Yeah, of course, on Fox. And this Ladies and Gentlemen is how you Get Away With Murder. You get people talking about stuff like this long before charges are even filed.
http://www.rawstory.com/...
Tucker Carlson said "You don't need FBI to investigate a murder, local police departments do this for a living"
“You see this local police department seems to be completely overwhelmed,” Huddy explained on the Sunday edition of Fox & Friends, adding that the DOJ had asked that the robbery video not be released.
“They felt that it would anger the crowd, which I don’t understand,” she insisted.
“Why would the Justice Department pressure them not to?” co-host Tucker Carlson asked. “Obviously it’s not to keep the situation under control… [The FBI] refused to intervene when people were looting stores. So if you had an interest in keeping the situation under control, you would control the situation by preventing people from stealing wigs from beauty supply stores, and they're not doing it.”
“But the thing is that the crowd immediately went out there when they found out that this man was shot — a young black man was shot by a white cop,” Huddy said. “They went out there, they were furious about it.”
She continued: “Had that tape been out there, had crowd realized that this man might have been robbing a store, there might have been something else criminal going on there, you know, to lend credence to the fact that maybe in some way — we don’t know this — but maybe this officer was justified, maybe this was a bad guy, maybe he wasn’t the ‘gentle giant.’ I’m not saying that’s what it was.”
No actually you
don't know that, particularly since the Officer didn't know about, or didn't stop Brown because of the "Robbery".
But wait, it got worse... over the flip.
Carlson responded with "I have no idea, I'm absolute willing to believe that the cops did a terrible thing and completely overreached and killed a guy who shouldn't have been killed [ed. That's called "MURDER" Tucker!] I completely believe that. It's not the job of the justice department to withhold information that belongs to the public. They don't own that tape. They can't prevent it's release. Why would they try to keep that information from the public? It's very strange.
The Justice Department wanted to keep information from the public? Ok, then - where is the incident report on the shooting? Why did it take nearly 5 days for us to find out the name of the Officer who fired the shots? What was the struggle about? Why was their a shot fired in the car, and additional shots fired [according to witnesses] into Michael's Back, and after he had stopped and raised his hands?
Why did they shoot him in the head, when we all know officers are taught to shoot for "center body mass"?
Why wouldn't they let a Nurse attend to him when he lay on the ground and perform CPR?
Mr. Stone ran outside and saw two police officers, both both white men, standing near Mr. Brown, who was lying on his stomach, his arms at his sides, blood seeping from his head. Another neighbor, a woman who identified herself as a nurse, was begging the officers to let her perform CPR.
They refused, Mr. Stone said, adding, “They didn’t even check to see if he was breathing.”
There's a lot of information the public has been clamoring for, but one of the things that they weren't clamoring for was information about about a robbery they
didn't even know had occurred.
Sniff. Smell that? That's called a "Smoke Screen".
St Louis County PD say they had received FOIA request about the Robbery? Really?
Have they received a FOIA for the incident report? Why exactly haven't they released it STILL?
See the release of the video was a ploy. It was a way to convict the victim of a crime without his ever being put before a judge, or a jury, and therefore - rationalize his murder.
A couple days ago, right after the tape was released I got these comments on one of my previous diaries on the subject.
Ferguson by starwars
Why don't we wait until all the facts are in? No one in society is perfect, not even cops. I won't judge this cop until the facts are in but I think many people get scared of cops because of their hormonal desire to pull out the badge. This has led to a loss of comfort when people are in the presence of cops. But after all, cops are there to stop bad behavior. Their methods may not always be perfect. They could probably use more diversity training. However, one is still missing the finer points in this tragedy. One is personal responsibility & behavior. Stealing? Where is that taught in the Bible? Throwing a store clerk aside? Come on now. This is part of the problem our society is experiencing is that when we enable youth & excuse every behavior out of political correctness, we are delivering a wrong message that it's ok to practice bad behavior. There are certain norms in society. The more society enables instead of calling one to higher expectations (I don't mean perfect), the more our youth thinks it can take a mile. Do that on a job some day, & one may lose that job. Teenagers, too, also miss the point that when they are called to order they take it as a sign of disprespect when it actually may not be. The bigger problem in this tragedy, which is still not being addressed by all the spin doctors, is the sheer amount of black on black violence, especially in big cities. It has nothing to do with guns as it does with personal responsibility & character. Humans by their very existence live in tension with each other. I don't think any of us could be perfect but can we try & follow the 10 commandments.
And this
Might want to hold off on ... by Subterranean
putting Michael Brown on a pedestal. Already we know he committed a violent robbery of some mom & pop corner store. What exactly went down between him and the pig who shot him remains to be fully revealed, but we at least know that Brown was "wrestling" the pig through the window of his cruiser. So after the strong-arm robbery, he likely assaulted a police officer. He was not walking down the street minding his own business.
Does all that mean he deserved to die? Hell no. The pig most likely provoked Brown with verbal abuse and disrespect, and Brown was too belligerent and stupid to keep his cool.
One of the reasons I hate pigs is that so many of them are cruel bullies. Not all of them, but most of them. They are also trained to exude authority, which in my book is an euphemism for "trained in assholiness." Yet based on the surveillance video of the robbery, this is exactly how Michael Brown behaved! He's an ignorant bully who strong-armed an old, feeble store owner/clerk in a senseless robbery.
Again, none of this behavior justifies Brown's murder, but it does mean he makes a poor poster boy in a campaign against police brutality. We want examples unequivocal victims, not belligerent bullies.
This is what happens when the police decide to
selectively tell us that the shooter is "fine, upstanding, quiet Officer with a stellar record" at the same time they say the dead kid is a
Thieving Nasty Thug because it changes the narrative of the story from being one about how this kid was Murdered to how this kid somehow probably either deserved it, or must have provoked what happened himself and the officer simply had no choice but to
Shoot an Unarmed Teenager In the Back, then continue Shooting After he Surrendered until he collapsed to the Ground.
Yeah, right, that makes perfect sense now.
This matters, and it matters for reasons I previous added to another diary I wrote yesterday and at the risk of self-plagarism, I will say it again - with edits - because it deserves to be said again and it's even more relevant now.
This is a chart showing the racial breakdown of Defendants Executed in the U.S. since 1976, and the Racial Breakdown of the Victims in those cases. As you can see, despite what some O'Reilly inspired fans might want to bring up about "Black on Black" crime - there really isn't a huge number of Black Victims who have their Killers sent to Death Row compared to how often that happens to "Regular [White] Guys".
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/...
This is the result even though the FBI's yearly Murder Rate for Black and White Victims are somewhat upside down compared to who ends up on Death Row. [
Murder in 2012: 5,855 White Victims compared to
6,484 Black Victims ]
And here we see the ratio of persons executed for inter-racial murders - note how many times higher it occurs for Black Perp/White Victim than it does the other way around...
Although the actual rate of interracial murders according to the FBI
is not nearly that far apart
2012
Black Perp/White Victim Murders - 431
White Perp/Black Victim Murders - 193
So how exactly does a two-to-one ratio turn into a thirteen-to-one result on Death Row?
And we have to also note that the two-to-one ratio we start with here doesn't include all of the Interracial Killings, it only includes those that were deemed "Murder" - so Police Shootings or Stand Your Ground shootings that are deemed "Justified" aren't included in these figures. FBI Notes that in 2012 there were 410 "Justifiable" Homicides by Law Enforcement in 2012 - but they don't provide a racial breakdown on who exactly was killed or why, only which type of weapon was used. [409 of them were with firearms, for the record]
Others have argued, looking at the source FBI data, that the chances of a Black person killing a White person being deemed a "Murder" rather than "Justified" are about 225% higher - which is something that would completely eliminate that starting 2-to-1 ratio entirely, if not reverse it somewhat when you bring in stand you ground states that have a 350% ratio.
So today's lesson is that if you kill a black person, you're not likely to go to Death Row even if they bother to investigate and you get caught and convicted [never mind whether you did it since
317 people on Death Row have been Exonerated by DNA Evidence in the last 20 years], but if you're accused of killing a white person - go Directly to Jail. Then You Go Under the Jail.
And lastly here we see the racial breakdown of those who remain on death row, notice that the black proportion has grown considerably, somewhat beyond all the previous data on those sent to death row for harming black victims or even ratio of black perpetrators w/white victims would seem to naturally indicate. I wonder how that happened?
Then again, I think we know. They aren't "Regular Guys" are they Bill O'Reilly? Turning the Victim into the "Perp" is all according to the script. Once that happens juries are less likely to convict and judges are far less likely to hand down the
ultimate sentence - cuz y'now - the safety of
Cigarillos were at stake.
And this doesn't just affect Death Row Cases, it affects all cases as we can see from the Racial Sentencing Disparity.
More than 60% of the people in prison are now racial and ethnic minorities. For Black males in their thirties, 1 in every 10 is in prison or jail on any given day. These trends have been intensified by the disproportionate impact of the "war on drugs," in which two-thirds of all persons in prison for drug offenses are people of color.
This is the end result of the
Thugification of minority youth. When we see these sentencing, prison and death row disparities among children of color their being a "Thug" becomes the expectation, it becomes The Norm. They start out of the gate, and in every interaction they have with Police, or with Employers, or with Store Clerks as a "Thug" who is simply waiting to reveal his Thugishness.
Angry Little Black Man, just waiting to lash out and punish other people for his own failures.
When Cops see the Thug, they stop the thug, they question the thug, they search the thug. That's why the Policing Disparity Index in Ferguson is 1.6 for African-Americans even though Police find more guns and drugs among the Whites that they stop.
Ferguson police are much more likely to stop, search and arrest African-American drivers than white ones. Last year, blacks, who make up a little less than two-thirds of the driving-age population in the North County city, accounted for 86 percent of all stops. When stopped, they were almost twice as likely to be searched as whites and twice as likely to be arrested, though police were less likely to find contraband on them.
So if they're not finding any guns or drugs or other illegal items on the Black guys - why are they stopping them 86% of the time?
Cuz, "Thug" - that's why.
And when they finally do find something on one of them, or simply piss one of them off enough to cause a confrontation - they get sent to jail. When Juries see the Thug, they send him to Prison. When the Thug gets killed, they give the killer a pass because the angry little thuglet probably brought it on himself - didn't he?
Just like - even though "we don't know this" - Michael Brown [probably] did according to Fox News.
It's not that we have a "Black Crime" problem in the U.S. as much as we have a Black and Brown Policing Problem.
So with all this in mind it's not that we were ever likely to see Officer Wilson on Death Row or in Prison, it'll never happen now.
In my opinion - even though I oppose capital punishment - if Justice were to applied equally and appropriately Death Row is exactly where we should be expecting this Cop, and other Cops who murder unarmed civilians in the street when they are not fighting back and presenting a danger, to be going.
However we'll never see that because - "Thugs".
They shoot down Thugs in the street, don't they?
Vyan