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Natural Citizen
11-29-2014, 05:54 PM
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Officer Darren Wilson (Reuters)

Ferguson officer Darren Wilson, who fatally shot black teenager Michael Brown, has resigned from the police force, his attorney said. The news comes amid unceasing protests across the US against a grand jury decision clearing Wilson of murder charges.

The resignation is effective immediately, AP quoted one of Wilson’s lawyers, Neil Bruntrager, as saying on Saturday.




Continued - Darren Wilson resigns in wake of shooting Michael Brown – attorney (http://rt.com/usa/210087-ferguson-darren-wilson-resigns-brown/)

willwash
11-29-2014, 06:12 PM
I would too if publishers kept approaching me with million dollar book deals.

Natural Citizen
11-29-2014, 06:17 PM
I would too if publishers kept approaching me with million dollar book deals.
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Wilson revealed that he has a “clean conscience” over the events of August 9, but believes he will be endangering his own life and those of other officers if he resumes his career as a police officer, Bruntrager explained.

"The first day he would be back on the street something terrible would happen to him or to someone that would be working with him," he said.

PaulConventionWV
11-29-2014, 08:16 PM
I wonder if he'll do something productive now.

RJB
11-29-2014, 08:23 PM
Really, any police officer should resign after a fatal shooting. Whether justified or not. That's a lot of baggage to be carrying around.

Also in so many of these pictures most officers look so soulless in their eyes.

http://cdn.rt.com/files/news/33/4a/70/00/ferguson-darren-wilson-resigns-brown.si.jpg

Southron
11-29-2014, 09:22 PM
Hard to blame him for resigning.

satchelmcqueen
11-29-2014, 11:11 PM
well, after the news gave away his home address, you kind of cant blame him. i believe his story. multiple investigations came up with the same outcome.

TheTexan
11-29-2014, 11:13 PM
Looks like he's recovered well from his injury.

Zippyjuan
11-29-2014, 11:30 PM
I would too if publishers kept approaching me with million dollar book deals.

I doubt any publisher would offer him a $ million deal. A few thousand maybe. And that would be an advance against future sales. Joe Biden made "under $201" in royalties off his book last year (his wife made "between $15,000 and $50,000" off her book).

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/biden-pulled-less-201-book-royalties_792818.html

http://www.brandewyne.com/writingtips/authorspaid.html


An author signing a first contract can expect to receive an advance of anywhere from $1,000 to $10,000, on average, per book. Naturally, there are exceptions to this rule. However, it would be unwise and unrealistic with regard to your financial planning to assume you will be that rare, unknown author who garners a multimillion-dollar advance. So, let us say the author receives a $10,000 advance, for a single book. That means the author would subsequently need to earn $10,000 in royalties from the sales of that book before receiving any additional income from it.

If the author did not subsequently earn at least $10,000 in royalties from the sales of the book, then the contract would be unearned, and no additional royalties would ever be paid to the author. Further, the publisher might well --- depending upon the terms of the contract --- also have the right to demand the return of that portion of the advance that was unearned. For example, if the author's royalties amounted to a grand total of only $3,000, then the publisher could request that the remaining unearned $7,000 of the advance be repaid to it by the author (although this rarely ever happens in practice).

Pension from the police department probably won't be much since he hasn't been on the force a long time (four years). With baby on the way, finances will be tough. Actually his attorney said he won't be getting severance pay or a pension.


Wilson, 28, had been on administrative leave since the shooting. His attorney Neil Bruntrager said Wilson's resignation is effective immediately upon announcement Saturday.

However, a spokeswoman for the city of Ferguson said city officials have not yet received the resignation letter, and said Chief Tom Jackson is not commenting.

Bruntrager said Wilson is not receiving any kind of severance pay or pension.

http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/darren-wilson-resigns-ferguson-police-department

Weston White
11-30-2014, 01:02 AM
Oh yea, now that man is definitely a lightweight. He just a little guy!

FTFY:
Looks like he's recovered well from his injury faint contusion.


multiple investigations came up with the same outcome.

Sure, but only when the evidence is conveniently cherry picked by those conducting the investigation. ...Oh and of course there is the whole allowing the intictee to testify to the grand jury at his own super-secret indictment proceedings and then going so far as having the grand jury decide upon his criminal charges—over a period of several months as opposed to several hours or days, if any, rather than the publicly elected DA. Furthermore, e.g:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/26/us/ferguson-grand-jury-weighed-mass-of-evidence-much-of-it-conflicting.html?_r=0
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/25/ferguson-grand-jury-evidence-mistakes_n_6220814.html
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/20/1346374/-BREAKING-VIDEO-Police-Lied-Mike-Brown-was-killed-148-feet-away-from-Darren-Wilson-s-SUV#
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/11/20/everything-know-shooting-michael-brown-darren-wilson/
http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/11/ferguson-grand-jury-police-officers-account-of-shooting/
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/27/us/darren-wilson-testimony-compared/

Hence, the Ferguson grand jury proceedings merely proved that not only can a prosecutor get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich, but can also rally them to save that pig from its fate (pejorative pun non-intended).

NorthCarolinaLiberty
11-30-2014, 02:17 AM
I doubt any publisher would offer him a $ million deal. A few thousand maybe.

If Wilson writes a book, then he will get more than "a few thousand." He was already interviewed on ABC news, and that is not a gig of a few thousand. http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/exclusive-watch-george-stephanopoulos-full-interview-police-officer-27186831


Joe Biden made "under $201" in royalties off his book last year (his wife made "between $15,000 and $50,000" off her book).


Darren Wilson is not Jill Biden. If Biden's wife makes 15K-50K on an arguably mundane book, then Wilson makes quite bit more.



An author signing a first contract can expect to receive an advance of anywhere from $1,000 to $10,000, on average, per book. Naturally, there are exceptions to this rule. However, it would be unwise and unrealistic with regard to your financial planning to assume you will be that rare, unknown author who garners a multimillion-dollar advance.


The websites you posted are advice for the average joe. People like Wilson are the "exceptions to the rule" quoted above.



With baby on the way, finances will be tough.


How do you know that? Wilson's new spouse is 37 years old and works for Ferguson police. Darren Wilson was just on TV. He looks very well-spoken and seems to have an all-American look. He could easily do more of these shows and make quite a bit of money.

This fund raising site has also promised Wilson at least $180,000. That was collected in just three days:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/08/22/thousands-donated-to-crowdfunding-campaign-for-darren-wilson-the-officer-who-shot-michael-brown/

"All proceeds will be sent directly to Darren Wilson and his family for any financial needs they may have including legal fees.”
...One of the largest donations, for $1,070, came from Anne Arundel County’s Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 70."

Wilson's Facebook page has already raised $500,000, according to it's creator: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/500-000-raised-support-darren-wilson-legal-fight-article-1.2027042?ref=hihidnews


Wilson very likely got and took plenty of advice from his union. I could see some attorneys representing/advising Wilson at little to no cost. Even if the attorneys had billed him--the costs will not approach anywhere the amount he could make. Wilson basically had to get advice, concoct his story, and rehearse it over and over until he testified. It was also testimony that was not nearly as scrutinized as other testimony I've read.

Devostator
11-30-2014, 08:16 AM
really hard to blame him for resigning

johnmarson
12-02-2014, 01:29 AM
The city of Ferguson is only 6.201 sq miles. As of the 2000 census,there were just 22,406 people, 8,612 households, and 5,838 families living there. As of the 2010 census, 29.3% were White and 67.4% were African American.
They have a police department with six full-time commissioned investigators, one narcotics detective, and 32 field operations officers, which are divided into two platoons with two squads of eight officers per platoon. Each platoon is commanded by a lieutenant and each squad is supervised by a sergeant. Officers are on patrol 24 hours per day seven days per week. Each squad has a canine team and each squad will have officers with differing certifications.
The city is run by a Mayor (directly elected for a three-year term) and six city council members. Voter turnout in the most recent mayoral election was approximately 12%. 12%. The Mayor ran unopposed.
The city's annual budget is $25,425,000 ($5,187,000 over total revenues), the city workers alone cost $8,467,000 in just salary.
Only 12% of these residents give enough of a shit to vote. Those who do vote are the ones who elected the people who hired the police chief who in turn hired the officers and run the department. Ferguson's population is predominantly African-American, yet most of its elected representatives and the vast majority of its police force are white. http://www.carbonated.tv/

The residents of Ferguson have nothing to complain about. If they really wanted a better police force then they easily have the political power to do so, but it seems like they would rather complain, and burn, and destroy. Go figure.

Natural Citizen
12-02-2014, 01:42 AM
The city of Ferguson is only 6.201 sq miles. As of the 2000 census,there were just 22,406 people, 8,612 households, and 5,838 families living there. As of the 2010 census, 29.3% were White and 67.4% were African American.

They have a police department with six full-time commissioned investigators, one narcotics detective, and 32 field operations officers, which are divided into two platoons with two squads of eight officers per platoon. Each platoon is commanded by a lieutenant and each squad is supervised by a sergeant. Officers are on patrol 24 hours per day seven days per week. Each squad has a canine team and each squad will have officers with differing certifications.

The city is run by a Mayor (directly elected for a three-year term) and six city council members. Voter turnout in the most recent mayoral election was approximately 12%. 12%. The Mayor ran unopposed.

The city's annual budget is $25,425,000 ($5,187,000 over total revenues), the city workers alone cost $8,467,000 in just salary.

Only 12% of these residents give enough of a shit to vote. Those who do vote are the ones who elected the people who hired the police chief who in turn hired the officers and run the department. Ferguson's population is predominantly African-American, yet most of its elected representatives and the vast majority of its police force are white. http://www.carbonated.tv/

The residents of Ferguson have nothing to complain about. If they really wanted a better police force then they easily have the political power to do so, but it seems like they would rather complain, and burn, and destroy. Go figure.



Seems like that brand new state of the art police department and the brand new state of the art fire department that were not even completed when all of this started last August are missing from your data. Both of which have been built with money that comes from people being fined through excessive traffic citations and similar detainments there. Something that is also missing in your statistics is the $3.2 million in 2013 alone that was derived from that practice which went toward the funding of these state of the art facilities. In fact, there are more warrants for people in that community than there are people living there. There is a much larger discussion to be had here.

Welcome to the forums, johnmarson.

P.S. - Put yer helmet on when you log in. We gots battles, johnmarson. Attacks from every direction. It's a hoot alright...

Natural Citizen
12-02-2014, 05:58 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH-KTxXWrso#t=35

Beyond discussion with regard to this resignation, and what may follow, Ben also discusses with civil rights attorney, Patrice Sulton, the Eric Garner case, as well as the case in Detroit regarding 7 yo Aiyana Jones who was killed in 2010 by a swat team officer upon entering her home. That officer was cleared of any wrong doing over the weekend. Also discussed are officer mounted cameras.

Nuts and bolts of the discussion here is a broken justice system.




Relevant Reading - Was Grand Jury in Ferguson Case Lead To Their Decision By Prosecutor? (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?463757-Was-Grand-Jury-in-Ferguson-Case-Lead-To-Their-Decision-By-Prosecutor&p=5712687&viewfull=1#post5712687)





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NewTUa5_w7c&list=UUczrL-2b-gYK3l4yDld4XlQ

Legal experts are questioning why the grand jury that decided to not indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson took a number of unusual steps.

From hearing first-hand testimony from Wilson himself to using potentially leading terminology to perhaps downplay the significance of the officer’s actions, many things make the proceedings different from most.

Attorney Patrice Sulton speaks to RT’s Ben Swann to provide insight.

acesfull
12-02-2014, 02:25 PM
The city of Ferguson is only 6.201 sq miles. As of the 2000 census,there were just 22,406 people, 8,612 households, and 5,838 families living there. As of the 2010 census, 29.3% were White and 67.4% were African American.
They have a police department with six full-time commissioned investigators, one narcotics detective, and 32 field operations officers, which are divided into two platoons with two squads of eight officers per platoon. Each platoon is commanded by a lieutenant and each squad is supervised by a sergeant. Officers are on patrol 24 hours per day seven days per week. Each squad has a canine team and each squad will have officers with differing certifications.
The city is run by a Mayor (directly elected for a three-year term) and six city council members. Voter turnout in the most recent mayoral election was approximately 12%. 12%. The Mayor ran unopposed.
The city's annual budget is $25,425,000 ($5,187,000 over total revenues), the city workers alone cost $8,467,000 in just salary.
Only 12% of these residents give enough of a shit to vote. Those who do vote are the ones who elected the people who hired the police chief who in turn hired the officers and run the department. Ferguson's population is predominantly African-American, yet most of its elected representatives and the vast majority of its police force are white. http://www.carbonated.tv/

The residents of Ferguson have nothing to complain about. If they really wanted a better police force then they easily have the political power to do so, but it seems like they would rather complain, and burn, and destroy. Go figure.

Who is picking up the tab for the extra LEA in the town? Also the civil litigation will bankrupt the town..

My .02
Acesfull