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CNN Says Rumor That Michael Brown Fractured Darren Wilson's Eye Socket is False

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rtr4358p Protesters outside the St. Louis County Justice Center on Wednesday, Aug. 20.

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The Washington Post reported earlier today that a friend of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson says Wilson's eye socket was broken during his confrontation with Michael Brown:

The signs of easing tensions came as a family friend of the officer who fatally shot Brown came forward to allege new details of the incident, saying that the officer suffered a fracture to his eye socket in a scuffle with the unarmed teenager before opening fire.

Hospital X-rays of the injury have been submitted to the St. Louis County prosecuting attorney and will be shared with a grand jury now weighing evidence to determine whether Officer Darren Wilson should be charged in the shooting.

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That claim appears to have been undermined. For one, the Post is now reporting that prosecutors have not seen any of Wilson's medical records:

[Spokesperson Ed] Magee said that prosecutors have not received any medical records relating to Wilson so far. ​But he said that since Wilson was taken to the hospital, they assume there are medical records and they just haven’t received them yet.

And CNN producer Julian Cummings, who last week correctly reported that the release of Wilson's name was imminent, reports that the claim Wilson had a broken eye bone is flat-out incorrect:
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We'll find out when the evidence is released.




This segment from last night...

http://video.foxnews.com/v/3748814069001...1#sp=show-clips

...Hannity does a beautiful job of eviscerating the arguments of the Michael Brown family's attorney.
1) The massive amounts of black-on-black shootings in Chicago the past 2 weekends (26 the first weekend, 42 the most recent weekend) with absolutely no outrage or response from the black protestors or professional race-baiters like Sharpton and Jackson.
2) A similar case in Salt Lake city where a black officer shot an unarmed white 20 year old. No media coverage, no outrage.

This moron attorney didn't even know who Brown's uncle was who spoke at the funeral!
He was justly humiliated here for his ignorance.


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Also interesting...

http://video.foxnews.com/v/3748814070001...1#sp=show-clips

...that protests in support of officer Darren Wilson were completely ignored and not covered by the mainstream networks (except Fox).
And further, that those who simply called for giving officer Wilson the benefit of a doubt, withhold judgement until evidence proves him guilty of excessive force or murder, are receiving death threats.

Ironic, those who bemoan lynching of Brown and other blacks, are perfectly willing to lynch officer Darren Wilson, and anyone who supports investigation of the evidence against Wilson (who have committed no crime, and are just voicing free speech rights).



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An interesting reversal of the Michael Brown/Darren Wilson shooting...



BLACK UTAH COP KILLS UNARMED WHITE 20-YEAR-OLD, CASE IS INVISIBLE TO THE NATIONAL MEDIA

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While national news media continue to focus on race in Ferguson, Missouri, where a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed black teenager, they apparently don’t think a similar case in Utah with the races reversed is that newsworthy.

Police in Salt Lake City are continuing their probe into an Aug. 11 shooting outside a 7-Eleven convenience store, when a black police officer, whom local media are referring to as “not white,” shot and killed 20-year-old Dillon Taylor, who was unarmed at the time, according to his supporters.

Police Chief Chris Burbank said the entire incident was captured on the body camera of the officer who shot Taylor.

“You will see on camera … the actions of everyone involved, including up to the point where our officer utilizes deadly force and his response thereafter,” Burbank told reporters.

He said the video, along with the officer’s identity, will be released at the “appropriate” time, adding it could be days, weeks or months.




It would be wholly inappropriate to take the most vital piece of evidence that we have and put it out to the public prior to the officer having some due process,” he said.

The chief indicated he has personally viewed the footage, but would not comment on whether he believed the shooting was justified.

“I do not send officers out to use deadly force. That’s never our intention. In fact, our policy specifically says that is the last resort,” he said. “The officer in this circumstance did not set out to use deadly force. We have an unfortunate incident where Dillon Taylor lost his life.”


Burbank also refused to say whether Taylor had a gun, but the victim’s family and friends maintain he was unarmed.



It didn’t make sense to me when I first heard everything, and they tried to say he had a gun,” Taylor’s friend, Aaron Swanenberg, told the Salt Lake Tribune. “I knew Dillon. He never packed a gun.”

Police said officers were responding to a report of a man “waving a gun around.”

When officers arrived, they found three men leaving the convenience store, with one, later identified as Taylor, reportedly matching the description of the person reported in a 9-1-1 call.

Witnesses say Taylor was wearing headphones at the time and may have been trying to pull his pants up when he was gunned down.




At the time of his shooting, court documents show Taylor had a $25,000 bench warrant for a probation violation in connection with felony robbery and obstructing justice convictions.

But Marissa Martinez, whose sister used to date Taylor, told the Salt Lake Tribune that Taylor had turned over a new leaf.

“He was trying to do better for himself. And this is what happens to him?” Martinez said. “It was really heartbreaking.”

Regarding the race of the officer, Utah’s Deseret News reported the police chief “saying the officer is not white.” The Salt Lake Tribune noted, “the officer involved was not white.”

The Taylor case was examined Wednesday by talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh, who said, “Note the similarities to the Michael Brown story [in Missouri], except in this case there’s no evidence the victim actually committed a crime.”

He noted Taylor “didn’t resist. He didn’t hit the cop. He didn’t try to flee and yet he was shot dead.”

He also pointed out how most news accounts did not specify the race of the police officer who killed Taylor.

“They are referring to the officer as ‘other-than-white,’ which reminds me of George Zimmerman becoming only the second-known white Hispanic, a title given by the New York Times.”

“They can’t wait to mention the racial aspects in St. Louis,” Limbaugh continued. “They don’t talk about the racial aspects in [the shootings in] Chicago, and there aren’t any racial aspects here in Salt Lake City.”



There’s a mindset out there, and the way it works in situations like this [is] only people of color can be victims. A white person can never be a victim. It just can’t happen. That’s not permitted, that’s not allowed because it isn’t the case. The whites are the oppressors. They’re the majority. In the liberal worldview, every majority is an oppressor, whether they’re white or whatever. They’re all oppressors. The minority is always the victims, and the victims are with whom we should always sympathize, no matter what. And the victims are permitted to do anything precisely because they’re a minority, and I’m talking about in numbers, not skin color. They’re outnumbered. The evil majority does horrible things to the minority. And so the minorities, be it skin color or numbers … [are] always victims. And so anything they do is justified and we must try to understand the rage.

“But in the current climate in the United States, a black person can never be the oppressor and a white can never be the victim. And that’s how you have a corrupt or perverted news business in Salt Lake City, refusing to identify a black cop who may have shot an innocent person. That destroys the whole picture we’ve been creating here for centuries. That could totally destroy the image that we’ve been trying to concoct. Oh man that could blow it sky high; that’s just not supposed to happen. And so they come up with these things to hide it or to not reference it at all.”

Taylor’s aunt, Gina Thayne, told the Deseret News that police know they “killed an innocent kid.”

“If in fact they actually produce a tape, it will show exactly what happened,” Thayne said. “It will come out eventually. It will never bring Dillon back, though.”




Oddly, white Salt Lake City, Utah residents didn't go wild and loot stores, or unleash death threats on the black officer and his family.

How about that!



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THE GREAT RACIAL DISCONNECT ON POLICE

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On Monday, Rasmussen released a poll of Americans regarding the guilt or innocence of Officer Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot unarmed 18-year-old black man Michael Brown six times in Ferguson, Missouri. Those polls show that 57 percent of black adults think that Wilson should be found guilty of murder; 56 percent of whites, by contrast, are undecided on the matter.

The latter position is the correct one. Witnesses, including one Dorian Johnson, claim that Brown was pulled over by Wilson, attacked by him and pulled into the car, ran, stopped when told to freeze by Wilson, held up his hands, and was then shot. Other witnesses -- more than a dozen of them, according to local media -- say that Brown attacked Wilson, went for Wilson's gun, fled before being told to stop, then charged Wilson before being shot.

Here's what we do know: Despite original media reports labeling Brown a "gentle giant," Brown and shooting witness Dorian Johnson did participate in a strong-arm robbery of a local convenience store. We know that despite original witness reports suggesting that Brown was shot in the back, he was not. We know that contemporaneous witness accounts caught on tape suggest that Brown charged at Wilson. And we know that a young black man is dead with six bullets in him at the hands of a white cop.

And to huge segments of the black community, that last fact is the only one that matters. The full facts do not matter to extremists in the black community and to their white leftist enablers, particularly in the media. A full 41 percent of black Americans believe that riots and looting represent "legitimate outrage." Not protesting -- riots and looting. Just 35 percent of blacks think that looters and rioters are criminals taking advantage of the situation.

There is a pattern here: a widespread belief in the black community that the justice system is rigged against them. That belief is not without basis -- there is no question that America has a history of racism within the criminal justice community. By the same token, there is also no question that American law enforcement is the least racist it has ever been, by a long shot, and that racism within the law enforcement community is broadly considered unacceptable and vile.

But the belief in a racist justice system seems to have maintained its stranglehold inside the black community. That belief, taken to its extreme, means support for black criminality. It is no coincidence that during the O.J. Simpson trial, 60 percent of black Americans did not believe O.J. was guilty. It is also no coincidence that many white Americans perceive black support for murderers like O.J. Simpson and riots in Ferguson as support for lawlessness, and therefore [are dismissive of] charges of police racism. When crying racism becomes crying wolf, it is hard to take such charges seriously.

The solution, however, lays neither in knee-jerk accusations of racism from the black community nor in immediate dismissals of individual accusations by the white community. It lies in continued targeting and prosecution of individual racists in the police community, of course -- and far more importantly, it lies in less criminality within the black community. The high levels of crime in the black community contribute to heavier policing, which in turn reinforces perceptions of racial targeting; those perceptions then create resentment against police that ends too often in violent encounters and failure to report crime. And so the cycle starts anew.

It's time to break the cycle. The only way to do that is to focus on the fact that police have no excuse to shoot anyone unless those people are committing criminal acts. On that we can all agree. Yes, we must arduously insist that police hold to that standard, and we must prosecute those who do not to the fullest extent of the law. But by the same token, we must insist that criminal acts stop -- and to do that, we must move beyond simple anti-police sentiment.

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Ben Shapiro, 30, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, a radio host on KTTH 770 Seattle and KRLA 870 Los Angeles, Editor-in-Chief of TruthRevolt.org, and Senior Editor-at-Large of Breitbart News. He is the New York Times bestselling author of "Bullies." His latest book, "The People vs. Barack Obama: The Criminal Case Against the Obama Administration," will be released on June 10. He lives with his wife and daughter in Los Angeles. To find out more about Ben Shapiro and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at http://www.creators.com.


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FERGUSON PROTEST VIOLENCE ESCALATES

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...If the grand jury fails to indict the officer who killed Michael Brown, almost everyone here thinks things will get worse.

“They’re not going to be looting next time,” said Kevin Seltzer, 30, who lives at an apartment complex near where Brown, 18, was shot. “They’re going to burn the city down.”

Far from finding peace after a round of summer protests and riots, Ferguson remains a city on the brink, its nearly every step troubled. The last week has been especially fraught.


...In separate incidents, one Brown memorial went up in flames and part of another was run over.

When Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson tried to speak to demonstrators one night, clashes broke out with officers.

Then there was the city’s newly hired spokesman, brought in to help Ferguson repair its image. He was fired after it was revealed that he had been convicted of shooting and killing a man in 2004.

Tensions rose further Saturday night, when officials said a Ferguson police officer on routine patrol was shot in the arm during a foot chase behind the community center. The unidentified officer was treated and released; the shooter escaped.


Tensions rose further Saturday night, when officials said a Ferguson police officer on routine patrol was shot in the arm during a foot chase behind the community center. The unidentified officer was treated and released; the shooter escaped.


A few hours later, not far outside Ferguson’s city limits, an off-duty St. Louis police officer was ambushed on the freeway by one or more gunmen, who shot his car multiple times and escaped, officials said. The officer was injured by broken glass. He was not in uniform and was in his own vehicle; it was unclear whether he was targeted or the victim of a random assault.

Ferguson fears the worst is yet to come, especially if the grand jury does not indict Officer Darren Wilson. A decision is expected in November.





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Josh Tolley Show, "Developing race war in the U.S."
Interviewing the author of WHITE GIRL BLEED A LOT by Colin Flaherty, a book that documents the alarming spike in black-on-white attacks nationwide, that both the police and the media bend over backward not to report.


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This much is certainly true: Michael Brown had just robbed a convenience store and roughed up a clerk just 10 minutes before he came in contact with Officer Wilson. And there was at least some level of physical aggression by Michael Brown toward officer Wilson, even according to black witnesses, before Wilson fired on him. It is a point of contention whether Wilson's life was in danger or not from that violence.


A grand jury examining the evidence against officer Wilson is expected to decide whether or not to pursue charges against him. An announcement is expected within the next few days, if not sooner.




There seems to be a continuous thread through over 20 years of such incidents that rift along black and white lines, from Rodney King to O.J. Simpson to countless others, on up to Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown.

It annoys me that in any number of incidents, blacks threaten violence (i.e. "no justice, no peace") NO MATTER WHAT the evidence. Over and over, I am moved by the evidence, and want justice no matter what the evidence reveals. The other side just wants some white (or "white Hispanic") guy's head on a silver platter, regardless of what the evidence reveals. I'm a combination of annoyed and terrified, that such a huge slice of the public just looks at it in racial terms, with no regard for the truth.

I ran across this article, that sums up pretty well the ironies of black America's obsession with the infrequent white-on-black shooting, while ignoring the real problem, that 93% of shootings are black-on-black:



THE MEDIA AND BLACK HOMICIDE VICTIMS


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by Heather MacDonald



Cable mogul Evan Shapiro had a stunningly clueless Trayvon Martin entry on Huffington Post yesterday asking: Why doesn’t the media cover more black crime victims?

Shapiro, the president of indie cable broadcaster IFC, should pose the same question to Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and every member of the black protest establishment: Why don’t you protest more black crime victims? The answer would be the same in all cases: Because the only black victims who interest the race industry and its mainstream media handmaidens are blacks who have been killed by “white” civilians, including honorary whites like Martin’s killer George Zimmerman, or blacks who have been killed or offended by the police (black officers will do here in a pinch).

Unfortunately, there are very few such victims. Ninety-three percent of all black homicide casualties from 1980 to 2008 were killed by other blacks, and are thus of no interest whatsoever to today’s race advocates, because they fail to support the crucial story line that blacks remain under siege by a racist white power structure.

#more#The coverage of New York City’s West Indian Day Parade in September 2011 exemplifies this rule. The New York Times and other local outlets spilled an enormous amount of ink on an altercation between a black city councilman, Jumaane Williams, and the New York Police Department. Williams had tried to cross a police line, and, when he was not allowed to pass, got into a scuffle with some officers. He was then handcuffed and held until the police verified his identity. The city’s Public Advocate, a New York State Assemblyman, and Williams charged the police with racism, claiming that the treatment of Williams exemplified the “siege mentality” with which the police treat black men in New York City. To this day, the Williams detention is regularly mentioned by the New York Times in its constant coverage of the alleged racism of the NYPD.

What else happened on that parade day in 2011? A black-on-black bloodbath:


  • In the pre-dawn celebrations known as J’ouvert that open the parade, one man was fatally shot, crowds were sprayed with gunfire, and several people were stabbed. A shooting at a McDonald’s at 6 am triggered a stampede. The police repeatedly had to break up mobs that formed after gunfire. . . .

    Later that day, a shootout near the parade route killed its intended victim as well as a 55-year-old mother who had been standing nearby; the two police officers who responded to the murders were also shot. Police also arrested someone in the vicinity of the parade who shot off several rounds without hitting anyone. The day’s violence would have likely been even worse had officers not removed 15 guns from spectators; each of those potentially life-saving stops would undoubtedly be condemned as racial profiling by the ACLU and its backers in the City Council and in Albany.


Previous West Indian Day Parades were hardly more pacific; the violence includes a man shot in the leg in 2007; another leg shooting and a stabbing in 2006; a man shot to death in 2005; and in 2003, a stabbing in the neck and someone who, from his perch on a parade float, shot into a group of spectators and killed one of them.

None of this violence was given the intense and loving press treatment accorded to the detention of Jumaane Williams. In fact, it was barely mentioned at all, even though, arguably, it is more serious to be shot dead than to be briefly detained by the police. Nothing prevented Al Sharpton from protesting the killings and stabbings that day. However, only Councilman Williams falls into the favored category of, in this case, black victim offended by the police, and so his detention was the only event that day worth noting.

On Halloween 2010, five-year-old Aaron Shannon Jr. was playing in his family’s backyard in his Spiderman costume in South Central Los Angeles. Two gangbangers from the Kitchen Crips, seeking to avenge a previous gang shooting, shot randomly towards some houses and killed Shannon, also wounding the boy’s grandfather and uncle. Sharpton, Inc., was perfectly free to make the names of Shannon’s killers, Leonard Hall Jr., 21, and Marcus Denson, 18, as infamous as that of George Zimmerman. But the race baiters never showed up. The killing aroused not the slightest interest from them because it was useless in aiding the white racism conceit. And so no one outside Shannon’s immediate circle remembers today who Hall and Denson are, even though Shannon was at least as innocent as Trayvon Martin (whose image as combined Eagle Scout-St. Francis of Assisi has in any case come under some stress of late, information, that, if true, is not irrelevant to assessing Zimmerman’s self-defense claim.)

We know the names of virtually every unarmed black civilian shot by the New York Police Department in recent years — Amadou Diallo, Patrick Dorismond, Sean Bell — as well we should. To the extent that botched police tactics or training contributed to these tragic killings, the incidents are rightly publicized so that they can be prevented from reoccurring. Here’s the difference between these killings — they are a tiny handful — and the routine black-on-black killings that occur by the dozen every day across the country. The officers who mistakenly shot their victims thinking they were facing a deadly threat set out that morning to protect people, often in minority neighborhoods, not to injure anyone. A significant number of black-on-black shootings, however, like many shootings among all races, are done in cold blood.

Here’s another difference between police killings of blacks, white-on-black killings, and black-on-black killings: Sheer numbers. There were nine civilian victims of police gunfire last year in New York City; there were several hundred black homicide victims in the city, almost all shot by other blacks or Hispanics, none of them given substantial press coverage. Nationwide, in 2005, there were 2,646 black victims of other blacks, compared to 349 black victims of whites or Hispanics. The relative rates of interracial killings are wildly skewed towards black on white killings: There were two and a half times as many white and Hispanic victims of civilian black killers in 2009 as there were black victims of civilian white and Hispanic killers, even though the black population is one-sixth that of whites and Hispanics combined. Yet to read columnists such as the Times’s Charles Blow or to listen to the professional racial extortionists, it is the police and whites who are the biggest threat to blacks, not other blacks.

A further prudential reason why the routine black gangbanger victim gets so little coverage: He is not particularly appealing. Though he had the misfortune of being the victim that day, he could just as easily have been the perpetrator the next day. That is true of many white-on-white homicides as well.

Shapiro, of course, has another explanation for the absence of coverage of most black crime victims: The media is too white, especially in its upper ranks. The “stunning under-representation of minorities at the TOP of our national and local news organizations creates an institutional lack of empathy for minority victims of violent crime,” he writes. Has he noticed that Trayvon Martin is not exactly being ignored? As soon as the media got wind of the story, it ran with it. When Amadou Diallo was shot by four NYPD officers in 1999, the New York Times ran three and a half articles a day on the incident for several months.

If Sharpton protested outside the jail cell of the routine robber or gunman in East New York with as much zeal as he devotes to allegedly racist whites or to the police, if he ever stigmatized black killers of blacks, the phony problem of “racial profiling” might go away, since it is merely an epiphenomenon of black crime. Protesting or covering black crime, however, would require bringing out some uncomfortable truths, such as the fact that the homicide rate among black males of the ages of 14 to 24 is nearly ten times that of white and Hispanic young males combined. Evan Shapiro mentions the elevated rates of black homicide victimization but somehow neglects to include the black homicide commission rate. His column flawlessly exemplifies the ignorance of the Hollywood elites regarding today’s racial realities.








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I found it rather odd that the Legal authorities in Missouri "announced to make an announcement" around 5:30-6 PM last night, before announcing the grand jury's decision not to indict at 9PM. Giving the protestors maximum time to get pumped up and out on the streets at night before the announcement lit the match. It would have been better to announce first thing in the morning, when it was daylight, and would have given them several hours to digest the news and cool off, while they (presumably) were at their day-jobs.

And where were all the National Guard and police while all these stores were burned and looted? They had maximum time to prepare, and the police and National Guard still stood by and let it happen.


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At least we finally got to see the evidence and witnesses of the Michael Brown shooting that were not revealed until now:




What the grand jury heard: Ferguson witnesses' account differs from story on street


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The St. Louis County grand jury that declined to indict a white police officer in the shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old, heard wildly contrasting testimony, including witness accounts that the hulking Brown was charging at Officer Darren Wilson when he was shot, and Wilson's own claim that Brown taunted him as he grabbed for his gun, saying, "you are too much of a p---- to shoot me."

The grand jury decision came late Monday in Missouri after more than 70 hours of testimony from roughly 60 witnesses, spanning 25 days over three months, and touched off fresh looting and rioting on the streets of Ferguson and St. Louis. As the 12 members of the grand jury heard evidence in closed proceedings, claims from purported witnesses and civil rights activists told the tale of a youth gunned down mercilessly as he held his hands up in surrender. But the grand jurors, including six white men, three white women, two black women and one black man, were told a different story.

Brown “has his arms out with attitude,” while “The cop just stood there,” one witness to the shooting that capped the noon-time confrontation testified. “Dang if that kid didn’t start running right at the cop like a football player. Head down.”

The fatal shots came after a 90-second encounter that, Wilson told the grand jury, began when he saw Brown and a friend, Dorian Johnson, walking in the street on Aug. 9. The police officer said he told them to move to the sidewalk, which drew an expletive from Brown. Wilson noticed that Brown had a handful of cigars, “and that’s when it clicked for [him]” that the men were suspects in a theft at a convenience store reported just minutes earlier.

Wilson, 28, said he called for backup before maneuvering his vehicle in front of Brown and his friend. Wilson, who is much smaller than the 6-foot, 4-inch, 290-pound Brown was, told the panel of being attacked and in fear for his life as Brown slammed his squad car door on him and pummeled him through the window moments after Wilson confronted him walking in the middle of the street.

Wilson testified that, “I felt like a 5-year-old holding onto Hulk Hogan.” The cop added, “Hulk Hogan, that’s just how big he felt and how small I felt just from grasping his arm.”

“What do I do not to get beaten inside my car?” Wilson asked grand jurors.



The officer said he drew his handgun and threatened to shoot Brown if he didn’t retreat, fearing another punch to the face could “knock [him] out” or incapacitate him.

“He immediately grabs my gun and says, ‘You are too much of a [p----] to shoot me',” said Wilson, adding that he thought he would be shot when Brown dug the gun into the officer’s hip.

Wilson said he managed to pull the trigger and the gun “clicked” twice without firing before a shot blasted through the window. Brown, according to Wilson, then stepped back and glared at the officer with the “most intense, aggressive” face.

“The only way I can describe it, it looks like a demon, that’s how angry he looked,” Wilson told the grand jury. “He comes back toward me again with his hands up.”

Wilson shielded his face and fired again, telling the grand jury he fired two shots in the car before the unarmed teen fled and Wilson followed. When Brown stopped, Wilson told him to get on the ground. Wilson said he fired a series of shots when Brown kept approaching him with his right hand under his shirt in the waistband of his pants.

Wilson then fired another round of shots as Brown approached Wilson as if he was going to tackle the officer.

“Just coming straight at me like he was going to run right through me,” Wilson said. “And when he gets about … 8 to 10 feet away … all I see is his head and that’s what I shot.”

Johnson's version of events differed in key respects. He told the grand jury he expected to be arrested while they were walking home after Brown stole cigarillos from a liquor store. Wilson, Johnson said, initially drove past the men after originally telling them to get onto the sidewalk, reversing his patrol car and returning to the pair after they ignored his demand.

“After he pulled back, there was no more sidewalk talk, it was nothing, it was just anger,” Johnson told the grand jury.

Wilson opened his door suddenly, Johnson said, striking Brown before closing the door and grabbing Brown by the neck. The two men engaged in a “tug of war,” Johnson said, with each holding onto the other’s shirt and arms.

Johnson said he heard Wilson say, “I’ll shoot!” as the men grappled. Johnson said he never saw Brown punch Wilson and didn’t think he grabbed the officer’s gun.

“At the time I couldn’t open my mouth,” Johnson said. “I couldn’t speak. I wanted to say could someone calm down … I’m still standing there, more shocked than ever because I see it is escalating. I can see and hear the cuss words, I can see the frowns on their faces getting more intense.”

Johnson said he and Brown fled after the initial shots were fired. Brown stopped and turned to face the officer, however, after Wilson shot again.

“At that time Big Mike’s hands was up, but not so much in the air, because he had been struck … he said, 'I don’t have a gun,' but he’s still mad, he still has his angry face,” Johnson said. “I don’t have a gun … and before he can say the second sentence or before he can even get it out, that’s when the several more shots came.”

Johnson insisted Brown did not run at the officer prior to the fatal shots.

“Some witnesses maintained their original statement that Mr. Brown had his hands in the air and was not moving toward the officer when he was shot,” St. Louis County prosecuting attorney Robert McCulloch said. “Several witnesses said Mr. Brown did not raise his hands at all or that he raised them briefly and then dropped them and then turned toward Officer Wilson, who then fired several rounds.”

One witness whose name was not listed in the grand jury transcripts testified he was working in a nearby building and saw Brown leaning through the police vehicle window and “some sort of confrontation” took place. A shot rang out, he said, and Brown fled as the officer chased him with his gun drawn. Brown stopped, according to the witness, but never raised his hands. Brown “ran towards the officer full charge,” he said, when Wilson fired several shots.

Another witness testified she and her husband saw the shooting from a nearby apartment complex. After the first two shots were fired, she said Brown began running from Wilson’s vehicle but stopped, turned around and started heading toward Wilson, who shot at him.

“No, he wasn’t,” the witness said when asked if it appeared Brown was approaching Wilson in a threatening fashion. “I think he was stunned, honestly.”

“He just kept walking toward the officer,” she told the grand jury. “He didn’t stop.”

The Justice Department will continue to investigate the shooting for evidence of a potential civil rights violation, although the federal investigators face a higher burden of proof to establish whether Wilson willfully deprived Brown of his civil rights. In recent high-profile shootings, that standard has been tough to satisfy, including a case in which federal prosecutors this year declined to charge officers who fatally shot an unarmed woman with a baby in her back seat after a car chase from the White House to the U.S. Capitol.

“For a cop to be indicted and especially to be convicted later of a crime in these kinds of situations, is very, very unusual,” said Chuck Drago, a police practices consultant and former police chief in Oviedo, Fla.

In a 1989 decision, the Supreme Court shaped the national standard regarding the use of force by officers when they reasonably fear imminent physical harm. The use of force must be evaluated through the “perspective of a reasonable officer on the scene” rather than being judged after the fact, meaning officers are often given the benefit of the doubt by prosecutors and grand jurors are reluctant to second-guess their decisions.

Many of the cases that do not result in charges involve armed suspects shot during violent confrontations with police. But even an officer who repeatedly shot an unarmed person — as was the case in Ferguson — may avoid prosecution if he or she contends they felt an imminent risk.

“A police officer is not like a normal citizen who discharges their weapon,” said Lori Lightfoot, a Chicago attorney who previously probed police shootings. “There is a presumption that somebody who is a peace officer, and is thereby authorized to use lethal force, used it correctly.”

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The Associated Press contributed to this report.





Even the above article, in its attempt to be balanced, doesn't make clear what prosecuting attorney McCulloch announced last night of his investigation, that the portion of witnesses who alleged Officer Wilson shot Michael Brown inappropriately and in cold blood, were investigated and thoroughly discedited by the forensic evidence, which he detailed in his announcement.

Dorian Johnson listed in the article above, for example, after his statements the day of the shooting in front of TV cameras, was later found to have been a co-criminal with Michael Brown in the store robbery, with a long rap sheet of prior crimes and lying to police.

The above article also softpedals and doesn't make clear that many of the grand jury witnesses who exonerated Officer Wilson were black. And definitely not part of some white good-old-boy racist system to exonerate Wilson despite the facts. They testified to what they saw.



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Prosecuting attorney McCulloch's 9PM announcement from last night:




I went grocery shopping right after I watched this, and was amazed when I got home that after this, there were riots, burning buildings and store lootings. Not just in Ferguson, Missouri, but nationwide.

These rioters are people who are not motivated by news and facts, but by pure hatred, and are eager to believe the wildest conspiracy theories from the like of Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and partisans in the liberal media. They will cling to any conspiracy theory that justifies their actions, and are immune to any facts or evidence. THAT scares me more than the looting and burning buildings! That the liberal base nationwide is increasingly an unreasoning mob, driven by a false narrative that cannot be disproven by the facts.


They cut off the questions by reporters, and I wish they hadn't, because the questions make clear the indignant one-sided bias of the media, who clearly were deeply invested in an indictment of Wilson. The concluding question shouted at McCulloch as he left the room was: "Mr McCulloch, will you sleep well tonight, sir!?!..."

Implying of course, that he shouldn't.






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Here's a video of the same announcement that includes the reporter questions (and cheap shots) after McCulloch's announcement.


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Michael Brown's parents:






Gee, raised by upstanding citizens like this, how could Michael Brown have ended up robbing stores and attacking cops?

Saying of the city after a grand jury exonerated Officer Wilson: "Burn this bitch down!" Not just once as an idle remark, but over and over, stoking the crowd.

Why are these people not arrested and held accountable for the destruction they incited?

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Resignation of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, unlikely to halt protests



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City officials in Ferguson, Mo. were due Sunday to address the resignation of Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot and killed teenager Michael Brown in a confrontation in August that fueled protests in the St. Louis suburb and around the nation.

Stephanie Karr, Ferguson city attorney, told the Associated Press that city officials planned to make a statement regarding Wilson's resignation. Karr earlier this week said Wilson had been on paid leave pending the outcome of an internal police investigation.


Wilson's resignation was announced Saturday by one of his attorneys, Neil Bruntrager, who said his client's decision was effective immediately.

"I have been told that my continued employment may put the residents and police officers of the City of Ferguson at risk, which is a circumstance that I cannot allow,” Wilson said in his resignation letter released late Saturday.

“It was my hope to continue in police work, but the safety of other police officers and the community are of paramount importance to me. It is my hope that my resignation will allow the community to heal,” the letter read.

Meanwhile, Brown's parents planned to attend services at the church where their son's funeral was held, with the Rev. Al Sharpton scheduled to preach.

"We were not after Wilson's job," Sharpton wrote in a statement. "We were after Michael Brown's justice."

On Saturday night, more than 100 protesters gathered near police headquarters, where they were outnumbers by officers, following the news. At least one person was arrested after a brief standoff with officers, while others wearing white masks sat in a nearby street blocking traffic. Another protester burned an American flag. By midnight, only about two dozen protesters remained.

But many seemed unfazed by the resignation. Several merely shrugged their shoulders when asked what they thought, while Rick Campbell flatly said he didn't care about the resignation, noting: "I've been protesting out here since August."

A grand jury spent more than three months reviewing evidence in the case before declining in November to issue charges against Wilson. He told jurors that he feared for his life when Brown hit him and reached for his gun.

The U.S. Justice Department is still conducting a civil rights investigation into the shooting and a separate probe of police department practices.

After the shooting, Wilson spent months in hiding and made no public statements. He broke his silence after the grand jury decision, telling ABC News that he could not have done anything differently in the encounter with Brown.

Wilson said he has a clean conscience because "I know I did my job right." Brown's shooting was the first time he fired his gun on the job, he said.

Asked whether the encounter would have unfolded the same way if Brown had been white, Wilson said yes.

Away from the protests Saturday night, resident Victoria Rutherford said she believed Wilson should have not only resigned, but been convicted of a crime.

"I'm upset. I have a 16-year-old son. It could've been him. I feel that he was absolutely in the wrong," she said.

Another resident, Reed Voorhees, said he hoped Wilson could find similar work "someplace where he would enjoy life, and move on with his life."

In the days after the shooting, tense and sometimes violent protests popped up in and around Ferguson, a predominantly black community patrolled by a mostly white police force. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon called in the National Guard to help.

Then on Monday night -- when prosecutors announced that a grand jury declined to indict Wilson -- the St. Louis suburb of 20,000 residents was ravaged by looting and violence.

At least a dozen commercial buildings were destroyed in Ferguson and neighboring Dellwood, mostly along West Florissant Avenue, not far from where Brown was killed. By Tuesday, Nixon had sent more than 2,200 National Guard members to the Ferguson area to support local law enforcement.

Demonstrations, which also have been held other U.S. cities, are expected to continue, though a sense of normalcy -- or at least a new normal -- has begun to settle on the city.

Police earlier Saturday reopened several blocks of West Florissant that had been barricaded off since Tuesday. Although most store windows were still boarded up, many have been decorated or spray-painted with messages saying the stores are open and welcoming shoppers.

Some business owners spent an unseasonably warm day Saturday tidying up, hoping customers soon would return.

Tracy Ballard, 44, brought her 7-year-old daughter to a store on West Florissant to buy candy and soda, before a trip to the beautician up the street.

"I feel sad for the business owners," Ballard said. "It's really sad it had to come from this. We just wanted justice. If we'd have had justice, none of this would have happened."
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The Associated Press contributed to this report.



Un-frigging-believeable.

Wilson is exonerated of any charges, and he STILL is not allowed to return to his normal life, and both he and his family are subject to constant death threats.

And Holder's Justice Department is constantly scheming ways to find an alternate way to level federal charges at Wilson.

I will never understand how black America can attach itself to this Michael Brown lowlife, who violently robbed a store and roughed up the convenience store clerk, and barely 10 minutes later violently attacked a police officer, that Michael Brown in that attack took 9 rounds and still advanced on Wilson, and it took a 10th round to stop Brown about 8 feet from officer Wilson, and Wilson is accused of acting innapropriately?!?

Further, the state prosecutor, with the lack of evidence, could have dismissed charges, but went to the extra step of putting the facts before a grand jury, who interviewed 60 witnesses, INCLUDING Darren Wilson, in about 70 hours of testimony, and again found a lack of evidence to prosecute Wilson.

How much is enough?
And why is black America so obsessed with lynching this officer, despite overwhelming evidence that he did not act innapropriately? It's absurd.
If I were officer Wilson, I'd move to Alaska or Idaho or Montana, or some other part of the country where there's virtually no blacks. Because clearly reasoning with black America is not an option.

AGAIN:
  • at least 93% of blacks are killed in black-on-black shootings.
  • As O'Reilly editorialized in a Youtube clip I posted above, there are only a tiny fraction of police shootings, and even less of blacks, that are even questionably justified.
  • In Ferguson, Missouri specifically, there are no previous police shootings of blacks, ZERO.
  • As the Salt Lake City case I cited above proves (a black officer who shot a 20-year-old white kid), it is not blacks alone who are shot by police. But that Salt Lake City case is ignored by the liberal media, only even mentioned in the conservative media, because it doesn't fit the "white racist" narrative the mainstream partisan media like to lyingly project.


The best explanation I've heard is that blacks want to change the subject from their disproportionately high levels of crime, teen pregancy (76% born out of wedlock), rap/hiphop culture that promotes criminality, disproportionately high welfare use, their having the highest ratio of high school dropouts, and their overwhelming self-annihilation in 93% black-on-black shootings.
They want to believe anyone else is responsible, and dismiss the facts as "racist lies". Blaming "racist" cops is an easy conspiracy theory that allows them to retain their African-American pride, despite the overwhelming facts that cultural propblems in Black America, not the cops, not whites, are responsible for their own lack of education, crime, and black-on-black murders. Even Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson get nervous when they see a young black male approaching them on the street.

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http://news.yahoo.com/giuliani-michael-brown-death-never-gone-grand-jury-173800728.html


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Giuliani: Michael Brown Death Never Should Have Gone to a Grand Jury

After days of nation-wide protesting and rioting over the grand jury decision to not indict former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani said on Sunday that prosecutors shouldn't have tried to indict him in front of a grand jury in the first place. Doing so, according to Giuliani, was political theater.

"I don't see how this case normally would even have been brought to a grand jury," said Giuliani, a former prosecutor, on Fox News Sunday. "This is the kind of case—had it not had the racial overtones and the national publicity—where a prosecutor would have come to the conclusion that there is not enough evidence to present to the grand jury."

"Attorney General Holder’s gonna have to take a case in which a jury couldn't find probable cause to indict, and he's gonna have to try to find probable cause in front of a federal grand jury,” Giuliani said. "It's an impossible case to present to a grand jury.”

Giuliani also doubled down on controversial comments he made last Sunday on NBC's Meet The Press, in which he said so-called black-on-black crime was "the reason for the heavy police presence in the black community" and suggesting that "the danger to a black child ... is another black." In a heated exchange with Michael Eric Dyson, a noted Georgetown University professor and civil rights activist, Giuliani said, "the white police officers won't be there if you weren't killing each other."

When asked about a Pew Research Center survey which found that 70 percent of black Americans believe they are treated less fairly than whites in their experience with police, Giuliani ceded to Fox host Chris Wallace, "I do believe that there is more interaction and more unfair interaction between police officers, white and black."

However, he insisted that reality is in the hands of the black community, saying, "I think just as much, if not more, responsibility is on the black community to reduce the reason why the police officers are assigned in such large numbers to the black community," He added: "It's because blacks commit murder eight times more per capita than any other group in our society."

"If I'd put all my police on Park Avenue instead of Harlem, thousands more blacks would have died during my time in office," Giuliani said.


Giuliana has some balls! Good for him not kissing some back tugs ass!


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Yeah, Giuliani was great on Fox News Sunday yesterday when he said that.


I've known several cops who said similar things. That rookies start out all PC, and then after a while see consistently who the criminals are.
Again: the 13% of America that is black commits 42% of the nation's crime, and 52% of the murders.
93% of black murders are black-on-black.
Black culture glamorizes violence and gangs. Guiliani said blacks, despite their small ratio of the population, have 8 times the murder rate of any other racial group. For all the posturing wails of "racism", there's just no getting around these facts!

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In related news...


Grand Jury Declines To Indict NYPD Officer In Chokehold Death Of Eric Garner


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A grand jury voted Wednesday not to indict New York City police officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, multiple sources confirm.

Pantaleo put 47-year-old Garner into a chokehold during an arrest for selling untaxed cigarettes on July 17. In a viral video of the arrest, Garner can be seen screaming “I can’t breathe!” multiple times until his body goes limp. A medical examiner later ruled his death a homicide.

Chokeholds are banned by NYPD guidelines, and Garner’s death prompted large protests across the city.

The grand jury’s decision Wednedsay comes just over a week after a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri declined to indict officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown.



The grand jury obviously felt otherwise, but I think a lesser charge of manslaughter or excessive force would have been appropriate.

In the case of Michael Brown, Brown was attacking officer Wilson, who had to defend himself.
In the case of these officers choking Garner, they were not in the same kind of danger from their suspect. They were just arresting a guy for selling cigarettes illegally. Plus the entire incident is on video, and therefore there's no debate about what actually happened in the minutes leading up to Garner's death.



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A bit more background on the Garner choking incident:


NO INDICTMENT FOR OFFICERS IN CHOKEHOLD DEATH OF ERIC GARNER


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NEW YORK (AP) - A grand jury cleared a white New York City police officer Wednesday in the videotaped chokehold death of an unarmed black man who had been stopped on suspicion of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes - a case that sparked outrage and drew comparisons to the deadly police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri.

The decision in Staten Island not to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo threatened to add to the tensions that have simmered in the city since the July 17 death of Eric Garner.

Jonathan Moore, an attorney for Garner's family, said he was told of the grand jury's decision. Two law enforcement officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment publicly on the case, confirmed the officer was not indicted.

"I am actually astonished based on the evidence of the video tape, and the medical examiner, that this grand jury at this time wouldn't indict for anything, is really just astonishing," Moore said.

The grand jury could have considered a range of charges, from murder to a lesser offense such as reckless endangerment.

Garner's family planned a news conference later in the day with the Rev. Al Sharpton. The Staten Island District Attorney's office didn't immediately respond to a call. There was no immediate comment from Pantaleo's attorney nor the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, a union that has strongly backed the officer.


[PHOTO GALLERY of Garner]

A video shot by an onlooker and widely viewed on the Internet showed the 43-year-old Garner telling a group of police officers to leave him alone as they tried to arrest him.

Pantaleo responded by wrapping his arm around Garner's neck in an apparent chokehold, which is banned under NYPD policy. The heavyset Garner, who had asthma, was heard repeatedly gasping, "I can't breathe!" A second video surfaced that showed police and paramedics appearing to make no effort to revive Garner while he lay motionless on the ground. He later died at a hospital.

As with 18-year-old Michael Brown's death in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, the Garner case sparked protests, accusations of racist policing and calls for federal prosecutors to intervene. But unlike the Missouri protests, the demonstrations in New York remained mostly peaceful. The case also prompted Police Commissioner William Bratton to order officers at the nation's largest police department to undergo retraining on use of force.

The medical examiner ruled Garner's death a homicide and found that a chokehold contributed to it. A forensic pathologist hired by Garner's family, Dr. Michael Baden, agreed with those findings, saying there was hemorrhaging on Garner's neck indicative of neck compressions.

Police union officials and Pantaleo's lawyer have argued that the officer used a takedown move taught by the police department, not a chokehold, because he was resisting arrest and that Garner's poor health was the main reason he died.

While details on the grand jurors were not disclosed, Staten Island is the most politically conservative of the city's five boroughs and home to many police and firefighters. The panel began hearing evidence in late September, including the video, autopsy results and testimony by Pantaleo.

Pantaleo had been stripped of his gun and badge and placed on desk duty while the case was under investigation. He is likely to remain on modified duty while the NYPD conducts an internal investigation that could result in administrative charges.

In anticipation of the announcement on the grand jury decision, police officials met with community leaders on Staten Island to head off a repeat of the response in Ferguson, where a grand jury decided not to indict the white officer who shot the black teen. Demonstrations there turned violent, resulting in more than 100 arrests and destruction of 12 commercial buildings by fire.

The last officer to be indicted in the death of a civilian was Richard Haste, charged in the February 2012 killing of Ramarley Graham in the Bronx. Graham was shot in a tiny bathroom in the three-family home where he lived with his grandmother. He was chased there by Haste who believed he was selling drugs.

Haste said he fired his weapon because he thought he was going to be shot. But no weapons were found in the apartment.

The officer was indicted on manslaughter charges in the summer of 2012, but the charges were dismissed by a judge who said prosecutors improperly instructed the grand jurors. A second grand jury decided not to re-indict the officer.

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Some personal background on Eric Garner, that I've only seen discussed in broadcast media by Fox News:



Seven years before his death, Eric Garner hand-wrote a civil rights lawsuit against the NYPD

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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Seven years before his death, Eric Garner hand-wrote a federal lawsuit against the NYPD protesting his treatment during another run-in with police on Staten Island.

Garner wrote out the lawsuit while in custody on Rikers Island in September 2007, but the suit ultimately went nowhere. He failed to provide the court with an address to reach him at after he was released from jail, and by November 2008, a Brooklyn federal court judge dismissed the lawsuit entirely.

Still, the case remains a matter of the public record.

The Advance is not including the name of the one officer mentioned in the lawsuit, as the case against him has been dismissed.

On Sept. 12, 2007, while being held in the Otis Barnum Correctional Center on Rikers, he wrote on a court form document: "On September. 1, 2007, at approx.. 7:30 p.m. on the corner of Castleton Ave & Heberton Ave [a police officer] and his team stopped me for reasons of there own. I was ordered to place my hands on the black SUV in which they were riding in.

"I complied with no problem. [The officer] then patted me down by ways of going through my pockets and socks and not finding anything illegal on my person. [The officer] then places me in handcuffs and then performs an cavity search on me by ways of 'digging his finggers in my rectum in the middle of the street.' "

Garner claimed the officer unzipped his shorts, and pulled out and inspected his genitals "in the middle of the street, all the while there are people passing back and forth. I told [the officer] to stop and if he wanted to do a strip search on me I'm willing to go to the police station if he wanted to because I had nothing to hide, my request was ignored.

"I then told [the officer] that I was fileing charges for him violating my civil rights, I was then hit with drug charges and told by [the officer] 'that I don't deserve my city job due to the fact that I'm an convicted felon on parole.' (I work for the New York City Park Department."

Under the "injuries" category, Garner claims "the injuries I received was to my manhood in which (the officer) violated" through the search of his rectum and genitals "for his own personal pleasure. (The officer) violated my civil rights."

It wouldn't be Garner's last run-in with the law -- prior to the his death Thursday, he faced charges in three pending criminal cases.

Garner, 43, died Thursday, after police attempted to arrest him on suspicion of selling untaxed cigarettes. A cell phone video taken as the scene unfolded shows an officer putting Garner in an apparent chokehold and dragging him to the pavement with the help of other officers.

Prior to the chokehold, an incredulous Garner tells officers he had just broken up a fight, then says, "I didn't sell anything. I did nothing... Every time you see me you arrest me. I'm tired of it. It stops today."

When two plainclothes officers move in on him, he lifts his hands, open-palmed, and says, "Don't touch me. Don't touch me, please don't touch me," and that's when one of the officers, since identified as Daniel Pantaleo, puts him in an apparent chokehold. Within seconds, Pantaleo and the other officers pull Garner down to the ground, holding him there as he repeatedly says, "I can't breathe."
He was pronounced dead at Richmond University Medical Center, West Brighton.


Several other letters to the editor refer to Garner having 31 prior arrests (and/or convictions). That part of the story is not being adequately covered either. I'd like to know what he has previously been arrested for.

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I haven't seen this aspect covered anywhere:



Man Who Shot Video of Eric Garner Arrest Faces Weapons Charge


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The man who captured the fatal arrest of Eric Garner on his cellphone is facing weapons charges after police on Staten Island say he was caught with an unloaded firearm over the weekend.

The NYPD says its narcotics officers were conducting enforcement Saturday night outside the Richmond Hotel in St. George when they spotted Ramsey Orta, 22, placing the .25 caliber handgun in the waistband of a 17-year-old girl.

Both were later charged with criminal possession of a weapon.

Orta has a prior conviction for carrying a loaded weapon.

His wife, who did not want her name revealed, disputed her husband's arrest and claims it was a setup.

The Rev. Al Sharpton, who called Orta to the pulpit during Eric Garner's funeral, says regardless of what happened, Orta's arrest adds fuel to his drive for federal authorities to take the investigation into Garner's death.

Orta used his cellphone to record Garner's arrest for allegedly selling loose cigarettes last month. The video shows one officer putting Garner in an alleged chokehold banned by the department.

Garner died and the medical examiner's office ruled his death a homicide, saying it was caused by neck and chest compression and his positioning during physical restraint by police.

One officer is on modified duty while internal affairs and the Staten Island district attorney investigate.

"Let the federal government handle it so there's no question about the objectivity of the investigation," Sharpton said.

Sharpton has been calling for a federal civil rights investigation and says Orta's arrest Saturday will mean the DA may have to consider Orta as a witness in Garner's death and a defendant as a result of the weapons charge.

Sharpton also pointed out Orta's role as a witness might just be to enter the tape which he says speaks for itself.

After his arrest Orta was taken to the hospital.

His wife says he suffered a panic attack.




Was the police arrest of Ramsey Orta vindictive payback because he recorded the video of the Eric Garner choking that humilated the NYPD?
Or was it a legitimate charge?

The timing of Orta's arrest suggests it was payback.

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THIS BLOG, while sympathetic to Eric Garner, indicates that these Staten Island/NYPD police had been targeting and arresting Garner for this and other incidents on many prior occasions.



This comment further down the page is particularly enlightening:

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As if the default position is that cops are always right and must be obeyed, rather than that cops have a burden (and a professional obligation) to show good reason for using handcuffs, and to use good reason when dealing with people. It reminds me of the Henry Louis Gates arrest, where his "crime" was basically talking back.

He would have been arrested whether he talked back / resisted or not. Per the linked articles, Garner was allegedly committing a crime that apparently is reported to the police by shop owners somewhat often, as they feel that someone selling cigarettes individually is stealing their livelihood. The cops do arrest people on those charges.

Plus, and PoliceOne is obviously a biased source, but they note Garner was a career criminal with a history of misdemeanors and (what I assume are) felonies.
  • Garner has been arrested 31 times since 1988 on charges such as drug possession, selling untaxed cigarettes and assault, police said. He was last arrested in May for selling untaxed cigarettes, court records show. Since 2009, he was arrested nine different times for selling such cigarettes, police said.

He also reportedly had three cigarette-related misdemeanor arrests pending in Criminal Court.

It's likely that the arresting officers were aware of all of this.

But why the fuck did they need four officers to arrest one guy for a misdemeanor? None of them have ever had to subdue a large suspect before? And that chokehold almost definitely resulted in Garner's death. Chokeholds can cause a person to panic and in someone with severe asthma, that panic can be fatal. Ultimately, ignoring someone saying nine times, "I can't breathe!" when you are arresting them is criminally negligent. I hope a jury throws the book at them for manslaughter.

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Wow.

The "black grievance industry" narrative of what happened with the Eric Garner arrest, that has organized thousands in cities across America chanting slogans, protesting a "white racist" police force is a narrative that flies in direct opposition to the facts.

1)"Stop and frisk" that began when Guiliani was mayor, reduced homicides in New York by over 75%, and actually SAVED (not threatened) black lives. As the black murder statistics that dropped by over 75% firmly establish.

2) The narrative that "white racism" is what killed Eric Garner is a transparent lie, when you consider that it was black store owners who complained to police about Eric Garner selling cigarettes illegally outside their stores, that it was a black police captain who took their requests to do something about it, and a female black police sergeant who oversaw the arrest, as well as other black officers present when Garner was arrested.

3) That the "white racist" police force in New York City is actually a force with a majority of officers who are people of color, and a minority who are white.


These are all facts I didn't previously know. And the human cattle in the streets chanting slogans likely will never know, because they just want to rationalize rage, vandalism and looting, and have no real interest in the facts. O'Reilly's interview with Giuliani tonight was very persuasive, with facts that race-baiters like Al Sharpton and the like cannot address. So they whip up race arguments to hide the true facts.

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This is an O'Reilly clip with John Stossel from August, on police raids, where I'm actually closer to Stossel's opinion on the subject.

But the statistics O'Reilly cites are devastating, that over 500 police officers a year are killed, and about 500,000 injured annually, many so severely that they can't return to work. (As compared with about 350 police shootings of suspects annually, only 150 of which are black suspects, the majority of which are unquestionably justified. Out of 7 million annual arrests.)
It gives justification to why police often use force when they debatably don't have to. Taking firm control of a situation can prevent them from being killed or severely injured.

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http://www.kptv.com/story/27624705/protester-in-portland-hit-by-car?autostart=true

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PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) -
A Portland protester whose foot was run over by an SUV was issued a ticket by police.

Demonstrators gathered outside Powell's Books on West Burnside on Saturday as part of a nationwide movement protesting deaths of black men involving police officers.

At 3:12 p.m. Saturday, officers responded to reports of a protester who was hit by a car.

Officers said 19-year-old Julian Rist was standing in the street when he was hit. The car kept going.

Medical personnel were delayed getting to Rist due to all traffic in the area being blocked by the protest march, according to Portland police.

Once they reached him, he was taken to a Portland hospital for treatment of foot and ankle injuries.

A short time later, the Milwaukie Police Department received a call from 37-year-old Thomas Munsey, who said he was involved in the crash.

Munsey told police he was afraid to stop his car out of fear for his family's safety, as the protesters had surround them.

Investigators said Munsey was driving his 2015 Audi SUV eastbound on Burnside Street, when he encountered dozens of people blocking the street.

Police said Rist was part of that group. Officers said he was standing in the eastbound lanes of Burnside, not in a crosswalk, when one of the tires ran over Rist's foot.

Munsey drove slowly through the crowd and out of the area before calling 911, according to Portland police.

After completing an investigation, officers issued a citation to Rist on the charge of improper position on a highway.


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The grand jury witness who testified that she saw Michael Brown pummel a cop before charging at him “like a football player, head down,” is a troubled, bipolar Missouri woman with a criminal past who has a history of making racist remarks and once insinuated herself into another high-profile St. Louis criminal case with claims that police eventually dismissed as a “complete fabrication,” The Smoking Gun has learned.

...

“Witness 40”--a 45-year-old St. Louis resident named Sandra McElroy--was nowhere near Canfield Drive on the Saturday afternoon Brown was shot to death.

...

Sandra McElroy did not provide police with a contemporaneous account of the Brown-Wilson confrontation, which she claimed to have watched unfold in front of her as she stood on a nearby sidewalk smoking a cigarette.

Instead, McElroy waited four weeks after the shooting to contact cops. By the time she gave St. Louis police a statement on September 11, a general outline of Wilson’s version of the shooting had already appeared in the press. McElroy’s account of the confrontation dovetailed with Wilson’s reported recollection of the incident.

In the weeks after Brown’s shooting--but before she contacted police--McElroy used her Facebook account to comment on the case. On August 15, she “liked’ a Facebook comment reporting that Johnson had admitted that he and Brown stole cigars before the confrontation with Wilson. On August 17, a Facebook commenter wrote that Johnson and others should be arrested for inciting riots and giving false statements to police in connection with their claims that Brown had his hands up when shot by Wilson. “The report and autopsy are in so YES they were false,” McElroy wrote of the “hands-up” claims. This appears to be an odd comment from someone who claims to have been present during the shooting. In response to the posting of a news report about a rally in support of Wilson, McElroy wrote on August 17, “Prayers, support God Bless Officer Wilson.”

After meeting with St. Louis police, McElroy continued monitoring the case and posting online. Commenting on a September 12 Riverfront Times story reporting that Ferguson city officials had yet to meet with Brown’s family, McElroy wrote, “But haven’t you heard the news, There great great great grandpa may or may not have been owned by one of our great great great grandpas 200 yrs ago. (Sarcasm).” On September 13, McElroy went on a pro-Wilson Facebook page and posted a graphic that included a photo of Brown lying dead in the street. A type overlay read, “Michael Brown already received justice. So please, stop asking for it.” The following week McElroy responded to a Facebook post about the criminal record of Wilson’s late mother. “As a teenager Mike Brown strong armed a store used drugs hit a police officer and received Justis,” she stated.

On October 22, McElroy went to the FBI field office in St. Louis and was interviewed by an agent and two Department of Justice prosecutors. The day before that taped meeting, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published a lengthy story detailing exactly what Wilson told police investigators about the Ferguson shooting.

McElroy provided the federal investigators with an account that neatly tracked with Wilson’s version of the fatal confrontation. She claimed to have seen Brown and Johnson walking in the street before Wilson encountered them while seated in his patrol car. She said that the duo shoved the cruiser’s door closed as Wilson sought to exit the vehicle, then watched as Brown leaned into the car and began raining punches on the cop. McElroy claimed that she heard gunfire from inside the car, which prompted Brown and Johnson to speed off. As Brown ran, McElroy said, he pulled up his sagging pants, from which “his rear end was hanging out.”

But instead of continuing to flee, Brown stopped and turned around to face Wilson, McElroy said. The unarmed teenager, she recalled, gave Wilson a “What are you going to do about it look,” and then “bent down in a football position…and began to charge at the officer.” Brown, she added, “looked like he was on something.” As Brown rushed Wilson, McElroy said, the cop began firing. The “grunting” teenager, McElroy recalled, was hit with a volley of shots, the last of which drove Brown “face first” into the roadway.

McElroy’s tale was met with skepticism by the investigators, who reminded her that it was a crime to lie to federal agents. When questioned about inconsistencies in her story, McElroy was resolute about her vivid, blow-by-blow description of the deadly Brown-Wilson confrontation. “I know what I seen,” she said. “I know you don’t believe me.”

When asked what she was doing in Ferguson--which is about 30 miles north of her home--McElroy explained that she was planning to “pop in” on a former high school classmate she had not seen in 26 years. Saddled with an incorrect address and no cell phone, McElroy claimed that she pulled over to smoke a cigarette and seek directions from a black man standing under a tree. In short order, the violent confrontation between Brown and Wilson purportedly played out in front of McElroy.

Despite an abundance of red flags, state prosecutors put McElroy in front of the Ferguson grand jury the day after her meeting with the federal officials. After the 12-member panel listened to a tape of her interview conducted at the FBI office, McElroy appeared and, under oath, regaled the jurors with her eyewitness claims.

McElroy’s grand jury testimony came to an abrupt end at 2:30 that afternoon due to obligations of some grand jurors. But before the panel broke for the day, McElroy revealed that, “On August 9th after this happened when I got home, I wrote everything down on a piece of paper, would that be easier if I brought that in?”

“Sure,” answered prosecutor Kathi Alizadeh.

“Because that’s how I make sure I don’t get things confused because then it will be word for word,” said McElroy, who did not bother to mention her journaling while speaking a day earlier with federal investigators.

McElroy would return to the Ferguson grand jury 11 days later, journal pages in hand and with a revamped story for the panel.

...

According to her grand jury testimony, she was diagnosed as bipolar when she was 16, but has not taken medication for the condition for about 25 years.

When Sandra McElroy returned to the Ferguson grand jury on November 3, she brought a spiral notebook purportedly containing her handwritten journal entries for some dates in August, including the Saturday Michael Brown was shot.

Before testifying about the content of her notebook scribblings, McElroy admitted that she had not driven to Ferguson in search of an African-American pal she had last seen in 1988. Instead, McElroy offered a substitute explanation that was, remarkably, an even bigger lie.

McElroy, again under oath, explained to grand jurors that she was something of an amateur urban anthropologist. Every couple of weeks, McElroy testified, she likes to “go into all the African-American neighborhoods.” During these weekend sojourns--apparently conducted when her ex has the kids--McElroy said she will “go in and have coffee and I will strike up a conversation with an African-American and I will try to talk to them because I’m trying to understand more.”

As she testified, McElroy admitted that her sworn account of the Brown-Wilson confrontation was likely peppered with details of the incident she had read online. But she remained adamant about having been on Canfield Drive and seeing Brown “going after the officer like a football player” before being shot to death.

McElroy’s last two journal entries for August 9 read like an after-the-fact summary of the account she gave to federal investigators on October 22 and the Ferguson grand jury the following afternoon. It is so obvious that the notebook entries were not contemporaneous creations that investigators should have checked to see if the ink had dried.

The opening entry in McElroy’s journal on the day Brown died declared, “Well Im gonna take my random drive to Florisant. Need to understand the Black race better so I stop calling Blacks Niggers and Start calling them People.” A commendable goal, indeed.

Near the end of her testimony, McElroy was questioned about a Facebook page she had started to raise money for Wilson. McElroy corrected a prosecutor, saying that the page was “not for Darren Wilson,” but rather other law enforcement officers who have “been dealing with all the long hours” as a result of unrest in Ferguson.

McElroy’s group purports to be a “non-profit organization,” though Missouri state corporation records contain no mention of the outfit, which launched its Facebook page two weeks after Brown’s killing. In donation pitches posted on other Facebook pages, “First Responders Support” claimed that money raised through an online fundraising campaign would be used to pay for care packages and gift cards for cops “that have been dealing with the riots here in St Louis MO.”

In an October 25 Facebook discussion thread on the web site of a St. Louis TV station, McElroy--using one of her personal Facebook accounts--posted a link to the “First Responders” fundraising page, along with a call to action. “How about support the LEO instead of these thugs,” she wrote. Two minutes later, a similar link to the YouCaring web site was posted from the “First Responders” Facebook account.

It is unknown how much money McElroy’s Facebook gambit has raised, or how the money was spent. But in a December 5 post, the “First Responders” page offered a fundraising update. Since “Officer Wilson’s attorney has made it clear there are to be NO online donation excepted,” McElroy wrote, “I purchased a money order and mailed it” to the “Darren Wilson Trust Fund.”

A TSG reporter last week sent a message to the “First Responders” Facebook page asking how much money the group raised and donated to Wilson. While that inquiry was ignored, the fundraising post was subsequently deleted.
...

McElroy’s devotion to the truth--lacking during her appearances before the Ferguson grand jury--was also absent in early-2007 when she fabricated a bizarre story in the wake of the rescue of Shawn Hornbeck, a St. Louis boy who had been held captive for more than four years by Michael Devlin, a resident of Kirkwood, a city just outside St. Louis.

McElroy, who also lived in Kirkwood, told KMOV-TV that she had known Devlin for 20 years. She also claimed to have gone to the police months after the child’s October 2002 disappearance to report that she had seen Devlin with Hornbeck. The police, McElroy said, checked out her tip and determined that the boy with Devlin was not Hornbeck.

In the face of McElroy’s allegations, the Kirkwood Police Department fired back at her. Cops reported that they investigated her claim and determined that “we have no record of any contact with Mrs. McElroy in regards to Shawn Hornbeck.” The police statement concluded, “We have found that this story is a complete fabrication.”

Undeterred by that withering blast, McElroy peddled another story to police in nearby Lincoln County, where Charles Arlin Henderson, 11, went missing in 1991. According to news reports, McElroy claimed that Devlin had given her photos he took of young boys, one of whom she knew as “Chuck” or “Chuckie.” Those images were shown to the missing boy’s mother, who said that while one of the boys in the photos resembled her son, “I’m keeping my emotions in check. I’m not going to be hurt anymore.”

A law enforcement task force investigated Devlin’s possible involvement in other missing children cases, but concluded that his only victims were Hornbeck and a 13-year-old boy who was abducted four days before Devlin’s arrest. Henderson, who has never been found, would now be 34-years-old.

...

12/16 UPDATE: Following the publication of this story, Sandra McElroy acknowledged to TSG that she is “Witness 40.”


whomod said: I generally don't like it when people decide to play by the rules against people who don't play by the rules.
It tends to put you immediately at a disadvantage and IMO is a sign of true weakness.
This is true both in politics and on the internet."

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Well, at least she didn't say: "Let me tell you something I know about the negro..."

There goes that testimony. If I recall correctly, there were 7 witnesses that supported officer Darren Wilson's account of events. And 3 who incriminated Wilson as shooting Michael Brown in the back, as Brown, they alleged, raised his hands and said "don't shoot." The main witness was Dorian Johnson, who almost immediately was revealed to be the co-burglar with Brown in the convenience-store strongarm robbery, and both Brown and Johnson can clearly be seen in the act, in the convenience store surveillance video. No dispute possible there.
Dorian Johnson clearly lied, and it was also disclosed had lied in his account of a previous incident when speaking with police. He also has a lengthy rap sheet, and quickly lawyered up.
The other two "don't shoot/shot in the back" witnesses are two teenage black girls who are friends of Dorian Johnson and Michael Brown. There goes that testimony too.
And the forensics and three autopsies also back Darren Wilson's account. The bullet in the top of Michael Brown's head is consistent with the "charging like a football player" account. Although it looks like McElroy's testimony is no longer credible, other testimony and forensic evidence of Michael Brown's charge on officer Wilson is.

I think this...
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The opening entry in McElroy’s journal on the day Brown died declared, “Well Im gonna take my random drive to Florisant. Need to understand the Black race better so I stop calling Blacks Niggers and Start calling them People.” A commendable goal, indeed.

...is the single oddest thing McElroy said. Although her bias and fabrication in favor of Darren Wilson and against Michael Brown is clear enough in all her other behavior.

It does raise the question, though, why local police and federal FBI and DOJ didn't pick her story apart in a matter of minutes. Certainly Eric Holder's DOJ officials gathering witness testimony would not have been part of a conspiracy to protect Darren Wilson. Quite the opposite, they would have jumped on this evidence against McElroy's testimony. If McElroy is truly as bent as this smoking-gun piece asserts.



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NYPD arrests reportedly plummet following assassination of two officers


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Dec 31st 2014 6:12AM

NYPD officers are refusing to make arrests out of fear for their safety, new statistics have revealed.

Arrests by the nation's largest police department, still reeling from the assassination of two officers, are sharply down the last two weeks of the year, according to the New York Post. The trend falls in line with a police union memo first reported by AOL News but widely discredited among city officials.

Traffic citations are down 94 percent, parking violations are off 92 percent and drug arrests have plummeted 84 percent, according to the paper. Arrests overall are down 66 percent.

"Would you be productive for a company that bad mouths you to everyone and got caught doing it?" An officer contacted by AOL News wondered aloud. "The administration created this atmosphere.

"The ones who are going to suffer are the New Yorkers."

The report comes only four days after thousands of officers turned their backs on New York Mayor Bill de Blasio as he eulogized slain detective Rafael Ramos, and only two days after the mayor was booed at the NYPD academy graduation ceremony.

The mayor and the police department have been at odds since this summer, when Staten Island man Eric Garner died while being arrested following what protestors and many politicians claim was a chokehold.

NYPD sources have insisted to AOL News that Garner was placed in a tactical maneuver, not a chokehold.

A police union memo issued just hours after detectives Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were assassinated December 20 in Brooklyn by a crazed gunman claimed de Blasio's "hands are literally dripping with blood because of his words, actions and policies."

The note, which was obtained exclusively by AOL News, was passed among all rank and file officers. It instructed patrols to respond to all calls two squad cars at a time and to not make any arrests.

"Absolutely NO law enforcement action in the form of arrests and or summonses is to be taken unless absolutely necessary and unless an individual must be placed under arrest," the memo insisted.

NYPD and police union reps immediately distanced themselves from the memo, claiming it was a work of fiction, but the numbers don't lie.

Arrests are down.

A veteran officer with decades of experience in the department previously told AOL News that "cops are not gonna give a s**t anymore" following the murders of Liu and Ramos.

The cop called de Blasio a "wolf in sheep's clothing" and said officers would have no choice but to stand down unless their lives are in danger.

An unnamed officer told the Post: "I'm not writing any summonses. Do you think I'm going to stand there so someone can shoot me or hit me in the head with an ax? I'm concerned about my safety.

"I want to go to home to my wife and kids."

De Blasio met Tuesday with Police Commissioner Bratton and a handful of union reps to hash things out and try to find a resolution to safety concerns brought forward by union leaders.

But the unions say the talks made little progress.

Patrolmen's Benevolent Association President Pat Lynch told reporters: "There was no resolve and our thought here today is that actions speak louder than words and time will tell."

Lynch previously shouted to anyone who would listen that the mayor "has blood on his hands" following the horrific execution of the two officers just days before Christmas.

Bratton told CBS, "The morale of the department is low. There's no getting around that. That's the reality at this time."

When asked if there was still a path to better relations between the mayor and his police, the officer told AOL News: "De Blasio needs to apologize for helping fuel this movement and letting it get out of control.

"He wasn't the only one, but he is the only leader of New York."


The Ferguson, MO shooting of Michael Brown, combined with the Staten Island death in custody of Eric Garner, combined with the exploitation of these incidents by Barack Obama and the Democrats, by Mayor Deblasio, by Al Sharpton and the other elite of the race-grievance industry, and by the radical OWS-variety Left, with the complicity of a Left-leaning mainstream media, have sold the false narrative they wanted to, and stoked unrest and chaos that would not otherwise exist now.

To the point that cops are being targeted and on the defensive nationwide.

At some point, cops have to be given the freedom to reign in this chaos, and do whatever is necessary to stop it. To allow this to continue means criminals win and have more freedom to commit every type of crime. And the people getting hurt will not only be cops nationwide, but far more civilians who would otherwise be protected.

Score another victory against America for the Left.



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It should also be pointed out that Barack Obama, who has been quick to condemn police on several occasions and racialize the issue ("If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon..."; "Trayvon could have been me when I was his age..." ; "The police acted stupidly" when they arrested loudmouthed "black studies" professor Louis Gates who antagonized police when caught trying to break into his own home) has said nothing about the senseless death of two officers shot dead in New York city, or another one shot dead in Florida.

Likewise, Obama said nothing in 2009 about the shooting death of an Oklahoma military recruitment officer.

Nor did he say or do ANYTHING to help two separate U.S. marines who were unjustly put in Mexican prisons, and badly mistreated. He at no time interceded on their behalf, at no time before during or after met with them or their families, at no time commented publicly about the unjustness of the Mexican government or publicly appealed for their release.

Bo Bergdahl, deserter and muslim convert who got U.S. soldiers killed looking for him, Obama met with, and his muslim-convert father and mother.
Murderous Al Qaida prisoners Obama voices advocacy for, and condemns our own government for imprisoning and interrogating. In a time of war!
Iranians seeking nuclear weapons, Obama speaks on behalf of and negotiates with, even as they break every agreement.
Illegal immigrants Obama advocates for, even as they enter illegally and endanger thousands of Americans, flooding in by the hundreds of thousands, drug traffickers, murderous gang members and terrorists among them. Not to mention the diseases that they are not checked for, that have already infected many border security guards. And will continue to infect many U.S. citizens.

THESE Obama passionately advocates for. But patriotic Americans who risk their lives for us, Obama contemptuously ignores.



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    Liberals who bemoan discrimination, intolerance, restraint of Constitutional freedoms, and promotion of hatred toward various abberant minorities, have absolutely no problem with discriminating against, being intolerant of, restricting Constitutional freedoms of, and directing hate-filled scapegoat rhetoric against conservatives.

    EXACTLY what they accuse Republicans/conservatives of doing, is EXACTLY what liberals/Democrats do themselves, to those who oppose their beliefs.
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THE FARCICAL FERGUSON REPORT

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By Larry Elder
March 12, 2015



The NBA consists of 76 percent black players. But blacks are just 13 percent of the country. Clearly, the league engages in racial discrimination against whites. Silly, right? Well, this is exactly what the sleight-of-hand Department of Justice pulled off to find that the Ferguson Police Department engages in "implicit and explicit racial bias"!

The report insults anybody who's ever studied the statistics or logic.

The 105-page report concludes: "Ferguson's law enforcement practices are shaped by the City's focus on revenue rather than by public safety needs. This emphasis on revenue has compromised the institutional character of Ferguson's police department, contributing to a pattern of unconstitutional policing, and has also shaped its municipal court, leading to procedures that raise due process concerns and inflict unnecessary harm on members of the Ferguson community. Further, Ferguson's police and municipal court practices both reflect and exacerbate existing racial bias, including racial stereotypes. Ferguson's own data establish clear racial disparities that adversely impact African Americans. The evidence shows that discriminatory intent is part of the reason for these disparities. Over time, Ferguson's police and municipal court practices have sown deep mistrust between parts of the community and the police department, undermining law enforcement legitimacy among African Americans in particular."

The Washington Post immediately put out an article headlined "The 12 key highlights from the DOJ's scathing Ferguson report." Per the Post, the "scathing" statistic first listed is this: Ferguson is 67 percent black, but blacks comprised 85 percent of the traffic stops and 93 percent of the arrests. Incontrovertible proof that the Ferguson PD engages in institutional racism!

Reporters, in describing the Ferguson report, used adjectives that include "shocking," "stunning" and "eye-popping."

But if Ferguson's numbers are "eye-popping," what adjective applies to the New York City Police Department. New York City is 25 percent black. However, of the traffic stops, blacks comprise 55 percent. The statistical "gap" is 30 points. In Ferguson, as stated, the black population is 67 percent, but 85 percent of the traffic stops. The statistical "gap" is 18 points -- far smaller than New York's 30-point "gap."

Why aren't Messrs. Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Eric Holder marching on Times Square?

The answer is that the liberal former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who governed for 12 years, defends the aggressive policing of the NYPD -- and the resulting "statistical disparities." Bloomberg says: "Unlike many cities, where wealthy areas get special treatment, the NYPD targets its manpower to the areas that suffer the highest crime levels. Ninety percent of all people killed in our city -- and 90 percent of all those who commit the murders and other violent crimes -- are black and Hispanic. It is shameful that so many elected officials and editorial writers have been largely silent on these facts.

"Instead, they have argued that police stops are discriminatory because they do not reflect the city's overall census numbers. By that flawed logic, our police officers would stop women as often as men and senior citizens as often as young people. To do so would be a colossal misdirection of resources and would take the core elements of police work -- targeting high-crime neighborhoods and identifying suspects based on evidence -- out of crime-fighting. ...

"That the proportion of stops generally reflects our crime numbers does not mean ... that the police are engaged in racial profiling; it means they are stopping people in those communities who fit descriptions of suspects or are engaged in suspicious activity."

The National Institute of Justice is the research and evaluation agency of the DOJ. In 2013, the NIJ published its study called "Race, Trust and Police Legitimacy." Unlike when responding to dispatch calls, police officers exercise more discretion when it comes to traffic stops. Thus, the supposedly "racial profiling" cops can have a field day when it comes to traffic stops, right?

But according to the NIJ, 3 out of 4 black drivers admit being stopped by police for a "legitimate reason." Blacks, compared to whites, were on average more likely to commit speeding or other traffic offenses. "Seatbelt usage," said the NIJ, "is chronically lower among black drivers. If a law enforcement agency aggressively enforces seatbelt violations, police will stop more black drivers." The NIJ conclusion? Numerical disparities result from "differences in offending" in addition to "differences in exposure to the police" and "differences in driving patterns."

President Obama, backed by research from the left and from the right, said, "Children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of school and 20 times more likely to end up in prison."

Richmond, Virginia, is a city of 214,000, with a black population of 50 percent. Eighty-six percent of black Richmond families are headed by a single parent. Of Ferguson's 67 percent black population, how many kids grew up in fatherless homes?

Whatever the answer, isn't this a far more relevant statistic?

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O'Reilly on the disproportionate Ferguson police citations, from March 5, 2015, with radio host McGraw Millhaven, and Jeff Roorda of the Police Officers Association :

http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/index.html#/v/4096537582001

I wish I could find a clip from a week or two ago, where O'Reilly talks to John Stossel, who interviewed blacks, and 50% say they have the same opportunity to succeed in America as any white person. I found that very refreshing, that a rather large slice of black America doesn't buy into all the black-people-don't-have-a-chance-in-a-white-racist-system rhetoric.

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Ah, here it is, from March 10th.

http://www.eurthisnthat.com/2015/03/12/j...ell-here-watch/


Although the commentary with the clip is like something from MediaMatters (the clip they post at the end is clearly reposted from Media Matters).
But at least they have the clip for you to watch, and judge for yourself.

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Just to review:

When Michael Brown was shot by officer Darren Wilson, Obama made a televised address of the situation, and had his Department of Justice send 40 federal investigators.

When two Ferguson police officers were shot, Obama made no televised public statement or condemnation, just a flippant Twitter comment signed "--B.O." and NO federal investigators.

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DORIAN JOHNSON (CRIMINAL) HIRED FOR CITY JOB, DARREN WILSON (EXONERATED POLICE OFFICER) FORCED TO QUIT AND UNEMPLOYED

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Dorian Johnson–the witness who originally told police that 18-year-old Ferguson, MO resident Mike Brown had his hands up and pled with then-Officer Darren Wilson “Don’t shoot”–snagged a temporary position, that pays around $8.50 an hour, working for the city of St. Louis, The St. Louis Dispatch reported.

Brown was fatally shot by Wilson on August 9, and the incident, as well as the grand jury verdict to not indict Wilson, sparked riots in Ferguson on two separate occasions. The issue as to whether Brown actually had his hands up during the incident came into question when it was revealed that other witnesses, along with grand jury witnesses, contradicted the narrative altogether.

Johnson remained elusive during the final weeks of the grand jury deliberations, and his former lawyer Freeman Bosley Jr. was unavailable for comment immediately after businesses in Ferguson and Dellwood were vandalized, looted, and/or set on fire, but he told the Dispatch Johnson was looking for work and is happy to have a job.



Further irony. Dorian Johnson, the thug who participated in the videotaped burglary with Michael Brown, and whose demonstrably untrue "hands up don't shoot" narrative stoked violence in Ferguson and nationwide, got a temporary job with the city.

While Darren Wilson, the officer who shot Brown in self-defense and was fully exonerated by a full investigation (by a DOJ desperate to find Wilson guilty of anything, but despite their best efforts found absolutely nothing) was forced to resign his job as a police officer, and is too politically radioactive to be hired elsewhere.


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More shootings of black suspects by police, more black protests and riots.
I was looking at Wikipedia to see what the latest developments were on these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Alton_Sterling

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Philando_Castile

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Milwaukee_riots

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_shooting_of_Dallas_police_officers



It goes back to what I posted 2 years ago on the subject:

( O'Reilly editorial, August 25, 2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtxF63V-RuA

There are about 8 million arrests in the U.S. in the most recent statistical year. From those, there have been about 600 shootings of suspect in arrest or custody, most clearly justified. Of those 600, only 150 were of black suspects, which would average out to one black police shooting every 2 or 3 days. Relative to the 8 million arrests, they are statistically insignificant and hardly support the narrative of a "war on blacks".

With very few exceptions (I can only think of one I've seen in 5 years) the suspect was shot or otherwise dies because thy did not cooperate with police, resisted arrest, or either raised, or appeared to raise, a firearm at police.

The only exception I can think of is one where video showed a police officer (if I recall, in South Carolina) pulled over a black man, who then ran away, and the officer emptied his clip into the suspect's back. For which the officer was briskly convicted and will spend the rest of his life in jail.

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I was also curious about the current situation of exonerated Ferguson, MO officer Darren Wilson. No specifics on what happened to him after he was unjustly fired by the Ferguson police department, EVEN AFTER he was completely exonerated, even by Eric Holder's black racist Justice Department.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darren_Wilson_(police_officer)

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On the anniversary of the incident, August 9, 2015, the Columbia (Missouri) Police Officers' Association (CPOA) proclaimed "Darren Wilson Day", calling Wilson an "innocent, but persecuted, officer" and insisted that his ethnicity had nothing to do with their support of him.[12] An ABC affiliate reported that the post was shared nearly 60 times on the site before being removed. The CPOA then put up another post where it stated its support for Wilson and "all law enforcement officers who endure similar situations."[13]

That same day, there was a protest in Ferguson, during which protestors carried a roasted pig, wearing a police officer hat, with the name "Darren Wilson" scrawled on the side of it. After the group reached a police department, the pig was placed on a concrete barrier around the building and the protestors carved and ate from its head.[14]




Wow... somehow that escaped coverage in the news media.


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This article I just read on Harvard Professor Louis Gates Jr in Cambridge, MA, gives the final review of his arrest, and what could have been done to prevent it from happening.




While it says that "both contributed" to the escalation that resulted in arrest, I think it's pretty clear that the officer was just doing his job in asking Gates to come outside, present his I.D. for the officer to rread, and answer some basic questions to verify there was not a burglary, as the officer had been called to investigate.

But Gates was a jerk and copped an attitude of "you're harassing me because I'm black", whereas many blacks would be belligerent to an officer that way, most other citizens would just comply. I've been in that exact situation. TWICE. I cooperated, they verified I didn't do anything wrong, and just continued my walk home.
I think blacks more often have a problem is that they take an attitude and are belligerent and uncooperative with an officer, preventing them from doing their job, or the officer even being unsure of their own safety.

Refer back to Chris Rock's safety video:
How Not to get your ass kicked by the police





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 Originally Posted By: Wonder Boy
An interesting reversal of the Michael Brown/Darren Wilson shooting...

BLACK UTAH COP KILLS UNARMED WHITE 20-YEAR-OLD, CASE IS INVISIBLE TO THE NATIONAL MEDIA




In follow-up on the case I cited in my above earlier post:

SOME CLAIMS DISMISSED BUT KEY ONES REMAIN IN DILLON TAYLOR SHOOTING, AND WRONGFUL DEATH LAWSUIT AGAINST SALT LAKE CITY


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The family of Dillon Taylor — who was shot and killed in 2014 by a Salt Lake City police officer — narrowed their lawsuit against the city on Friday.
The family agreed with Salt Lake City to dismiss their claims of wrongful death and denial of family association, according to motion filed Friday in federal court.

Two claims remain. The family still contends Officer Bron Cruz used excessive force when he shot and killed Taylor on Aug. 11, 2014 outside a convenience store near 2100 South and State Street. There also remains an excessive force claim against Salt Lake City itself.
Taylor’s killing set off a series of protests in Salt Lake City and South Salt Lake, where the shooting took place.
Attorneys for Salt Lake City, in court filings, have said the officers' conduct "was objectively reasonable and was justified under the totality of the circumstances."

Prosecutors found the shooting to be legally justified because a 911 caller near the store had said Taylor, his brother and his cousin were acting suspiciously and “flashing” a gun; when the officers found the trio at the store, Taylor did not immediately respond to Cruz’s orders to stop and show his hands, instead keeping his hands in his pants and walking away.
When Taylor did turn around and pull out his hands, Cruz shot him once in the chest and once in the abdomen. Taylor later was
found to be carrying no gun, but he was wearing headphones, apparently attached to a phone in his pocket.

While the store was in South Salt Lake, it was near the border with Salt Lake City, and officers from there responded to the 911 call.
In April 2016, Dillon Taylor's brother and cousin settled their portion of the lawsuit. Salt Lake City, South Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County jointly paid a total of $85,000 to the brother, Jerrail Taylor, and the cousin, Adam Thayne — who claimed they were unlawfully detained by police after the shooting. The two were handcuffed and detained for more than five hours, even though neither was suspected of a crime, the lawsuit claims.



I'm astonished how little is written of this incident. There isn't even a Wikipedia page about this, despite its relevance to the Michael Brown shooting with the races of the officer and race of the kid killed reversed. And the fact that Dillon Taylor was not only unarmed but in no way threatening the officer. And yet it was regarded as a justified shooting.

How much more justified in the case of Darren Wilson, who had injuries from being assaulted by Michael Brown, and black witnesses who watched Brown unrelentingly attack and advance on officer Wilson until Brown's dying breath. And yet Darren Wilson was fired, and the Salt Lake city officer is still working.


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"THE PANTALEO EFFECT": NYPD ARRESTS PLUMMET IN THE WAKE OF GARNER CASE ARRESTING OFFICER PANTALEO'S FIRING

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The number of arrests and criminal summonses handled by city cops last week plummeted compared to the same period in 2018 — and law enforcement sources warn it’s the “Pantaleo Effect.’’

Officer Daniel Pantaleo was fired by NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill on Aug. 19 over his role in the fatal takedown of Staten Island cigarette peddler Eric Garner, enraging police officers and their union leaders, who argue the cop was simply doing his job during an arrest.

Police Benevolent Association chief Patrick Lynch responded by angrily telling his members to “proceed with the utmost caution’’ when answering calls — and new statistics obtained by The Post on Monday suggest officers are heeding his warning.

Arrests dropped 27% between Aug. 19 — the day Pantaleo was fired — and Aug. 25 compared to the same period in 2018, with police making 3,508 busts compared to 4,827.

The number of criminal summonses issued fell nearly 29% over the same period, going from 1,655 to 1,181, the figures show.

Multiple law enforcement sources told The Post that while there is no organized slowdown, cops on the street clearly feel that the department doesn’t have their backs, so why should they needlessly put themselves on the line?

“Who wants to be the last cop standing?” a Manhattan cop said. “If someone’s in trouble and needs help or if a cop’s in trouble, obviously, you do what you have to do as a police officer. But if it’s discretionary, why put yourself in harm’s way?’’

An NYPD supervisor in Brooklyn said, “Of course it has to do with what happened to Pantaleo — cops are frustrated, upset. They feel they don’t have the backing of downtown, Police Headquarters and City Hall.

“It all goes back to cops feeling like they’re out on the street alone.’’

A Bronx cop said the stats are lower partly because officers are taking more time with calls after Pantaleo.

“They want to be more careful. They have to protect themselves because no one else is going to protect them,’’ the source said.

The Manhattan source said Garner’s case would never have happened today — because the city has told officers to back down on making such quality-of-life busts.

The Police Department said in a statement, “The brave women and men who joined the NYPD did so with a solemn promise to help people, to fight crime, and to keep New York City safe.

“These dedicated officers practice precision policing — focusing on the offenders who commit crimes, not the accumulation of raw numbers.”




It could also be termed the "Darren Wilson effect", who even under the microscope of partisan Eric Holder's leftist DOJ, Darren Wilson was completely exonerated, and yet he was still fired from the Fergusson Missouri police department.

The problem is not just one isolated case like this, but many cases nationwide where local political leaders and police departments are not supporting their officers, and hanging them out to dry. Making them justifiably less willing to take risks to stop crime that will put their careers in jeopardy, bankrupt them with lawsuits, and put them in jail.


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