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By now, probably everybody in America has heard about what happened in Ferguson, Missouri. A racist white police officer, driven by racial animus, chose a random African-American kid to harass, a confrontation which eventually resulted in the police officer shooting this unarmed kid in the back.
The child, named Michael Brown, was a “gentle giant,” large in size as well as heart, and was just a week away from going to college and making his economically-deprived community proud. His community rallied together to protest the unjustified shooting, only to be set upon by racist police who provoked the protesters to defend themselves by rioting and looting.
Or at least, this is what you would believe, if you only got your information from the news media and were too credulous and gullible to question what you were hearing.
The problem with the narrative above is that it is completely and utterly nonsense. As the days following the events of that fateful day unfolded and more and more evidence came to light, those who were pushing this narrative have had one egg after another thrown at their faces.
As it turns out, just moments prior to his confrontation with Ferguson P.D. Officer Darren Wilson, Brown and an accomplice had just strong-arm robbed a convenience store, taking a box of cigars (the kind used to make so-called “blunts” for smoking marijuana), and brutally manhandled the much-smaller store clerk who tried to stop him from leaving. We found out that the key eye-witness to the shooting, the one who said he was right there and saw Brown brutally shot in the back in cold blood as he ran away, was the very accomplice who had just helped him rob the store, which obviously drops the story’s credibility to nothing. Pictures of Brown’s body lying in the street showed him laying face-down on his stomach—with not a single bloody bullet hole showing on the back of his very white shirt. Of course, the story about Officer Wilson attempting to reach up, while sitting in his police cruiser, and grab the 6-foot, 4-inch, 290+ lb. Brown by the neck to pull him through the window of the police car made absolutely no sense, from the standpoint of both tactics and simple physics. Far from being the “gentle giant” the media made him out to be, pictures on social media depicted a gangland wannabe, flashing signs at the camera while spouting the typical rap-driven garbage.
The police officer involved has injuries to his face consistent with being attacked by Brown. The officer’s story that Brown assaulted him and tried to take his gun (which is legal justification for lethal self-defense by a police officer in every single state) certainly rings more true than the media-driven narrative of events. The officer’s story is further corroborated by a conversation between two witnesses at the scene that was captured on tape, and which seems to suggest that instead of running away from the police officer, Michael Brown actually ran toward the officer in an attempt to bum’s-rush him. This is further supported by the autopsy results which show that Michael Brown was shot six times—all from the front, none from behind.
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