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Really...
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)investigation.
nenagh
(1,925 posts)and per CNN's legal experts.. that is a very NB ...
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)WHY was the tape released?
WHY are they further dragging this dead kid through the dirt?
Jesus Christ. This is just bullshit.
There may be BIG trouble there tonight.
ON EDIT: Yeah...thanks for confirming that. That's what I thought I heard, but I was hoping I had misunderstood.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)So the perps can walk.
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)Or perhaps they thought people would buy the misdirection.
avebury
(10,952 posts)releasing this crap because the media demanded it. What a crock!
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)If the chief knew the video was immaterial, he should have said so and let the press deal with that. Now he's further dragged this kid -- who cannot defend himself -- through the mud. The takeaway this morning was that the robbery was the reason for the stop. And now, some "expert" is reading Brown's mind about how/why he acted after he was stopped.
Wow. Just wow. I'm taking a break from all this for awhile. Just too much.
VanGoghRocks
(621 posts)to home, as Mr. Brown could easily have been one of my students. It's that waste of potential that really hurts the teacher in me, that makes it seem personal.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)Especially since they DIDN'T release the report that the media actually wanted, which was the one for the shooting, not the 'strong arm robbery'.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)As an added benefit, tomorrow's headlines can spin any protests tonight as "Hundreds Gather to Support Violent Robber"
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)Right now, I don't know how likely even that is.
Quayblue
(1,045 posts)These people think we can't use some sort of reasoning to tear apart their filthy lies. What cop does anyone know, pursue a robbery suspect but instead, out of the goodness of his ole boy heart, decide to instead, hassle him for jaywalking.
They've fucked this up way too much for me to even establish any sort of trust.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)Hope that helped.
derby378
(30,252 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)derby378
(30,252 posts)Honestly, I wish I could petition the BBC to farm out some reporters to our networks. They'd get along great with NPR.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)This motherfucker is the single most incompetent police chief in the nation, but possibly one of the best at character assassination of victims of police violence.
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)...while at the same time claiming the officer who murdered him didn't know about the store incident.
They also placed a black female officer behind him as a prop. Jaysus.
fishwax
(29,149 posts)He had to. Because. Something.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)I heard an advertisement for a 47" Flat-screen of under $400 and I hear you can get on the bid site for $1.97. So toss away!
gvstn
(2,805 posts)Probably sound a lot like this one.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Let me guess:
Blah, Blah, Blach, THUG, Blah, Blah, Blach, THUG, Blah, Blah, Blach, THUG, Blah, Blah, Blach, THUG, Blah, Blah, Blach, THUG.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)He called the shooter a "gentle man."
Reporters are calling him on his bullshit about releasing the videotape when it had nothing to do with the shooting.
He said the cop didn't know that Brown was a "suspect."
IronGate
(2,186 posts)He's saying that he released it today because the Press wanted it released.
What a fucking liar and incompetent fool.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)IronGate
(2,186 posts)Today was the first I heard of a tape, no one in the preceding days has said shit about a tape, so how did the Press know about it already?
This chief is the biggest liar and I hope the good citizens of Ferguson force him to resign.
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)Well, yes, I guess I can.
alsame
(7,784 posts)the robbery. The tape of the store was released only because the media demanded it not because they were trying to make a connection between the video and the shooting. It's not even clear if the shooter knew about the robbery when he confronted the boys.
The shooter is a 'nice, gentle man who is devastated' - and his face was all swollen after the incident.
It was another disastrous presser.
countryjake
(8,554 posts)That's the crux of the press conference.
He confronted those kids only because they were walking in the street.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)his department is in deep shit. Every answer designed for a future lawsuit.
handmade34
(22,756 posts)scream at the TV like me
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)Pathwalker
(6,598 posts)perhaps injuring yourself. Besides, this buffoon isn't
worth it - just mute him. Does this help?
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)I'm calming down Going to a happy place. A bottle of Captain Morgan
Pathwalker
(6,598 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)All good.
onecaliberal
(32,882 posts)I think my fucking head is about to explode. What in the fucking hell?
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)Just reading the horseshit coming from that asshole of a police chief has put me in the foulest of moods.
May I suggest all of us that have had enough walk away and come back to the fight tomorrow or Monday or anytime later.
There will be no justice in this case unless the feds do it and I am not even sure they can or will.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)That's what somebody suggested to me.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)(kidding, of course)
I'm ready to smack myself in the head with a rubber mallet, chug a beer, and take a nap.
Baseball is the only reason I dont pull an "Elvis" right now
Warpy
(111,319 posts)and there aren't even any commercials to annoy you.
Inkfreak
(1,695 posts)I haven't watched a single minute of coverage aside from seeing it at the gym. I've been getting most of my coverage of it here. With a few other online sources. Some vile shit is being put out there and I'm having a hard time stomaching it.
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)Sometimes it is good to be good to yourself! Then our friends on DU can up date us, smile.
Gothmog
(145,481 posts)nolabear
(41,990 posts)Those people are crazy. CRAZY. They couldn't have incited more outrage and potential danger if they'd tried.