[Previously, at WEJB/NSU on this racist travesty:
“Breaking News! Ferguson, MO: Mike Brown Had Just Robbed a Convenience Store and Assaulted the Clerk, When He Tried to Murder the Policeman Who Stopped Him; See Pics from Surveillance Video and Police Report!”]
Re-posted by Nicholas Stix
As I have said earlier, I suspect the cop who shot Brown of being black, since if he were white, we would have heard nothing but since then.
Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson Shot and Killed Michael Brown After Alleged Robbery
By Joe CoscarelliFollow @joecoscarelliAugust 15, 2014 9:56 a.m.
New York
Almost a week after 18-year-old Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson, the police department identified the officer involved as six-year veteran Darren Wilson. Police Chief Tom Jackson said Wilson, who has no disciplinary history, was responding to a robbery at a nearby convenience store when he encountered the teenager. Citizens attending the press conference immediately erupted in anger at the perceived insinuation that Brown may have been suspect in the robbery. Jackson did not stick around to answer questions.
But an information packet handed out to press details an incident at the convenience store involving Brown allegedly shoplifting a box of Swisher Sweets cigars:
Page from police report pic.twitter.com/xcz6nUKqY2— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) August 15, 2014
More from report pic.twitter.com/7OyD2fgrI2— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) August 15, 2014
Just prior to noon on Saturday, August 9, surveillance footage shows a man police believe to be Brown as he “abruptly turns back around and advances on [redacted]. Brown towers over [redacted] appearing to intimidate him. Brown then turns back around and walks out of camera view”:
incident report says #michaelbrown grabbed cigars from convenience store. Believed to be him in surveillance video pic.twitter.com/ClrP7wFXyH— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) August 15, 2014
"Brown is the primary suspect in this incident." - police report— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) August 15, 2014
Info handed out ONLY about alleged robbery. NO info included about interaction with Officer Wilson, the shooting.— Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) August 15, 2014
Meanwhile, the Ethical Society of Police, a non-profit that represents African American police officers, issued a statement on Facebook saying that their president--also named Darren Wilson--is not the officer involved in the shooting. Some reporters speculated earlier this morning that Wilson was the officer named in this St. Louis Post Dispatch story about a racist letter received by a black member of the St. Louis police department.
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