The black kids did not heed and instantly obey when the police ordered them-- in what I’m sure was a derogatory fashion-- to get on the sidewalk instead of walking in the street. That’s the entire basis of the whole encounter. When the black kids sassed them back the cops were enraged, especially the killer. Even when Michael Brown was trying to appease him and walking in the “correct” direction the cop kept firing at him…most of the bullets into his back. The kid had his hands in the air. He even said: “Don’t shoot me.”
There are cell phone videos which the authorities are doing
everything to suppress. The white cop killed him because the cop was in a
rage of hatred because he thought the black kids “dissed” him. That’s it, pure
and simple. But now the entanglement of lies lies lies.
All this takes place in an environment of permissible and
encouraged racism from the Ferguson police that has been going on for
decades. Over all this time the police became more and more empowered in
their attitudes to treat black people as inferior subjects. The store robbery police tried to connect after the fact was not known at the time by the police in the car that was harassing
the kids. Police found that out later when they went back to the station and
tried to connect it as part of their development of what they would be
testalying, the word American police made up themselves to describe to each other what they were doing in courts and reports.
Fact never to be forgotten: the police were so disordered
about this that they insisted on leaving Michael Brown’s body in the street for
FOUR hours and didn’t allow anyone to touch it, cover it, or go near it.
There is no better proof that cops and civil authorities of Ferguson had gone
berserk behind their closed doors as they tried desperately to figure out a way not to
be held accountable for the outright and unjustified killing. If it had been the middle of the
night the police probably would have moved the body in order to try to falsify
what happened. Once it had happened in the clear light of day they were desperate.
Everything going on now has to do with the police trying to maintain their power along with a determination not to blamed for what they have done wrong. The magnitude of the police reaction to the protesters is another proof of the knowledge inside the police and civic officials that a wrong and evil act was perpetrated. In a more innocent example, it resembles a child who talks louder when he realizes he is being caught in a lie.
Second Fact never to be forgotten: For decades police continuously stopped cars and levied fines on those in the black community, an encouraged practice that funded a large part of the city's budget. Abusing black people in this way had been going on so long it was a very short step to shoot to kill just because one of them had the temerity to sass a policeman.
If you watch “Democracy Now” on Link TV you'll get all the real
facts directly. This news program and The Nation magazine are the only
consistently reliable sources of reporting that allows people to know what is going on in the
country, without the spin, distortions, avoidances, elisions and outright lies
of the commercially owned and controlled media.
