Posted on 03/04/2015 10:59:45 PM PST by Jim Robinson
According to an 86-page report issued by the Department of Justice, six of the most credible witnesses to the shooting of Michael Brown were afraid to give testimony in support of Ferguson, MO, police officer Darren Wilson, because they knew it would undercut the “Hands up, don’t shoot” narrative being advanced by their neighbors and, eventually, by the media.
Several expressed concern for their safety should they choose to contradict that narrative publicly. As one witness noted, there were signs in the neighborhood reading “snitches get stitches.”
The fear experienced by witnesses to the incident is a constant refrain in the DOJ report. Witness 102 (numbers are used to identify the witnesses rather than names) is described as a “27-year-old bi-racial male.” The report describes why witness 102 left the scene a few minutes after the shooting:
Witness 102 did not stay on Canfield Drive long after the shooting, but rather started to leave the area after about five minutes because he felt uncomfortable. According to Witness 102, crowds of people had begun to gather, wrongly claiming the police shot Brown for no reason and that he had his hands up in surrender. Two black women approached Witness 102, mobile phones set to record, asking him to recount what he had witnessed. Witness 102 responded that they would not like what he had to say. The women responded with racial slurs, calling him names like “white m*f*er.”
Witness 102 eventually presented himself to authorities because he was worried “witnesses would not come forward to tell the truth in this case because of community pressure.” The nature of that community pressure is made clear in the remainder of the report. Witness 103—a 58-year-old black male—”expressed concerns because there were signs in the neighborhood of Canfield Drive stating, “snitches get stitches.”
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Amazing that there are still some honest employees of the DOJ who produced this in the report instead of ignoring or suppressing it. Of course, to offset this, the headline is Holder calling the Ferguson police “racist.”
According to Wikipedia the (2010 Census) demographics for Idaho are as follows:
89.1% of the population was White American
0.6% Black or African American
1.4% American Indian and Alaska Native
1.2% Asian American
0.1% Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander
2.5% of two or more races.
And there it is.
The Constitution is meaningless now. Didn’t you get the memo?
From the comments section of the article. Speaking of a proposed Dem ticket.
Wiener Holder
Agree. Wish him luck.
Those who say there is no such thing as reverse racism are right. Racism is racism regardless of the race of the racist. Hey, I think it is time for a new tagline.
Not so fast:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/michael-browns-family-file-civil-suit-ferguson-darren/story?id=29412398
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