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Ferguson Cop Cleared Of Civil Rights Violations
"There is no evidence upon which prosecutors can rely to disprove Wilson’s stated subjective belief that he feared for his safety," states a report from The Justice Department, clearing Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson of civil rights violations in the shooting of Michael Brown last year. Although this was somewhat expected, as we noted previously, the DoJ's report points specifically to "some prosecution witness accounts cannot be relied on because their accounts cannot be reconciled with the DNA bloodstain evidence and other credible witness accounts."
The Justice Department has cleared a Ferguson, Mo., police officer of civil rights violations in the shooting of Michael Brown, a black teenager whose death set off racially charged and sometimes violent protests last year.
The decision, which was announced on Wednesday, ends a lengthy investigation into the shooting last August, in which Officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Mr. Brown in the street. Many witnesses said Mr. Brown had his hands up in surrender when he died, leading to nationwide protest chants of “Hands up, don’t shoot.”
But federal agents and civil rights prosecutors rejected that story, just as a state grand jury did in November. The Justice Department said forensic evidence and other witnesses backed up the account of Officer Wilson, who said Mr. Brown fought with him, reached for his gun, then charged at him. He told investigators that he feared for his life.
It appears witness accounts were unreliable (and dare we say - biased?)...
“There is no evidence upon which prosecutors can rely to disprove Wilson’s stated subjective belief that he feared for his safety,” the report said.
The report found that witnesses who claimed that Mr. Brown was surrendering were not credible. “Some of those accounts are inaccurate because they are inconsistent with the physical and forensic evidence; some of those accounts are materially inconsistent with that witnesses’ own prior statements with no explanation,” it said.
“Although some witnesses state that Brown held his hands up at shoulder level with his palms facing outward for a brief moment, these same witnesses describe Brown then dropping his hands and ‘charging’ at Wilson,” it added.
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For now there is no official response from Michael Brown's family, Al Sharpton or anyone else...
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I prefer my popcorn with no butter, lightly salted. Grabbin' a beer now....
Racisss
tru dat
"as an american policeman, i live my life in constant fear for my safety."
There, cleared the path for unaccountable totalitarian brutality
At least 2 don't get the sarcasm 'bro.
They found that witnesses who claimed that Mr. Brown was surrendering were not credible
You mean Little Ray Ray from up the block is not credible?! Shocked.
Wake me when the justice department undertakes a study about the bias of number of crimes commited by African Americans as opposed to being 13-15 percent of the population. Until then, I'm going back to sleep.
I would like to see some stats on how many times whites are the victims of violence at the hands of blacks and then the reverse stats. Adjusted for population ratios.
I hope Holder indicted that 132lb Paki conveninece store clerk who attacked the 6'4" 240lb customer with his throat.
All in front of the video.
"who attacked the 6'4" 240lb customer with his throat"
Try 290+ . He was a "very large" completely innocent nice young man.
Check out Colin Flaherty. He has written two books: 1) White Girl Bleed Alot, and 2) Don't Make the Black Kids Angry. He is all about exposing the very high levels of black on black and black on white crime. He claims not to be a racist, and to be objective. I believe him. The statistics are the statistics. Face it. The inner city blacks are a culture of violence - as is a good bit of the Islamic world. I can't say - through my own ignorance - why the black inner cioties are so violent. And I would vote for the black retired neurosurgeon, Ben Carson, in a heartbeat over John MCCain, Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, etc.
Flaherty's YouTube blog:
Colin Flahertylatest episode:
Memphis: Roller rinks favorite venues for black mob violencehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LpnD4WfEKA
PS: It sure looks to me as if a group of LAPD - majority white - made swiss cheese out of a rather helpless black man yesterday. If things are as they appeared, may the sould of the pigs rot in hell.
http://www.amren.com/archives/reports/the-color-of-crime/
Reminds me of the ignorant woman on the witness stand of Trayvon Martin's case who could only speak in mono-syllabic words. Then they said on HLN how she wasn't stupid and was a "Honors Student".
im sick of the race card and black culture
Yes, maybe you are. But you can't ignore the Jewfied police state of Jewsa. Maybe, the next time you will be the target. Muricaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Shabat shalom.
It is definitely a particularly pathetic subculture within the wasted Democrat welfare plantation, but it isn't the only such wasted, dependent designated victim group. The variously fascist and communist players on the left will encourage and worsen any whiny grievance grouping they can find, or as needed, make up. Take the supposed campus rape epidemic lately. Pure agitprop and witch trial, for 99% of it, but it is needed because #RepublicanWarOnWomen and #ReadyForHillary.
This will end as soon as Hitlery is running. Then you'll see more false-flag rapes and anti-women behavior.
Then you won’t be called a racist anymore, you’ll be called a misogynist.
Well, arrogant, affirmative action, race pigs Holder, et al have ruined Officer Wilson's life, so I suppose there is some solace among the chip-on-shoulder, "our time now" black bigots.
Vexatious litigation is legal action which is brought, regardless of its merits, solely to harass or subdue an adversary (READ US). It may take the form of a primary frivolous lawsuit or may be the repetitive, burdensome, and unwarranted filing of meritless motions in a matter which is otherwise a meritorious cause of action. Filing vexatious litigation is considered an abuse of the judicial process and may result in sanctions against the offender (Holder, Oblamo and FEDs in general).
A single action, even a frivolous one, is usually not enough to raise a litigant to the level of being declared vexatious. Repeated and severe instances by a single lawyer or firm can result in eventual disbarment.
If Wilson's life was ruined it was ruined by his own incompetence and arrogance.
It seems all the Obummer Justice Department is good at is stealing money from store owners on bogus "structuring" charges, indicting Aaron Swartz even though there was no complainant and jailing whistleblowers under a discredited WWI espionage act. AG Holder is the one who belongs in prison, a criminal who suppresses investigations into everything from the murder of the two former SEALs on the Maersk Alabama (they knew too much about the Boston bombing) to the cover-up of the contract killing of Hollywood publicist Lainie Chasen by rogue members of the Beverly Hills police department.
Try making your popcorn with coconut oil. Absolute heaven with some kosher salt. Or sea salt for you cheese pope haters here.
All salt is kosher.
Yet they also found that in general, FPD does regularly abuse the shit out of people. Just not in this particular case. IMO, the anger is not because Brown was shot, it was because they are sick of getting stepped on, and anything that the police over there do is going to be looked upon unfavorably. Sheep or not, it's what happens when you keep on pushing and pushing and pushing. Somebody is going to snap.
Yeah but this isn't one of those cases.
This shit piece strong arm robbed a store and got confronted.
If you want me to give a Fuck about narratives it better match the actual scenario that happened that everyone got up in arms about. Otherwise you look like a dumbfuck trying to promote a bullshit narrative.
Again, not saying they're saints but it's best to get pissed about reality rather than unprovable and unsupported narratives.
Nailhead.
"Yeah but this isn't one of those cases."
Which I stated.
All that I'm saying is that people over there are pissed off about shit that's been going for a while, and no matter what police do, it will be viewed poorly. Police abuse + affirmative action + welfare is fundamentally telling these people that they're worthless fucks who cannot look out for themselves and then giving them incentive to be worthless fucks who cannot look out for themselves. Is it any surprise that they're angry? Is it any surprise that they're worthless fucks who cannot look out for themselves?
Well said.
Take your own advice dumbfuck. The cop knew nothing about the robbery when he initiated the very aggressive confrontation. There were two assholes in this fracas. One black and he is dead. One blue and his incompetence is celebrated by morons.
El Vac
You are talking about the non black communities and how they are treated by blacks correct? Otherwise, you've got to be kidding me with blacks are victims meme.
They found the majority of the jay walking and other citations issued were to blacks. Well duh. The majority of Ferguson is black. The majority of crimes committed in the U.S. as a whole are done by blacks. But please don't let facts get in the way of the race industry.
"The majority of crimes committed in the U.S. as a whole are done by blacks. "
Thanks for letting me know. I wasn't aware that Corzine, Madoff, Blankefein, Bernanke, Greenspan, and the rest of Wall Street were all black.
The reality is that we need to ask ourselves how much of the black problem has either been created or exacerbated by what the eilte have done to America by stripping it of jobs.
I said "majority" not major. Majority is defined in numbers, major by significance.
Its true that most violent crimes are commited by blacks. It is also true most financial cimes are commited by jews. What you miss is that logical step to chain said facts to the usual conclusion "ALL jews and blacks commit crimes".
Yep, I heard the statistics on KMOX this morning. The statistics oversimplify the issues by labeling everything African American and Caucasian, etc. Ferguson is lower to lower middle class, a higher unemployment rate than the rest of the country (there was report here on Zero Hedge that gave the numbers and it was significantly higher as I remember), and the education level is not the best. Example given, at a soccer game last year, a wife of one of the coaches is a teacher in the Florissant school district. She taught middle school and I jokingly offered to grade her papers she had in the back of her SUV. The answers, when they were there, were appalling.
On the other side, you have this militarization of the police and some combat veterans filling those job openings. Alot paid for and subsidized by out Federal Govt.
One of the problems we have in this country is the idea we can quantify and qualify by statistics and govern hence forth. It did not work in Viet Nam and isn't working here.
Yes, somebody somewhere is going to snap and there will be casulaties, both innocent and not.
Haveb't seen the report but what OI have heard sounds like a pretty desperate and ignorant attempt to twist statistics into saying something they don't.
Al Sharpton could not be reached for comment,
because he is seeking more lucrative extortion opportunities elsewhere....,
and his sorry ass is hiding from the IRS.
And, he's sulking because MSLSD cancelled
His "news" program. What will they do with
the Eubonics TelePrompTer now?
I can't think of Al Sharton without thinking of Eddie Murphy's rip on him in Vampire in Brooklyn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vpi3q6_ymA
Eddie Murphy... total fucking genius.
He has nothing to fear from the IRS, regardless of his abuses of the system.
He's far too useful to TPTB...
Read the rest of the story: DOJ will sue Ferguson for being racist and another shithole will come under direct federal supervision. And, that is such a way forward.
Phew. I'd plum forgotten about Ferguson. Where would we be without the Times?
Chimpout alert
Burn it
show those crakka muderfvkers how we roll in da hood.
G.O.O.D.
Sheeet. Yeah! Dey gonna git mo gibbs as soon as day weather git warmer!
The whole idea that "subjective fear" matters at all is a flashing indicator(and far from the only one) that our legal system is total dog shit. That someone is a coward and has fear should have absolutely no bearing on their right to murder someone else.
Barry Freed
Your right, people should have no fear and allow themselves to be pummeled, beaten, raped and murdered at the perpetrators convience. You may think self defense is murder but thankfully there are plenty of us who live on planet earth that think otherwise.
Absolutely. The fear has to be reasonable. And you can't pick a fight and then piss your pants the first time you get punched and whip out a gun. Wilson was as much an ass as Brown and should be locked up.
IMO, the witnesses are as reliable as the police.
Anything to distract people from the generational crimes perpetrated on Wall Street; Washington is the distraction.
Be sure and vote, the banks and military industrial complex think it's cute.
It seems I was wrong about the 5-6 eyewitnesses who gave statements that suggested the victim had his hands raised in surrender at the moment of the shooting. Odd. One would expect a single eyewitness to be wrong but all of them to corroborate each other and to be wrong is a bit odd. Who are they and what did they have to gain?
The key to getting away with killing someone is making sure the following statement is made: "I was in fear of my life". It's the standard reply I hear a lot these days in the msm by those in uniform.
Odd thing you being wrong...again.
People have been so fucking stupid about this.
Never let a crisis go to waste to incite division and hatred right Mr.Zionist?
The issue is the militarization of the police, not race. But how good of you to divert the issue and show your true colours.
Hit and run insults are his MO.
get your nigger hunting permit badge today - act now while supplies last
Just wait another two years when the floow up story of what a shithole Ferguson has become....as all the business left...and the scum have nothing now...and crime is thru the roof...but I doubt they will report this....the truth
That is what the progs call,
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
Maybe all those Ferguson vibrants will be awarded Section 8 housing in St. Louis. Would love to see them fetch up beside the whites who demonstrated in support of the Gentle Giant.
who gives a shit
Last night on PBS they had two black (of course) "experts" interviewed by Glen Eiffel (black) on the DOJ findings. To they rattled off the statistics on disproportionate black arrests, black arrests involving violence, etc and conclude emphatically that this is evidence of racial profiling. What if, in fact, blacks are committing more crimes? Is that possible? Then of course they would have more arrests, etc. Not even mentioned, of course. Disgraceful "reporting."
This cannot be boiled down to "the cops are racist" or "blacks are thugs." It's a complex dynamic here and ignoring that is a sure way to ensure that the problem continues. We should back up for a bit and look at the war on drugs, welfare, affirmative action, the militarization of police and the idea that only the police can protect us.
Can we all agree that the Mike Brown situation would have been a lot different had the store owner that he was beating and robbing just shot him in self defense right then and there?
Our tax money in action.
Whenever they call asking for a donation, I tell the volunteer where he/she/it can shove the phone.
It's mostly corporate money now, I think.
None dares call it advertising,
because that's what it is;)
Wait till it all cools down, then issue the report. Works every time.
Hey, There's a castle!
Is there one black cop who is sympathetic to these 'injustices?'
Glad that's over. Now Holder can get back to indicting the Wall Street white collar criminals and handle those frivilous "Fast & Furious" charges.
wilson should be awarded a commendation for removing a worthless thug from the population
Of course there isn't any charges because the cop did NOTHING WRONG. Even the DOJ admits that "hands up don't shoot" DID NOT HAPPEN. I laugh in the faces of those who utter that bullshit and when they even try to say raycisss I make them a bet . Watch them shut the fuck right quick.
Remember all the riots and the destruction of private property, not to mention the TRUTH, all base on a racist AG and CSIC who want to agitate the people for purposes of growing their power over us.
Fuck you Holder and Ophag!!!
Am I a bad person for dreaming of that happy day when news that the African-American community are finally being frogmarched onto container ships bound for Monrovia is greeted by the rejoicing of their long-suffering white neighbours?
Because as far as I'm concerned the sooner the whole lot of them fuck off to Liberia where they belong and die of Ebola, the better.
Good and bad are superstitions. There is no good or bad in nature, only truth and wrong.
But think of the Liberians!
Have you no mercy?
Michael Brown is, pardon me, was a gentle giant like Suge Knight is innocent and dinz do nuffin.
This may explain some of this
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N08ZIsSPKuo
Duh.
Great comment, you are a treasure trove of knowledge.
How many Zerohedgers have publicly expressed a simultaneous desire for armed revolution and disgust for the loss of private property in Ferguson?
Most likely the same ones who express outrage at Israeli violence and then proclaim its ok if they kill each other as long as they leave them out of it!
Holy fuck you are retarded. Astonishing...
You are a scratched record. Every single post by yours is a one-line insult. Fuck this, retard that. Every single one.
Nice to see Eric Holder do the right thing for once. I take back one bad thing I ever said about him.
I'll let the African-American community of Ferguson pick which one.
Now that's settled---anybody care to speculate as to why Holder really let the peckerwood go?
Because no way in hell was it the fact that Darren Wilson had done nothing wrong (q.v. Edward Snowden).
They are going easy on Wilson because they want the cops to support the federalization of policing
Wilson was exonerated of any criminal wrong doing. That is how the law works you fucking jackass.
The one thing you ar ecorrect about is that this whole fiasco IS about the Obama Regime federalizing police.
Watch for more politicization of police actions, particularly in minority areas.
Holder should remove that white jockey boy statue in front of his office door.
The cop should sue the f*ck out of all those who impugned his integrity and professionalism, right up to Holder.