Posted on 09/05/2014 4:01:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Moves to uncover the youth records of the 18-year-old Black youth are misplaced and akin to efforts to blame the victim.
In the days after Michael Brown was shot in Ferguson, Missouri, there was a behind-the-scenes tug of war between the local police officials and the Justice Department over the integrity of releasing a video of the 18-year-old Black man shoplifting some cigars from a neighborhood convenience store.
Justice Department officials contended that releasing the unflattering video of Brown served no practical purpose and that it was motivated by a desire to portray the young man in a negative light. That, they wisely concluded, might further stir passions on the streets of Ferguson in an already tense period.
The Ferguson police, however, dismissed the concerns and requests of the Justice Department and went ahead with the release of the video. The video, shot in a convenience store, have no bearing on the shooting of Brown. In fact, the police officer who shot the young man made clear that he knew nothing of the event when he confronted Brown on that fateful afternoon on a Ferguson street.
In cases like that of Michael Brown, just as in the case of Trayvon Martin, there is always an undercurrent of character assassination. There are forces that always seem to make effort to portray the unarmed, dead teenager as someone whose life was so checkered that the average person paying attention to the story might feel some degree of sympathy for Darren Wilson, the Ferguson police officer who shot and killed Brown.
The issue of digging into Michael Brown’s past did not end with the video taken in the convenience store. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and an online journalist in California filed separate actions in the Family Court of St. Louis to expose whether Brown had legal troubles as a youth. In making their case, the organizations said the public had a right to know about any past indiscretions on the part of young Brown.
Such history is completely irrelevant to the decision to kill him (in the interest of full disclosure, I worked for the St. Louis newspaper during a summer while in college and my father had been the first Black reporter there in the 1940s through the early 1960s). Juvenile records are confidential in the state of Missouri. However, police have maintained that Brown had no criminal record as an adult. More than anything, Michael Brown deserves the same level of privacy that everyone else is entitled to in the state of Missouri.
People should abandon their witch hunts. If there is significant baggage to the life of Michael Brown, let it come out in the course of a swift trial against Darren Wilson, which would be the best outcome of this tragic event.
But boy, if we had heard that the cop had had some questionable behavior in his past - of an kind on or off the job - that would be a totally different matter......
The author needs a good editor.
They early-on tried to drag his long-dead mother, who was reportedly a fraudster and con-woman, into it. Remember?
Brown graduated in summer. That means he flunked at least one course and had to go to school. Either he was lazy, truant or got himself suspended so much that he quit working on his classwork.
Why he was staying with his grandmother might have something to do with this.
Fortunately I must have missed that - sounds too raw for even the lefties to carry on for too long.....
It's the "You can take the monkey out of the jungle, but...." issue slapping them in the face.
I know several blacks who met an early death, because they thought they could outrun bullets in my home area. You cannot fix stupid.
Sadly, I have to agree with you. Empirical evidence supports your hypothesis.
He's dead. Any right to privacy expired with him. Besides, he didn't seem too concerned about his privacy rights when he was filmed robbing that store, and strong-arming the clerk. The dope had to know there were cameras in the store.
Mike Brown was not a victim, he is a victimizer, who tried to victimize one too many people and got his comeuppance for it.
Good riddance.
Unless the juvenile records paint a picture of Mike Brown as a thug who most of the jury agree the world is better without.
Although Ferguson was mostly black, St Louis County is 70% white, and it's the county from which the jury pool will be drawn from. If the white jurors see him as a gangsta thug, they are unlikely to award a big payout, and will have no reason to fear civil unrest if they don't award a payout.
Sure, I’ll leave his life alone. Your turn MSM, stop telling me what to think and leave mine alone.
Your ilk is not required.
Uh...dumbass...maybe the cop didn't know about it, but it's a damn sure bet that the thug Brown knew about it and had every intention of stopping the cop from arresting him!
To my knowledge, Officer Darren Wilson has made absolutely no public statements. But there is this:
Police Chief now says officer might have realized Michael Brown was robbery suspect
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3193465/posts
Just more black apologists. They are worse than the KKK.
Just as some countries and regions view history in terms of thousands of years while America typically views ours in terms of an election cycle or two, educated whites tend to think more rationally while urban blacks often react emotionally and tribally. Thankfully, the non-urban blacks that I’ve known seem to have eschewed that particular trait.
The Black Church (speaking only of the ALL black Church) They have already spat on their rich Christian heritage when they embraced Abortion for the Democrat party.
Not to mention that they have embraced every Non Christian principal that I can think of, the removal of Christ/God from the classroom/public square, the removal of crosses from veterans cemeteries and really even stuff along the lines of blasphemous art work, child ponography as a art form, speaking of the liberal courts that they voted for with their Democrat support.
Could they look any worse, apparently yes.
I think they’ve hit rock bottom. I think they did it a long time ago. Sad, but true...
You touch on some relevant issues, not doubt about it.
I’ve got a link for you...
Making ‘blood’ gang signs...
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