Posted on 08/29/2014 6:16:53 AM PDT by safetysign
Charles C. Johnson, the Editor-in-Chief of Got News and the investigator who debunked the Everytown shootings map, is suing the St. Louis County Court to release Ferguson shooting victim Michael Brown’s juvenile arrest records. As relayed by the website YoungCons.com, Johnson claims that he has “confirmed” Michael Brown was arrested in a case involving second-degree murder: record Johnson earlier reported on Twitter that he had two contacts in the St. Louis Police Department tell him that Michael Brown had a juvenile criminal record, thus prompting the lawsuit: record2 The reporter has been challenged on his rationale for seeking the juvenile records of Brown, and this is his response today: lawyers As reported by Ryan Gorman of AOL News, the citizen journalist wants the alleged arrest records released to the public: “To find out if those police officers are correct requires seeing Brown’s juvenile arrest record, which ought to be freely available given that he is dead and therefore has no right to privacy remaining,” insists Johnson.
“Knowing the truth about Brown’s past will help us gauge the credibility of his parents and family who have called him a ‘gentle giant.’”
Attorney Johnathon Burns, who is arguing the case, told KMOX that since the teen is deceased, his records are no longer sealed. The lawsuit follows below, via SCRIBD: Lawsuit to Release Michael Brown Juvenile Record
The lack of transparency involving the Michael Brown shooting was a major factor in the conflagration in Ferguson. After the initial reports of the Ferguson shooting arose, numerous major news media outlets jumped on the story to frame it as a racially prejudiced police officer shooting an unarmed “gentle giant” when he either had his hands up or was running away. When video surveillance photos of Michael Brown surfaced, the media questioned the police’s release of the information, which the Holder Justice Department wanted withheld from the public. The story of the strong-arm robbery accomplice Dorian Johnson that Brown was running away appears to be falsified with an initial autopsy failing to show gunshots in the back of Michael Brown. The police deparment’s version of the story, as well as that of Wilson’s friend, and an unidentified witness commenting on the case, appear to corroborate the story that Brown continued to come at the officer after being initially fired at. The background evidence of the strong-arm robbery and any prior criminal incidents speak to the potential state of mind of Michael Brown during the fatal confrontation. In any event, since the Ferguson rioting, the matter of Michael Brown’s death and how it occurred is a matter of public interest. The facts of the case must be divulged to the public, and that is the only way the second-guessing and the speculation will end. CBS News reported a hearing for the lawsuit is scheduled for September 3rd.
IT certainly didn't look like his first rodeo.
Awesome post!
Sadly true.
I expect the media to double down on the drumbeat of “Saint Mikey Brown” and hike it to a fever pitch, OR totally go silent on the entire thing and bury it if too much damning evidence comes out that they are lying.
there were a few on here too calling for the cop to be done. Once they found out more details it turned into anti cop rants
why isn’t he impeached anyway by now.
Right after the black panthers at the voting station he should have been removed. Then he came out with his people comment. Then calling the terrorist incident as a work place violence, then not enforcing drug laws, then not defending marriage laws, then there is the illegals.
Holder has to be the most divisive AG in history, and yet the GOP are cowards.
Damn. Just when this aspiring rapper was getting his life together. And now this. Some people just have bad luck.
No kidding? Wow, I guess they might have to hold off on that posthumous Nobel Peace Prize...
No, he can’t be charged with felony murder if he was “simply walking with” Brown. The felony murder rule doesn’t work that way. Heck, even if he was involved in the original robbery, he probably can’t be charged with felony murder, since the resulting fight/shooting did not occur during the robbery or during the immediate flight therefrom.
Does he know that?
I suppose his lawyer would - you know, the guy that loaned him the tie.
Once the Left establishes a narrative, they will not be dissuaded by facts.
Exhibit 1: St. Skittles was stalked and gunned-down in cold blood by an out of control White Hispanic.
For that IS Racist........
He'll sleep when he's dead.
Send lawyers, guns and money, the s**t has hit the fan.
I would assume that Johnson probably doesn’t know that the felony murder rule even exists, unless his lawyer told him about it. And, I assume his lawyer knows that the felony murder rule wouldn’t apply in this case.
The classmates and teachers have probably been told to stay quiet.
Alger Hiss was an innocent victim of a paranoid witchhunt...
Holder will need to bring Lois Lerner’s tech support people to St. Louis PDQ.
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