Posted on 08/15/2014 12:23:23 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Via Mediaite, a reminder that no modern tragedy can escape Truther-ization. One woman in the clip, speculating on why the cops waited to release the surveillance footage, says, “It took so long for them to do that because they Photoshopped him.” That’s how cognitive dissonance works in the digital age. In fact, the basic argument made to Don Lemon here seems to be, “It wasn’t him, and even if it was, you’re smearing him, and even if you aren’t, he deserved a jury trial, not summary execution by cop.” The shooting must have been unjustified; take whatever logical path you need to in order to arrive at that conclusion. And needless to say, there are people on the other side following the opposite “logic.”
The woman in the hat is more interesting because she claims the man in the surveillance video was wearing different clothes than Michael Brown was when he was shot. Don Lemon doesn’t ask her how she knows that but I’ve seen that same point made on Twitter today — supposedly, the guy in the clip is wearing shorts and sandals whereas the photo of Michael Brown lying dead on the ground shows him wearing khaki pants and sneakers. I’m not going to link that photo but I’ve seen it and it’s pretty clearly the same clothes. Brown’s shorts were long (as you can see in the surveillance video) and appear to have slipped down a bit sometime before he died; the angle of the photo makes it look as though they run almost to his ankle. That’s probably where the “pants” idea is coming from. The sneakers/sandals confusion is likely due to how his sneakers look in some of the stills from the surveillance video. If you only saw the two images on the right-hand side here, the shadows and cross-wise bands might make you think Brown was wearing something with straps and no heel. The actual footage makes clear that they’re sneakers. And although there’s no Cardinals cap on Brown in the death photo, as there is on the man in the video, there was a Cardinals cap on the ground at the crime scene. There’s a photo of it in the gallery here. But needless to say, none of this will convince anyone who’s invested in a conspiracy theory.
There is one good point made here, though. Ed made it himself in a post this morning. Why’d it take the cops days to accuse Brown of a robbery and to release the footage? The narrative from the beginning was that a rogue cop decided to hassle two black teens who were minding their own business for no reason, then shot one of them in cold blood. If you accepted the first part of that narrative, the second part was easier to swallow. Go figure that a man looking for a fight might be quick to anger with deadly force. But Wilson apparently wasn’t looking for a fight and the PD knew it. He was looking for a robbery suspect. Why didn’t the PD emphasize that sooner?
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” But if they brought in Gibbs or perhaps Brenda Leigh he moght have cracked.”
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God I miss Brenda Leigh-—can’t stand Gibbs though.
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Well, maybe not.
.The confusion arose when a police chief during a press conference was "repeatedly" asked(?) "you just said that..." and the response usually was, "No. what I said was..." obviously trying to trip up the Chief.
I was watching the live telecast and as I recall the first answer to the question, "Did the officer know that there had just been a robbery? was "I don't know." Nobody knew. But the later established fact is that the robbery was broadcast to all police vehicles, and the officer was in his patrol car at the time. That suggests that yes, it is most probable that the officer in fact had heard the description of the robbery perp.
Of course at the time of the press conference exchange, no precise review of what happened when had been released. Nor has the result of the Officer's lengthy interviews post-incident. Those may still not be yet available.
Many officers have been murdered, and or seriously injured by felons after the officer makes what he thinks is a routine stop of either a traffic violator or a person on the street. The person being stopped believes that the officer is well aware of the crime that the person has just committed, and trying to avoid the police, (think robbery, murder), but the officer unknowingly is caught unaware and many times in a fight for his life when assaulted by that felon.
In Depth
Police protocol: ‘No such thing as a routine traffic stop’
Traffic stops and related incidents are the second biggest cause of police deaths
By Fabiola Carletti, CBC News Posted: Jun 29, 2011 4:19 PM ET Last Updated: Jun 29, 2011 4:59 PM ET
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/police-protocol-no-such-thing-as-a-routine-traffic-stop-1.1031532
” The wicked flee when none pursue”
May have had something to do with it.....
Don’t you know EVERY PD in Amerikkka has a blue screen setup and 24/7 CGI department just to frame the Brothers....
Lol, and Snapple is owned by the KKK.
Now, if the clerk in that store is the owner, he's screwed.
Even if he has a sudden attack of total amnesia when they ask him to I.D. the body, there is no question in my mind that he has already had his life threatened and will continue to be threatened forever.
That's just the way the thug culture operates.
If the clerk was only a hire, there's the hope he can move to another town and perhaps be safe. No real assurance of permanent safety, though.
As for the MENSA club meetings on the Ferguson streets daily and nightly, shouting mindless inanities, I saw with my own eyes, the criminal crowd, and its CNN cheerleaders acting indignant at labeling the convenience store robbery a strongarm robbery because the thug didn't push the clerk hard enough- twice, and when he intimidated the clerk a second time by turning and walking up to and looming over him, the clerk should not have interpreted that as threat of bodily harm.
There's nothing funny about this incident, but I have to laugh every time I see the thug neighborhood and its CNN cheerleaders feeding them leading questions, trying to redefine criminal behavior.
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