Again....and in Missouri, too!
A thug who happened to be black, getting what he deserved.
1. "In what is probably the last thing we needed to hear on Christmas Eve morning, there has been another shooting of a black teenager in Missouri by a police officer....
2. '...police officer fatally shot a suspect who pointed a gun at him late Tuesday, .... he was her 18-year-old son, Antonio Martin.....The officer saw two people outside the station, got out of his vehicle and approached them. One of the suspects pulled out a handgun.
3. When the officer approached, Martin reportedly drew a handgun and pointed it at the officer. The officer discharged his weapon multiple times and Martin was pronounced dead at the scene. The suspect’s gun was recovered.
4. ...before anyone else had gotten hold of the story, protests broke out in almost no time at all.
....some of the protesters damaged police cars. CNN showed images of one squad car with a large dent in its side.
A scuffle broke out, and officers grabbed some of the demonstrators and led them off in handcuffs.
“At one point, an explosive device, like a large firecracker or firework, was thrown into the middle of the fight and exploded...."
5. ...accusations are already flying and for those of us who have been covering too many of these stories, it’s beyond depressing. But in this case things may turn a corner more quickly. The gas station has security cameras pointed at the parking lot which are allegedly functional. The police claim that the video will be released at 7 a.m. central time."
Another police shooting in Missouri two miles from Ferguson Update Video added Hot Air
I can't begin to tell how okay I am that the result was not the reverse.
And this....
6. "The recent unfortunate shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and its violent aftermath seem to have had everything and nothing to do with race. Brown was black and unarmed and the officer white; but it is equally true that the 292-pound Brown likely committed a number of crimes in the minutes before his death.
He was high on drugs; he robbed a store and strong-armed the clerk; he was walking down the middle of a road; and he started a physical altercation with policeman Darren Wilson (who tried to question him), inflicting injuries on the officer before being fatally shot. If that were a typical day in the life of an American citizen, then civilization, as we now know it, could no longer exist.
7. There is no evidence so far that Brown was either shot in the back or shot while his hands were up, surrendering to the officer.... no forensic evidence suggests an execution-type police shooting...
8. No matter. Ferguson is supposedly now iconic of white institutionalized racism and police brutality, a teachable civil rights moment, as it were, that is currently being used by Democratic candidates to galvanize the African-American vote against Republican candidates. So much so that everyone from Eric Holder and Barack Obama to Elizabeth Warren and Ruth Bader Ginsburg has described the shooting or its violent aftermath as iconic of some sort of American pathology."
Crimes of Exactly What Works and Days
It is eminently clear who and what Liberals/Progressives/Democrats support.....and their plan for America.
Let the next round of riots begin.
A thug who happened to be black, getting what he deserved.
1. "In what is probably the last thing we needed to hear on Christmas Eve morning, there has been another shooting of a black teenager in Missouri by a police officer....
2. '...police officer fatally shot a suspect who pointed a gun at him late Tuesday, .... he was her 18-year-old son, Antonio Martin.....The officer saw two people outside the station, got out of his vehicle and approached them. One of the suspects pulled out a handgun.
3. When the officer approached, Martin reportedly drew a handgun and pointed it at the officer. The officer discharged his weapon multiple times and Martin was pronounced dead at the scene. The suspect’s gun was recovered.
4. ...before anyone else had gotten hold of the story, protests broke out in almost no time at all.
....some of the protesters damaged police cars. CNN showed images of one squad car with a large dent in its side.
A scuffle broke out, and officers grabbed some of the demonstrators and led them off in handcuffs.
“At one point, an explosive device, like a large firecracker or firework, was thrown into the middle of the fight and exploded...."
5. ...accusations are already flying and for those of us who have been covering too many of these stories, it’s beyond depressing. But in this case things may turn a corner more quickly. The gas station has security cameras pointed at the parking lot which are allegedly functional. The police claim that the video will be released at 7 a.m. central time."
Another police shooting in Missouri two miles from Ferguson Update Video added Hot Air
I can't begin to tell how okay I am that the result was not the reverse.
And this....
6. "The recent unfortunate shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and its violent aftermath seem to have had everything and nothing to do with race. Brown was black and unarmed and the officer white; but it is equally true that the 292-pound Brown likely committed a number of crimes in the minutes before his death.
He was high on drugs; he robbed a store and strong-armed the clerk; he was walking down the middle of a road; and he started a physical altercation with policeman Darren Wilson (who tried to question him), inflicting injuries on the officer before being fatally shot. If that were a typical day in the life of an American citizen, then civilization, as we now know it, could no longer exist.
7. There is no evidence so far that Brown was either shot in the back or shot while his hands were up, surrendering to the officer.... no forensic evidence suggests an execution-type police shooting...
8. No matter. Ferguson is supposedly now iconic of white institutionalized racism and police brutality, a teachable civil rights moment, as it were, that is currently being used by Democratic candidates to galvanize the African-American vote against Republican candidates. So much so that everyone from Eric Holder and Barack Obama to Elizabeth Warren and Ruth Bader Ginsburg has described the shooting or its violent aftermath as iconic of some sort of American pathology."
Crimes of Exactly What Works and Days
It is eminently clear who and what Liberals/Progressives/Democrats support.....and their plan for America.
Let the next round of riots begin.