It Appears The Gentle Giant Wasn't So Gentle

Darren Wilson, the officer whose fatal shooting of Michael Brown touched off more than a week of often violent demonstrations in Ferguson, Mo., suffered severe facial injuries — including an orbital blowout fracture to his eye-socket.  A blow-out fracture is a fracture of one or more of the bones surrounding the eye and is commonly referred to as an orbital floor fracture.

According to a well-placed source, the Assistant Police Chief took Wilson, who's face was swollen on one side, to the hospital

Obviously this is not information deemed to be newsworthy by the left leaning media and race-hustlers like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson  

Is It A Cover-Up?

When news of the strong armed robbery was released the other day, many people asked why this bit of information had been withheld.  Some felt that this was a cover-up and that the police were working backward to fabricate a justification for the murder.

I'll admit that I too wondered why the police would have withheld this information.  Yesterday I finally got the answer.

It turns out that the Justice Department had warned the police that releasing the video could inflame racial tension. This means that the same Justice Department that is doing a review of this case is also offering guidance about how to frame the incident to the public at large.

Is it just me or don't you think that transparency would have helped lessen the tension in Ferguson.

Next we come to this video on YouTube.  As my former students would say "Dah-yum"  If you listen to the video beginning at 06:28 you will hear one of the witnesses telling the person making the video that when Officer Wilson tries to get out of his vehicle the "gentle giant" and his friend slam his car door shut violently.  Then the officer exits the car.

And then what happens?  According to this witness Michael bum-rushes the officer and shoves him back into his vehicle then punches the officer in the face.  At that point the officer grabs for his gun.  Brown also grabs for the gun and the gun goes off.

Brown then takes off and the officer pursues him.  The officer yells for Michael to "FREEZE"!  Michael then taunts the police officer.  (NO by the way taunting does NOT give you the right to fire upon an unarmed citizen or for that matter an armed citizen)

According to the witness Brown then charged the officer and the officer began firing.  Brown continued to come forward.

This sort of eye-witness statement is known as an "excited utterance."  For those of you not familiar with this term, an excited utterance is a statement relating to a startling event or condition made while the declarant (the person making the statement) is under the stress or excitement that is caused.

Was Michael Brown really on his knees with his hands in the air as his friend has declared?  Did Michael Brown actually run up on the cop as this witness claims?  How did the policeman sustain an injury to his face?  How many shots were fired?  How many times was Michael Brown actually shot?  Sadly there is no dash-cam to release so that some of these questions can be answered.

African-American Males Are Murdered At A Rate 6 Times Higher Than For Whites

I have always found it interesting that Liberals proclaim that by the virtue of their incredibly high IQ's and scientific acuity THEY alone can make rational decisions based upon reason and not emotion.

Recently the shooting death of Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri has the talking heads in an uproar about young black males being targeted for murder.

I would concur that they are. As a matter of fact statistics bear this out with the odds that an African-American male will be murdered about 6 times higher than for whites according to Bureau of Justice Statistics.

The vast majority of murders are intra-racial.  This means that generally whites kill white and blacks kill blacks.  As a matter of fact according to government statistics 93% of all murders committed by whites are against white victims, and 83% of all murders committed by African-American are against black victims.  

Having said all this, I was deeply concerned when I learned about the shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed youth by a uniformed police officer in Ferguson.  It was and is  a tragedy when anyone is murdered.  

My heart cries out for the murder victims in Chicago where the death toll surpassed the number of Americans killed in Afghanistan.  Could it be that there are no shouts of "No Justice. No Peace" in Chicago because these these murders are primarily intra-racial?  Do these murders not have the talking heads demanding something be done because 79% of the murder victims in Chicago have prior records?  Do Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson not feel that these lives also had value or is a victim's only value the race of the perpetrator?

Big Mike, the "Gentle Giant" was portrayed as a young man eager to begin college before being gunned down in the street for no other reason other than he was a "Black Man Walking".  

Since then we have seen photos of this gentle soul committing a strong armed robbery of a local convenience store.  

Does this mean that Michael Brown should be shot for stealing a little less than $50 worth of merchandise?  No.  Is that what happened.  I don't know.  I am waiting to hear what the autopsy says about where he was shot and how many times he was shot.  Then again, I have the luxury of waiting because Big Mike was not my son.  My sons were not shot to death.  I can understand that the family wants answers NOW!

My problem is that the talking heads on TV seem quick to jump on board and hype stories that portray the narrative that black youths are endangered by white men who seek to kill them at every opportunity for no other reason than their race.  

These same "journalists"  ignore black on white crime and for that matter black on black crime.  There were no nightly updates about the brutal Shannon Christian and Christian Newman murders.  Have you even heard of the Witchita Massacre which prosecutors refused to treat as a race crime?  

I suppose those really smart journalists choose to ignore the fact that the according to Bureau of Justice Statistics that when inter-racial crime is committed it is more likely to be black on white than the opposite.

Let's take a look at what the Bureau of Justice statistics has to say:

http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/[i]pdf/cvus06.pdf Table 42, Violent Crime Rates by Race:

-The Black-on-White rate was 35 times more than White-on-Black.
-Black-on-White rape rate was 84; White-on-Black rape was statistically insignificant and listed as zero.

“Criminal Victimization in the United States” DOJ Table 48, race of “multiple offender” (gangs) and their victim/s involved in violent crimes:
-In 2005 Blacks committed 70 times more such crimes against Whites than Whites committed against Blacks.
-In 2008 Blacks committed 147,749 such crimes against Whites; Whites committed ten against Blacks.
-The DOJ stopped identifying the race of gang crime offenders in 2008. I can’t imagine why.

Note: The DOJ lists Blacks as the victims of “hate crimes” 30% MORE than Whites (NCJ244409, Characteristics of Violent Hate Crime Victims).

The point I am trying to make is this, let us be outraged at the deaths of young African-American males in this country.  Let us not get wrapped up in the media hype and take a good look at the statistics as well as studies that give us insight as to what can be done to turn this all around.

Police Released Name of Officer in Fatal Shooting in Ferguson, Missouri

Police have announced Darren Wilson as the name of the officer who shot and killed an unarmed teen in Ferguson, Missouri.  Officer Wilson is a six-year police veteran.

It is being reported that officials have moved the officer and his family from the town as a safety precaution.

Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson said that Officer Wilson was on a routine patrol when he encountered Brown and a friend walking in the street. Brown and his friend matched the description of a possible suspect in a strong arm robbery of a QuickTrip convenience store which was broadcasted over the police radio.

Authorities have said that a scuffle ensued after the officer asked the teens to move to the side. Witnesses have said Brown’s hands were raised when he was shot multiple times.

The primary witness to the shooting, Dorian Johnson, confirmed that he and Michael Brown had robbed the store

Officer Wilson was treated for injuries at the scene and has been on administrative leave since the incident.

We should ALL be concerned when we learn that an unarmed person is shot by the police.  Personally I am still curious as to why so many shots were fired at an unarmed man.

Unrest Still Continues in Ferguson

While protesters in Ferguson are still very angry at the police after the shooting of Michael Brown, they appear to be pissed at Obama and Al Sharpton too.

One protester said: “Obama, you have done nothing! We need you! You haven’t changed anything! Fuck y’all!” There were also chants of Fuck Sharpton.

Perhaps the people of Ferguson are a bit upset that while Ferguson burns Obama's Twitter feed announces that a "good time was had by all" at a big Shin-dig Obama attended with wealthy donors.

How's that for hopey and changey? 

Despite the Michael Brown's family's urging for calm, some protesters lobbed Molotov cocktails and other objects at police last night. The police responded with smoke bombs and tear gas to disperse the crowd.

In all of this chaos and violence let us not forget that an unarmed young man was shot by a police officer. He was a HUMAN BEING. His race does not matter. What doe matter is that this young man was shot MULTIPLE TIMES by a police officer and that warrants an independent and thorough investigation to learn why this happened.

I am appalled by the race bating, the violence, the militarization of the police department, the destruction, and the looting. The death of Michael Brown is a tragedy. None of these things does anything to bring justice or peace to a family that lost their son.