Protest followed by massive looting in STL

[PresidentCamacho]

Listening to the BBC is hilarious- it reminds me of watching Entertainment Tonight (or some other such trash), but America itself is the celebrity they obsess over, and they love talking about rap music from various countries (maybe in effort to feel cool like the guys they watch on BET?). Perhaps talking about your own problems gets boring too fast? Also, its pretty re-goddamn-diculous that anyone thinks the BBC is objective in their reporting.

[Wil]

Pierre Wilson got into an argument with an Dawon Gore. The officer allegedly charged Pierre Wilson. The officer used non-lethal force to prevent what he thought was a threat. Was using the baton to prevent a threat really a use of excessive force?

http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/st-louis-county-officer-charged-assault

[list]
[] On the evening of April 21, Wilson approached Gore, who was on duty at the station. Wilson allegedly asked for help with a police matter.
[] Gore apparently told Wilson to contact a police department closer to his home, an answer that upset Wilson. An argument ensued.
[] As the verbal altercation came to an end, Gore allegedly charged Wilson from several yards away and hit him with his police baton.
[] Gore then allegedly detained Wilson in the station’s security office for an hour and a half, denying him medical care.
[*] Gore later took Wilson home.
[/list]

I guess the prosecutor put in more time to actually prosecuting the officer than the Darren Wilson case.

Let me get this straight…

you bold “allegedly” at the black cop charging after unarmed dude and busting up his hand for a verbal dispute…to defend the black police officer

but when Michael Brown definitely, indisputably punched white police officer Darren Wilson…you defend black giant unarmed teen Michael Brown

I’m taking shots at the entire flawed “legal” process and the prosecutor.

[The_Damned]

(goes off to read the BBC stuff for the sake of hilarity)

Gods, it’s like I always miss a typo even when my lazy ass proofreads and edits something.

Athena Christ! Why have you forsaken me?!

The autopsy results are not consistent with a man being shot while surrendering on his knees.

…I don’t recall anyone saying that he was on his knees, merely saying that he was surrendering with his hands up.

One can legitimately surrender without automatically assuming the fellatio position.

Soo can somebody please explain how Thomas the Tank Engine shot that man?

Sure thing, @Iduno: Thomas used a railgun.

[jae_hoon]

To The Damned point about eye witness accounts, it is pretty well known by anyone with even an inclining of an interest in psychology that eye witness accounts are at best unreliable and usually filled with misinformation and biased opinions leaning one way or another. Obviously this is not always the case but usually eye witness accounts are very very unreliable at best. It is a catch 22 where they were within vision of it so you have to see what they have to say but you have to keep in mind the whole thing could be full of shit. At least there are a few people on here actually trying to have a discussion instead of slinging shit at each other, which is also going on.

[OGSF]

Here it is: If you were attacked by a random stranger and he or she pinned you to the ground. Would you just lay there and no defend yourself? What if you had a gun? Would you lay there, let them take your gun and shoot you, or would you shoot first?

[Wil]

CNN says the “professor” who assisted in the Mike Brown autopsy revealed as a fraud and con artist - http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/26/health/ferguson-michael-brown-pathologist-credentials/index.html?iid=article_sidebar

Spoiler

When CNN visited Parcells in his Overland Park, Kansas, home, he presented a photo of himself onstage at what appears to be a graduation ceremony at the New York Chiropractic College.

“I got a master’s degree in anatomy and physiology, with clinical correlation,” he said.

Asked where his diploma was, he replied that it was on the way. “It’s coming,” he said. “They mail it to you.”

The next day, at another on-camera interview, the conversation went like this:

CNN: So that master’s degree in New York, you have that degree?

Parcells: I will have it next month, yes.

CNN: I don’t mean the piece of paper. I mean have you been conferred that degree?

Parcells: Yes, I will. Next month.

CNN: Right now, as we speak, you have that degree?

Parcells: No, I do not.

Parcells doesn’t claim to have any specific license or certification to do the work he does. He knows how to do autopsies from “on-the-job training,” watching pathologists and assisting them at various morgues, he said. Sometimes he’s been paid for this work and sometimes he wasn’t, he added.

“To take out organs and to cut open a body, you don’t need to be a pathologist,” he said. “Come to an autopsy. I think when you see what I do, you’ll realize that I’m not just making this stuff up out of blue, thin air.”

He certainly sounded knowledgeable and authoritative on August 18 when he presented the findings of the Michael Brown autopsy to a nationally televised news conference.

Baden, who conducted the autopsy, spoke first, and then introduced Parcells, saying he “has been instrumental in the autopsy evaluation.”

“First of all, I’m Professor Shawn Parcells,” Parcells said as he stood to address the reporters.
On his LinkedIn page and to CNN, Parcells said he’s an adjunct professor at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas – but a spokeswoman for the university told CNN that’s not true.

“(Parcells) is not now and has never been a member of the Washburn University faculty,” university spokeswoman Michaela Saunders wrote in an email to CNN, adding that at one point, Parcells spoke without receiving pay to two groups of nursing students about the role of a pathologist’s assistant and gave a PowerPoint presentation and answered students’ questions.

[Don_Barracuda]

what the flying fuck…

[po_pimpus]

Oh man, this shit just keeps getting better(worse) and better(worse)…

Please defend the Prosecutor, Medical Examiner’s Office, and the Ferguson Police Department now, all of you.

[BEWD]

Put On Blast: Ferguson Protester Calls Out Don Lemon “You Thugify Black Men Then...

Damn, Don Lemon just got turned into lemonade.

[Weeaboo]

This shit is getting sadder and sadder by the day…

[tataki]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkBzCKL3ARY

[Dr_W]

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/07/12/article-2362051-0EC89B2200000578-915_634x408.jpg

yo that one on the far left is ricky ortiz i swear

[The_Damned]

(Yes, I am aware jae hoon. It’s equally unfortunate that the same unreliability causes people to think that any and every video is absolutely god and can’t also be flawed in some way, but this is what I’ve always said about having problems with how most people think in absolutes.)

Haha at the international community trying to get in the action on this. First England, now the (nigh-useless) U.N. and then some Iranian official making a scathing comment about our general hypocrisy. All why Obama continues to uselessly blather.

Good times.

Here it is: If you were attacked by a random stranger and he or she pinned you to the ground. Would you just lay there and no defend yourself? What if you had a gun? Would you lay there, let them take your gun and shoot you, or would you shoot first?

Here’s a better question: Would you actually ask a question that’s relevant to the case?

If Mike Brown had clearly pinned Darren Wilson to the ground, then no one would have any legitimate complaints about the former getting shot.

CNN says the “professor” who assisted in the Mike Brown autopsy revealed as a fraud and con artist - http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/26/health/ferguson-michael-brown-pathologist-credentials/index.html?iid=article_sidebar

Spoiler

When CNN visited Parcells in his Overland Park, Kansas, home, he presented a photo of himself onstage at what appears to be a graduation ceremony at the New York Chiropractic College.

“I got a master’s degree in anatomy and physiology, with clinical correlation,” he said.

Asked where his diploma was, he replied that it was on the way. “It’s coming,” he said. “They mail it to you.”

The next day, at another on-camera interview, the conversation went like this:

CNN: So that master’s degree in New York, you have that degree?

Parcells: I will have it next month, yes.

CNN: I don’t mean the piece of paper. I mean have you been conferred that degree?

Parcells: Yes, I will. Next month.

CNN: Right now, as we speak, you have that degree?

Parcells: No, I do not.

Parcells doesn’t claim to have any specific license or certification to do the work he does. He knows how to do autopsies from “on-the-job training,” watching pathologists and assisting them at various morgues, he said. Sometimes he’s been paid for this work and sometimes he wasn’t, he added.

“To take out organs and to cut open a body, you don’t need to be a pathologist,” he said. “Come to an autopsy. I think when you see what I do, you’ll realize that I’m not just making this stuff up out of blue, thin air.”

He certainly sounded knowledgeable and authoritative on August 18 when he presented the findings of the Michael Brown autopsy to a nationally televised news conference.

Baden, who conducted the autopsy, spoke first, and then introduced Parcells, saying he “has been instrumental in the autopsy evaluation.”

“First of all, I’m Professor Shawn Parcells,” Parcells said as he stood to address the reporters.
On his LinkedIn page and to CNN, Parcells said he’s an adjunct professor at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas – but a spokeswoman for the university told CNN that’s not true.

“(Parcells) is not now and has never been a member of the Washburn University faculty,” university spokeswoman Michaela Saunders wrote in an email to CNN, adding that at one point, Parcells spoke without receiving pay to two groups of nursing students about the role of a pathologist’s assistant and gave a PowerPoint presentation and answered students’ questions.

The worst thing about this is that guy has “worked” on (read: contaminated) other cases, so there are doubtless other people who either need to be imprisoned that can’t be because of his bullshit or people who have been imprisoned falsely due to his “evidence”.

Actually, no. The worst thing is that no one has the courage–how surprising–to bring him to task since no one wants any evidence of the latter consequence getting out.

Fucking justice systems. How do they work?

[Spirit_Juice]

Weren’t there two other autopsies as well? Did they share the same or similar findings to Parcells’s?

[Hotobu]

http://bossip.com/1069988/put-on-blast-ferguson-protester-calls-out-don-lemon-you-thugify-black-men-then-hook-up-with-them/

Damn, Don Lemon just got turned into lemonade.

The best part of this link is the picture. Everyone is looking at him crazy.

[tataki]

Black Ferguson Residents Arm Themselves and Descend Upon White-Owned Business —...

[Spirit_Juice]

^Is that story legit? The picture used is from a tweet dated back in August in which a group of protesters guarded a beauty store from being looted.

[ShinjiGohan]

how bout this story of an elderly while man on oxygen who went back to his car to get his oxygen tank, only to be mugged, beaten with his tank, have his car stolen and be run over by the people with his own car.

http://www.cbs12.com/news/top-stories/stories/elderly-man-oxygen-allegedly-carjacked-beat-up-run-over-during-violent-ferguson-protests-monday-evening-20781.shtml?hot=1

[Raz0r]

lol @ The Blaze. Get that shit outta here.

[Spirit_Juice]

More like The Blazed because their staff is high as fuck when they write those garbage ass articles on their garbage format site.

how bout this story of an elderly while man on oxygen who went back to his car to get his oxygen tank, only to be mugged, beaten with his tank, have his car stolen and be run over by the people with his own car.

http://www.cbs12.com/news/top-stories/stories/elderly-man-oxygen-allegedly-carjacked-beat-up-run-over-during-violent-ferguson-protests-monday-evening-20781.shtml?hot=1

This is pretty disgusting.