Ferguson cop Darren Wilson describes car battle with Michael Brown
This sort of testimony from Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown in an altercation in Ferguson, Missouri, is more or less what many of us expected would be his report when he finally testified as to his version of events. In addition, his story is backed up so far by the forensic evidence:
The officer, Darren Wilson, has told the authorities that during the scuffle, Mr. Brown reached for the gun. It was fired twice in the car, according to forensics tests performed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The first bullet struck Mr. Brown in the arm; the second bullet missed.
The forensics tests showed Mr. Brown’s blood on the gun, as well as on the interior door panel and on Officer Wilson’s uniform. Officer Wilson told the authorities that Mr. Brown had punched and scratched him repeatedly, leaving swelling on his face and cuts on his neck…
According to his account, he was trying to leave his vehicle when Mr. Brown pushed him back in. Once inside the S.U.V., the two began to fight, Officer Wilson told investigators, and he removed his gun from the holster on his right hip.
Unfortunately, this evidence won’t stem the tide of false information and resultant anger that has led to widespread condemnation of Wilson and the Ferguson PD. Facts will not matter. Would they have mattered if this had come out earlier? I doubt it. It was hinted at and suggested, almost from the start. Way too many parties have an interest in painting a picture of racism on the part of the cop and innocence on the part of Brown to let patience and facts stand in their way.
Neo
Way too many parties have an interest in painting a picture of racism on the part of the cop and innocence on the part of Brown to let patience and facts stand in their way.
Facts have a way of often- shall we say usually?- damaging the racemongering narrative, as we have seen with the Duke Lacrosse affair, and the Trayvon Martin killing. My rule of thumb is that if the “Reverend” Al Sharpton speaks out against some “injustice,” to wait awhile for the facts to come out. Invariably the facts will show that the “Reverend” was dead wrong. The “Reverend” has a very long track record for putting his foot in his mouth. For starters, he lost a defamation suit over what he said about the Tawana Bradley controversy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Sharpton#Tawana_Brawley_controversy
Hate to say, but grand jury testimony is secret and there should not be any leaks. We don’t have grand juries in NE.
If no indictment, there will be major rioting.
Expect Obama to weigh in.
“Way too many parties have an interest in painting a picture of racism on the part of the cop and innocence on the part of Brown to let patience and facts stand in their way.”
Neo said it all. Case closed.
In the minds of the protesters, this is much larger than just one fatal interaction. I would not want to be a business owner or homeowner in or near Ferguson if the policeman isn’t indicted.
I suspect charges will not be brought against Officer Wilson. I do expect Holder’s DOJ to falsely prosecute Wilson for trumped up violations of Brown’s ‘civil rights’. I suspect that was decided just hours after the incident and, in order to keep the ‘optics’ clean, they are merely waiting on the determination of the Grand Jury. Wilson is now a marked man and he and his family need to be put into the equivalent of a ‘witness protection program’.
If the Grand Jury indictments do not fit the “narrative” they will not be widely reported. The dinosaur media is interested in promoting the leftist views. A law enforcement officer doing his job does not qualify.
There is a blog which ran, iirc, four chin-pullers on the Trayvon Martin case. Each was about walking while black, and each got the facts wrong. Three were after the trial.
IOW, facts do not matter.
I e-mailed various folks at the blog asking what they thought the proportion of their readers who know better would think. Didn’t get any straight answer.
Point is, those who know better aren’t the target market. And many of those who promote the falsehoods must know better.
RA:
It may be that the number of their readers who knew better was zero.
I did on the job training for a a Black nurse, fairly well educated, who still thinks that the cop in Ferguson should have shot to wound, rather than to kill. I pointed out that shots to wound are harder, because legs and arms are smaller targets than the center mass, that the subject was, in plain fact, shot four times in the arm, and still kept coming, leading more reasonable people to suspect that drugs were involved, like PCP, which commonly causes the person to feel no pain, but this was only an attempt at defamation of the “victim.” Her news source is CNN, which has said that reports of orbital fractures are erroneous, and the inimitable Wolf Blitzer was asking , “Why did he not shoot to wound, instead of shooting to kill?” These questions have answers, as I already stated, but there was no one on the program to answer them.
As for the PCP, in my ER days, we sometimes had patients on that drug, who broke ordinary canvas restraints, and came close to breaking the leather ones. The insensitivity to pain allows this to happen. The pain of pushing bone against the canvas restraints is enough to stop most people from continuing the struggle. The police officers had many stories to tell about confrontations with people on PCP, which made perfect sense to us, in light of our own experience. The nurse simply thought that CNN was the only network telling the truth, rather than suspect that there was no corroboration of their misreporting. A large segment of the population are absolutely certain that any and all reports of police violence are true.
Also in my ER time, we saw little evidence of police over-reaction, except for one cop, who was Black. The other officers looked away in disgust, but willingly testified in Internal Affairs investigations. It’s important to understand that failure to intervene is a matter of police discipline. I have been in a parallel situation, when a nurse in a patient’s home was acting crazy. I do not engage in quarrels in a patient’s home, but readily reported the malfeasance. There is no way to predict how a confrontation might play out. It’s always best to settle the matter elsewhere.
It’s generally understood that different cultures respond to alcohol intoxication in different ways, e.g. South American Indians just get quieter and more stolid, and Black American get very belligerent among themselves. This is axiomatic among Black people, who are no more tolerant of drunken disorder than anyone else. For reasons already discussed here, there is a tendency to close ranks, when anyone of another race tries to intervene. A major reason that cops hate domestic disturbance calls is that attempts to quell the wife beater can result in the cops being set upon by the abused wife and all the neighbors gathered to watch the fight.
Do I have to point out that the media’s lying is a huge encouragement of such behavior?
The main stream media has its power through credibility and trust. It stretches that power as far as it will go to control the narrative.
It may be possible that they stretch it too far and lose their own power in the process. This incident may not be the time where the credibility cracks, but it will happen sometime.
Hopefully by then, we will still have a Republic to save.
If the officer was groggy after being hit in the face the only target that he could hit safely would be center mass.
That is where he was trained to shoot to begin with and where he would naturally shoot while dazed.
I am a retired Deputy Sheriff, and here in WI, we are trained to shoot to stop That is why we aim for Center Mass., as the damage there will stop an assailant better than anything short of a shot to the medulla. Brown had attacked an armed police officer, and was closing in again on the officer. In this case, the officer had no choice but to do as he did.
Scott, don’t you mean “center chest”, not “center mass”?
Michael, PCP or drugs are not needed. Any determined attacker can take a lot of damage. Even if you shoot someone in the heart they have something like 14 seconds before they pass out. It only takes about 1.5 seconds for an adult male to cover 7 yards, which is long distance as far as shootings go.
Geoffery, I highly doubt we will see a DOJ civil rights prosecution. They know the outcome. They may fan the flames, but they won’t try to “finish” because the results won’t be what they want. They may make some noise on the eve of the election to bump up black turnout, after that talk will die because the election is the Democrat/Obama/Holder/media goal.
Remember the Rodney King case? After the police were acquitted the DOJ found some law that was passed after the civil war and used it to prosecute the police.
Don the term used while under training is “Center Mass.” My training was done in the Marine Corps, same designation.
Neo- Wrt that other blog. It’s hard to feature. The people who write the submissions give every evidence of being tuned in. They simply lie. Why the audience should be dumber is unclear.
There is a kind of, I dunno, mental process something like putting one’s fingers in the ol’ earholes and yelling “lalalala I can’t hear you”. In other words, should you snort some sodium pentothal, a skilled investigator could get the truth, that you kjow the facts of whatever, out of you, but your rational processes continue to operate on the falsehoods.
I used to end my emails to these worthies with the name of the latest victim of black-on-white murder I could find as “not available for comment”. But the response was always the poor, oppressed blacks. Not those killed by the dozen in Chicago, it should go without saying.
If you’re a seven-year-old black girl in Chicago killed by gang gunfire and not by a white man, you’re nobody. That causes a kind of rage in me that I have to stifle…look, a squirrel.