Posted on 03/05/2015 11:01:22 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
I barely glanced at this in posting it to Headlines because I thought I already knew what it would say. Holder’s whining last week about how high the standard is to convict someone of a federal civil rights violation suggested that the tone of the DOJ’s Ferguson report would be more “he’s probably guilty but we just can’t prove it” than “he’s innocent and was railroaded by the media.”
My mistake. The DOJ — Eric Holder’s DOJ — is clear as can be that it thinks Wilson was justified in shooting Michael Brown. Rarely do I send you off somewhere to read something at length but trust me on this: Go here, scroll down to the bottom of numbered page 80, and keep reading through page 85. I assumed, I guess, that the report would focus more on attempts to sniff out racism in Wilson’s character (e.g., “Wilson’s friend Joe Schmo said he’d never observed any racist behavior by Wilson towards African-Americans”) as circumstantial evidence that he’d shot Brown out of animus than a careful analysis of the shooting itself replete with commentary on the credibility of various witnesses. What we got instead was a considered argument that not only is Wilson not guilty of a federal civil rights charge, he’s not guilty of a criminal offense of any sort. Had Wilson gone to trial, he could have submitted this as his motion to dismiss and the court might well have torpedoed the indictment before opening arguments. I’m bowled over. It reads like it was written by his own defense attorney.
I’ll give you a taste here. Page 82:
“[S]everal of these witnesses said they would have felt threatened by Brown and would have responded in the same way Wilson did.” Meanwhile, Wilson will live the rest of his life in mortal fear of being killed in revenge thanks to our “white cop murders surrendering black teen in cold blood” media. Page 84:
Lots more at the link about how the most damning witnesses against Wilson, the ones who claimed Brown did nothing more than try to surrender, were easily exposed as liars once their stories were compared to the physical evidence and testimony from others. I’m imagining Eric Holder, who went to Ferguson promising to bring the “full resources” of the DOJ to bear on this investigation, rubbing his temples as he read through to the end of what his deputies had concluded. But then, as Ace says, that’s why Holder hedged from the outset by promising to investigate the Ferguson police generally for wider racial bias. He was smart enough to know that a civil-rights investigation of Wilson, which was always a longshot, could blow up on him completely by generating the sort of total acquittal that we’re seeing in today’s report. He needed a political consolation prize. No wonder he released that report yesterday, before this one. Imagine if the “Wilson was innocent” results had dropped today as the sum total of the DOJ’s work so far.
Exit question: Would Eric Holder, after reading this report, have brought charges against Wilson if he had been the St. Louis D.A.? Bob McCulloch, the St. Louis prosecuting attorney, ate mountains of crap from the left when he couldn’t obtain an indictment. Does Holder think he could have, or should have?
Yep
Those bearing false witness under oath should be prosecuted for deliberate perjury....there is still law on the books that say committing perjury is a crime...isn’t there or are Negros exempt from that law also......? Al Sharpton shouted FIRE in that crowded theater creating more unrest...is he also allowed to do that? Freedom of Speech brings with that right a large amount of responsibility...you cause harm to someone, you should gave to except the punishment.
Asked and answered.
They leftist bastards will find another incident to blow up out of proportion and turn into a reason to put more limits on Whitey and to keep non-Whitey in a permanent, privileged class.
so how can browns family now due civil suit?
Our local rag has the usual commie posters who are still crying for blood from Wilson. They are screwaming how racist the cops are because more blacks than whites are busted. Fergedishu is 80% black. Of course more blacks will be busted.
Furthermore I filed a complaint with the civil rights division using their standards. Our local jail’s inmate population is 99.9% white. Obviously their is racial profiling involved. I don’t think I will be hearing from Holder anytime soon.
Bwahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
Good.
Then in ‘reparations’ for all the civil actions taken by all those across the nation, against whites, why not drop ‘black history month’, forever.
Ltr
Clicked on the ABC link.
What on earth does the mother have on her head???????????
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Looks like dried blood.
Perhaps when Mama and Grandma got into a fight over t-shirt sales, Mama got hit on the head and bled out.
She liked the look.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=29411553
They are probably hoping for an out of court settlement, but I think they filed the suit before this report was made public.
Personally I don’t think they have much of a chance after reading the report, but they may be hoping a couple thousand will be cheaper than paying a lawyer for the city of Ferguson. I hope they’re told a resounding “NO”.
Whatever it is it sure isn’t something you’d want to run your fingers through...you might get cut.
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The release of this report is reassuring to know that Obama and Holder have been unable to corrupt all of the DOJ.
Bump.
I have scanned this document 106 pp on Washington Compost and I cannot find where it says witness #102, 103, etc. ...what is posted here saying this is on page 82, 86, etc. are not there. Where the heck are they seeing this? Rush talked about it today, too.
There’s a link at the article to the report.
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