Discussion for article #230544
Can we all agree this was the best thing to come out of the protests last night? Also, why doesn’t this happen more often to Fox News cameras?
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I disagree. What happened was unnecessary. We can dislike Fox but smashing their cameras is wrong (yet strangely satisfying)
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Were I possessed of the mental deficits of the Alex Jones crowd, I’d suggest this was a false flag operation. Prominently displayed is the mask of Anonymous and an Arab keffiyeh, glaring symbols of the continuously looping Two Minute Hate of the right.
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/standing ovation
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Meh.
said with a haughty British accent as if I just threw down my best court regalia gloves: “I will have my satisfaction, sirrah.”
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I certianly felt like smashing Fox’s camera after I read the comments on their page about Obama’s response to the grand jury: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/11/24/obama-pleads-for-calm-in-ferguson/#
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FOX Noise! “We deceive; You believe!”
The Republican & Tea Potty Cons’ propaganda outlet!
http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/0/6/5/0/0/9/7/Fox-News-Funny-83512608764.jpeg
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The comments on FOX are always a disgrace, but frankly a lot of comments I see on here have been disgraceful on this story too. It is quite clear at this point Brown was the instigator not only in the initial confrontation at the car, but also charged at Wilson after the chase. Yet people still think Brown was surrendering and Wilson just decided to execute him in front of a crowd of people. Just pure silliness.
It’s a tragedy, but from all appearances Brown was just being stupid, and eyewitnesses (the ones who did not change their stories) testified as such. In fact, some witnesses who said Brown was surrendering now say they were just repeating what they “had heard”. They should be charged with making false statements.
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I can’t speak for anyone else, but the only reason I’ve never done it is because there’s never a Guy Fawkes mask around when I see a Fox camera.
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Right…because unnecessary orders to get out of an empty street in their own neighborhood and then backing the car up to block their path just because he got the expected GFY response…that wasn’t Wilson deliberately escalating a confrontation that never needed to exist in the first place.
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I hear your point, but it’s so satisfying on both a visceral and symbolic level. They use the camera to control their viewers. Smashing it feels like you’ve stunted their control.
The truth of course is that it probably just emboldened them and outraged their viewers, doing more harm than good.
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The coverage by Fox News might as well have been the KKK Network.
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Brown had just committed a strong-arm robbery, and the description of the suspect in the 911 call made on the robbery matched Brown. Wilson heard that description and that’s why he stopped. You don’t find that significant? Are you saying strong-arm robbery suspects should not be confronted by police? Seriously?
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Not sure which might be more dangerous in Ferguson these days, wearing a Fawkes mask or carrying a FOX camera…
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Wilson did have the option of waiting for backup.
Here’s where the body camera would have been decisive, instead of relying on testimony of people caught up in the rage of the moment.
Certainly, there would remain ambiguities in the incident, but considering how much money these militarized police forces spend on guns and ammo and attack vehicles, a $300 body camera seems insignificant.
Wilson probably had a few thousand bucks worth of ordnance at hand.
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I willing to bet FOX considers all the free publicity and interest the incident has stirred up well worth the price of one camera.
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"Wilson heard that description and that’s why he stopped. "
The Chief of Police said that that was why Wilson stopped Brown. THEN he said that Wilson had NOT heard about the robbery when the shooting happened. So which of the stories are a lie? The first one or the second one.
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I always get a kick out of Jones trying to think and talk at the same time! Here’s another one of his False-Flag whines! This is a classic!
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At 11:51 a.m. on August 9, 2014, a convenience store security camera captured video of Brown taking a $48 box of cigarillos. A police dispatcher reported a “stealing in progress” at 11:53, and at 11:57 dispatch said the suspect was wearing a red Cardinals hat, a white T-shirt, yellow socks, and khaki shorts, and was accompanied by another man. At noon, Wilson radioed to ask other officers searching for the thieves if they needed him and was told by dispatch that the suspects had disappeared.
At 12:01 p.m., Wilson drove up to Brown and Johnson in the middle of Canfield Drive and ordered them to move off the street and onto the sidewalk. Wilson continued driving past the two men, but then backed up and stopped close to them, after, according to Wilson, realizing that Brown matched the description of the robbery suspect. Dispatch recordings indicate that Wilson called for backup at 12:02, saying “[Unit] 21. Put me on Canfield with two. And send me another car.”
What the police chief said was that Brown specifically had not been identified as the suspect (so dispatch did not put out a report mentioning Brown by name). According to Chief Jackson, Wilson initially stopped Brown for walking in the street and blocking traffic, but “at some point” during the encounter Wilson saw cigars in Brown’s hands and thought he might be a suspect in the robbery that had occurred at a nearby convenience store a few minutes before the shooting.
These are all facts, and this is what the Grand Jury heard, along with all kinds of testimony, etc.
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