Posted on 08/18/2014 6:10:41 AM PDT by reaganaut1
EDGARTOWN, Mass. — Senior White House aides have made repeated, urgent phone calls to Gov. Jay Nixon of Missouri, to state police officials and to civil rights leaders in recent days as President Obama’s administration becomes more deeply involved in trying to maintain peace in Ferguson and to ensure an independent investigation of the fatal shooting of an unarmed African-American teenager by a white police officer.
White House officials also said Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who is the administration’s most outspoken voice on racial issues, had been in frequent touch with the governor and State Highway Patrol in Missouri as angry protests continued to simmer there. Mr. Holder is scheduled to provide a formal briefing to the president in Washington on Monday, officials said. Both men were returning Sunday from Martha’s Vineyard, where they had been vacationing for the past week.
Mr. Holder announced Sunday that a federal medical examiner would conduct an independent autopsy of Michael Brown, the 18-year-old who was shot Aug. 9 in Ferguson by Officer Darren Wilson. Officials said the decision was the result of “extraordinary circumstances” in the case, and was part of a civil rights investigation the F.B.I. is conducting.
The order for an additional autopsy may also help the Obama administration to reassure Mr. Brown’s family and others who are suspicious of the state’s investigation and are eager for an independent inquiry, something that Mr. Holder promised the family personally.
Brian Fallon, a Justice Department spokesman, said the department would also consider the results of the first, state-conducted autopsy. There was no indication that federal investigators saw any problems with the local examination. The family has also had a private autopsy conducted.
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Federales, we don’t need no steenken federales.
They want cops disarmed, want anarchy and want race riots because they have nothing else for the election to get the blacks out to vote to save their jobs.
another witch hunt by the left.
Notice how we don’t hear about the robbery or rioting compared to cops are military. The elft are trying to divert attention away from the real problems
It’s a weird conflicting agenda -
they want the State’s will enforced with brutal lethality,
but they want their protected classes to be free to oppress and victimize YT at the same time.
Riot and we won’t talk about it.
Attack cops we won’t talk about it.
problems in communities like this and we won’t talk about it.
Oh but we can talk about cops being military and being too hard on protestors .
Hows Iraq, Syria, Israel, Russia open borders, oh wait we would rather talk about cops being military and disarming them.
Typical left wing ploy.
Well it is the left which always wants it both ways.
Yes. But that still doesn’t make it right.
“Yes. But that still doesn’t make it right.”
I’m not saying whether its right or wrong, government agencies can do things because they are legally empowered to. This isn’t a new development or anything particularly unique to this kakistocracy.
” By the time they get done with this perp’s body, it will look like mince meat laying there.”
Michael Brown will end up looking like Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown.
The purpose of the FEDS doing a third autopsy is to get the body and keep it from the experts who COULD conduct a toxicology test.
The FEDS will claim they did one, and it showed nothing, even though they will only be keeping the body on ice and not conducting any tests whatsoever. When the Funeral is scheduled, they will return it.
Wait...hold up.
The regime wants to perform their own autopsy to keep the peace?
1 - There is no peace right now so what are they “keeping” exactly?
2 - What happens when the autopsy results do not match the narrative of the rioters (which the regime backs?
Does anyone actually believe the regime will back the police story all the way to the point of the regime facing down the rioters?
“Michael Brown will end up looking like Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown”
Like a jigsaw puzzle with a couple of pieces gone?
Holders autopsy will be fixed so all shots will be going through MB’s hands to show he had his hands up.
Ah c'mon, they are knowingly doing quite the opposite.
On Saturday, at the press briefing with The St. Capt. Jackson or Johnson and the Governor, a man off camera said that the Nation Of Islam was going to keep the peace!!! Not one mention of this have I heard in the media!! All I hear is that the Black Panthers are in charge!! Are these two groups the SAME??
Maybe the “Gentle Giant” will be placed in the ROTUNDA!!
The Gentle Giant will lie in state as a martyr for civil rights.
An autopsy by Baden is sufficient. Who has more experience than him? Answer: NO ONE.
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