The Store Video of Mike Brown Robbing Ferguson Market and Liquor
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Re-posted with running translation by Nicholas Stix
These characters are immune to facts, logic, and morality.
Mike Brown appears to have paid for those cigars
August 20, 2014
By OllieGarkey [Will McLeod]
Daily Kos/SF Bay View
National Black Newspaper
“Ferguson police’s attempts to demonize Michael Brown, the unarmed African-American teen killed by Officer Darren Wilson, may have hit a small snag,” reports Crooks and Liars. “The very video they released at the same time as they identified Wilson as the officer responsible for shooting Brown six times, including twice in the head, may show the opposite of what they intended.
“Supposedly, the video shows Brown robbing the store, taking a box of cigars. However, the attorney for Ferguson Market says that it was not anyone from the store who called police to report a robbery. In fact, a customer called to report what he viewed as a robbery.
[The store manager was so terrified of Brown and his villainous friends that he didn’t dare to call the police. Will McLeod and his racial socialist comrade at Crooks & Liars are trying to turn black racial terror into a virtue. When Brown turned back to the manager, he was probably warning him that he’d better not call the cops. This sort of threat is common in black diversitopias. Scott Cummings talked about this in Left Behind in Rosedale, his work on the black takeover and destruction of the formerly white, crime-free community of University Heights, Fort Worth. Black neighbors would march into the homes of elderly white neighbors in broad daylight, carry out their property, and threaten them that they’d wreak violence on them if they dared to call the police.]
“How, then, did police get the tape? According to St. Louis News, ‘The attorney said, during the course of Ferguson (PD)’s investigation, they came to the store and asked for to review the tape.” In other words, the tape was not viewed by police until after Michael Brown was dead in the street.
[No shit, Sherlock! But the cops had already put out descriptions of Brown and Johnson.]
“In their fervent effort to cast Brown in a negative light, they missed that the video seems to show Brown paying for the Swisher Sweets.
[Nowhere does the video show him paying for the cigars.]
“While it is difficult to be 100 percent certain, the video appears to show Brown purchasing some cigars but lacking the money for the amount he wished to buy. Brown seems to purchase some cigarillos, pay for them, attempt to buy more, then replace the ones he could not afford.”
[This is a fantasy.]
“The confrontation between Brown and the clerk may have been because Brown impatiently reached across the counter. Perhaps it was wrong for Brown to shove the employee – it is impossible to know what words were exchanged – but this footage seems to exonerate him. It is important to note that Brown only shoved the clerk after he put his hands on him.”
[The footage incriminates Brown. Of course, the manager or clerk put his hands on Brown first—he was trying to stop a thief!]
C&L does a good job discussing how media jumped on the “thug” bandwagon and attempted to aid the character assassination of Michael Brown.
Anyone attempting to justify this shooting by calling Michael Brown a “thug” or a “criminal” or who says that “he had a rap sheet,” as various people have claimed over the past few days is, clearly, a racist.
[The robbery video leaves no doubt that he was a thug.]
Even if Brown did commit the petty theft [felony strong arm robbery!] of a $5 [$50!] pack of cigars, a pack he appears to have paid for [liar!], gunning him down in the aftermath is murder. Petty theft is not a capital crime.
[Officer Darren Wilson didn’t shoot Brown dead over a $50 box of cigars; he killed him, in order to stop him from murdering Wilson. Besides, this mook can’t keep his lies straight. He already asserted that Officer Wilson had no idea that Brown had robbed the store. Then again, he’d already hyperbolized and lied Brown out of that crime.]
Henry Davis, 52, arrested Sept. 20, 2009, in a case of mistaken identity, was beaten by Ferguson PD, then charged with property damage for bleeding on an officer’s uniform. Davis insisted this photo be taken at the hospital before he was treated. Later, in court, the officer denied there’d been any blood on his uniform.
The police themselves are never supposed to dispense punishment. Their job is never to punish. That is the job of the [black rioters and lynch mobs] courts. Yet when the police in this country act to punish, they are given a pass by people who don’t seem to understand the rule of law, or the importance of our laws and rights.
Yet there has been this parade of forces attempting to justify the police action as if it could possibly be justified.
This cannot possibly be justified. There is no scenario in which the shooting of an unarmed teenager is remotely acceptable.
[He wasn’t unarmed. He was 6’4,” 292 lbs., which made his body a deadly weapon. Plus, he was attacking Officer Wilson 2-on-1 with his crime partner, Dorian Johnson, he or Johnson was trying to wrest Wilson’s gun away, and Brown had already given Wilson a hellacious beating.]
And the Ferguson PD have proved themselves to be liars, yet again. Just like the time that they charged a man with four counts of destruction of city property for bleeding on their uniforms while they beat him.
[They’re reheating Michael Daly’s pathetic stunt!]
The fact that the Ferguson PD are liars shouldn’t surprise anyone. But perhaps this bit of evidence can help us push back against the character assassination they’re using against an innocent murdered American teenager.
Will McLeod (OllieGarkey) resides in Washington, D.C. He has been active in the progressive movement across state lines, spent time in Zuccotti Park as part of the Occupy movement and can be reached at Twitter.com/WillMcLeod99. McLeod writes frequently for Daily Kos, where this story first appeared. Bay View staff contributed to this story.
1 comment:
The value of the cigars is meaningless. Even if he stole five cents worth of cigars the fact he placed his hands on the store clerk makes it strong arm robbery. From what I saw, Brown first choked the clerk and then shoved him and then walked back toward the clerk in a menacing manner.
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