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MSNBC COLUMN: Why I can’t believe Darren Wilson
MSNBC ^ | 11/28/2014 | Adam Howard

Posted on 11/28/2014 9:42:27 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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Wilson also testified that even after being shot and wounded several times, Brown continued to “charge” at him, with an intent to kill. “When he stopped, he turned, looked at me, made like a grunting noise and had the most intense, aggressive face I’ve ever seen on a person. When he looked at me, he then did like the hop … you know, like people do to start running,” Wilson testified.

It’s hard to fathom what is more absurd, the idea that a multiple gunshot wound victim would keep coming for more, or that a grand jury would believe it.

I’ve never been accosted by the police, which makes me something of a statistical oddity. I assume however that if I ever am, I would be terrified and I certainly wouldn’t attack an armed officer. I’m not a coward. It’s just that I just don’t have a death wish. And, contrary to some peoples’ opinions, neither do the overwhelming majority of African-Americans.

This is why it’s hard for many to understand Wilson’s story. Basic common sense tells us that if someone has a gun and you don’t, you don’t pick a fight with them and you certainly don’t run at them full speed with your arms out while being fired on. Brown tested positive for marijuana, but not for a drug that historically associated with aggressive behavior like PCP. Nothing in his history supports the notion that he was prone to sudden, heedless violence.

The concept of physically overpowering black males taunting police to shoot them feels like a myth while the prospect of being targeted by an overzealous white person, who’s finger is on the trigger, is a reality that plagues many African-Americans.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: asshat; darrenwilson; ferguson; michaelbrown; trayvons
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

What all the white libs cannot comprehend is the obvious truth that Brown was just another ghetto thug who was asking to get his head blown off. Which literally happened. Just like the Trayvon Martin case and the Matthew Shepard case, as the facts roll out libs look at the evidence with disbelieving eyes. This can’t be true they say to themselves. These are our favorite pet groups...blacks and homosexuals. They cannot be guilty of any crimes.


21 posted on 11/28/2014 9:58:05 AM PST by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: driftless2

I am a diehard liberal, and am immune to facts and evidence.


Exactly. No amount of evidence or common sense is going to convince these people that their narrative is wrong. Only if they are the victims of such violence will they change their minds. And even then, they will probably not write about it publicly. They will do what so many other hypocritical liberals have done: arm themselves to the teeth while preaching that no one should have guns.


22 posted on 11/28/2014 9:59:31 AM PST by rbg81
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To: SeekAndFind

The unarmed 18 year old “Saint” Brown failed to use
“Common Sense” by:
Getting high, then
Stealing store merchandise,
Strong arming the clerk,
Failing to obey lawful police orders,
Slamming the door on the officers leg,
Punching the officer in the face,
Trying to take the officers handgun,
Charging the officer like a football lineman,
Getting himself killed.

Enough about “Common Sense,” MSNBC.


23 posted on 11/28/2014 10:00:14 AM PST by Sasparilla
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To: SeekAndFind

I see this is on Melissa Harris Perry’s web site.

This is coming from the same single woman that said, “we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to their communities”

No joke she believes children belong to the government, and not to their parents or families.

Here is the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3qtpdSQox0

This woman is a communist agitator pretending to be an objective reporter.


24 posted on 11/28/2014 10:01:36 AM PST by Enlightened1
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To: SeekAndFind

This is why I can’t believe MSNBC...on anything.


25 posted on 11/28/2014 10:02:11 AM PST by Dallas59
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To: SeekAndFind

“Nothing in his history supports the notion that he was prone to sudden, heedless violence....”

Except beating up a shopkeeper because he wanted to steal cigars?


26 posted on 11/28/2014 10:02:40 AM PST by dangus
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To: driftless2

Ms. Harris-Perry is apparently unrelenting in her quest to issue more and more ridiculous statements. It’s hard to fathom that man landed on the moon, too. That has no bearing on the reality, especially for a self-professed intellectual piece of vapidity like this one who thinks they are so much smarter than anyone else.


27 posted on 11/28/2014 10:03:09 AM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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To: SeekAndFind

You know the answer to your question.

The sum of witness testimony as supported / refuted by physical evidence was considered by a grand jury.

What was your purpose in posting this?


28 posted on 11/28/2014 10:04:57 AM PST by sgtyork (Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy)
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To: SeekAndFind

By all indications, Michael Brown was dumber than day-old dirt. THAT might explain why he kept charging an armed cop. Never discount the power of sheer stupidity.


29 posted on 11/28/2014 10:07:51 AM PST by IronJack
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To: rbg81

People also need to keep an open mind that sometimes people react irrationally.

Back in law school a guy I knew was having an extended fling with a married classmate. Over time the pair got sloppy and her husband caught them.

He was in his mid forties and not a fighter, while her boyfriend was in his mid 20s and in excellent shape. Hubby was so outraged at witnessing his marital bed defiled that he challenged the young guy. Putting his hands on the young guy while he was busy was a definite mistake, as hubby got his head handed to him in a lopsided confrontation with a naked guy that only lasted a few seconds.

Did hubby keep a cool head? No. If you take the situation out of context, he acted foolishly in picking a fight he had almost no chance of winning. Sometimes, people do dumb things.


30 posted on 11/28/2014 10:08:02 AM PST by Ted Grant
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To: SeekAndFind

Folks....notice how you have not seen any opinion polls relative the Obama/Holder/Booker/Sharpton....”Gentle Giant”....Obamabot, would be cop killer and thug, Michael Brown!!! Interesting!!! Why? The problem is that Police officer, Darren Wilson, who did shoot and kill the maniac, Black racist, Brown, is not the real killer of Brown.

That responsiblilty lies directly with the family of Michael Brown which is severely dysfuntional and contains convicted felons.....along with Obama, Sharpton, Holder, Booker, The CBC, the NAACP, the Obamabot media, the entre Democrat Party and the so-called, African-American community that fails to look in the mirror and define their, failed family structure from A-Z!!!! folks...it’s callled being adrift at sea, without a paddle!!! A strong, true, reality check and vast culture change by American Blacks is what is required!!!


31 posted on 11/28/2014 10:08:44 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX ( My only objective is to defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!.)
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To: driftless2

The Ferguson riots were organized by the CPUSA and it’s fellow travelers.

The CPUSA is very much alive and in full control of the WH, the DOJ, and the Press.

In fact, the CPUSA is responsible for the Hussein Obama rise to the Presidency. His handler is the Iranian communist Valerie Jarrett.

The CPUSA has organized American Blacks into their Shock Troops, and have operatives in all Federal Agencies including the FBI and CIA as well as State and Local governments and unions.

Their game is to use the Black and Homosexual as a means to destabilize American Society, weaken our military,and destroy our educational system.

The CPUSA is wildly succeeding, not only managing to accomplish their goals but confound the GOP into not even recognizing that they are behind the operation.

In order to eliminate this threat, the CPUSA and those allied with it must be ruthlessly pursued and neutralized no matter where they may be.

No longer bothering to hide and operate in the shadows, they are now out in plain sight and are easy pickings.

The time has come to deal with the American marxists once and for all.


32 posted on 11/28/2014 10:09:01 AM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA)
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To: BunnySlippers

The author can say: “I don’t believe it.” all he likes.... but he has to deal with the FORENSIC EVIDENCE.

FROM THE ST. LOUIS DISPATCH:

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/official-autopsy-shows-michael-brown-had-close-range-wound-to/article_e98a4ce0-c284-57c9-9882-3fb7df75fef6.html

EXCERPT:

Graham said the examination indicated a shot traveled from the tip of Brown’s right thumb toward his wrist. The official report notes an absence of stippling, powder burns around a wound that indicate a shot fired at relatively short range.

But Graham said, “Sometimes when it’s really close, such as within an inch or so, there is no stipple, just smoke.”

The report on a supplemental microscopic exam of tissue from the thumb wound showed foreign matter “consistent with products that are discharged from the barrel of a firearm.”

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The official autopsy also confirmed that tissue from Brown was found on the exterior of the driver’s side of Wilson’s vehicle.

“Someone got an injury that tore off skin and left it on the car,” Graham said. “That fits with everything else that came out. There’s blood in the car, now skin on the car, that shows something happened right there.”

The toxicology test, performed by a St. Louis University laboratory, revealed tetrahydrocannabinol, THC for short, in Brown’s blood and urine.

Alfred Staubus, a consultant in forensic toxicology at the Ohio State University College of Pharmacy, said that THC could impair judgment or slow reaction times but that there was no reliable measurement to make those conclusions.

States that have legalized marijuana have struggled with the issue of how to measure impairment.

“The detection of THC in the postmortem blood of Michael Brown really indicates his recent use of marijuana (within a few hours) and that he may or may not have been impaired at the time of his death,” Staubus wrote in an email.


33 posted on 11/28/2014 10:10:56 AM PST by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

I can’t help but notice that the parents of Michael Brown never miss an opportunity to wear Bloods colors. I’m just saying...


34 posted on 11/28/2014 10:11:13 AM PST by Ted Grant
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To: SeekAndFind
The Strange Case of Ferguson Witness 40


35 posted on 11/28/2014 10:11:30 AM PST by Brother Cracker (You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
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To: greatvikingone

Looked up a little more about this. It turns out Cannabidiol reduces cannabis psychosis, but recent marijuana cultivars contain almost no Cannabidiol, and all THC... even though Cannabidiol has the medicinal properties.


36 posted on 11/28/2014 10:11:33 AM PST by dangus
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To: sgtyork

RE: What was your purpose in posting this?

ANS: To get clear headed refutations of arguments presented by defenders of Michael Brown.

What was your purpose for asking?


37 posted on 11/28/2014 10:11:59 AM PST by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: SeekAndFind
corey ...seen here preparing to get busy DEWHITIFYIN Black Friday




38 posted on 11/28/2014 10:13:48 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: SeekAndFind
>The concept of physically overpowering black males taunting police to shoot them feels like a myth while the prospect of being targeted by an overzealous white person, who’s finger is on the trigger, is a reality that plagues many African-Americans.<

Guess he hasn't been reading about Chicago or Detroit or the knock out game. Or this....

“There is nothing more painful to me … than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.” jesse jackson

39 posted on 11/28/2014 10:14:34 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: SeekAndFind

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/11/26/3597380/in-the-eyes-of-their-killers-trayvon-martin-and-mike-brown-were-the-same-person/

Dear Alice,

Having read your blog posting “Darren Wilson And George Zimmerman Described Mike Brown and Trayvon Martin The Same Way” I find it interesting how you skipped over the fact that Brown attacked Wilson in the police car punching him in the face several times while attempting to grab the officer’s gun, which went off in the car. That was the first shot fired which is not the first shot you describe in your commentary.

You also omitted how the 6’5” tall 289 pound “gentle giant” robbed and manhandled a diminutive shopkeeper just prior to assaulting a police officer.

Your agenda driven selective reporting is typical of your ilk.

As for Trayvon Martin’s close friend’s statement about Martin being a good human, good humans don’t try to pound neighborhood watchman’s heads into the cement while stating you’re going to die tonight.

Are you really that naïve? Take off your blinders lady. You will get a better view of the real world around you before it bites you in the ass.


40 posted on 11/28/2014 10:14:54 AM PST by Brother Cracker (You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
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