Posted on 08/15/2014 3:59:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It is outrageous that we only found out now, nearly a week after the fact, that 18-year-old Michael Brown, the kid tragically killed on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, met the description of a suspect in a strong-arm robbery of a convenience store obtained from a 911 call received at 11:51 a.m. on Saturday August 9. Ten minutes later, at 12:01 p.m., and just a ¼ mile away, Brown and his alleged accomplice are spotted and confronted by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.
If Officer Wilson heard the 911 call, of course the cop is tensed up. The six-year veteran with a spotless record is facing a belligerent 6’4” 250 pound kid who the cop may have reasonable cause to believe is a suspect who has just forcibly robbed someone.
Why the delay in releasing the information about the robbery?
Late Friday afternoon, the muddled police chief of Ferguson, Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson said Officer Wilson never drew the link between that strong-arm robbery and the jaywalking incident that supposedly captured the cop’s attention ten minutes later.
So why release the explosive surveillance video of the convenience store robbery at all if there is no connection with the kid’s subsequent death?
The video shows the convenience store incident starting as a minor shoplifting of a box of cigars apparently by Michael Brown. When the diminutive store clerk confronts the big kid, Brown appears to whack him up the side of his face. Then, pushing past the stunned clerk, Brown and a pal leave the store.
The family of the victim says the release of the video is just character assassination. I disagree. At the very least, watching the surveillance video of Brown allegedly robbing the convenience store should alter our perception of the victim....
(Excerpt) Read more at latino.foxnews.com ...
I’ve never had much respect for Geraldo, but this time he really nails it. He pulls no punches in this well-written, factual article and it should be read by everybody.
Brown is huge.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Why the delay? the police likely did not wish to disclose evidence
I’d like to think that it was planned that way. My guess is the cops had a pretty good idea of what happened soon after the incident. What better way to make all of the thugs and the outa town race baiters look like frigging indiots than to let ‘em make asses out of themselves for a few days and then lower the boom. I’d say the coppers sandbagged these guys pretty good.
“Whoraldo”...
Not a “minor shoplifting”, just a few like that over time can kill a business.
My take is that if the coroner’s report shows GSW on the Dead cigar bandit it supports the reported officers account of the fight over the gun and discharge in the cruiser, he crossed the line and lethal force was necessary/justified. Bull rushing the cop after that was just saying ‘I wants to win the Darwin award of the week’.
GSW on his hands...
He's a lawyer by training, and actually worked briefly for the New York City police department early in his career as an internal investigator. If you go back through his career, I'll bet you'd find that his reporting on stories like this involving police matters is typically thorough and objective.
From reports that I’ve seen, the “kid” is 6’ 4” and about 290 pounds. That’s a very large “kid”.
..............hmmm..............good take. Hate to show my ignorance but what is GSW? I presume it is some kind of drug. If so, your right and that will explain the whole thing. Obviously the cop, having good sense, was not about to let this 290 lb guy high on something have a second go at him. If this turns out to be the case, I don’t blame him.
Sorry, mistype. Meant GSR
Gunshot Residue.
If he was fighting with the cop struggling over the gun in the cops vehicle when it discharged he’ll have trace evidence on his hands/wrists.
..........the thing I think you have steered me to is toxicology. If he were HIGH on some drug, that could corroborate the allegation that he “bull charged the cop”.........
IF he did “bull charge” the cop while HIGH and after being whipped up on pretty bad once a minute or so earlier, the cop was within his rights to fire.
Simple as that, and those bullets once airborne don’t have a recall feature!
And, this helps explain a second autopsy.
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