Breaking: PHOTOS RELEASED of Suspect Michael Brown ROBBING STORE Before Shooting
Posted on 08/15/2014 12:23:23 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Via Mediaite, a reminder that no modern tragedy can escape Truther-ization. One woman in the clip, speculating on why the cops waited to release the surveillance footage, says, “It took so long for them to do that because they Photoshopped him.” That’s how cognitive dissonance works in the digital age. In fact, the basic argument made to Don Lemon here seems to be, “It wasn’t him, and even if it was, you’re smearing him, and even if you aren’t, he deserved a jury trial, not summary execution by cop.” The shooting must have been unjustified; take whatever logical path you need to in order to arrive at that conclusion. And needless to say, there are people on the other side following the opposite “logic.”
The woman in the hat is more interesting because she claims the man in the surveillance video was wearing different clothes than Michael Brown was when he was shot. Don Lemon doesn’t ask her how she knows that but I’ve seen that same point made on Twitter today — supposedly, the guy in the clip is wearing shorts and sandals whereas the photo of Michael Brown lying dead on the ground shows him wearing khaki pants and sneakers. I’m not going to link that photo but I’ve seen it and it’s pretty clearly the same clothes. Brown’s shorts were long (as you can see in the surveillance video) and appear to have slipped down a bit sometime before he died; the angle of the photo makes it look as though they run almost to his ankle. That’s probably where the “pants” idea is coming from. The sneakers/sandals confusion is likely due to how his sneakers look in some of the stills from the surveillance video. If you only saw the two images on the right-hand side here, the shadows and cross-wise bands might make you think Brown was wearing something with straps and no heel. The actual footage makes clear that they’re sneakers. And although there’s no Cardinals cap on Brown in the death photo, as there is on the man in the video, there was a Cardinals cap on the ground at the crime scene. There’s a photo of it in the gallery here. But needless to say, none of this will convince anyone who’s invested in a conspiracy theory.
There is one good point made here, though. Ed made it himself in a post this morning. Why’d it take the cops days to accuse Brown of a robbery and to release the footage? The narrative from the beginning was that a rogue cop decided to hassle two black teens who were minding their own business for no reason, then shot one of them in cold blood. If you accepted the first part of that narrative, the second part was easier to swallow. Go figure that a man looking for a fight might be quick to anger with deadly force. But Wilson apparently wasn’t looking for a fight and the PD knew it. He was looking for a robbery suspect. Why didn’t the PD emphasize that sooner?
Attorney Crumb: IT WAS ALIENS IN THE VIDEO!
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This is so sweet! Now their only defense is that’s not him. Those are some very unique looking sneakers on that 300 pound bully on the video. Should be easy to prove it from what the dead body of the saint was wearing.
even the lawyer admitted he robbed the store
If he had shot the Gentle Giant, the gentle hood would have burned down his bidness.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3193289/posts
Lawyer: Friend says he and Michael Brown robbed store
AP ^ | August 15, 2014
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The friend who was with Michael Brown when he was shot and killed by a police officer near St. Louis over the weekend is reportedly confirming that he and Brown had taken part in the theft of cigars from a convenience store that day.
(Excerpt) Read more at koin.com ...
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/ferguson-police-name-michael-brown
In an interview with msnbc shortly after the report was released, Johnson’s lawyer confirmed that Brown had taken cigars from the store.
“We see that there’s tape, that they claim they got a tape that shows there was some sort of strong-armed robbery,” said Freeman Bosley, Johnson’s attorney. “We need to see that tape, my client did tell us and told the FBI that they went into the store. He told FBI that [Brown] did take cigarillos. He told that to the DOJ and the St. Louis County Police.”
Yes a different store. The owner called the cops and told them the perps were heading toward the QuikTrip
Looks like he was wearing yellow rubber sandals. Shower shoes as they call them in jail because you don’t want to be in a jail shower without something between your feet and the floor.
Thug chic.
Maybe a gorilla escaped from the zoo and robbed the store.
Who you gonna believe—me, or your lying eyes?
Outstanding point.
I would like to know if MB’s shoes are the same in the store and in the street when he was dead.
Breaking: PHOTOS RELEASED of Suspect Michael Brown ROBBING STORE Before Shooting
Because an investigation is supposed to take place before information is released to the public.
Because the public is not supposed to riot whenever there is a police shooting.
Yep guess the whole town is full of almost 300 pound hoodlums
RE: Here lies good Saint Michael Brown
Did Obama call Mike Brown his son yet?
LOL!
Next thing you know, they’re going to say they all look alike.
The friends cognitive dissonance must be analog, cause in the digital age it works different
Oh, brother.
I will post something scolding and indignant as soon as I stop laughing.
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