Posted on 08/15/2014 2:26:10 PM PDT by xzins
The police officer who fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown did not know that he was a suspect in a convenience store robbery, Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson said Friday.
Jackson said the officer, previously identified as 28-year-old Darren Wilson, initially stopped Brown and a friend ”because they were walking down the middle of the street blocking traffic.”
Police earlier Friday released security footage they said showed Brown grabbing a box of cigars from a convenience store and then shoving the clerk away to leave.
Daryl Parks, an attorney for the Brown family, confirmed that the security footage “appears to look like” the teenager, but accused the police chief of “strategically” releasing the video to “assassinate the character of Michael Brown.”
Brown’s cousin, Eric Davis, called the video “smoke and mirrors” to obscure what had happened to the 18-year-old. Brown’s friend, Dorian Johnson, said he and Brown were ordered down on the sidewalk and that the officer attempted to pull Brown into his car before Brown tried to flee and was shot.
The police have said Brown was shot amid a struggle with the officer in and around the officer’s squad car.
After the police chief’s revelation, CNN legal analyst Paul Callan speculated that the decision to release the security footage — while seemingly unrelated to the officer’s decision to stop Brown — was because “Michael Brown knew about the robbery,” even if the officer didn’t.
“The officer didn’t know about the robbery in the store when he stopped Michael Brown, but Michael Brown knew about the robbery, and Michael Brown … thought that he was being apprehended for robbery, and therefore when the officer tried to put him in the car for not being cooperative or whatever his reasoning was, Brown immediately started to struggle because he thought he was going down on a robbery in the second-degree,” Callan said.
On Fox News, legal analyst Annemarie McAvoy made the same point: “The victim knew, if it was in fact him, that he’d just committed a robbery, may have assumed that he was going to be arrested and essentially tried to resist before he gets arrested.”
Granted that is debatable. But on the cops side of it we have a huge six four 300 pound 18 year old who could probably kill someone with his hands who just attacked a cop (and quite possibly tried to take his weapon to shoot him with it)
Yep, Brown knew it and it’s an excellent point, I’d guess Brown felt he was big enough challenge the officer.
If in fact he tried to take the officers gun from him it was a fatal mistake and no ones fault but Browns.
That is the first plausible narrative given, although given a lack of source, means little. It is certainly more plausible than the idea that the officer tried to pull the 300 pound Gentle Giant into the car through his window, or that Gentle Giant was kneeling with his hands in the air, begging for mercy, or that the officer shot Mr. Giant in the back while he fled.
I strongly suspect that the autopsy confirmed this account (and it would, especially if Gentle had closed the distance on the officer). The autopsy would also completely eliminate the testimony of Gentle’s accomplice. And this would explain why Crump realizes he won’t get paid off until he can secure a more favorable autopsy report.
But, at the moment, we know about the same as what we knew at the beginning. Very little. Except that race hustlers have to hustle, looters have to loot, and useful idiots have to be idiotic. And that some people are very desperate for this to be everything that the Trayvon Martin case was thought to be, until it turned out that Martin was a 2-bit punk looking to attack, and potentially kill, someone who did nothing wrong, thus destroying the narrative.
In all likelihood, through his own behavior, Gentle Giant finally succeeded in turning his life around, it’s just that he turned his life from “living” to “deceased”.
That’s a bit of a change in Dorian’s story...
445 I'm looking at the police report on a robbery of cigars and an assault in a store on W. Florissant Ave, Ferguson, last Sa.. The clerk id'd the suspect who also assaulted him as a black male wearing a white t-shirt, khaki longer shorts, yellow socks and a red cardinal's baseball cap. He also said a second suspect was with the first, but didn't give any particulars. He said they left the store and headed up W. Florissant north toward Quiktrip. The robbery took place between 11:52:58 and 11:54:00, per the video, and a description of the suspect was put out over the radio around 11:57.This shows that when the patrol cop accosted Brown and Johnson on a street not too far from W. Ferguson a mere three minutes later, he wasn't harassing them for "walking while black" --- Brown fit the description of the aggressive thief, down to his socks. That still doesn't say anything about what happened after that, but at least initially, the cop was just doing his job.
Posted by: Trotsky w/an ice-pick in his head at August 15, 2014 03:27 PM (fPTO4)
Also, other reports said the officer was on a "sick" call, but broke off handling that call just prior to accosting Michael Brown. If he didn't hear the robbery call, why did he break off of the "sick" call?
That’s pretty much how I read it. Guy could have been a serial killer, but if the cop is not in grave danger at the moment he pulls the trigger he is in the wrong.
I haven’t noticed you on this forum before. I like your analysis. Keep writing!
A categorically lie. Cops don't pull perps into their cars it gives them no leverage against even an average sized person - and against a 292 pound thug it would be ridiculous.
I guess the store clerk was pulling that thug also!
Try Strong-arm Robbery aka Robbery 2 degree - a class B felony.
What we saw on the video is a felony strong armed robbery. This punk was not headed off to college, he was headed off to prison.
I never saw a picture of the punk until today. I assumed from the reaction that we were talking about a 110 pound freckled faced nerd, but instead you have a 6’4” 300 pound gorilla dressed like the gangbanger that he was.
If I were a cop, I certainly wouldn’t have tried to wrestle him to the ground if I were in an altercation. I would have shot him too. He was a walking talking deadly weapon.
I really seriously doubt any cop would try to put anybody, particularly an anybody weighing 300 pounds, into the cruiser without first cuffing him.
“Proverbs 28:1 - The wicked flee when no one is pursuing, But the righteous are bold as a lion.
Proverbs 28:18 - He who walks blamelessly will be delivered,
But he who is crooked will fall all at once.”
posts of the day !
I wonder what the toxicology reports will how ? Cigars are not always smoked for tobacco.
Correct. This talk of 'he robbed the store' and 'he didn't rob the store is meaningless. Cops can't execute people for that.
As an ice climber, I cannot let this slide!
Leon Trotsky was murdered with an ICE AX! NOT AN ICE PICK.
“Assassinate” the narrative.
FLASHBACK:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/03/24/142983/martin-familys-lawyers-no-strangers.html
Posted on Saturday, March 24, 2012
EXCERPTS
In Trayvon’s case, (Parks & Crump) alerted the news media more quickly. They phoned the Rev. Al Sharpton almost instantly, and organized marches with local civil rights activists. They also started pressing for federal involvement and alleging a cover-up from the get-go.
(snip)
“In court, you have the jury,” Crump says. “Our job is to get the case to a jury. We need to fight first in the court of public opinion. The jury is the American people.”
No, it's not meaningless. It makes a great deal of difference to most people. There are pictures of this guy acting like a thug, bullying a shopkeeper. Who cares that he's now dead? Who cares why he's dead? This world is a better place without him.
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