Discussion: DOJ Reportedly Told Ferguson Police Not To Release Robbery Video

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What a difference a day makes? When the victim of jail house brutality in 2009, demanded a video of his beating the video was withheld and finally release at 24 times the normal speed, unrecognizable. These cops are nothing but racist and gun nuts.

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The Ferguson Police Department gives the impression at times of working with political consultants who do not seem to be much concerned with the community or the responsibilities of the Police Department.

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Until this POS murdering pig is behind bars and this POS racist thug DA is relieved of duty on this case…stay out in the streets. Make no mistake, this is the future of America. Chuck D was right…the future holds nothing but confrontation.

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It was just announced that there are 40 FBI agents in the area around where the Michael Brown murder happened. They are going door-to-door, talking to people who might have any information.

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The Letter from Birmingham Jail. I read it once a year, and take new lessons from it each time. One of the most extraordinary and important documents in American history.

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They’re a goddamn brain trust. A living refutation of white supremacy.

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We’re talking about dim bulbs in Hicksville, MO

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HAHAHA. Thought process. You had me going there, for three of four words.

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Now let’s be fair everyone: if you’re gonna go full-blown idiot, you might as well ignore everyone’s advice otherwise.

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There’s a lot the Ferguson PD should not have done. But this video taints any prospective jury pool this case could draw.

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Can’t you drop the silly and over-emotional 60’s name-calling?

It doesn’t help make your case—quite the opposite, in fact.

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The main difference that I see between urban cities and small towns is this. How many neighbors do urban dwellers know? I grew up in a tiny town in Ohio (pop 400 on a good day when everyone was home). There wasn’t one person I was not acquainted or had at least met with when I lived there. Even now when I visit (40 years on) I still know most everybody. That town was policed by the local county sheriffs …as corrupt a bunch as has ever been. If a black kid were gunned down by a cop there the cover-up would be instantaneous.

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It appears that Chief Jackson only wants to release information which he believes will exonerate Officer Wilson of wrong-doing, and he is deliberately withholding any and all details that would indicate improper action was taken during the altercation that led to Michael Brown’s death.

Had Jackson believed that Brown was not involved in the cigar theft, it is likely that these details would never have been made public. He chose to release the video simply to gin up disdain for the victim, knowing full well that the cigar incident had no bearing on the confrontation between Brown and Wilson.

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You agree that walking in the street is a capital offense? That’s what Brown was doing when the cop shot him in the back and then repeatedly shot him when he was on the ground. The they left his corpse uncovered on the street for hours.

The cop didn’t know about the robbery when he stopped Brown and his friend. Even if he did, does it warrant shooting an unarmed suspect in cold blood? Ferguson PD changed their story several times since the shooting.

That’s the truth.

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Someone should have the balls to fire all of these uncaring, self-righteous yahoos in Ferguson and at the county level.

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Why would the DOJ want to protect this scum bag robbing thug??? don’t we have a right to know what a thug he was after all the town was saying he was a gentle giant that wouldn’t harm a fly. Now that we know the truth we can make a better judgment.

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Really?

You want to start picking scumbag who deserve to be blown away AFTER the police blow people away?

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Brown’s mistake was stealing a box of cigars instead of decades of grazing fees from the government. Then he’d have an army of sovereign citizens ready to shoot back. For freedom!

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Steal billions and get caught…get to put the money in a Caiman Island IRA Money Market Account.

Steal a box of cigars…you get put in a grave.

Why…it’s almost ‘black and white,’ huh?

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How about the video of the cops murdering an unarmed teen, I’m certain you are ok with that! Right? How about the past actions of furgeson pd, are you ok with that?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/15/the-day-ferguson-cops-were-caught-in-a-bloody-lie.html

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