It is not hard to see where this is heading. An unarmed black male getting shot by the police is catnip for the race hustlers in the media, which is all of the now. The ramping up of anti-white rhetoric coincides with the highlighting of these cases where the cops are forced to shoot out of control blacks.
An unarmed teenager killed Saturday by Ferguson police, spawning continuing community unrest, had struggled for an officer’s gun in a patrol car first, officials announced this morning.
St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said one shot was fired by the officer’s gun inside the car during the struggle, and that the officer fired multiple times at Michael Brown, 18, as he ran away.
Belmar did not indicate whether police think the shooting was justified.
He said the shots that hit Brown were “more than just a couple but I don’t think it was many more than that.” He said an autopsy was pending and that a toxicology test would take as long as six weeks to determine whether Brown had alcohol or drugs in his system.
It’s funny and predictable how these things go. The white Hispanic in Florida had a pretty good excuse for shooting the black kid. Getting your skull crushed is usually enough to justify lethal force. Of course, we did not learn that until much later, as the media colluded with the the dead guys family to perpetrate a hoax. Odds are this is another example of the media lying in order to rev up a black mob.
Belmar promised a full investigation that might also include the FBI. He said the results would be forwarded to St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert P. McCulloch, whose office would decide whether criminal charges were justified.
The chief noted that as Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson arrived at the scene Saturday, he called Belmar personally to ask for a county investigation. “I would not think anybody would do that if they had anything to hide,” Belmar said.
Jackson sat beside Belmar but did not speak in a short press conference at 10 a.m. at the community’s firehouse.
Belmar said he had not consulted the FBI but would call today. The FBI can investigate a police use-of-force incident as a possible violation of constitutional rights. Belmar emphasized that these are “standard protocols.”
The officer who fired, whose name has not been disclosed, is now on administrative leave. Belmar said that officer has been on the Ferguson force for six years and appears to have “no other issues” in his past.
Belmar said the officer had an encounter about noon Saturday with two “individuals” and was pushed back into his car and “assaulted” by Brown. The chief did not again mention the second person, nor did he describe the reason for the initial contact.
Belmar and Jackson left the press conference as reporters continued to call out questions.
Of course, that does not mean the more responsible members of the “community” cannot pitch in and help calm things.
State Sen. Jamilah Nasheed, D-St. Louis, and the St. Louis NAACP also have said they would seek a federal investigation.
Angry residents took to the streets shortly after Brown was killed in the 2900 block of Canfield Drive. Some shots were heard in the crowd that gathered, but nobody was injured. Some people chanted obscenities and “kill the police” as about 60 officers from multiple jurisdictions gathered.
At least 200 people continued the theme today outside the police station, 222 South Florissant Road, carrying signs and occasionally making speeches.
One of them, Shontell Walters, of Berkeley, said they took exception to the presence of police dogs with officers watching the scene. “They are trying to instill more fear in us,” she complained.
A memorial went up at the shooting scene, where Brown’s stepfather, Lewis Head, stood and wept this morning. “Ferguson killed my son,” he said. “They flat-out murdered him.”
A candlelight vigil is planned for that spot at 8 p.m.
In case you’re wondering, Jamilah Nasheed is a woman and, this will comes as a surprise, she is black. In fact, Ferguson Missouri is 65% black. The crime data from City-Data suggests the crime rate has been falling. Spot Crime shows that the criminal element is east and south of the main part of the town. The overall crime rate is still much higher than the rest of the country. It is not Detroit, but it ain’t Mayberry either. The cops have a challenging job in that town.
Policing high crime areas is a grind. The cops get cynical and if you’re lucky they just stop caring. Often, they resent having to police a population that seems to have no interest in civilization. Bad things start to happen and then the war is on. Los Angeles had this problem. In Baltimore and Washington, the cops simply keep the bad guys from leaving their area. The result is an urban reservation.
“Pushed back into his car and assaulted by Brown.” If true, that’s enough for me, just shoot him. My daddy taught me not to do that. Ever.
This man’s family and community have taught him from the time he was in Pampers to utterly hate and disrespect the law and those who represent it. A police sidearm is the only civilising factor in such a neighborhood.
@Bill — True. If he’s an active threat to somebody, you do what you have to. We’ll see if this was that kind of situation
Tennessee vs. Garner provides an extremely narrow exception and a very high bar for the cops. If they are chasing a guy who clearly has a gun and has used it, then the cops can use deadly force to stop the guy from fleeing. You never know with these cases because the news outlets are trained to lie about important facts, but we know the victim was unarmed. That much has been determined by the cops.
You never hear a peep when a black cop shoots a black vic. It’s not like it never happens. There is a vid out there after some street disturbance or another showing a black female cop leaving a cluster of cops to walk up to a shirtless Aferican talking smack and dancing the mambo, shooting him point blank in the heart, and walking away. The most amazing thing was that he didn’t notice a thing until a friend told him he’d been shot, at which point he looked down at his wound and dropped dead.
Cops absolutely can shoot someone in the back, under certain circumstances. See Tennessee vs. Garner, and also Graham v. Conner.
The first version I heard of the Zimmerman/Martin thing sounded like Zimmerman was obviously guilty. You just don’t know what could emerge about this.
But if he did in fact shoot the kid in the back between few and several times, or any number above zero… It’s very hard to see how there could have been a good reason for that.
Very fair take.