Ferguson Shooting Shock: Witness Unwittingly Captured on Audio Corroborates Police Story

The New American ^ | 18 August 2014 | Selwyn Duke

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Ferguson Shooting Shock: Witness Unwittingly Captured on Audio Corroborates Police Story

The New American
18 August 2014

The media have portrayed Ferguson teen Michael Brown as a hapless shooting victim of racially motivated police, but newly revealed eyewitness audio refutes that narrative and indicates that Brown was, in fact, the aggressor.

While Christians, Yazidis, and other minorities are being slaughtered by the Islamic State jihadis in the most brutal of ways, the U.S. media has been obsessed with the Ferguson, Missouri, police’s shooting of teenager Mike Brown. It’s portrayed as an example of how black youth are unfairly targeted by mostly white law-enforcement agencies. But now an eyewitness conversation previously unnoticed in a video of the shooting’s aftermath has been brought to light — and it completely contradicts the media’s politically correct narrative.
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[wideawake]

Zimmerman’s case was tried in a court of law - and he walked. Justice was done.

The fact that he was in a courtroom at all was a miscarriage of justice.

It was a trumped-up, political indictment.

It was a clear-cut, open and shut, case of self-defense that never should have wasted the time and resources of a jury.

Injustice - not justice - was done, and Zimmerman is lucky that the full extent of his unjust treatment was not even worse.

[GOPJ]

...heard a guy last night being interviewed - he said he can't confirm it, but he had heard from sources that the cop is still in the hospital with a broken eye socket. I'd heard previously, it was a broken nose. An Eye Socket Fracture (Fracture of the Orbit) is a very serious injury. It can cause double vision, decreased vision or blurry vision, and difficulty looking up, down, right or left.

If it was a fractured eye socket, the 4 shots that were off mass could have been because he wasn't seeing so well & as MB got closer, he was able to hit him with shots that stopped him. Frankly, if it was the eye socket injury, I would imagine the cop was fairly desperate to keep MB (all 300 lbs of 'gentle giant') off of him.

The press has sympathy for criminals. They should tell both sides...

[wideawake]

Vendome was really, really hoping that Darren Wilson would get railroaded like Danny Pantaleo is getting railroaded.

Now it looks like Al Sharpton might not get his way - and certain FReepers find it very upsetting when Al Sharpton and Ben Crump don't make enough cash.

[Resolute Conservative]

Infiltrators.

[manc]

someone told me one of them was banned over the weekend but we all know he will be back on under a new name this week.

[Vaduz]

Newly revealed eyewitness audio refutes that narrative.

Guess what’s going to come up missing no wonder Holder is sending his people there.

[DiogenesLamp]

The MSM, which is majority White, is doing its best to stir up racial violence. Why? Is it motivated by profits, or do they secretly want to watch Urban Blacks being slaughtered? (there is no way the Blacks would win in a racial war).

I believe Zombie can answer this question.

http://pjmedia.com/zombie/2014/03/10/progressive-racism-the-hidden-motive-driving-modern-politics/

[nitzy]

Is it reasonable to think that the people you refer to here are simply skeptical of government power? Maybe they see that the police have a monopoly on the use of force and sometimes abuse that in a manner that sets them above the law.

Forgive me, but when I see a group with immense power and I know what power ultimately does (corrupts), I will ALWAYS be vigilant and hold that group to a higher standard.

That being said, I look at this situation and see that the police officer in this case probably wasn't abusing his power and was probably acting within the law to stop someone who wasn't.

[roses of sharon]

The witness on the video saw the event in real time, before any media reports. He says exactly what the police officer said.

The criminal witness has repeatedly been caught lying about his partner in crime that day. He has been completely discredited.

Why not believe the real time witness, he did not even know he was being recorded, the guy recording and those around him did not even know Brown was dead from a police office at first, then the witness walked up and started telling everyone what happened.

Not sure how that is troubling to you.

[wideawake]

The problem isn't skepticism toward government power. I get that.

The problem is the presumption that any exercise of authority is automatically corrupt.

The Eric Garner threads exposed people on this site who really believe that you should be allowed to resist arrest if you want to, and that police officers have no authority to make you comply.

That's petulance and childishness, not skepticism and analysis.

[Yaelle]

This evidence should shut up the entire community before sunset.

If it would be reported by any media worth two cents.

[Yaelle]

Exactly. This is unedited eyewitness account, yes hearsay, but these are people probably sympathetic to the mob rule in ferguson today. The media is so anti-black and afraid of that fact that they will sell their grandmothers to appear pro-black über alles.

A true unprejudiced opinion looks for facts and unmodified witness accounts like this, but racists stick to This Race (whichever) is Purely Angelic No Matter What, and That Race is Evil. It’s easy to sift out racism because they take clear sides on every incident. And our mass media is ANTI BLACK. No one could be so incredibly pro-black as they are without it being a major overcompensation.

[BlueMondaySkipper]

And by the anti-police faction here that pretends to be conservative as well.

Puh-leaze

I think most here support the police, at least generally. The problem is they have been militarized to a great extent and that power has gone to far too many heads. Rather than cast aspirations against the rest of us, perhaps you could understand that some people are able to come to opinions individually, based on the actual details of each particular case. Sometimes the police are seriously wrong, sometimes they are right. It would be idiotic to apply blanket support or scorn.

[wideawake]

It is precisely the blanket scorn that I am referring to.

[Jane Long]

Looks like you heard right.

[nitzy]

I totally agree with you.

However, would you agree that except for the most extreme circumstances, the police should be able to "make you comply" without ending your life?

...and if a law enforcement officer can't find a way to "make you comply" without killing you, they should probably find another line of work?

I understand that when officers are going up against superior force they need to do what they need to do. I get that. It doesn't mean they should walk into someone's yard and shoot their dog when it barks at them or "accidentally" kill criminals who are resisting.

In this particular case, the officer knew that Brown had already tried to get his gun once and was charging him again to presumably try once more. If the facts as they are reported are accurate, the officer had no other choice than to shoot him. The Garner case is not so clear. There were enough LEOs onsite that they should have been able to subdue him without killing him.

[wideawake]

There were enough LEOs onsite that they should have been able to subdue him without killing him.

It should be obvious that nothing the officers did nothing that was lethal - the guy died because he was a morbidly obese sack of crap who was dehydrated from standing around in the summer heat for hours.

Did any officer punch him? No. Kick him? No. Nightstick him? No. Shoot him? No.

One officer put a single arm (not both, which is essential for an actual chokehold) around his neck for about 4 seconds.

99.999% of people subdued using that method would have been just fine.

They picked a guy who was apparently diabetic, asthmatic, had high blood pressure, was more than 100lbs overweight, had a history of drug use, who probably had heat exhaustion into the mix.

[nitzy]

They picked a guy who was apparently diabetic, asthmatic, had high blood pressure, was more than 100lbs overweight, had a history of drug use, who probably had heat exhaustion into the mix.

All of those factors that you list should have made it easier to subdue him. The officers came with too much force for the occasion.

I am not saying that they intended to kill him. I am saying that if you can't do your job without accidentally killing someone, maybe you should be reassigned to a desk job.

[wideawake]

You would think it would make it easier, but 400lbs of inertia is hard for most normal sized people to deal with.

Garner was not "accidentally killed" - his death could have occurred from literally any moderate exertion: a flight of stairs could have cashed his check.

[wideawake]

How would you have subdued him? Taser? Nightstick? What should they have done?