Ferguson: Police Officer Kills 18yo Michael Brown; Protests/Riots Continue
- Thread starter besada
- Start date
- Status
I am way too familiar with Kevin Sorbo's shittyness thanks to a handful of ex-FB friends, so I'm not shocked
I'm picking up what your laying down...good man.
Ignatz Mouse
Banned
The DOJ being on the scene and investigating.
Perhaps I am misinterpreting, but I took most of this protest as being against the local cops, and having an outside party come in an look, with some expectation of actual justice, has cooled things down.
Miles Quaritch
Member
Thanks.
Something tells me that if he did suffer such an injury that we'd have at least some evidence by now. The area surrounding the eye usually swells up quite a bit not to mention the crazy amount of bruising that lasts for weeks.
MHWilliams
Member
None of us are shocked. That's the tiring part. This is a part of our lives and this is just the moment when others get to see it.
I'm generally in a good part of life. I have a nice career, education, and all that jazz, and I've still run into the shit, so I know it must be worst for people of color who are poorer. I have family in those situations and the stories aren't great.
When I'm at work, I'm completely cognizant of how my actions not only reflect on me, but my race. It's weird and it's kind of fucked up that it has to be like that.
are you kidding me? if he was actually hurt there would have been pictures on the first day...none of this secrecy.
It's great that this guy is in a position of power
CassidyIzABeast
Member
I had to stop watching that shit when he pulled the "eyewitness report says Wilson had a broken orbital and Brown charged at him" horeshit. I'm guessing Fox News has spent the past 2 weeks discrediting all those eyewitness reports from the black folks who actually live in the neighbor but some report coming out of conservative sources sourcing some friend of the cop who wasn't there is the gospel. fuck outta here man.
CNN just reported that the broken eye-socket thing is bullshit. So hopefully that'll be the end of that.
Angelus Errare
Banned
As they should, the whole thing smelled like unfiltered bullshit.
BronsonLee
Member
Oh my. So they know what happened then?
LTTP but this article was great, thanks for passing it along.
Miles Quaritch
Member
I agree, but this was the first time I'd heard about the cop being injured and with how little coverage this is getting in the UK, I thought I might have missed something.
Seems I didn't and perhaps I shouldn't be all that surprised that it's probably a lie.
MorisUkunRasik
Member
There was a time where I tried to carry myself "above the fray" in so many words, believing that having a good career and clean record might help alter the perception that young black men are jobless criminals who only look for handouts.
That shit was silly as fuck.
The reality is that as a black man, should you decide to TRY to just be another human being your every action is over analyzed in a Tim Tebow, Johnny Manziel-like manner. You're expected to be some shining beacon of how anyone can achieve anything (because look at you! you came from the hood!), and the moment you deviate from this narrative, you realize how lonely the world can really be. I like to think of myself as diverse and open minded. I have friends all sorts of ethnicities, yet when the Sanfords and Fergusons of the world pop up, and that becomes an issue for me, I'm on an island.
No one is comfortable acknowledging that disparity, except those of us who are subject to it. The thought of even discussing it amongst peers who never experienced it leads to awkward conversation. My GF can't really relate, she's white and was raised in a comfortable manner (to an amazingly open and loving fam I might add). The shit festers. I find myself at times becoming more distant when I go too deep into the rabbit hole and veg out on the live feed of the protests, or the GAF thread, cause all that shit brings back memories of being a youth who has been stopped and searched, or pulled over many times for no reason. Growing up and seeing your friends thrown up against walls, or cops forcing themselves into parties with 80% white people smoked out only to ask you "where's the drugs", when you've never touched a drug in your life really does something to you.
I know that's a long post but TLR, I never thought we were further than what we are on race relations, I just tried to forget about it until I arrived at what I always knew. You can't.
Good posts, would read again.
Gives insight to those unaware/unaffected by the strained relationship between black men and the police force.
MHWilliams
Member
Link or was it just live?
CassidyIzABeast
Member
fuck. yes.
Brawly Likes to Brawl
Member
Whoa, what? I hope they post an article soon.
Miles Quaritch
Member
And that's that.
Had an air of suspicion to it with the complete lack of evidence.
No, they just know that they tested him for it and it came back negative. That's all they said about it.
Live before the most recent break, Don Lemon came on to call bullshit on all the other networks reporting that the officer did have the injury.
So glad that some of the media is actually calling out the lies. The best thing that happened was them attacking the reporters and then doubling down on it.
They had a source confirm that, from an x-ray, there was no such injury, only what was described as "a swollen face" (and yes, it was that vague)
BronsonLee
Member
Ahhh, okey. That is -super- vague. That could mean a ton of things. Like Brown hit him once and ran...or he tripped and hit his face... or the car door hit him...etc
What a fucking mistake that was. They'll be paying for it for years.
Brawndo Addict
Banned
Oh boy I can't wait for the apologies to start rolling in from Fox & Co /s. Or they'll just pivot and ignore, say something like "His face was so swollen they assumed he had a broken orbital,thank god he didn't."
good.
Random Painted HIghway
Member
The msm certainly has not handled themselves appropriately throughout this, at least certain ones, from the Post Dispatch's crime reporter tweeting the 12 witnesses deal to this. truly a race to the bottom.
Ignatz Mouse
Banned
Any links yet, or just on the air? I need to post this somewhere.
Nabs
Member
That's about as right leaning a site as you can get, but it's got a video of the report.
Comments should be entertaining then when they start rolling in though.
Mmhm. Holder often says the sort of things I wish Obama would (or perhaps could) say.
BeatResetsTheWorld
Banned
The comments...the fucking comments. Sometimes I just don't know anymore...
It's not like the eye fracture thing holds up in the first place. We have video of Wilson minutes after he killed Brown, casually talking to another officer and calmly pacing around the corpse. His face isn't all that clear, but clear enough to see there was not a lot of damage done.
Bam Bam Baklava
Member
Didn't liberals hate Eric Holder a while back and hoped he would resign?
Ignatz Mouse
Banned
Thanks, just what I needed. And a right-leaning source is all the better.
TacticalFox88
Banned
Is it sad that I'm kind of *glad* in an abstract way that the cops attacked the media?
Otherwsie, I think it would've blown over pretty quickly.
Otherwsie, I think it would've blown over pretty quickly.
Maybe? I couldn't tell you.
Not that I remember, conservatives are always calling for him to resign over something though.
BronsonLee
Member
I think it's telling that the situation is very abnormal. Truth be told, I'm rather happy the media isn't letting the story go or falling for any of the spin the police seem to be throwing its' way, so I guess I'm glad too.
I've never seen such combative media against a police department. Ever.
Alex Tabbarok on the economics of policing in Feguson: Ferguson and the Modern Debtor’s Prison
Google it, seems so, but it's more likely the reporter just doesn't know the difference in an xray and CT.
http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/X+Rays+of+the+Orbit
I'm going to say that lying is not a strange act from the Ferguson police.
Chie Satonaka
Member
If true, how is this relevant to anything, exactly?
Kinda what I meant, or his source just used xray as a general term. They're both radiology.
MorisUkunRasik
Member
The officer's condition while important in corroborating the officer's story, doesn't matter if it can be proven that Brown was surrendering when shot.
More_Badass
Member
I know conversatives hate him. When I told my dad that the DoJ had said the robbery tape was irrelevant, the first thing he said was that Eric Holder and the DoJ was corrupt and that's why they didn't want the videos released
Corrupt how? I have no idea. But seeing Holder's statements makes me hopeful that this case will be resolved and not be swept under the rug, that there will be consequences for the cops's actions the past week. They can't go unpunished for what they did
Bam Bam Baklava
Member
This was one of the things I was talking about. People were acting like he was a Bush apointee just a short time ago.
Brawndo Addict
Banned
I seem to recall some discussion in the first thread about whether he might try to argue his way out by saying that his vision was impaired so he couldn't recognize that Brown was surrendering. So proving it was not rules out that kind of ploy.
- Status
Similar threads
- Locked