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Competing media narratives of Darren Wilson and Michael Brown
Legal Insurrection ^ | 8/25/2014 | neo neocon

Posted on 08/25/2014 6:42:57 PM PDT by combat_boots

On Saturday the WaPo featured a wordy piece devoted to Darren Wilson’s dysfunctional family of origin, and the racial and other problems in the police force he used to work for, difficulties that seem to have had nothing whatsoever to do with him. As William A. Jacobson has written, it’s an attempt at guilt by association.

That effort seems even more biased when it is contrasted with a lengthy AP article published the very next day in the Sunday WaPo that tells us what a great guy Michael Brown was.

From Saturday’s article about Wilson, Darren Wilson’s first job was on a troubled police force disbanded by authorities:

…[E]veryone leaves a record, and Darren Dean Wilson is no exception.

People who know him describe him as someone who grew up in a home marked by multiple divorces and tangles with the law…

Wilson has had some recent personal turmoil: Last year, he petitioned the court seeking a divorce from his wife…

His parents divorced in 1989, when he was 2 or 3 years old…

In 2001, when Wilson was a freshman in high school, his mother pleaded guilty to forgery and stealing. She was sentenced to five years in prison, although records suggest the court agreed to let her serve her sentence on probation.

She died of natural causes in November 2002, when Wilson was 16…

As Professor Jacobson has described, the article also details the racial tension in the Jennings police department where Wilson previously worked, although they could find nothing to implicate him.

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1 posted on 08/25/2014 6:42:57 PM PDT by combat_boots
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To: combat_boots
So Wilson wasn't a member of the Nazi party and just maybe didn't partially eat babies? Was his pee sometimes light or dark?

That could indicate racism/s.
2 posted on 08/25/2014 6:46:45 PM PDT by Dallas59
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President Obama Mentor/Professor: Mike Brown Shooting “Just Like Assassination of Martin Luther King”…

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2014/08/25/president-obama-mentorprofessor-mike-brown-shooting-just-like-assassination-of-martin-luther-king/


3 posted on 08/25/2014 6:46:58 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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I guess the Administration doesn’t remember that MLK was a registered Republican.


4 posted on 08/25/2014 6:48:26 PM PDT by Kackikat
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To: combat_boots

We’ll have the lynching right after his show trial.


5 posted on 08/25/2014 6:48:55 PM PDT by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: henkster

Current Wilson gofundme total: $160,979 of 250k


6 posted on 08/25/2014 7:04:13 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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I really miss direct access to old fashioned message traffic.

Just harsh cold facts as they present, that are monitored and aggregated, before anyone attempts to formulate an educated analysis.

Media narratives have an extremely spotty track record...


7 posted on 08/25/2014 7:07:49 PM PDT by sarasmom (The Benghazi Brief – (Extortion 17 also partially explained))
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To: combat_boots
Think about this: We will learn more about the details of policeman Wilson's life in the coming months than we will ever care to know---like what he eats for breakfast---than we have learned about the details of community organizer President Obama's life in the almost 6 years he has been president.

1. He won't release his Hawaii elementary and high school records, some of which have mysteriously disappeared, while it seems no other students' records have disappeared.

2. He won't release his birth hospital records, even though his mother died many years ago.

3. He won't release his undergraduate records from Occidental college in California and Columbia in New York City.

4. He won't release his Social Security application, an application that really has nothing more than a person's name, date of birth, and home address.

5. He won't say if the Selective Service application that we see on the internet is really his.

6. Yes, it is very sad that we will know more about the life of policeman Wilson than we will ever learn about the life of community organizer President Obama.

7. Who is at fault? The mainstream media is at fault, because they were too scared to jump on the first black president candidate and point him out as a liar and a fraud.

8. Why didn't the media confront candidate Obama? Because in the process of digging deep into Obama's life and confronting Obama with questions about his mysterious past and background, they were scared that they would be accused of racism.

8 posted on 08/25/2014 7:11:48 PM PDT by john mirse
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9 posted on 08/25/2014 7:22:36 PM PDT by JPG ("So sue me". OK, we will.)
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To: henkster

I’ll wear my kangaroo suit,

Let’s have a proper, legal and trial, promptly followed by a public hanging at noon....

Then KFC and copyright signings for all...


10 posted on 08/25/2014 7:39:05 PM PDT by DanielRedfoot (Creepy Ass Cracker)
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To: henkster

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- check out your Goofer & Attorney General : http://www.sq.4mg.com/IQgap.htm

(do not forget to deduct 7.4% from their IQ for permanently burning out their brains on marijuana)


11 posted on 08/25/2014 9:43:27 PM PDT by devolve (- "If an idiot puts on a USMC t-shirt to play basketball it does not mean he is not a damn pansy! -)
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