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Posted on 08/20/2014 5:18:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The NYT reported this morning that law-enforcement sources say Wilson suffered an unspecified injury during his altercation with Brown. Fox News’s source is more specific: It was indeed an eye socket fracture, as Jim Hoft claimed yesterday.
Why’d it take 11 days for this to leak? No idea, but the conspicuous delay won’t do the cops any favors in getting skeptics to believe it. Nor, of course, will that cellphone video showing Wilson at the scene right after the shooting, in no obvious distress from having reportedly been beaten “severely.”
Darren Wilson, the Ferguson, Mo., police officer whose fatal shooting of Michael Brown touched off more than a week of demonstrations, suffered severe facial injuries, including an orbital (eye socket) fracture, and was nearly beaten unconscious by Brown moments before firing his gun, a source close to the department’s top brass told FoxNews.com.
“The Assistant (Police) Chief took him to the hospital, his face all swollen on one side,” said the insider. “He was beaten very severely.”…
“They ignored him and the officer started to get out of the car to tell them to move,” the source said. “They shoved him right back in, that’s when Michael Brown leans in and starts beating Officer Wilson in the head and the face.
The source claims that there is “solid proof” that there was a struggle between Brown and Wilson for the policeman’s firearm, resulting in the gun going off – although it still remains unclear at this stage who pulled the trigger. Brown started to walk away according to the account, prompting Wilson to draw his gun and order him to freeze. Brown, the source said, raised his hands in the air, and turned around saying, “What, you’re going to shoot me?”
So there’s a theory that has Brown with his hands raised but not exactly in surrender mode. This account also very closely tracks the story “Josie” told Dana Loesch last week about what happened between Wilson and Brown, although Josie didn’t claim that Brown had badly injured Wilson, just that he had punched him. There’s something missing from this account too: The Times claims that “many” witnesses have told the police that Wilson fired at Brown while he was running away after the altercation, with his back to Wilson. (I’ve noticed that detail in some of the eyewitness accounts myself.) Was Wilson allowed to use deadly force to stop a suspect who’d just assaulted him but who was attempting to leave the scene and not apparently armed? Here’s what Missouri law says. Click the image to enlarge:
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Sean Davis @seanmdav
Here's the operative Missouri statute governing police use of
deadly force to effect a felony arrest.
9:21 AM - 15 Aug 2014
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That might earn him an acquittal, but a statute that authorizes shooting people in the back to keep them from running away isn’t a statute that’s going to hold up well among the public once the media spotlight is on it.
Meanwhile, two vids that are making the rounds will show you what’s been happening in Ferguson over the past 24 hours. The first one shows an officer pointing his weapon at protesters and telling them “I will f***ing kill you– get back!” even though the guy with the camera claims he has his hands up. When the officer is asked for his name, he replies, “Go f*** yourself.” (Er, content warning on the clip, needless to say.) The second is of a woman turning out at a Ferguson protest to support Darren Wilson. We need to wait for all of the facts, she says, without explaining why she’d then take one side over the other before we have them. Erick Erickson wrote a few days ago that “Ferguson is not binary,” i.e. that it’s possible to be a law-and-order conservative who thinks Wilson is innocent until proven guilty while also thinking that Ferguson police are too aggressive and overly militarized. Ferguson shouldn’t be binary, I’d agree, but I’d bet some chunk of readers will watch the first clip and assume that there must, simply must, have been some threat to the officer off-camera to get him to behave that way, just as another chunk will watch the second clip and assume, Jay Nixon style, that this corrupt woman’s sticking up for a man who is, must, and can only be guilty of murder. Oh well.
Update: The cop in the first clip below has now reportedly been removed from duty.
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The "JUST-US" Dept. didn't want information to be released early in the investigation :
#1 Not release the security tape from the store regarding theft,leaving ,returning threaten the employee, and then leave again.
#2 Not release the photo of the police officers face after the assault
#3 Not release the officers explaination of the assault, the subjects return in the form of a "bum rush" secondary assault.
The "JUST-US" Dept. wanted to go with the media spin to racially divide the community and the country.
The CRS ( Community Resources Services) is an antagonistic dividion of the "JUST-US" Dept. ; let us not forget their role of encouraging , arrainging transport
in the Travon Martin/ Zimmerman protest march with the "DREAM DEFENDERS".
Yeah , that helped to pacify the situation and the community ... NOT !!
They are the AGGRIVATORS , not peace makers !
The news media KNOWS the truth. They are INTENTIONALLY WITHOLDING IT BECAUSE THEY HAVE ORDERS BY THEIR DEM PUPPET MASTERS TO RALLY THE BLACK BASE AHEAD OF THE NOVEMBER ELECTION.
Not that anyone would want to make a rush to judgement. ...Oh yeah..Al Sharpton ....Jessie Jackson...MSNBC...already have. Man are they going to look friggin stupider then before.
Yes and I think He was going back to finish off the cop when he was killed.
Eff the just us dept!
Not their jurisdiction, not their call.
I agree...this should have been out right after all this...doing it this way looks like they are making it up..
One question I have is:
How long did Wilson walk around the shooting scene?
Does he seem injured during the video of him walking around the shooting scene?
I lean toward believing that he shot in self-defense but I just want those questions answered
The man was hit 6 times and none of them in the back. So the writer is just making stuff up.
Fox News source: Wilson was “beaten very severely” before shooting Michael Brown
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3195234/posts
REPORT: Key witness Dorian Johnson now admits that Michael Brown ATTACKED Officer Wilson
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3195087/posts
Ex-Marine Gunner: Ferguson Shot Pattern Vindicates Officer Wilson
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3195239/posts
The most important lesson here is that today, the government always lies.
I’m referring mostly to the video of him walking around the shooting scene. Anything in that video that leads one to believe he was severely beaten. I know it’s not a close up but still...he walks around for quite awhile.
How do you know that that is Sergeant Wilson in that video?
if you have ever had the crap beaten out of you, you know the real pain doesn’t begin till much later...
The liberal media is pushing this “story” becuase they want to focus on White on Black issues. Problem is, time after time their focus issue proves that it wasn’t Whitey’s fault.
Is it?
Ok.....
It does seem that the race baiters from DC down to the state level wanted to set the narrative, so the facts wouldn't matter when they came out.
THANK GOD some local authorities went rogue and released first the convenience store tape and then the information about how badly Wilson was beaten.
But, yeah, why wasn't the information released IMMEDIATELY that a local who robbed a convenience store, assaulted someone half his size, then violently attacked a police office who stopped him was shot by the officer in self defense?
Maybe the fine residents of Ferguson (none of whom stood up for the police, did they?) should police themselves in the future.
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