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Ferguson Nightmare Widens: Giuliani, the NFL & Cops Doubling Down on Their "Right To Kill"
Salon.com
December 1, 2014
The single worst moment in Darren Wilson's testimony about the day he shot Michael Brown came when he called the unarmed teenager "It," saying at one point, "It looks like a demon."
He also compared him to "Hulk Hogan" and described him as "bulking up" as if to magically
"run through" his bullets.
But somehow the word "it" cut through the delusional, self-aggrandizing dramatics and showed the problem at the heart of their encounter.
To Wilson, Mike brown wasn't human..."It" was a demon.
Read more:
http://www.salon.com/2014/12/01/ferguson_nightmare_widens_rudy_giuliani_the_nfl_and_cops_doubling_down_on_their_right_to_kill/
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It's not racist because he was "green" when he shot him. 
Prosecutor-in-chief Rudy Giuliani set the tone for the Ferguson debate a day before the grand jury’s decision was announced.
Giuliani minimized the problem of white police killing young black men on “Meet the Press,” telling Michael Eric Dyson:
“the white police officers wouldn’t be there if you weren’t killing each other 70-75 percent of the time” and asking “why don’t you cut it down so so many white police officers don’t have to be in black areas?”
Giuliani minimized the problem of white police killing young black men on “Meet the Press,” telling Michael Eric Dyson:
“the white police officers wouldn’t be there if you weren’t killing each other 70-75 percent of the time” and asking “why don’t you cut it down so so many white police officers don’t have to be in black areas?”
