Friday, August 15, 2014

Police in Missouri Name Officer Involved in Shooting

"The Ferguson, Mo., police officer who shot unarmed teenager Michael Brown was identified Friday as Darren Wilson, a six-year veteran of the department."
Wilson has no prior disciplinary record, Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson said at a news conference.

The announcement comes after the first night of peaceful rallies in the St. Louis suburb, where heavily armed police had clashed with demonstrators in the wake of the shooting.



54 comments:

chickelit said...

I just hope that Spike Lee doesn't tweet the wrong address.

chickelit said...

(or any address)...

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

I guess race riots are better than food riots but I shouldn't think by very much.

The Dude said...

Race riots put food on the table of many in this country - Al, Jesse, Crack, and any looter whose arms were not full of Air Jordans.

bagoh20 said...

As the facts now come to light, lets keep track of who lied, irresponsibly jumped to conclusions, or made things worse with their bullshit.

bagoh20 said...

Riots also serve a purpose to give some people a chance to try products like fine wines that they are not willing to pay for under normal conditions. It's like a big sale, or Black Friday kind of thing. Everybody likes things on sale, and 100% off is awesome.

The Dude said...

The usual suspects - keeping score is pointless - they never learn, and they will do the exact same thing the next time a similar stimulus occurs.

Will Crack ever learn a new tune (or any tune, as far as that goes) or change his stripes? Not going to happen.

bagoh20 said...

I think it would be totally cool and appropriate if every time someone talks with Al Sharpton they were to throw in: "Hey didn't you tell some real big lies about the Tawana Brawley thing, and personally cause a lot of racial strife for your own aggrandizement?"

I mean every time he's on TV.

bagoh20 said...

I think all pundits should be constantly reminded of how wrong they have been in the past, because they come right back the next time and act like experts when we know they just talk out their asses for money.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Remember how Gosnell was too local to cover nationally?

Ferguson is a local story, but it feeds a narrative.

Dust Bunny Queen said...

My Father and his family grew up in Ferguson. My Grandfather was the local Veterinarian. My Grandmother owned and operated the local newspaper. All the kids, Dad, Aunt, Uncles had free roam of the town and area to play and get into trouble. It was a nice residential town outside of St Louis full of working class people. Construction, Bricklayers, professionals like my grandparents, small businesses and shops. You couldn't get a more Mayberry type of town if you tried. In the country really. The biggest event, as my Dad remembers, was when they finally connected Ferguson to St Louis with a street car. That was a huge thing and they had parades and events to commemorate it.

What happened? I could say, but then people will call me racist for pointing out the obvious.

I don't think there is an easy answer to the ginned up racial tensions promoted by the last generations of "civil rights" advocates and by Obama. The tensions have been ginned up on purpose. I don't know that there IS an answer that won't be very very ugly.

Rabel said...

I have been unsure whether the Ferguson and St Louis County PD were incompetent or malignant.

Their failure to release the photos of the strong-arm robbery by Brown before now is pushing me towards the clown car side of the argument.

That's not to say that the shooting was justified, I don't know enough yet to have an opinion on that, but the photos would have weighed heavily in the PD's favor if released earlier.

Rabel said...

Here's what happened in Ferguson:

"In 1990, residents of Ferguson who were identified in the U.S. Census as White comprised 73.8% of the total, while those identified as Black made up 25.1%."

"In the 2000 census, 44.7% were White and 52.4% were African American."

"In the 2010 census, 29.3% were White and 67.4% were African American."

That occurred without a change in total population.

Black escapees from St Louis moved in, the white people moved out, and the city government and PD has not adjusted well to the change.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Oh oh, the shot teen appears to have been something less than a model citizen... better know as "unarmed teenager"... "gentle giant".

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Evi L. Bloggerlady said...

And Michael Brown a suspect in a strong arm robbery just minutes before he was shot? Hmmm, sort of undermines the "gentle giant" meme.

bagoh20 said...

I can't imagine the disappointment a parent would feel knowing their son died because he chose to assault a man in order to steal a box of cigars, and that it led to the man he stole them from having his store burned to the ground and his community torn apart.

I would be ashamed, and I would be apologizing, not accusing.

The Dude said...

Socks with sandals - who does that big dummy think he is, Trooper?

Rabel said...

I think that the store that was robbed was not the store that was burned.

Just the facts, ma'am.

Rabel said...

I would just like to point out that we Southerners do not claim the state of Missouri as one of our own.

As I recall, the Missourians could not make up their minds about the War of Northern Aggression.

The Dude said...

Hell, that Missouri compromise was the beginning of the end.

At least they have remained untouched by any lingering violence or acrimony, am I right?

Rabel said...

I wonder if the words "show me" were uttered during the confrontation between the policeman and shoplifter.

It could have all been a simple misunderstanding.

KCFleming said...

In ten years, Ferguson will have no stores left, and its remaining residents will be begging not to have their water turned off.

I give St. Louis maybe 20 years.

Just like Detroit.

What could possibly be the connection?





KCFleming said...

Why wouldn't/shouldn't Ferguson just declare certain neighborhoods No-Go Zones?

What's the point of doing any policing?

The militarized police and thug culture/leftism are just two sides of the same coin.

Trooper York said...

Hey I have to wear those socks. My skin is very sensitive due to the blood thinners so I can't get it cut up by the leather of the sandals.

Plus all the hipster love the look and think of it as post ironic comment on the fashion industry.

Trooper York said...

I tie all of my fashion choices to the wardrobe that Rodney Dangerfield wore in "Easy Money."

The Regular Guy look!

YoungHegelian said...

After living in the DC area for 35 years now, I can tell you that the words "My baby never did nothin' wrong" are always a lie.

Here's a CNN link to the eyewitness account that Brown's friend, Dorian Johnson, gave to the media of what happened. To me, the account reeks of BS.

This is not to say that I approve of the atrocious behavior of the Ferguson cops, what with the military hardware, harassing reporters, etc. But, it really is starting to look like the "two assholes get into a fight in a bar" scenario more & more.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Funny you mention Rodney... I was thinking of another Rodney in relation to this thing... MLB relief pitcher Fernando Rodney, known for wearing his cap crooked.

He recently revealed that the reason behind it was because it bothered the hitters... thereby giving him an edge.

Could the pants on the ground have a similar effect on authority figures?

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

I'm not saying the cop shot him for wearing his pants like that. But that maybe wearing his pants like that predisposed the teen to involuntary harsher treatment by the police.

Further thinking about it... I wonder if it is done purposely... in other words... the teens know it bothers the cops so they do it.

Granted, I'm just speculating here. I have no insight into the pants on the ground culture.

Rabel said...

"I have no insight into the pants on the ground culture."

Now you do.

edutcher said...

For those who want to beat up on the cops (and nobody is more against the militarization of police than I am), you may want to consider this.

Trooper York said...

Did you see the video of this guy robbing the tiny convenience store owner?

I wonder how big the cop in question was and if this is another situation of the tiny police having to go to the gun.

rcocean said...

"I wonder how big the cop in question was"

Mike Brown was 6'4"and weighed 300 lbs.

rcocean said...

I'm all in favor of large, strong, policeman, but how many could have handled this guy AND his partner without shooting when Brown was trying to get the Policeman's gun.

rcocean said...

Is this another tea and skittles trip gone wrong?

KCFleming said...

"The Ferguson police officer who shot Michael Brown didn’t stop him because he was suspected in a recent robbery, but because he was “walking down the middle of the street blocking traffic"

I see this all the time.

Why do black men do this?

Trooper York said...

Because white people have stolen all of the sidewalks during slavery and Jim Crow times.

Everybody knows that.

rcocean said...

"walking down the middle of the street blocking traffic"

Yep, I wrote he was big.

rcocean said...

White people stole all the Black people's ID cards too. And they still do.

Michael Haz said...

It's a mess. People posted a photo of the cop, only it was the wrong guy, another cop who had the same name. Witnesses are changing their stories (neighborhood pressures, probably). Now there's a tweet stream posted (at Ace, I think) that seems to confirm the perp was indeed shot in the back, though we can't see his initial contact with police.

Out of area knuckleheads are spraying the names and home addresses of Ferguson police officers onto the sides of buildings, exhorting others to FTP. The Black a Panthers are in town. Al Sharpton is in town.

No good will come of this mess.

edutcher said...

Barry is on vaca.

That's the next line.

rcocean said...

Shot in the back? Deadly force to stop a fleeing suspect is still legal.

A mess? Just standard operating procedure for the MSM, black politicians, and race hustlers.

After these riots, look for the town to become 90% black and the Town government to follow soon after.

edutcher said...

FWIW, the cop's side.

chickelit said...
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chickelit said...

A better camera angle in Ed's link would show whether the bullets stuck the front or back.

The clothing matches the guy in the liquor store video.

The black community keeps hoping and praying that each one of these incidences will be the the straw that breaks the camel's back in the public eye. Instead, the straw just feeds the camel.

The Dude said...

Have they forgotten that they are 11% of the population? Tops? And given their rate of aborting their young, that percentage is only likely to decrease? And that Mexicans don't like them?

But keep being idiots, Crack-n-friends, in the end it will all work out for you, I am certain.

I'm Full of Soup said...

The dumbest story I have heard, from the dead victim's friend, is that the cop was trying to pull him into the car thru his window. Think about that- wtf would the cop try to pul that big kid into the car and onto his lap? Makes n sense unless the cop thought the kid was armed.

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Aridog said...

1.) Phx....hey, don't leave...a lefty (actually just contrarian) pundit here yesterday said you were DOA, gone, etc...when I know you are not. He was butt-hurt because another normally poster said something evil(gone to the dark side, pbffft)...eg, positive about conservatives...teh horrors!!

2.) First mistake any street cop can make is to approach anyone, for any reason, from the seat in his car....yakking out the window. Best way to get dead I know for cops and I know a lot of street and Spec Ops cops. Not a single one of them would do that. Not one. So....I have to wonder about this "story" just a bit, okay....see, in my town we're fairly famous for the street holster for a gun, aka a paper bag...handy because you can just shoot right through it at close range and not miss.

3.) A Federal Police Officer (Ron Sheffield) was killed that way, shot through a paper bag by a coward, 21 September 2001 by a white MF'r in the line for the magnetron in the lobby of the building I worked in...he was also a neighbor from less than a block down my street.

Ron was a good cop, a very empathetic cop in fact, and I only wish he'd shot the mother fucker down with the bag when he first refused to show the contents, and thus lived to raised his daughters like a regular guy. Which he was.

I don't recall Ron ever walking off with a box of cigars and manhandling a store owner half his size....maybe it is just me. But if you think it is, you might want to check out who my friends are...less than half are white.

deborah said...

"Have they forgotten that they are 11% of the population? Tops? And given their rate of aborting their young, that percentage is only likely to decrease? And that Mexicans don't like them?"

May I have some nuance with that?

Also, they're blending out genetically with whites and others.

Aridog said...

deborah said...

Also, they're blending out genetically with whites and others.


Link something for that, or it isn't happening.

deborah said...

link

Aridog said...

Deborah...please, be serious. I had a mixed marriage, and there are some photos. That is not evidence of any kind of a "genetic" trend, just some pictures.

You might have a point if you were talking about modern music. But genetics...that requires some science. And beyond that already in place that shows a great number, perhaps a majority, of American blacks were "blended out" involuntarily long ago.

The "nuance" you asked for about 60's comment is easy...as someone who lives in as a minority in my own community, adjacent to two other communities where I am also a minority, I don't think you get it when some white guy wonders how 11-12% of one race built this entire country as meat-heads like Sharpton are prone to claim...I guess the other 88% or so were on welfare all this time. As I've said before, most of my life I have lived as a minority in the communities I chose to live in, including now. I don't think you have any idea what "discrimination" really is...have you ever felt it yourself?

But Kumbaya and all that anyway...

Aridog said...

Deborah...thanks for not responding. Nothing like making a trite matter of race mixing in marriage. Show me some more photos, you silly ass.

I've been there, done that, and do NOT regret a moment of it...and still in many ways, still love my non-white ex-wife.

You have not, been there, nor done that, I suspect, and should just shut your pie hole on the subject. You know nothing, or less....