The New York Times has big news on the biggest story in the country today, but as Noah Rothman at Hot Air discovered, the Times buried that news 26 paragraphs deep. According to the Times' own police sources, "witnesses and forensic analysis have shown that Officer Wilson did sustain an injury during the struggle in the car." However, law enforcement officials say witnesses and forensic analysis have shown that Officer Wilson did sustain an injury during the struggle in the car. As Officer Wilson got out of his car, the men were running away. The officer fired his weapon but did not hit anyone, according to law enforcement officials. Mr. Johnson took cover near a parked car as he saw the officer confronting Mr. Brown, Mr. Bosley said. A man who lives nearby, Michael T. Brady, said in an interview that he saw the initial altercation in the patrol car, although he struggled to see exactly what was happening. Obviously, the news that Wilson was injured during his struggle with 18-year-old Michael Brown is highly relevant to the ongoing investigation, not to mention the racial furor being whipped up by those uninterested in facts -- chief among them the media and racial grifters like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. If Wilson was indeed injured, it doesn't automatically make the fatal shooting of Brown appropriate, but it does help to fill a yawning fact-vacuum with a piece of relevant information. The fact that the Times hid its own scoop, and no other mainstream media outlets are reporting on it, is also informative. The news of the officer being injured would further upset and muddy the hysterical black vs. white narrative the media so desperately desires, along with the obvious political upside for the left that comes with it. While we don't know how this story will ultimately play out, the media's behavior in Ferguson is looking an awful lot like the reprehensible and corrupt behavior we saw during the Trayvon Martin affair. http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journa...son-nyt-buries-news-of-officer-wilsons-injury
Or it could read "Officer, while sitting in his patrol car, attacked by jaywalker and gets a boo-boo".
Nice try this far, but welcome to ignore. If the rest here put you on ignore, our topics could stay close to topic. Have a nice life.
You know db, I have very few people on ignore because I want to hear opposing views...from intelligent people. Your comment is not only grossly minimizing the gravity of the situation, it's idiotic. You have now joined a select few on my ignore list, aka, list of morons.
You know db, there is trolling, there is ignorance, there is pure stupidity. At any given time down here, one of these is often the genesis of any given post. Yours seems to amazingly include all 3, a feat that not even RCG could accomplish, desperately as he tried. Truly astonishing.
A cop with a gun gets a bump on the head. An unarmed negro gets dead. If you're okay with all this, then I guess you'll just have to be astonished. This is after all the P&R Forum.
I'd love to see you in that cop's position. You trivialize an encounter between one cop and two street thugs, one who was 6-4 and 300 pounds and who had just effected a brazen strong arm robbery. You don't seem to appreciate that the cop was fighting for his life. Plenty in his position have died. I'm still waiting for your explanation of just how the cop should have handled this situation? I suppose you will say just let these two thugs walk down the middle of the street and be a nuisance. That's the thinking that made NYC unliveable before Rudy G cracked down on the squeegee thugs and assorted quality of life crimes. Seriously though, let's role play. You are a cop and politely ask two animals to stop walking in the street. They respond by punching you inside your patrol car and going for your gun. When you try to apprehend them, one the size of an NFL lineman bullrushes you from 10 feet away. What do you do? tick tock...
Obviously you don't trade for a living because all you do is live on after the fact analysis. It's easy to predict history, the future is a tad bit harder. Cops don't get the luxury of monday morning quarterbacking or going on message boards and pretending to be cops by posting amazing after the fact analysis. Cops have to act in the present tense. When a huge 6'3 black man charges you knowing that you are a cop and you have a gun, it's safe to say the guy is on full tilt. He did exactly what any one of us would have done without the knowledge of the future. It's the same reason you see homeowners shoot unarmed burglars who simply were trying to steal a few bucks off the kitchen table armed with nothing but a knife. If the homeowner absolutely 100% knew the burglar was not a threat to he and his wife and 3 daughters, they would simply lock themselves in a room and wait for him to leave. But he doesn't know that. He assumes the worst, he has to. So he shoots and in many cases kills the burglar. So your little "bump" on the head comment is a joke. It's monday morning quarterbacking. Which according to your journals, you apparently are very good at it.
First, we don't know that the kid was "charging" him. Second, the cop had a gun. The kid was unarmed. Third, a homeowner is not a trained policeman. You're treading over tired ground. Unless you have something new to offer . . .