Ferguson Grand Jury Decision (November 2014): Was police officer Darren Wilson aware that Michael Brown was involved in a robbery when he encountered Brown?
According to his grand jury testimony, Officer Wilson claims he was aware of it.Darren Wilson explains why he killed Michael Brown"On a hot August day, Wilson drove down a street and spotted two young black men walking down the middle of the road. One wore a black shirt. The other held cigarillos. The details of a robbery earlier that day, blared out on a police radio, clicked into Wilson’s head. Were they suspects? He told the two young men, one of whom was Brown, to move to the sidewalk."Ferguson jurors feared safety"On Sept. 16, jurors heard Wilson’s version of events. Prosecutors called a Ferguson police sergeant, St. Louis County detective and FBI agent to testify about what Wilson told them. Then Wilson spoke to jurors. He said he realized Brown was a robbery suspect after initially telling him to get out of the street. When he backed up his vehicle to cut off Brown, Wilson said Brown hit him and grabbed his gun during a struggle through his window."Page on newsweek.com"Noticing Brown was holding Cigarillos and Johnson’s attire matched the description of those involved in the robbery he had earlier heard over his radio, Wilson suspected these were the men involved and called for backup. Wilson described the area in which he first confronted Brown and Johnson as “antipolice.""
How could St. Louis police have used non-lethal force in dealing with Kajieme Powell?
I watched the video of a man walking toward police officers in an SUV. At some point when he was close to the car shots rang out. The police spokesman said he had a knife.It is possible that one officer felt trapped between the man and the Police SUV, it is possible that they did not see a knife but only some shiny metal in the man's hand.In either case the police would have had to back away from the man before they could holster their firearms and fire a taser. Police work attracts people who are proactive, who move toward danger.
What are your impression of the city of Ferguson, Missouri following the police shooting of Michael Brown and subsequent rioting in 2014?
Before that even happened, the town had a fairly crummy police force. In a town with $0 in the till, the council voted to build a new fire station with millions of dollars of city money. They planned to use fines to fill the coffers and spend that. They used the police department as an ATM and sent them out to write tickets in the poorest parts of town because those are the folks who didn’t have lawyers and didn’t fight back. As unethical as that is, the police department went for it for a long, long time and apparently the people who were too moral to do that had left long before Michael Brown was shot by one of the ones left.There you had it. You had a community with an unethical city council, a police force populated by a crew that would have done Reno 911 proud and a 60% black/40% white population where the white people voted, and the black ones didn’t. While there’s a lot of weed in Ferguson and was then, is now, there’s a lot of heroin in nearby North St. Louis. As soon as there was a big protest, junkies descended on the place and started robbing and burning it. They came pouring out of homes and vacant buildings in the city and went there on buses, vans and walked. Groups burnt things on one end of a street while drug addicts robbed stores and people on the other end of it, then they got together and split it all up. They were as organized as the police, at least. The arsonists and thieves were in it together and it worked all too well. Those were the riots you saw. That didn’t account for every bit of it, but it was most of it. The mother ship for those assholes was probably a walled off mess called the Grand Hotel on Grand Avenue. It wasn’t grand.The city is rebuilding. The black community has seen the light about voting. The city council was called out and telling the truth about them tended to stop that nonsense. It was a sad way for it to happen.
What happened to Darren Wilson, the officer who fatally shot Michael Brown Jr. in Ferguson, since Brown's family has been compensated?
The bottom line is that Michael Brown reached inside the Officer's vehicle while the Officer was still seat belted in. He then proceded to beat the officer and attempted to take the officer’s weapon from him while the Officer was still in the car. This was proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. The suspect’s DNA was not only found inside the Patrol Vehicle as well as the suspect’s blood from repeatedly striking the Officer in his car…but DNA from the Suspect was found on the Officer's Pistol…as well as his finger prints on the barrel where he tried to take the weapon from the Officer to murder him.Think about that. The bad guy's DNA and Blood were found INSIDE the Officer's car and on his weapon. That is undisputed. You tell me how a person can be innocent when the incident begins with the suspect attacking the Officer inside his car leaving his prints and blood on the officers duty weapon …proof that he not only attacked the Officer at the beginning of the incident but also tried to murder him in his own car.That pretty much throws out the entire narrative of Brown being a victim as well as the whole “hands up don’t shoot” BS.I get tired of people pretending to ask a question in Quora when really they’re just making a statement they wish to argue and don’t really have any question they want answered. It’s obvious from your statement (no it's not a question) that you’re not only misinformed about the facts of the case but are here to argue those incorrect facts - not to ask a question.I have a question for you. How can a person be in any way innocent when they have been proven to have reached inside a Patrol Car, assaulted an Officer and tried to get his weapon away from him? There is no lawful reason for a suspect’s blood and DNA to be inside the officer's patrol vehicle. The fact that his blood, prints and DNA were on the officer’s sidearm proves intent to murder.Cop haters will believe what they wish to believe - despite any evidence or proof to the contrary regardless of how air tight and indisputable that evidence might be.
Was Mike Brown wrongfully killed by the Ferguson police department?
NO! He was a violent street thug. The little juvenile delinquent, drug abuser, racist and burglar Trayvon Martin was also not wrongfully killed, and we should all be grateful that an aware watchman got him off of the streets, so that he won't go on to savagely attack people again, or possibly murder someone.