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goldielocks @ 1:55, 11/27 … Ferguson

Posted by amals @ 22:19 on November 28, 2014  

Goldie– there is a lot of disinformation about Ferguson that started circulating from day one.  It stemmed mainly from the account of events as told by Dorian Johnson, the friend who was with Mike Brown, as well as several “witnesses” who saw pieces, and in some cases, none, of the actual encounter.  Our shameless media grabbed the story and ran with it, based upon very little hard fact, and a lot of one-sided testimony, much of which was later changed to fit the story as it evolved in the news stories.  Much of that early testimony was also changed and/or recanted during grand jury proceedings when witnesses were pressed with evidence from the scene and from the autopsy reports.  There is a good AP piece about this entitled “Ferguson Grand Jury Papers Full of Inconsistencies.”  You can Google it.

Throughout this whole mess, and I have followed it closely from the start, I have been struck by a couple of things.  First, virtually every mainstream media story has been slanted to the view that an unarmed (read: innocent) black teen was gunned down–for little or no reason– by a rogue white cop.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  And, secondly, that mainstream America, as shown by the comments that followed all those articles, was not fooled at all.  The comments have been overwhelmingly— like, 95% or more–repudiating to the writers of the articles.

I don’t dispute the idea that there is racism in America, and I don’t dispute that police can get overly aggressive and/or overreact in some situations.  This simply wasn’t one of them, and all the anger and angst and breast-beating and protests that have evolved from this incident are misguided and misplaced, and, most importantly, based upon completely false pretenses.  “Hands up, don’t shoot” is a sham–it’s not what happened.  And it is an excuse to act up and act out for some, and to further some other agenda for others.

 

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