Posted on 12/01/2014 4:35:45 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Colbert King highlighted something in his Saturday column that leapt off the pages of Darren Wilson’s testimony for me, too. The now-former Ferguson police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown on Aug. 9 was asked about his “relationship with the residents” of the unarmed teenager’s apartment complex. Not only did the prosecutor’s questions strike me as hand-holding, but also Wilson’s broad-brush responses made my skin crawl.
Q: Did you guys have a volatile, well, how can I put this. Did you not really get along well with the folks that lived in that apartment, not you personally, I mean the police in general?
Wilson: It is an antipolice area for sure.
Q: And when you say antipolice, tell me more?
Wilson: There’s a lot of gangs that reside or associate with that area. There’s a lot of violence in that area, there’s a lot of gun activity, drug activity, it is just not a very well-liked community. That community doesn’t like the police.
Q: Were you pretty much on high alert being in that community by yourself, especially when Michael Brown said, ‘[expletive] what you say,’ I think he said?
Wilson: Yes.
Q: You were on pretty high alert at that point knowing the vicinity and the area that you’re in?
Wilson: Yes, that’s not an area where you can take anything really. Like I said, it is a hostile environment. There are good people over there, there really are, but I mean there is an influx of gang activity in that area.....
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I heard on Greta that only $200,000.00 has been raised for this poor guy and his wife. I thought it would be much more - he deserves to be very well supported.
I think the behavior of the community in recent days has validated his testimony. Thugville USA.
IIRC it is already above half a million.
Oh good! I was hoping he’d be able to pay cash for a new home and have a solid little nest egg before he starts his new life.
Two thoughts on this. First, I am not upset that the DA “held Wilsons hand” but I am upset that a DA would never do this for a citizen who was forced to defend himself. Second, the mental gymnastics performed by the reporter and his “expert” are amazing. They basically want you to believe that a thug who just committed armed robbery was somehow wronged by the fact that an officer profiled him as dangerous.
Actually, it was unarmed robbery. Not that makes a huge difference, when the perp is quite literally twice the size of the robbee.
I was thinking of the term “strong-arm” when I wrote the post. Calling it armed robbery was akin to a fruedian slip.
***He conflates the community and the residents with so-called gangs. And once he does that it’s as if we’re being told that his excuse for not treating Michael Brown as a child and a resident and someone who he is paid by the taxpayers to protect and care for instead that he’s entitled to conflate Michael Brown because of the color of his skin and the neighborhood in which he lives with known criminals.***
I also picked up on her use of the word “child” to describe Brown. What mental gymnastics must one perform to call an 18 year old, 6’5”, 300 # person a “child”? What was Wilson supposed to do? Ask politely for a child’s state-issued ID? Do many children even have a state-issued ID?
I’m at such a loss. These people have zero common sense.
Recall that Wilson had no legal representation in that hearing. Had he made the least misstep in his characterization of the neighborhood the prosecutor could have made lunch meat of him. This feels like a well set trap and Wilson managed to keep his foot off the trip pan.
Add to that the shop owner was physically assaulted.
What these people can’t seem to understand is that a Police Officer does not go into an area with discrimination on his mind rather he is judging the potential by which he might suffer harm in that area. It is a self preservation response that is necessary for him to protect himself and secondly the community. He cannot do the later if he does not do the former.
Have you ever been in one of these neighborhoods?
I was when I was told where my stolen car was. I went in the early morning. The tow truck driver told me I was nuts. They go with shotguns to retrieve cars like mine.( It was a Pontiac wagon.)These are very scary neighborhoods.So when former mayor Guilani says the the police in these areas are actually saving lives, he is correct.
Actually, there is guilt by association in the article. Anyone who associates with Colbert is ignorant and biased, as Natapoff proves in dismissing the box of Swisher Sweets as “ a couple dollars worth of trinkets,” while not mentioning the shoving and intimidation he directed at the store clerk. It’s part of the left’s M.O., If you need to lie to maintain the narrative, well, just lie.
Had this not been a high profile case whipped to a frenzy by race-baiting charlatans, the DA would have refused to bring charges and no grand jury would have been necessary. There simply is not sufficient evidence to take to a rational jury. So, presenting all the evidence to the grand jury is the least the DA could do.
The local community in the Ferguson area should hold a referendum on whether they even want police to patrol their streets. That should raise an interesting community conversation. Hold several televised community meetings on the subject.
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