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Why did the Department of justice side with Darren Wilson ?
On Wednesday the Justice Department announced that it will not bring federal civil rights charges against Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. In November, Mark Joseph Stern explained why convictions under federal civil rights law are so difficult and rare, even in a case with as much troubling evidence as Wilson's.
Federal law surrounding racially motivated police shootings is unaccountably convoluted and hopelessly muddled. But one thing is clear:
In their current form, our federal civil rights laws let cops pull the trigger with near-total impunity.
"It is common to have a situation “that looks like a constitutional violation and may well be an injustice,” Bagenstos said. “But sometimes the Justice Department does not have the ability to bring a civil rights case under the statutes it enforces.”
*gsgs comment-
Justice Frank Murphy insisted that Screws’ victim had a right to “life itself."
Darren Wilson has been judged to be more deserving of "life itself."*
WHY ????
"...most judges still read Screws to mean that you can’t win a Section 242 case without demonstrating actual intent. Can the Justice Department prove to a grand jury (let alone a trial jury) that Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown for the purpose of violating his rights? The answer is almost certainly no—which is why the government won’t bring any charges."
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...darren_wilson_supreme_court_gutted_civil.html
*gsgs comment-
Darren Wilson tried to justify his murder of Michael Brown by saying that he was in fear of his losing his life."
The DOJ has excused Darren Wilson for the murder because Darren Wilson claimed to be in fear of losing his life.*
"There is an extra burden in federal civil rights cases because the statute requires that the defendant acted ‘willfully,’ ” Harmon said. “It is not enough to prove that he used too much force. You have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he did so willfully.”
Harmon also said that if Wilson “genuinely believed he was acting in self-defense,” then his actions are not considered “willful,” meaning he did not intend to deprive Brown of his constitutional rights.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world...189d80-6055-11e4-8b9e-2ccdac31a031_story.html
18 year-old Michael Brown, 6’4” and 292 lb
28 year-old Darren Wilson 6 feet 3 inches tall and 210 pounds
(Darren Wilson transformed his face and body while he was in hiding.
How much did Darren Wilson weigh, at the time of the murder ?
Would you doubt that Darren Wilson's lawyers would have neglected
any edge, to help get their client escape going to prison ?
Darren Wilson looked younger, more fit, and smaller, in court.
More sympathetic, to the jury.
On the day that Darren Wilson killed Michael Brown, he looked like any other racist bully, that was a member of the Ferguson police force.
Darren Wilson learned what corruption and ugly behaviour would be tolerated.
*gsgs comment- The entitlement of the MO police force, was made obvious by the
police officer who was angry and upset that a restaurant owner would refuse to give him a free meal, when he was wearing street clothes and not on duty. This might explain why Darren Wilson was overweight at the time of the murder.*
(I should have posted the news article, when I saw it, and the url.)
The Ferguson police force learned that they could get away with almost anything.
There would be no consequences, and the people that they bullied had no power to fight back.
The small city of Jennings, Mo., had a police department so troubled, and with so much tension between white officers and black residents, that the city council finally decided to disband it. Everyone in the Jennings police department was fired. New officers were brought in to create a credible department from scratch.
That was three years ago. One of the officers who worked in that department, and lost his job along with everyone else, was a young man named Darren Wilson.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...c796f0-2a45-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html
Key Witness in Darren Wilson Case Has History of Lying to Police
Witness 40 is a 45-year-old woman named Sandra McElroy, and her account that Brown charged at Wilson helped exonerate him (and, as The Smoking Gun points out, became part of the narrative surrounding the events of Ferguson). But a glance at her history throws her credibility into doubt: Though diagnosed with bipolar disorder at 16, McElroy told the grand jury she hasn’t taken any medication for her condition in 25 years, and admitted that a car accident in 2001 left her “struggl[ing] with a faulty memory” ever since.
McElroy first reached out to prosecutors nearly four weeks after Brown’s death, and her account closely matched with the account Wilson gave of the shooting — not surprising, considering that in the weeks leading up to her contacting authorities, she posted statements supporting Wilson on her Facebook wall:
In the weeks after Brown’s shooting–but before she contacted police–McElroy used her Facebook account to comment on the case. On August 15, she “liked’ a Facebook comment reporting that [witness Dorian] Johnson had admitted that he and Brown stole cigars before the confrontation with Wilson. On August 17, a Facebook commenter wrote that Johnson and others should be arrested for inciting riots and giving false statements to police in connection with their claims that Brown had his hands up when shot by Wilson. “The report and autopsy are in so YES they were false,” McElroy wrote of the “hands-up” claims. This appears to be an odd comment from someone who claims to have been present during the shooting. In response to the posting of a news report about a rally in support of Wilson, McElroy wrote on August 17, “Prayers, support God Bless Officer Wilson.”
…Commenting on a September 12 Riverfront Times story reporting that Ferguson city officials had yet to meet with Brown’s family, McElroy wrote, “But haven’t you heard the news, There great great great grandpa may or may not have been owned by one of our great great great grandpas 200 yrs ago. (Sarcasm).”
At this point, it shouldn’t surprise you that McElroy is also a bit racist:
An examination of McElroy’s YouTube page, which she apparently shares with one of her daughters, reveals other evidence of racial animus. Next to a clip about the disappearance of a white woman who had a baby with a black man is the comment, “see what happens when you bed down with a monkey have ape babies and party with them.” A clip about the sentencing of two black women for murder is captioned, “put them monkeys in a cage.”
McElroy’s YouTube page is also filled with a variety of anti-Barack Obama videos, including a clip purporting to show Michelle Obama admitting that the president was born in Kenya.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/repo...n-wilson-case-has-history-of-lying-to-police/
On Wednesday the Justice Department announced that it will not bring federal civil rights charges against Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. In November, Mark Joseph Stern explained why convictions under federal civil rights law are so difficult and rare, even in a case with as much troubling evidence as Wilson's.
Federal law surrounding racially motivated police shootings is unaccountably convoluted and hopelessly muddled. But one thing is clear:
In their current form, our federal civil rights laws let cops pull the trigger with near-total impunity.
"It is common to have a situation “that looks like a constitutional violation and may well be an injustice,” Bagenstos said. “But sometimes the Justice Department does not have the ability to bring a civil rights case under the statutes it enforces.”
*gsgs comment-
Justice Frank Murphy insisted that Screws’ victim had a right to “life itself."
Darren Wilson has been judged to be more deserving of "life itself."*
WHY ????
"...most judges still read Screws to mean that you can’t win a Section 242 case without demonstrating actual intent. Can the Justice Department prove to a grand jury (let alone a trial jury) that Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown for the purpose of violating his rights? The answer is almost certainly no—which is why the government won’t bring any charges."
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...darren_wilson_supreme_court_gutted_civil.html
*gsgs comment-
Darren Wilson tried to justify his murder of Michael Brown by saying that he was in fear of his losing his life."
The DOJ has excused Darren Wilson for the murder because Darren Wilson claimed to be in fear of losing his life.*
"There is an extra burden in federal civil rights cases because the statute requires that the defendant acted ‘willfully,’ ” Harmon said. “It is not enough to prove that he used too much force. You have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he did so willfully.”
Harmon also said that if Wilson “genuinely believed he was acting in self-defense,” then his actions are not considered “willful,” meaning he did not intend to deprive Brown of his constitutional rights.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world...189d80-6055-11e4-8b9e-2ccdac31a031_story.html
18 year-old Michael Brown, 6’4” and 292 lb
28 year-old Darren Wilson 6 feet 3 inches tall and 210 pounds
(Darren Wilson transformed his face and body while he was in hiding.
How much did Darren Wilson weigh, at the time of the murder ?
Would you doubt that Darren Wilson's lawyers would have neglected
any edge, to help get their client escape going to prison ?
Darren Wilson looked younger, more fit, and smaller, in court.
More sympathetic, to the jury.
On the day that Darren Wilson killed Michael Brown, he looked like any other racist bully, that was a member of the Ferguson police force.
Darren Wilson learned what corruption and ugly behaviour would be tolerated.
*gsgs comment- The entitlement of the MO police force, was made obvious by the
police officer who was angry and upset that a restaurant owner would refuse to give him a free meal, when he was wearing street clothes and not on duty. This might explain why Darren Wilson was overweight at the time of the murder.*
(I should have posted the news article, when I saw it, and the url.)
The Ferguson police force learned that they could get away with almost anything.
There would be no consequences, and the people that they bullied had no power to fight back.
The small city of Jennings, Mo., had a police department so troubled, and with so much tension between white officers and black residents, that the city council finally decided to disband it. Everyone in the Jennings police department was fired. New officers were brought in to create a credible department from scratch.
That was three years ago. One of the officers who worked in that department, and lost his job along with everyone else, was a young man named Darren Wilson.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...c796f0-2a45-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html
Key Witness in Darren Wilson Case Has History of Lying to Police
Witness 40 is a 45-year-old woman named Sandra McElroy, and her account that Brown charged at Wilson helped exonerate him (and, as The Smoking Gun points out, became part of the narrative surrounding the events of Ferguson). But a glance at her history throws her credibility into doubt: Though diagnosed with bipolar disorder at 16, McElroy told the grand jury she hasn’t taken any medication for her condition in 25 years, and admitted that a car accident in 2001 left her “struggl[ing] with a faulty memory” ever since.
McElroy first reached out to prosecutors nearly four weeks after Brown’s death, and her account closely matched with the account Wilson gave of the shooting — not surprising, considering that in the weeks leading up to her contacting authorities, she posted statements supporting Wilson on her Facebook wall:
In the weeks after Brown’s shooting–but before she contacted police–McElroy used her Facebook account to comment on the case. On August 15, she “liked’ a Facebook comment reporting that [witness Dorian] Johnson had admitted that he and Brown stole cigars before the confrontation with Wilson. On August 17, a Facebook commenter wrote that Johnson and others should be arrested for inciting riots and giving false statements to police in connection with their claims that Brown had his hands up when shot by Wilson. “The report and autopsy are in so YES they were false,” McElroy wrote of the “hands-up” claims. This appears to be an odd comment from someone who claims to have been present during the shooting. In response to the posting of a news report about a rally in support of Wilson, McElroy wrote on August 17, “Prayers, support God Bless Officer Wilson.”
…Commenting on a September 12 Riverfront Times story reporting that Ferguson city officials had yet to meet with Brown’s family, McElroy wrote, “But haven’t you heard the news, There great great great grandpa may or may not have been owned by one of our great great great grandpas 200 yrs ago. (Sarcasm).”
At this point, it shouldn’t surprise you that McElroy is also a bit racist:
An examination of McElroy’s YouTube page, which she apparently shares with one of her daughters, reveals other evidence of racial animus. Next to a clip about the disappearance of a white woman who had a baby with a black man is the comment, “see what happens when you bed down with a monkey have ape babies and party with them.” A clip about the sentencing of two black women for murder is captioned, “put them monkeys in a cage.”
McElroy’s YouTube page is also filled with a variety of anti-Barack Obama videos, including a clip purporting to show Michelle Obama admitting that the president was born in Kenya.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/repo...n-wilson-case-has-history-of-lying-to-police/
