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Title: Ferguson Reexamined
Source: dissidentvoice
URL Source: http://dissidentvoice.org/2014/11/ferguson-reexamined/
Published: Nov 28, 2014
Author: Paul Craig Roberts
Post Date: 2014-11-29 16:30:16 by RickyJ
Keywords: None
Views: 1033
Comments: 23

dissidentvoice.org/2014/11/ferguson-reexamined/

Ferguson Reexamined

by Paul Craig Roberts / November 28th, 2014

Few, if any, of the correct questions were asked in the grand jury hearing to decide whether policeman Darren Wilson would be indicted for killing Michael Brown.

The most important unexamined question is whether police are trained to use force immediately as a first resort before they assess a situation or determine if they are at the correct address. Are the police trained that the lives of police officers are so much more valuable than the lives of possible suspects, or a houseful of people into whose residence a heavily armed SWAT team enters, that police officers must not accept the risk of judicious behavior when encountering citizens? If this is the case as all evidence indicates that it is, then the police when they gratuitously murder members of the public are merely doing what they have been trained to do. As police are trained to use violence as a first resort, the police cannot be held accountable when they do.

There are a large number of videos available online that show that the first thing that police do when they arrive is to use force.

No sooner is Michael Brown in the grave than Cleveland cops kill a 12-year old boy who has a toy gun that shoots plastic pellets. The child is threatening no one–indeed there is no one else present. The boy seems to be playing a fantasy game in his head. A busy body calls the police. The police arrive and instantly shoot the kid down.

Here is a selection of videos and reports. Some of the videos are compressed to save the viewer time. They range from 59 seconds to the full 7:51 minute video, which shows the kid is just walking up and down the sidewalk. All the action comes at the end. The police arrive and instantly open fire, making no effort whatsoever to assess the situation.1

Just a few days before Michael Brown is killed, Ohio police murdered John Crawford inside a Walmart store. What had Crawford done? He had picked up a BB rifle from a Walmart shelf and was on the phone with the mother of his two children, perhaps checking with her whether he could purchase it for the kids. A busy body named Ronald Ritchie felt threatened and called the police. The police rush in and shoot Crawford. The police claim that they ordered Crawford to drop the rifle, but the video shows the police shooting Crawford on sight. The busy body Ritchie actually caused two deaths, as the incident of Crawford’s murder caused Angela Williams to die from a heart attack as she fled the store in response to the police gunfire.

Yes, you guessed it. The grand jury decided the police were justified.

Here is another video that demonstrates that policemen shoot instantly without cause. This is a rare case in which the policeman was held accountable, most likely because the video prevented authorities from fabricating the usual story of police justification.

In this video, police shoot down an unarmed black man in the street. After shooting Kajieme Powell ten times, the cops hold guns on the dead body while they handcuff a dead man. Like an almost endless number of other such videos, this one shows that either psychopaths are recruited for the police force, or police training turns cops into psychopaths.

These two reports examine Officer Darren Wilson’s story of why he shot Michael Brown and conclude that Wilson’s story doesn’t make sense.2 Most likely, Michael Brown was just another victim of the gratuitous violence that police are trained to use. Darren Wilson’s use of deadly force was in keeping with his training.

The problem with the grand jury and prosecutor in Ferguson and everywhere else is that the real problem–the training of police to use deadly force as a first resort–was not identified as the cause of Michael Brown’s death.

The Ferguson grand jury’s decision is not an exoneration of Wilson’s use of deadly force. Anyone familiar with the American criminal justice (sic) system knows that any prosecutor can get or prevent an indictment from a grand jury. Prosecutors are allowed to determine what evidence is presented. Prosecutors are permitted to bribe witnesses with money or dropped charges, and they can coerce false witness testimony by threatening a witness with charges. Seldom does an indictment or refusal to indict turn on the true facts.

The US justice system is no longer concerned with justice, but with the careers of prosecutors, punishing the powerless, and protecting the powerful. As justice has largely departed the justice system, it is hardly surprising that police lack any concept of justice.

Note: Here is a video of the goon thugs in Albuquerque murdering a white man who was doing nothing but carrying some break pads. Notice how the handful of cops pretend the man who is shot to pieces is still dangerous.

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#1. To: RickyJ (#0)

These two reports examine Officer Darren Wilson’s story of why he shot Michael Brown and conclude that Wilson’s story doesn’t make sense.2 Most likely, Michael Brown was just another victim of the gratuitous violence that police are trained to use. Darren Wilson’s use of deadly force was in keeping with his training.

Ok Einstein, perhaps you can explain why there are millions of private citizens that carry guns every day?

Guns are used to shoot people with. A purple Icelander called Roberts, 285 pounds, tries to take my gun and then dares me to shoot him, IS GOING TO GET SHOT. One dead purple ICELANDER.

It really is quite simple. Try to follow this with your feather brain at rest.

Basic premise of training for people hired to carry guns.

Kill or be killed when the situation arises.

The call is yours, not mine.

See now that was not to difficult to understand was it?

Cynicom  posted on  2014-11-29   17:01:31 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Cynicom (#1)

The police are very brave in killing children and unarmed innocent people. When a dangerous criminal is involved, they will only attack in battalion strength.

Ada  posted on  2014-11-29   17:58:04 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Ada (#6)

The police are very brave in killing children and unarmed innocent people.

One has to wonder what society would be like with no police?

Cynicom  posted on  2014-11-29   21:22:55 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Cynicom (#7)

One has to wonder what society would be like with no police?

I would take it in a heartbeat. People defending themselves with guns are much more effective than doughnut eating steroid using goons walking around with badges and a license to kill.

RickyJ  posted on  2014-11-29   21:48:41 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: RickyJ (#8)

I would take it in a heartbeat.

Hell, have the strength of your convictions. When you wake up in the AM, disregard all laws and just do as you please. Michael Brown did.

Jethro Tull  posted on  2014-11-29   22:24:28 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Jethro Tull (#9)

Hell, have the strength of your convictions. When you wake up in the AM, disregard all laws and just do as you please. Michael Brown did.

That is right to the heart of this discussion.

Any society recorded in history had rules, regulations, laws and some method of enforcing them, for better or worse.

Without enforcement, good or bad, there is no social structure.

Our system is terribly flawed, been that way as long as I can remember, however it is the ONLY system that has been working for over two hundred years.

Beyond that, far too many Americans are following the ongoing brain washing of our media. They are not thinking on their own, rather they are following herd mentality.

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