FERGUSON, Mo. — An 18-year-old black man shot and killed by a suburban St. Louis police officer was unarmed, police said Sunday during a news conference as hundreds of angry protesters gathered outside to demand answers....
St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said at the news conference that an officer encountered two people on the street near an apartment complex Saturday afternoon in Ferguson, a predominantly black suburb a few miles north of downtown St. Louis.
Belmar said one of the men pushed the officer back into his squad car and a struggle began.
Looks like a lie to me. Thank God AmeriKa's brutally thuggish security forces love you and would never lie about anything.
Belmar said at least one shot was fired from the officer’s gun inside the police car. Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson said authorities were still sorting out what happened inside the police car.
Real reports that I have seen and heard say it was 7-10.
Why would my elite paper of wealth cover that up?
At this point, it seems appropriate to mention that AmeriKa's police have always been the thin blue line that protects power and privilege. That's AmeriKan ju$tice.
The struggle spilled out into the street, where 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot multiple times. Belmar said the exact number of shots wasn’t known, but ‘‘it was more than just a couple.’’
How can it NOT BE KNOWN?!!
Yeah, just tell a FLAT-OUT F***ING WHOPPER to further the cover-up. I'm sure this will vanish from the news pages by tomorrow.
Jackson said the second person has not been arrested or charged and was expected to be interviewed. Authorities aren’t sure if that person was unarmed, Jackson said.
The victim’s mother, Lesley McSpadden, said she doesn’t understand why police didn’t subdue her son with a club or Taser, adding that she thinks the policeman who shot him should be jailed.
Why was he being harassed at all?
McSpadden said her son had graduated from high school and was headed to college. She said police have not explained why her son was confronted by the officer.
He was a real good kid then, huh?
Lesley McSpadden, with her husband, Louis Head, said police have not told her why her son had been confronted (Huy Mach/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via Associated Press)
What can you say to that?
A few hundred protesters gathered outside Ferguson police headquarters about the time the news conference was to begin. At one point, many of them marched into an adjacent police building, some chanting ‘‘Don’t shoot me’’ while holding their hands in the air.
They were also chanting something else, too.
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They have brought it on themselves with their actions and mindset.
Ever notice the police in AmeriKa are acting more and more like Zionist Israelis?
Demonstrators held a rally Sunday outside police headquarters in Ferguson, Mo., to protest the killing of Michael Brown (Sid Hastings/Associated Press).
How does fear feel on the other foot, jackboot?
At least you have support from the mayor.
So WhereTF are the condemnations coming from the White House and Al Sharpton regarding this blatant act of racism?
FBI to Conduct Probe Into Missouri Teen's Shooting; Officials Call for Calm but Protests Continue After Black Teenager's Death
NEXT DAY UPDATE:
I was wrong, and now this is going to be exploited by the federal government to drive a race wedge when the real issue is tyrannical authority. Violence is being driven by agent provocateurs to make protest look bad.
"FBI opens inquiry into police killing of Mo. teenager" Globe wires August 12, 2014
(Caution: cover-up in progress. Proceed at own risk)
FERGUSON, Mo. — The FBI said Monday it had opened an inquiry into the weekend shooting death of an unarmed black teenager by a police officer that sparked a second night of unrest in Ferguson, a suburb of St. Louis.
Special Agent Cheryl Mimura, of the FBI’s office in St. Louis, said the agency had begun an investigation into possible civil rights violations connected to the death of Michael Brown, 18, who had been planning to begin college classes Monday.
The circumstances of Brown’s death remained in sharp dispute two days after he was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, a city of about 21,000 northwest of St. Louis. Police have said an officer, who has not been identified, was “physically assaulted” before opening fire early Saturday afternoon. Authorities also said there had been a struggle “over the officer’s weapon.”
But critics have questioned the police account and demanded that the officer face prosecution.
On Monday, Chief Jon Belmar of the St. Louis County Police Department said an autopsy had shown that Brown had been “struck several times by gunfire.”
From over ten yards away which means he was leaving. Struck where? Wasn't the back, was it? Cop discharged his own gun in the car and then blame-blam at kids who just walked by? Maybe they said something he didn't like?
Two witnesses said Brown had his hands raised when the officer approached him with his weapon drawn and fired repeatedly.
Phillip Walker said he was on the porch of an apartment complex overlooking the scene when he heard a shot and saw a white officer with Brown on the street.
Brown ‘‘was giving up in the sense of raising his arms and being subdued,’’ Walker said Monday. The officer ‘‘had his gun raised and started shooting the individual in the chest multiple times.’’ The officer then ‘‘stood over him and shot him’’ after the victim fell wounded.
Then this was a cold-blooded execution, and its common to the tune of about 8 a day here in the Land of the Free, Home of the Goons.
Dorian Johnson offered a similar account when he told KMOV-TV that he and Brown were walking home from a convenience store when a police officer told them to get out of the street and onto the sidewalk.
They were killed for that in a Zimmerman-style fashion? And compare the coverage of the two: propaganda pre$$ hollering about private citizen, minimizes government murder.
Johnson said they kept walking, which caused the officer to confront them from his car and again after getting out of his car.
Johnson said the first time the officer fired, he and Brown got scared and ran away.
‘‘He shot again, and once my friend felt that shot, he turned around and put his hands in the air, and he started to get down,’’ Johnson said. ‘‘But the officer still approached with his weapon drawn and fired several more shots.’’
‘‘We wasn’t causing harm to nobody,’’ Johnson said. ‘‘We had no weapons on us at all.’’
Walker acknowledged that he did not see a scuffle or the circumstances surrounding the first gunshot.
The police department refused to discuss Johnson’s remarks, citing the ongoing investigation.
But Belmar previously said that the officer encountered Brown and another man outside an apartment complex and that one of the men pushed the officer into his squad car and they struggled over the officer’s weapon.
Uh-huh.
Belmar’s agency has been leading the investigation, and Mimura said the county police would continue their work as the FBI conducted its review.
At a news conference Monday, Belmar pleaded for the public’s patience.
We have RUN OUT OF THAT, sorry!
We have BEEN PATIENT for YEARS and the problems of oppression have ONLY GOTTEN WORSE!!!
It is always BE PATIENT when it is something the people want, but URGENT when the agenda-pushing rulers want something -- and they get it right away, no problem! We are ALWAYS LEFT WAITING!
“I understand that the public has a right to be skeptical, and I appreciate that and I would expect that the public be skeptical oftentimes of government or some forms of it,” he said. “But I would also ask the public to be reasonable because it takes a long time to make sure we do this investigation the right way.”
Translation: calm down until we get the cover story up, will you?
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Yeah, the FBI is coming to investigate.
On Monday night, authorities in Ferguson used tear gas and rubber bullets to try to disperse a large crowd that had gathered at the site of a burned-out convenience store damaged a night earlier, when many businesses in the area were looted.
Police Chief Tom Jackson said members of the crowd threw rocks at police and gunfire came from the crowd, so officers used tear gas and shot ‘‘beanbag rounds’’ meant to stun them.
Ever notice the police in AmeriKa are acting more and more like Zionist Israelis?
An Associated Press photographer said police were telling people to go home, but authorities had blocked exit streets off. Jackson said police blocked off the area where most of the looting and vandalism occurred the previous night out of concern that cars passing by might hit demonstrators in the street.
That is a standard tactic so they beat the hell out protesters. Did it to Occupy, antiwar, and political convention protesters this last decade!
After a vigil Sunday for Brown, protesters took to the streets, looting stores, vandalizing cars, and confronting police. Crowds flooded the streets near the scene of the shooting, some of them chanting “No justice, no peace.”
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