Will Grigg's take on Ferguson

[Origanalist]

I'm just going to post the link, most of you know who he is and he hits another home run here.

Making Murder "Reasonable": How the Ferguson PD Will Whitewash the Killing of Michael E. Brown


http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2014/08/making-murder-reasonable-how-ferguson.html

[Anti Federalist]

Immediately after the killing, the officer who shot Brown was placed on paid vacation and sheltered within a security cocoon. More importantly, he sought refuge in his supposed rights as defined by the “Garrity rule,” under which he cannot face criminal or civil prosecution on the basis of anything he discloses to police investigators.

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It wouldn’t matter how the “encounter” began, or whether the officer was acting on “reasonable suspicion” when he snarled a profane directive at the two inoffensive young men. Once the officer had decided to favor them with his attention, they were subject to his will, and could be detained, abused, or killed at his discretion – and his judgment is not subject to review by sublunary beings not clad in the vestments of the state’s punitive caste.

[Origanalist]

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It's pretty tough to condense it isn't it? The whole thing needs to be read and it's well worth it.

[Anti Federalist]

It's pretty tough to condense it isn't it? The whole thing needs to be read and it's well worth it.

They always are...

[asurfaholic]

great read, good one spot stop for both sides to the story.

and one side screams of injustice. the other not so much......

[thoughtomator]

This take is quite excellent.

Thinking it through further along those lines, I can't dismiss the possibility that this was some sort of cop-gang initiation... picking someone out and murdering them at random, that's far out there and there's got to be more behind it. Steroids? Personal vendetta?