Posted on 03/15/2015 12:21:45 PM PDT by Nachum
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — The 20-year-old man charged in the shooting of two St. Louis-area officers had been at the protest outside of the Ferguson Police Department earlier that night, authorities said Saturday.
St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch said 20-year-old Jeffrey Williams is charged with two counts of first-degree assault, one count of firing a weapon from a vehicle and three counts of armed criminal action.
The officers were shot early Thursday as a crowd began to break up after a late-night demonstration that unfolded after Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson resigned in the wake of the scathing federal Justice Department report, which found widespread racial bias in the city's policing and in a municipal court system driven by profit extracted from mostly black and low-income residents.
Williams, of north St. Louis County, told police he was firing at someone in which he was in a dispute, not at the police officers, McCulloch said.
"We're not sure we completely buy that part of it," McCulloch said, adding that authorities are not ruling out that other people may be charged in connection with the shootings. He said the investigation is ongoing.
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Soetoro’s Amish son.
I wondered who it would be. I checked out DU the other day and they were pretty sure it was some tea party racist trying to stir up trouble. I’ll have to see what they think now, probably won’t be anything on it at all.
I gess he’s Amish.
Why? Do you have any idea of the diseases you can pick up there?
I was right, he’s Amish.
Yep. Just like the media is “paying attention” to post-apartheid South Africa now that the blacks are in control.
Is he JV?
“I’ll go out on a limb and state; other than being held while awaiting trial he will never serve a day in jail.”
I think you may well find yourself out there alone! I don’t care if this guy is sky blue pink, and whether or not he was actually shooting at the cops, he’s going to jail for a long time. What I am concerned about is the fact that it’s been reported that he’s failed to see his PO for seven months and he was still on the street!
we’ve gone from the Sons of Liberty to the Sons of Obama..
40 mm hand gun? Wow, that's one big a@@ weapon. It's funny he didn't do more damage.
gess = guess
“McCulloch said Williams used a 40mm handgun”
Wow! do we have a candidate to replace Arnold in the next “Terminator” movie? (LOL)
Color me surprised! Here’s one of the comments at DU. Which one of you has been posting over there?
“But wait...I thought people were sure it was going to be some sort of white supremacist, false flag operation, possibly just some gun nut looking for a chance to shoot somebody.
Is it any wonder that these “protesters” get so little respect? I’ll be interested to see if any of the protest leaders denounce these shootings.”
We will see.
Eric Holder just found his first pro-bono case...
the whole narrative is shot to doll rags.
1. It wasn’t a protester - Yes it was.
2. It was a setup on the protesters. - No it wasn’t.
yet, they didn’t charge this punk with a hate crime.
“Maybe he’ll get a good Muslim name in prison.”
Ben Carson predicts he will get something else too.
He was on probation but had failed to report to probation officer for seven months. THUG
Yeah I know but I have to go from time to time - actually pretty often anymore. Kind of like a car wreck, I can’t stop myself from looking. Truly an alternate reality over there.
A "good boy"?
Preparing to enter college?
Turning his life around?
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