Facts, or so they say, are pesky things. And as is often the case they are simply ignored if they don’t support the argument that one is trying to advance, or the violence that one is trying to incite. And it’s in Ferguson that we see both of these positions coming into play and with some pretty horrible results. The facts simply do not support the argument behind why it was that the grand jury failed to indict the officer. As well, the facts also do not provide any justification for the continuing violence.
Any yet according to the many protesters who erupted in violence, and those who have been very busy encouraging them, after a grand jury declined to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., this was clearly a case of a white policeman shooting an unarmed black teenager with his hands in the air in a community said to be plagued by racial tension. But again, that’s not what the facts actually indicate. The facts quickly became, essentially, irrelevant.
And yet it’s the narrative that has been, and continues to be, promoted by many in the state-controlled media as well as many outside of the media and in government. But the actual facts about the case tell a very different story. But as we all know those interested in doing nothing more than inciting violence and advancing their own agenda are interested very little in the facts. But be that as it may, here are a few facts that seem to have been left out of the story for what, you will quickly see, were very obvious reasons.
1. Surveillance video showed that shortly before the confrontation, 18-year-old Brown stole cigarillos from a convenience store and shoved a clerk who tried to stop him.
2. The autopsy report showed that Brown had marijuana in his system when he died.
3. Officer Wilson, driving to the call of a medical emergency, first encountered Brown walking in the middle of a street and told Brown and his friend to walk on the sidewalk. Brown responded with an expletive.
4. Wilson chose to confront Brown only after he saw the cigarillos in his hand and recalled the radio report of a robbery at the convenience store.
5. Wilson said when he tried to open his car door, Brown slammed it back shut, then punched Wilson in the face.
6. Fearing another punch could knock him out, Wilson drew his gun, he told the grand jury, and Brown grabbed the gun, saying "you are too much of a pussy to shoot me."
7. An African-American witness confirmed that Brown and Wilson appeared to be "arm-wrestling" by the car.
8. Another witness saw Brown leaning through the car's window and said "some sort of confrontation was taking place."
9. After Wilson fired a shot that struck Brown's hand, Brown fled and Wilson gave chase. Brown suddenly stopped. An unidentified witness told the grand jury that 6-foot-4, 292-pound Brown charged at Wilson with his head down. Wilson said Brown put his hand under the waistband of his pants as he continued toward Wilson. That's when Wilson fired.
10. A witness testified that Brown never raised his hands.
11. Gunpowder found on the wound on Brown's hand indicated his hand was close to the gun when it fired. According to a report, the hand wound showed foreign matter "consistent with products that are discharged from the barrel of a firearm."
12. Judy Melinek, a forensic pathologist who reviewed the autopsy for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, said the gunpowder "supports the fact that this guy is reaching for the gun, if he has particulate matter in the wound."
13. Wilson said Brown was physically uncontrollable and "for lack of a better word, crazy." He said that during the confrontation, he was thinking: "He's gonna kill me. How do I survive?" Legal experts say police officers typically have wide latitude to use deadly force when they feel their safety is threatened.
So there you have it, you can make up your own mind. But keep in mind that these are only a few of the actual facts that were never presented by the media. Because had such things been pointed out, it would have to have been admitted that race played no role in the altercation that took place between the white cop and the black thug. The facts would have dramatically altered what it was that those in the state-controlled media were so desperate to present as being the reality of the situation. Thus, we never heard them.
No comments:
Post a Comment