Posted on 08/21/2014 5:07:17 AM PDT by Kaslin
Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson is neither Mark Fuhrman nor Barney Fife. Based on what has been presented so far in the media, not even an O.J. Simpson juror would find Wilson guilty of murder.
Many simply have chosen to believe that teenager Michael Brown was "executed" or "shot several times in the back" -- the evidence can wait. Witnesses who definitively assert that officer Wilson "shot him in the back" have been contradicted by the Brown family's own medical expert, respected pathologist Dr. Michael Baden, who conceded the wounds could be consistent with Brown charging toward Wilson, not running away.
Baden, asked by the family to provide an independent autopsy, saw several bullet wounds; all but one clearly came from the front. This is important because it refutes the contention that Brown was shot several times in the back, as stated by witnesses.
Was Brown running away, "executed" by being "gunned down in the back"? At least two witnesses, so far, claim that, no, Brown charged toward officer Wilson, a version consistent with Wilson's apparent description of what happened.
Did officer Wilson stop Brown because he thought Brown was a suspect in a robbery? The Ferguson police chief, in a press conference, said that Brown was stopped because he was walking in the middle of the street. The chief, however, later told the media that at some point officer Wilson apparently saw Brown carrying cigars and "made the connection" to the report of a robbery that Wilson heard about minutes earlier on his radio.
Talk about a reasonable doubt case.
If it's true that the 6-foot-4-inch, nearly 300-pound Brown struggled with the officer in the squad car, and if it is true that after breaking free Brown turned around and came back at Wilson, the officer had every reason to fear for his safety and for the safety of others. After all, there had been a struggle in the police vehicle over the officer's gun, during which at least one shot was fired, although witnesses contradict each other or have given different versions about the initial contact in the vehicle.
In any case, three investigations -- one by the FBI -- guarantee the case will be thoroughly examined, not "swept under the rug" as some "activists" predicted.
In his novel "Bonfire of the Vanities," Tom Wolfe writes about the media pursuit for "The Great White Defendant." This is a man, accused of wrongdoing, whom the media, "activists" and especially those who just love watching The Man squirm and "get what's coming to him," can all agree to hate.
The pursuit of the Great White Defendant absolves us from discussing the 2012 murder stats, when 6,454 blacks were murdered -- accounting for over half of all homicide victims in this country. Almost all were killed by other blacks. Chicago in 2012 averaged 10 murders a week, mostly blacks killed by other blacks.
No concrete data exists on how often blacks are killed by officers. One left-wing web site put the number at 313 blacks killed in "extrajudicial shootings" by cops, "security guards" and "vigilantes" in 2012, claiming 136 of them were unarmed.
Assuming that number valid, and assuming all the killings were unjustified, and attributing all the killings to cops, this means that about 2 percent of blacks killed in 2012 were unarmed and killed by cops.
While media covered Ferguson as if it were D-Day, there were other incidents of "racial" news that never became national stories:
A rabbi in Miami, walking to the synagogue, was murdered by two young black males. Crime unsolved.
A black homeless man was stabbed to death by six illegal aliens last month. No national debate on porous borders and the crime committed by illegals?
A 72-year-old white man is seen on video knocked down by a young black man ?- apparently part of the so-called Knockout game.
In Philadelphia, a black park ranger was brutally beaten by a black skater when the ranger told him skating was not allowed there. All was captured on video tape.
For the third time in as many years, a Chinese graduate student at USC was murdered in South Central Los Angeles last month. Four teens have been arrested, including one illegal alien. Were these Chinese students racially profiled? No national debate on the issue of crime committed by illegal aliens who enter through our porous borders?
By all means, investigate the Ferguson shooting. But where's the perspective?
The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is homicide. For whites, it's unintentional injuries, such as car accidents. And if a high percentage of the kids in a neighborhood are without dads, and if those children are 20 times more likely to end up in jail, isn't this a far bigger problem than the rare instance in which an unarmed black person -- unjustifiably or not -- is killed by a cop?
Now that Holder has injected himself personally into the situation Darren Wilson is a dead man. Either Wilson will be burned at the stake or the city of Ferguson will go up in flames.
Somewhere Bill Ayers smiles quietly to himself.
The innocence of Darren Wilsom does not matter. This case is being used to promote the radical narrative on race that underscores the philosophy of the Obama administration and the Democratic Party. “Whites are inherently racists who want as little to do with blacks as possible and resent the taxes they pay to support blacks. Cops are racist goons who protect whites and kill black males. Blacks fully understand that whites would kill them off if they could.” It is this narrative that is being patronized in Ferguson. Governor Nixon has already said that a vigorous prosecution of Warren is necessary. Holder is ready with a backup Federal prosecution if necessary. His innocence or the facts mean as little as the validity of the whole narrative.
I’ll take the city of Ferguson going up in flames, Monty.
The pursuit of the Great White Defendant absolves us from discussing the 2012 murder stats, when 6,454 blacks were murdered -- accounting for over half of all homicide victims in this country. Almost all were killed by other blacks. Chicago in 2012 averaged 10 murders a week, mostly blacks killed by other blacks.
The Great White Defendant is in full swing. Mr. Elder is right on.
Obammy wants murder 1. His voters demand it.
Wrong, the JustUs Department will assure a conviction in whatever forum necessary and with whatever evidence is warped or manufactured from the “witnesses.”
Society has de-evolved down the ladder several notches since the O.J. trial.
I get a kick out of that picture at the top. It is of typical White Liberals who believe that it is their role in life to protect the lowly Negro. You see, they believe that the Negro is not capable to taking care of themselves, so it is necessary for a higher species, the White man, to step in and defend them. This is a similar concept to Green Peace and PETA, etc. Enlightened people protecting nature because nature cannot protect itself.
Not Even An O.J. Jury Would Convict Officer Wilson
You wanna bet?
Wilson will be found innocent. Just like George Zimmerman.
Then race-baiters will proceed to ruin his life. Just like George Zimmerman.
If the officer is acquitted, there WILL be “Ferguson’s” across the entire country...
Now, I say “acquitted” because it is a low-informational (you know, stupid people) assumption the guy is already charged and indicted for whatever crime this was...that is the public impression...Not that it is a correct assumption, obviously...
Look at it this way...The officer is laying low for very valid reasons...This is ONE guy and his immediate family...I would not be surprised that if the race pimps could have forced more than one officer to go underground, they would have actively brought that to the table...
that entire police department will more than likely have to relocate and seek lives away from that community, and the “new” force will be more of a P.C. replacement squad before the end of the year...
That, I would go to Vegas on those odds...
If they keep acting like Trayvon and Michael Brown, it's going to become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
This case will really crumble when they release photos of the officers face.....
Not even if one hundred percent of the evidence that showed the “gentle giant” was the cause of the altercation leading to the officer shooting him and the officer exonerated, they will riot again.
What would happen if the three Lilly white liberal weaklings crossed paths with the gentle giant and friends in a dark alley? Bullies like Mike see white weaklings as easy prey. There’s something wrong with the liberal brain that makes them want to defend groups who want to harm them.
Baden hasn't been a 'respected' pathologist since he testified for the OJ defense that Nichole and Ron Brown were killed by two different people using two different knives.
Or was it when he testified for the Claus von Bulow defense?
Or for the Phil Spector defense?
Or the times he testified as the defense expert when his wife was defense counsel?
His opinion has been for sale for years; he lost the title 'respected' about that time.
Of course if the grand jury fails to charge Darren Wilson, the Department of Justice will.
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