Posted on 08/08/2015 11:58:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
One year ago today, on August 9, 2014, police officer Darren Wilson killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. A grand jury investigated the incident for three months and decided not to indict Wilson. About 5,000 pages of grand-jury transcripts and evidence were released to the public.
The US Department of Justice conducted a parallel investigation and issued a report, titled Department of Justice Report Regarding the Criminal Investigation Into the Shooting Death of Michael Brown by Ferguson, Missouri Police Officer Darren Wilson (hereafter called the Justice Report) on March 4, 2015. The two most important passages were:
federal prosecutors found Wilsons account to be credible. (Page 16)
and
the shots fired by Wilson after Brown turned around were in self-defense and were not objectively unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment. (Page 82)
Both investigations decided against a trial of Wilson. If a trial ever were conducted, however, the Justice Reports organization of the evidence would inform the prosecutions case.
The Justice Report discredited several witnesses who became famous in August 2014 who frequently were quoted in newspaper articles and interviewed on television. For example, Dorian Johnson was discredited as follows (page 47):
. after a thorough review of all the evidence, federal prosecutors determined that material portions of Witness 101's account lack credibility and therefore determined that his account does not support a prosecution of Darren Wilson.
Famous witnesses Tiffany Mitchell and Piaget Crenshaw were discredited with similar words (pages 56 and 58). Also discredited was an anonymous, White construction worker who was seen in a videotape raising his hands and yelling that Brown was trying to surrender (page 59).
Instead of those and other discredited witnesses, the prosecution would have featured three witnesses who watched the scene from a second-story apartments balcony....
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
he would have been acquitted, and then they would have burned down all the sh*t that they didn’t burn down the first two times.
after they looted the mcdonalds — in the name of social justice, of course.
those egg mcmuffins are obvious racists.
ah. now it makes sense.
In a fair trial following the law he would have been acquitted. Then of course the morons would have rioted all over again for a few weeks...............
The truth would come out, but that doesnt matter. What matters is we allow unruly adults to burn down thier own towns to get free stuff create a movement out of lies with the help of the scumedia and get the sucka## politians to hand out tax payer dollars and make up new laws to protect the thug life style and the misbehaved
The truth would come out, but that doesnt matter. What matters is we allow unruly adults to burn down thier own towns to get free stuff create a movement out of lies with the help of the scumedia and get the sucka## politians to hand out tax payer dollars and make up new laws to protect the thug life style and the misbehaved
In da hood it's all about the Air Jordans
And the crack...the Benjamins...the hoes.
These things will go on until America finally comes to grips with the pathologies of the Black Underclass. The BU was studiously ignored for almost fifty years even after Daniel Moynihan's words about the subject in the sixties. It's only recently that some people (give O'Reilly a little credit) have even mentioned it publicly leaving themselves open to the crime of noticing.
Illegal immigration and the pathologies of the BU are America's two biggest domestic problems. One will get talked about during the debates, and one won't. But the problem will still be there.
A trial would have forced out Brown’s juvenile criminal history, which might have been quite a game-changer in public perceptions.
The DoJ report omitted mention of Brown’s prior criminal history. Laws should be changed so that the government cannot hide the crimes of youth after an individual’s death.
Well, Darren Wilson may be one the last cops that didn’t get arrested for using force within the scope of his duties.
Now, it’s fashionable to indict the police before doing an investigation.
Guilty until proven innocent. Hows that for Constitutional?
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