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It's a fairly inconsequential detail, if it's true, but what does it say about the troll that so early in the morning--before 7 in the morning in Seattle--he or she is already all over Slog posting that claim?
Perhaps the troll is trying to confuse the cop who shot Brown with the State Patrol Captain who deescalated the situation?
Anyway, there's an article out from the Daily Beast detailing the corruption of the Ferguson PD prior to 2010, when the current chief, Thomas Jackson, took over. Jackson is supposedly a well-intentioned cop who got a messed up department. The Daily Beast reports that Wilson is white. Here are the final paragraphs:
Jackson has seemed less than progressive as he delayed identifying the officer involved in the shooting for fear it would place him and his family in danger. Jackson would only say the officer is white and has been on the job for six years. This means that for his first two and most formative years the officer might have been writing his own force reports and that none of them went into his file.
“It’s hard to get people to clean things up, especially if they’re used to doing things a certain way,” Schottel said.
On Friday, police finally identified the officer as Darren Wilson, who is said to have no disciplinary record, as such records are kept in Ferguson. We already know that he started out at a time when it was accepted for a Ferguson cop to charge somebody with property damage for bleeding on his uniform and later saying there was no blood on him at all.
Sure sounds like jury poisoning by racist cops to me.
How about a moratorium on sticking your hand deep inside your baggie pants or jacket, pretending (or in fact doing so) to carry, whenever you pass someone on the sidewalk? Can we at least put a stop to that?
Excellent idea. Write to your Congressperson and Senators and let's get a bill for the President to sign before Labor Day.
This is the Stranger style of "reporting"; include only the details that support the one-sided, fucked up narrative that you want to promote, and leave out any facts that contradict that narrative. Yellow journalism at its finest.
I was merely suggesting that perhaps maybe the police have been known to occasionally use the "we got a call about someone fitting your description" to stop people for no reason, and that if they are using it here they better actually have received a call.
@17 Allow me to point out a few facts to you:
1) Far too early to determine that Mr. Brown was "murdered". Dispense with the inflammatory rhetoric, it just makes you look foolish.
2) He didn't steal "a" cigar. He stole a $50 box of cigars. Doesn't justify him losing his life, but let's get the facts straight here.
3) The cop confronted him in such a serious manner NOT because he swiped a box of cigars, but because he did so in a violent manner. Violence elevates the seriousness of a crime tremendously in the eyes of law enforcement, the courts, and just about anybody else who has a lick of common sense and intelligence.
Are you the unregistered troll who posted the first comment on this thread? I just went back and checked: the first comment claiming Officer Wilson is black that I saw from the troll--you?--was on Kelly O's photo post of last night, and that comment was timestamped shortly after 7:00 AM.
If that's not you, then I don't know what you are talking about.
Unless in the commission of their crime and subsequent legal stop by police they did attack the police and attempt to get their guns. You know, the way criminals sometimes do.
Who? The convenience store owner who was assaulted and robbed?
No problem. :). I guess it was really directed @1 via @3.
And yes, people who refuse to stand for the rights of criminals are worse than the criminals themselves. The latter do not contribute to systematic inequalities or make it that certain people can be murdered with impunity.
Keep moving your goal posts pretzel boy.
Ah. He was just another upstanding citizen walking down the the middle of the street then.
upstanding citizen or not - robbery suspect (which the officer did not know) or not - exactly, he was walking through a suburban street in the area he calls home. a police officer confronted him. then, things get confused until he was shot in the back with his hands in the air from 35 feet away.
comment? yeah, i thought not. . .
Sorry, your martyr's halo is getting a tad tarnished.
Sounds about right…
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/16/us/dar…
Sigh. Obviously, it gets more complicated. First of all, I want no more rioting. Ferguson, MO must move on, calmly. Second, the investigation must proceed to see if the shooting was warranted at all. From what little I know no, Mr. Brown did not deserve to be shot. On the other hand, it appears from the article/video he is no Emmet Till. Mr. Brown didn't need to rob the convenience store.
It is unbelievable that Chief Jackson waited to release the name of the officer AND released the video of the suspect in the convenience store robbery at the same time. Clearly now, there are overlapping narratives which will greatly distort true justice.
This is so bloody sad and surreal. Do prepare yourself. There will probably be no winners.
Sounds about right...