Posted on 06/17/2019 12:13:08 PM PDT by marktwain
The 20-year-old “student” whom U.S. Marshals shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee, on Wednesday was a violent felon who arranged a car theft on Facebook, met the owner, then shot him five times.
Marshals fired on Brandon Webber because he resisted arrest and attacked the marshals with his vehicle, then brandished a weapon when he tried to flee.
As well, the “intelligent and funny” Webber, as the Commercial Appeal of Memphis described him in its lachrymose profile, had more than one brush with the law before he embarked on his short career as a car thief.
But rioters didn’t wait to find out the truth about Webber before they rampaged against the cops in Memphis.
Prosecutor: Webber Was a “Violent Felon”
John Champion, a district attorney in the 17th Circuit Court District of Mississippi, explained in detail why the marshals were after Webber, NBC reported. They wanted him for aggravated assault, armed robbery, and conspiracy to commit armed robbery in Hernando, Mississippi, on June 3.
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I think Kirkwood would have been better off using laconic.
They all sound like good words to me. "Lachrymose," meaning "tearful," certainly is appropriate if the late robber and automobile distribution engineer was being portrayed as another St. Trayvon.
I would describe Webber as didindonuffinous
“rioters didn’t wait to find out”...
No, they didn’t care! This is a tribal culture. He is one of their own, and anything he did is OK. He gets a free pass to break the law, shoot cops, and behave in any way he wants.
Inner city blacks now have the idea that they can do whatever they want with no consequences. It’s them against the rest of society.
Laconic, lachrymose, effusive...perhaps no terms can truly describe such perpetrators.
Been watching TV news reports, or reading articles, like this for more than four decades. My spouse (who has watched and read right alongside) has identified common elements of cast, verbiage, and tone, bestowing collective name “pillar-of-the-community” elegies: summaries of the many positive impacts the decedent had on their communities, how many lives they improved, how greatly they were loved & admired and respected, etc etc.
The implication is - invariably - that the meanest, most vicious, vile, disgusting, dangerous perp always contains more human goodness than the wisest of us can possibly grasp - therefore, when one of these sterling individuals gets themselves killed in the commission of a criminal act, while fleeing police, or resisting apprehension, it’s an illimitable tragedy. Always a loss, never a gain.
Lots of that sort of grieving in print, here.
“Always a loss, never a gain.
Lots of that sort of grieving in print, here.”
Thought provoking comment.
I wonder if this sort of writing is a version of virtue signaling. Perhaps the writer feels if he told the truth it would make the writer seem like a bad or insensitive person.
He should have done like the Mr. Mayhem character in the insurance commercial ("I'm a car thief...it's my job")--no one would get hurt that way.
Typical social media crime setup.
Created a fake facebook page.
Used the fake facebook page to arrange the purchase of a car.
Got out of car went to back of car. Car owner went to back of car.
Shot car owner five times. Car owner survived and I.D.ed the perp from photographs from fake facebook page, it seems.
Cops started searching for perp.
Ding ding ding! Right answer. He could have been raping babies to death and then eating them. He's one of theirs and damn those evil white police for interfering.
Exactly why I don’t leave Home without it. (and I don’t mean a credit card) 1911+.45 ACP × 50 ready to survive.
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