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New York Times article fuels chatter
#noangel
https://twitter.com/hashtag/noangel
"Michael Brown, 18, due to be buried on Monday, was no angel, with public records and interviews with friends and family revealing both problems and promise in his young life."
- John Eligon
New York Times.
"It's as if a black person must be a perfect victim to escape being thuggified”
article title-
"Black America and the burden of the perfect victim"
-The Washington Post
"It’s as if a black person must be a perfect victim to escape being thuggified, an angel with an unblemished history in order to warrant justice. The burden of the perfect victim suggests that only impeccable résumés may qualify for protection under the law and the support of the community."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...318ec2-27d1-11e4-958c-268a320a60ce_story.html
Who had the brilliant idea, to contrast Michael Brown's life with Officer Wilson's life, on the same newspaper page ?
The article, penned by John Eligon, covering the killing of Brown by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson, received tons of negative feedback. Eligon described Brown as “no angel” and pointed out that he dabbled in drugs, alcohol and rap music.
In the same vein, the New York Times also ran an article about Wilson, in which more polite phrases, such as “well-mannered,” were used to describe the embattled police officer, whose career has had its fair share of bumps.
Demonizing Brown while painting a picture of Wilson as an “angel” set off a fiery barrage of comments and criticism toward Elgion and the New York Times.
http://www.theroot.com/blogs/the_grapevine/2014/08/ny_times_calls_no_angel_an_ill_chosen_phrase.html
*tip of the hat, to the BBC
"The victim was no choirboy."
-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani
2000 police shooting of Patrick Dorismond, who was killed outside of a nightclub after shoving undercover officers. The mayor said the 26-year-old security guard was "no altar boy". It turned out that Dorismond had, in fact, been an altar boy.
Dorismond, who was wounded in the chest, died at St. Clare's Hospital. No drugs or other contraband were found on his body. Police brushed aside witnesses' reports that Vasquez was pistol-whipping Dorismond when the gun went off.
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2008/09/rudy_wasnt_alwa.php
http://www.villagevoice.com/2000-03-21/news/shake-the-trees/
"It's as if a black person must be a perfect victim to escape being thuggified, an angel with an unblemished history in order to warrant justice," writes author Toure for the Washington Post. "The burden of the perfect victim suggests that only impeccable resumes may qualify for protection under the law and the support of the community."
When asked about the "no angel" debacle, New York Times editor Alison Mitchell told the Washington Post: "I think, actually, we have a nuanced story about the young man and if it had been a white young man in the same exact situation, if that's where our reporting took us, we would have written it in the same way."
New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan-
Sullivan pointed out that the author of the article, John Eligon, is, like Brown, a black man. Eligon told Sullivan that, in hindsight, he regretted writing “no angel.” But while Sullivan didn’t agree with the term, the timing (the profile of Michael Brown appeared on the day of his funeral), or its placement next to a profile of Officer Darren Wilson, she did think the profile itself was “solid and thorough.
Margaret Sullivan
Public Editor
Aug 25, 2014
@jackshafer Beg to differ. I called it a blunder, said the timing was bad and it shouldn't have been paired with the [Officer Darren Wilson's] police profile.
Someone speaks up for Michael Brown-
"I am no angel. But really, no one is. It’s just that some of us also are black."
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/2...qNVb3m4cSM/story.html?p1=related_article_page
In the meantime, FOX TV continues, with the lies, misleading statements, doubtful sources, and absolute horse waste from a stable.
Fox & Friends, in which the empty-headed Steve Doocy asks Fox contributor Linda Chavez if it’s “misleading” to refer to Michael Brown as an “unarmed teenager.”
Ben Stein joins in, on the campaign against Michael Brown-
"Now first of all, it isn't standard procedure, it's an extremely rare thing when that happens. Second, the idea of calling this poor young man unarmed when he was 6-foot-4, 300 pounds, full of muscles," he said.
(Do not let truth get in the way of a FOX TV story ? MB was 6ft 4in (193cm) and 292 pounds (132kg).)
"Apparently according to what I read in the New York Times [he was] on marijuana. To call him unarmed is like calling Sonny Liston unarmed or Cassius Clay unarmed. I mean he wasn't unarmed; he was armed with his undoubtedly strong, scary self."
"I live during the large part of the year in north Idaho, a part of the state with almost no African Americans. I talk to young people there and they give you this talk about how, oh, they're going to talk back to the police if the police pull them over, they're not going to go in without a struggle," Stein said.
"I say to them, are you insane? Just do what the police tell you, wait until you're back in the jailhouse or in the court house, and then give your side of it….
"The police don't know what you've got there under your jacket, the police don't know what you've got under the dashboard of your car. Just do the reasonable thing."
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/ben-stein-cnn-liberal-bias/2014/08/26/id/591058/
What does Ben Stein have to say about the Ferguson police dog, that was allowed to urinate on the blood stains of Michael Brown ?
Michael Brown's Mom Laid Flowers Where He Was Shot—and Police Crushed Them
Aug. 27, 2014
As darkness fell on Canfield Drive on August 9, a makeshift memorial sprang up in the middle of the street where Michael Brown's body had been sprawled in plain view for more than four hours. Flowers and candles were scattered over the bloodstains on the pavement. Someone had affixed a stuffed animal to a streetlight pole a few yards away. Neighborhood residents and others were gathering, many of them upset and angry.
Soon, police vehicles reappeared, including from the St. Louis County Police Department, which had taken control of the investigation. Several officers emerged with dogs. What happened next, according to several sources, was emblematic of what has inflamed the city of Ferguson, Missouri, ever since the unarmed 18-year-old was gunned down: An officer on the street let the dog he was controlling urinate on the memorial site.
The incident was related to me separately by three state and local officials who worked with the community in the immediate aftermath of the shooting. One confirmed that he interviewed an eyewitness, a young woman, and pressed her on what exactly she saw. "She said that the officer just let the dog pee on it," that official told me. "She was very distraught about it." The identity of the officer who handled the dog and the agency he was with remain unclear.
Candles and flowers marking the spot where Brown died were soon run over by police vehicles.
Rep. Sharon Pace purchased some tea lights for the family, and around 7 p.m. she joined Brown's mother, Lesley McSpadden, and others as they placed the candles and sprinkled flowers on the ground where Brown had died. "They spelled out his initials with rose petals over the bloodstains," Pace recalled.
By then, police had prohibited all vehicles from entering Canfield Drive except for their own. Soon the candles and flowers had been smashed, after police drove over them.
St. Louis alderman Antonio French, who was on the scene that night, tweeted videos and photos including one of the mangled memorial
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/ferguson-st-louis-police-tactics-dogs-michael-brown
#noangel
https://twitter.com/hashtag/noangel
"Michael Brown, 18, due to be buried on Monday, was no angel, with public records and interviews with friends and family revealing both problems and promise in his young life."
- John Eligon
New York Times.
"It's as if a black person must be a perfect victim to escape being thuggified”
article title-
"Black America and the burden of the perfect victim"
-The Washington Post
"It’s as if a black person must be a perfect victim to escape being thuggified, an angel with an unblemished history in order to warrant justice. The burden of the perfect victim suggests that only impeccable résumés may qualify for protection under the law and the support of the community."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...318ec2-27d1-11e4-958c-268a320a60ce_story.html
Who had the brilliant idea, to contrast Michael Brown's life with Officer Wilson's life, on the same newspaper page ?
The article, penned by John Eligon, covering the killing of Brown by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson, received tons of negative feedback. Eligon described Brown as “no angel” and pointed out that he dabbled in drugs, alcohol and rap music.
In the same vein, the New York Times also ran an article about Wilson, in which more polite phrases, such as “well-mannered,” were used to describe the embattled police officer, whose career has had its fair share of bumps.
Demonizing Brown while painting a picture of Wilson as an “angel” set off a fiery barrage of comments and criticism toward Elgion and the New York Times.
http://www.theroot.com/blogs/the_grapevine/2014/08/ny_times_calls_no_angel_an_ill_chosen_phrase.html
*tip of the hat, to the BBC
"The victim was no choirboy."
-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani
2000 police shooting of Patrick Dorismond, who was killed outside of a nightclub after shoving undercover officers. The mayor said the 26-year-old security guard was "no altar boy". It turned out that Dorismond had, in fact, been an altar boy.
Dorismond, who was wounded in the chest, died at St. Clare's Hospital. No drugs or other contraband were found on his body. Police brushed aside witnesses' reports that Vasquez was pistol-whipping Dorismond when the gun went off.
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2008/09/rudy_wasnt_alwa.php
http://www.villagevoice.com/2000-03-21/news/shake-the-trees/
"It's as if a black person must be a perfect victim to escape being thuggified, an angel with an unblemished history in order to warrant justice," writes author Toure for the Washington Post. "The burden of the perfect victim suggests that only impeccable resumes may qualify for protection under the law and the support of the community."
When asked about the "no angel" debacle, New York Times editor Alison Mitchell told the Washington Post: "I think, actually, we have a nuanced story about the young man and if it had been a white young man in the same exact situation, if that's where our reporting took us, we would have written it in the same way."
New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan-
Sullivan pointed out that the author of the article, John Eligon, is, like Brown, a black man. Eligon told Sullivan that, in hindsight, he regretted writing “no angel.” But while Sullivan didn’t agree with the term, the timing (the profile of Michael Brown appeared on the day of his funeral), or its placement next to a profile of Officer Darren Wilson, she did think the profile itself was “solid and thorough.
Margaret Sullivan
Public Editor
Aug 25, 2014
@jackshafer Beg to differ. I called it a blunder, said the timing was bad and it shouldn't have been paired with the [Officer Darren Wilson's] police profile.
Someone speaks up for Michael Brown-
"I am no angel. But really, no one is. It’s just that some of us also are black."
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/2...qNVb3m4cSM/story.html?p1=related_article_page
In the meantime, FOX TV continues, with the lies, misleading statements, doubtful sources, and absolute horse waste from a stable.
Fox & Friends, in which the empty-headed Steve Doocy asks Fox contributor Linda Chavez if it’s “misleading” to refer to Michael Brown as an “unarmed teenager.”
Ben Stein joins in, on the campaign against Michael Brown-
"Now first of all, it isn't standard procedure, it's an extremely rare thing when that happens. Second, the idea of calling this poor young man unarmed when he was 6-foot-4, 300 pounds, full of muscles," he said.
(Do not let truth get in the way of a FOX TV story ? MB was 6ft 4in (193cm) and 292 pounds (132kg).)
"Apparently according to what I read in the New York Times [he was] on marijuana. To call him unarmed is like calling Sonny Liston unarmed or Cassius Clay unarmed. I mean he wasn't unarmed; he was armed with his undoubtedly strong, scary self."
"I live during the large part of the year in north Idaho, a part of the state with almost no African Americans. I talk to young people there and they give you this talk about how, oh, they're going to talk back to the police if the police pull them over, they're not going to go in without a struggle," Stein said.
"I say to them, are you insane? Just do what the police tell you, wait until you're back in the jailhouse or in the court house, and then give your side of it….
"The police don't know what you've got there under your jacket, the police don't know what you've got under the dashboard of your car. Just do the reasonable thing."
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/ben-stein-cnn-liberal-bias/2014/08/26/id/591058/
What does Ben Stein have to say about the Ferguson police dog, that was allowed to urinate on the blood stains of Michael Brown ?
Michael Brown's Mom Laid Flowers Where He Was Shot—and Police Crushed Them
Aug. 27, 2014
As darkness fell on Canfield Drive on August 9, a makeshift memorial sprang up in the middle of the street where Michael Brown's body had been sprawled in plain view for more than four hours. Flowers and candles were scattered over the bloodstains on the pavement. Someone had affixed a stuffed animal to a streetlight pole a few yards away. Neighborhood residents and others were gathering, many of them upset and angry.
Soon, police vehicles reappeared, including from the St. Louis County Police Department, which had taken control of the investigation. Several officers emerged with dogs. What happened next, according to several sources, was emblematic of what has inflamed the city of Ferguson, Missouri, ever since the unarmed 18-year-old was gunned down: An officer on the street let the dog he was controlling urinate on the memorial site.
The incident was related to me separately by three state and local officials who worked with the community in the immediate aftermath of the shooting. One confirmed that he interviewed an eyewitness, a young woman, and pressed her on what exactly she saw. "She said that the officer just let the dog pee on it," that official told me. "She was very distraught about it." The identity of the officer who handled the dog and the agency he was with remain unclear.
Candles and flowers marking the spot where Brown died were soon run over by police vehicles.
Rep. Sharon Pace purchased some tea lights for the family, and around 7 p.m. she joined Brown's mother, Lesley McSpadden, and others as they placed the candles and sprinkled flowers on the ground where Brown had died. "They spelled out his initials with rose petals over the bloodstains," Pace recalled.
By then, police had prohibited all vehicles from entering Canfield Drive except for their own. Soon the candles and flowers had been smashed, after police drove over them.
St. Louis alderman Antonio French, who was on the scene that night, tweeted videos and photos including one of the mangled memorial
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/ferguson-st-louis-police-tactics-dogs-michael-brown
