalking)
• When a Police office sees the two men walking in the middle of the street, he drives up to them and asks them to get out of the middle of the street.
• The big strong 18 year old man profanes the police officer and refuses to stop walking in the middile of the street. (Failure to follow instructions of a Law Enforcement Officer)
• The police officer watches them continue, and then hears about the robbery and sees that the two individuals match the description of the robbers.
• The Police officer now approaches the two with his car, pulls up next to them and indicates he needs to talk to them and tries to open his door.
• The big strong 18 year old uses his body mass to block the door and not let the officer out (Obstruction).
• The Police Officer and the big strong 18 yer old exchange words and a struggle insues with the officer inside his car and the big strong 18 year old outside, leaning in through the window. (Assault)
• The big strong 18 year old attempts to wrestle the officer's gun away from him, striking the officer in the face as he does so (Battery)
• The officer, in trying to maintain control of the weapopn, ultimately pulls the trigger, discharging the gun once inside the car.
• The big strong 18 year old is struck in the hand and then turns and leaves.
• The police officer, exits the car and follows the two robbers, telling them to stop and drawing his weapon.
• The big sytrong 18 year old turns and again profanse the police officer, refusing to follow his instructions, and then, bum charges the police officer. (Assault)
• The police officer, who had alread witnessed the strength and ill intent of the big strong 18 year old, decides his assailant will do him gross bodily harm if he reaches the officer, so he opens fire on his attacker.
• The big srong 18 year old is struck several times, the last shot within 10-12 feet of the officer, striking him the head and killing him.

This is what occurred that day. It is cooberated by seven eye witnesses and the Police Officer's report. Most of those witnesses are African-American themselves.

The big strong Michael Borwn committred multiple crimes and was willing to assault and injure the officer in order to not get caught and apprehended. In the end, he was going to attack and seriously injure or kill that officer.

Michael Brown was a criminal thug who reaped the direct consequences of his own actions. Plain and simple, and it does not matter what color he was.

The officer acted approriately...even herocilally IMHO...and the grand jury, once they saw the evidence, made the only rational and just decision they could...NO BILL...no charges.

Liberal activists, race baiters, progressive liberals, and their politicans want to turn this into a race issue...but it never was.

Those people inciting these riots, IMHO, including the US Attorney General and the President, should themselves be charged with inciting the looting, arson, assault, and murder that have occurred as a result of their false narratives.

[MeshugeMikey]

reminiscent of....

[Logical me]

Useless crap. Millions of insane unbalanced fruit cakes will never accept the truth even if caught on tape.

[stanne]

Correct

[Logical me]

Blacks have come to the point that they think it is their right to assault any white person they see for any reason they want.

Soon all hell will break loose and the blacks will find out that enough is enough. It won't be the law that will cure the problem.

[GOJPN]

Perhaps I am naïve, but with all the obama?(lower case intended) Phones out there, no one has anything on the shooting. We get videos of all manner of things, yet this two minutes is devoid of video. I find it very hard to believe.
Is it possible that the only videos show that Officer Wilson is telling the truth, and have been suppressed by the MSM, Holder and the racist thugs sharpton and jackson?(lower case intended)

[elpadre]

There was a day when the testimony of a police officer was accepted as fact by society and judges. It was a well respected job - police officer.

I still believe that. I have know LEOs at several levels at different times and places of my life - neighbors, friends,... - and I have never known one I didn’t respect and trust.

The world-think may have changed, but the LEO is still trusted in my eyes.

[elpadre]

The cause of massive black unlawfulness at every level, IMO, is the breakdown of the black family. What is the percentage of black births to single women - something over 70%. This sub-division of society is nothing more than a breeding bed for crime and anarchy, and destruction of every system they touch - education and government at the top of he list. And there is nothing white society can do about it, no amount of money will cure the illness. Only the black community can solve the problem, and the ones who would work to alleviate it are Republican blacks and they are being marginalized and effectively shut up by other blacks. This could grow big and take the form of the French Revolution with mob rule and guillotine justice.

[precisionshootist]

Good grief people. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

We need to have body cameras on all police. We Should have them immediately. This case in particular is irrelevant. The police need to be accountable.

[precisionshootist]

Good grief people. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

We need to have body cameras on all police. We Should have them immediately. This case in particular is irrelevant. The police need to be accountable.

[SoFloFreeper]

Mona Charen gets it right.

[TexasFreeper2009]

I can GUARANTEE you that even if someone came out tomorrow with video that supports 100% every single thing Wilson said..

THEY WOULD STILL BE MAD!

They would STILL be saying... “but why did you get out of your vehicle!” “why didn't you use a taser!?” “why didn't you just wait for backup!?”

ect. NOTHING

repeat NOTHING will shut these people up!

[SeekAndFind]

The author ( and most FReepers ) are FOR body cameras.

We’re just skeptical that should the next Ferguson happen, it will do any good.

“A man convinced against his will, is of the same opinion still” — Dale Carnegie

[cymbeline]

I’m surprised he didn’t have a Taser.

[ArtDodger]

An important element in the Brown shooting was the lack of ANY information from Wilson or the LEOs for quite a while. This may be a smart thing to do, legally, but it allows the agitators to build up momentum and before long there is a frenzy going on where NO facts have value.
During the riots, the police were eager to break up any large groups before their MOMENTUM had them going into full-destruction mode and it seemed to work where this was applied, though the police couldn’t be everywhere. The lack of an official statement from Wilson and the police for such a long time was a mistake.
That being said, let’s take the money being used for tanks and put it into body and car cams..

[Buckeye McFrog]

Who ya gonna believe? Your own lyin’ eyes, or Al Sharpton?