A nutjob left-wing filmmaker aspiring to be the next Morgan Spurlock has made a “documentary” whose thesis is that Michael Brown didn’t rob the convenience store he was caught on camera… um… robbing, but that what happened in the convenience store was an unsuccessful drug deal… and so the fake “Hand’s Up Don’t Shoot” Narrative is somehow… um… not … fake… or something.
Community Activists have already started stoking riots black neighborhoods because of this film. Because that’ll show whitey.
This nutjob left-wing film-maker goes off like Ashley Judd on an interviewer that confronts him with facts. But what is really striking to me is the way he accuses the Obama/Holder Justice Department of being part of a racist conspiracy to incarcerate black men and protect white cops.
Unhinged ranting about conspiracy theories… this guy could be a Democrat congresswoman.
Here’s what you do:
If a riot ensues, you arrest the guy who made the documentary. And when the left squawks you say, “But…but…Benghazi!”
The part I don’t understand (‘cuz I’m not lefty) is why this footage is relevant.
It would make no difference if it were video of him helping little old ladies across the street. He was shot dead because he decided that wrestling a cop for the cop’s gun was a good idea… any moron should know that, at best, this will get the poop kicked out of you.
Back in the 80s, I was a reserve cop. We had specific training on “firearm retention”; the gist was that you maintained control of your weapon at all times and by ANY MEANS NECESSARY.
So, being a minor-league drug-peddler is better than being a strong-arm artist??
“Rabble-rousing.” Nothing less. And, this rabble-rouser has made the NYT, CNN, FoxNews and whatever else. Maybe he didn’t get Black Lives Matter regenerated, but he did stir the sewer up a little bit. He’s satisfied. His motto is: “If you call me a little sh*t, I’ll stand up and show you what a big sh*t I really am.”
Our ratings guided MSM will take anyone and anything which puts eyeballs on the page or screen. CNN has just uncovered the fact that Winnie the Pooh was the love child of a menage a trois involving Winston Churchill, Gertrude Stein and Hirohito.
The SJW’s are grasping at straws.
There was no cover-up. The earlier video was mentioned in the St. Louis County Police Department’s report, and in the district attorney’s report. It was examined by the FBI, and it was available to the news media. It was not presented to the grand jury, because it was irrelevant. (In fact, it might have prejudiced the jurors against Brown.)
If Officer Wilson had been prosecuted for shooting Brown, this video (showing the attempted drug deal) undoubtedly would have been excluded from the trial. At the time, Wilson didn’t know about it. It did not influence his decision to shoot, and was therefore irrelevant.
The SJW theory is convoluted. Brown visited the store at 0100 (1 A.M.), gave the clerks a bag of marijuana to pay for the cigars and the drinks, left without taking the items, and then came back eleven hours later to complete the transaction by picking up the merchandise? WTF?
And does any convenience store allow its employees to barter, trading store merchandise for goods instead of money? And for illegal goods, at that. (A lot of them don’t even accept personal checks.)
The “documentary” was carefully edited, showing Brown putting the bag on the counter, but cutting out the part where the clerks refuse to take it.
The second video may or not be relevant, depending on whether Wilson knew about the robbery and the assault on the clerk when he accosted Brown. He may have heard the report on the police radio, and may have noticed that Brown fit the description of the suspect. But even if Wilson did not know about the robbery (and even if the robbery had never happened), he was still correct in ordering Brown (who was jaywalking) to get out of the street and onto the sidewalk. That the situation escalated into a shooting was Brown’s choice, not the cop’s.
In the interview with Martha MacCallum, Pollock came across as a petulant brat. He yelled, interrupted, and repeated the same catch phrases over and over. Obviously, he had no valid argument, and he knew it.
Bottom line: the video is irrelevant. Brown was not shot because of the attempted drug deal, or for jaywalking, or even for the robbery. He attacked the cop, and the cop was forced to shoot him in self-defense. Therefore, the shooting was justified. End of story.
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Me thinks you are on to something.
I’d go further: then, tell the left they only forgot to add “hate-documentary” after “hate-speech”, in their normative newspeak lexicon — but, hey, now you’re here to help!
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