Sunday, September 14, 2014

He had his fucking hands in the air,” the man, called a contractor working in the area by CNN, shouted. The worker, who said he was not from Ferguson and did not want to be identified, told CNN the teen’s “hands were up” when he was killed




Their account aligns with what other witnesses have said: that Brown’s hands were raised in the air when he was killed.
The contractors said they did not see how the incident began.
The video was filmed on a cellphone by an unidentified witness, CNN reported.
Legal experts told the network the video is going to be valuable evidence against Wilson, as it is a spontaneous recounting of the incident.
"They're saying that he was running from the police officer and that his hands were up," said Sunny Hostin, a CNN legal analyst and former federal prosecutor. "I don't know what other witness testimony at this point or account we have to hear. The bottom line is having your hands up is the universal sign for surrender."
The killing of Brown, a young black man, by a white police officer in early August set off a fierce wave of civil unrest in Ferguson. The city has a majority-black population, yet the city's leadership and officers of its police department are nearly all white.
The US Justice Department announced last week that it was opening an investigation into the Ferguson Police Department, following accusations by Ferguson residents that the police practice racial profiling and other discriminatory measures. A local grand jury is investigating the killing of Michael Brown in an effort to determine if officer Wilson acted in self-defense.

5 comments:

  1. How does this tie into with what is happening in the ME? It goes back to the militarization of US police. This particular department head received training from the Israelis as if American cops need to go to Israel to pick up pointers on how the IDF handles civilians.

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  2. Amazing levels of evidence.

    Forget using forensic technology....

    After all we have "reliable" witnesses that saw it all.

    Those Russian troops fighting in the Ukraine? They don't actually exist.

    Those UNWRA schools used to hide rockets? They didn't happen.

    But PRAVDA will lead the way, all you do is change the name to RT news and poof, 60 years of propaganda and disinformation legacy turns into a reliable news channel...

    Ferguson?

    Who know the exact truth, let's see the dash cam tape.

    Let's have a trial.

    Or better yet, let's listen to the "community activists" that demand racial proportional representation and want to drive "whitey" out of the police force and elected halls..

    Yea that's the ticket...

    Oh and if you are white and own a business in Ferguson? GET OUT NOW....

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    1. Many have. That's why the demographics have changed so dramatically.

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  3. I want to see the final toxicology report on 'the gentle giant'.


    "They're saying that he was running from the police officer and that his hands were up," -- This seems contradictory. It was said by some earlier that he was shot in the back and we know from the autopsy reports that this was not true. He was shot from the front.


    I await developments.

    I will say it's a real stretch in my mind to bring in the Israelis.

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  4. As to what was in the boy's system, what possible difference could it make?

    He was standing still, with his hands in the air, as the cop walked toward him, gunning him down.

    If it was a white teenager being gunned down by a black cop, would you be asking "what he'd smoked that day?"

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