Supporters of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson have always claimed that part of what justified his shooting and killing Michael Brown was the fact that he had been seriously wounded in a confrontation with the unarmed teenager. Some right-wing outlets went so far as to claim Wilson suffered a fractured eye socket. But they weren’t the only ones reporting this kind of bogus information.
On the August 20 broadcast of ABC World News, anchor Diane Sawyer told viewers:
Tonight, we are hearing a source close to the police officer who shot Brown. And this source says the policeman’s face was seriously injured. And the source says that could change this case.
The story was picked up by correspondent Jim Avila, who said that there was new information–
including, ABC News has learned, a hospital picture of Officer Wilson’s face, not yet released. A source close to Wilson says the officer suffered a serious facial injury during the initial struggle at the patrol car window.
So ABC‘s report was apparently based on what a friend of Wilson said could be seen in a hospital photo? Yesterday, the grand jury released photos of Wilson taken right after he shot Michael Brown. Here is what Wilson looked like:
Will ABC tell viewers that it spread an unfounded rumor that there was photographic evidence that Darren Wilson was seriously hurt? Or do they consider the photos above as confirmation of what they reported?
Failing the eye – and lie – test
Red cheeks, rouge for the photo session? Or a blush at being caught in a lie?
black thugs and black looters are always innocent.
It has been disgusting to see how often the police and Brown haters lied about the injury to justify the shooting and even when we have indisputable evidence there is no truth to that claim it does not matter.
The one witness who claimed Brown charged at Wilson summed it up best when she said she was trying to figure out how to stop calling members of the black race “Nigg***” and start looking at them as “People.”
(Witness #40)
Does anyone notice the alleged “wound” is on the right side of Wilson’s face? What angle, particularly along the jaw line, would Wilson have to contort his body in order to allow his right jaw this injury? Even if he could expose this part of his face, Brown would have to be left handed to cause this injury. KKK has another winner.
In all the media spinning to polish Wilson’s image, I still figured they were dealing with a turd. That is, Wilson might get a lesser charge than merited, and certainly a lesser sentence than a black man would get for murdering a white, but I never thought they’d let him off scot-free.
The U.S. judicial system is remarkable for what it does compared with what the mainstream pretends it does. It’s part of the whole system’s success: willful ignorance, maintaining illusions.
I think it is apparent that the Grand Jury was told ahead of time what “Verdict” they would find; in which case someone needs to investigate the Grand Jury and find out who is manipulating it, as that is a Felony.
Padremellryn,
I understand where you’re coming from. But that leap doesn’t need to be made if the prosecutor wasn’t interested in presenting a serious case. I think that’s pretty obvious here.
@CBresney, I noticed the same thing about the injuries being on the right side instead of the left where you would expect them to be if Wilson’s story is true. You only have to lie if you are trying to cover up something.
Sean Hannity on Fox News repeatdly said Darren Wilson had a broken eye socket.
Sahara, police are always “justified” by people like you when they kill blacks, whether they have committed a crime or not. Funny, the college kids rioting and looting after a their team has lost a play off aren’t vilified or the rioters that have trampled people on Black Friday. And what about the thugs in the KKK and Neo-nazi gangs. But even more important is the fact that police are killing white people and the National Media doesn’t report it so idiots like you will have a false sense of security. Keep believing this only happens to black “thugs.”
There seems to be no end of experts here……none of which spent one minute, of the week plus, examining the evidence and listening to testimony.
All the supreme court had to do is talk to this group of know it alls…what a sad group of morons….I am ashamed of all of you!
I thank God that I am not black. I am mex-am and that’s bad enough, but I cannot imagine walking into every room, my entire life, and being immediately judged by my color. I am light skinned (my relatives were never from mex; we are the children of a tiny bit of Spanish blood w/a whole lot of indian blood). Being light, I encountered a different type of racism. I would overhear a lot of dumb mex jokes, etc because the racists didn’t realize I was one of those dumb mexs. Or when I occasionally had a white friend, they seemed like they were not racists, but eventually it came out. “Oh but YOU aren’t a Mex; you’re Spanish,” like that was more acceptable.
I live in Abq, NM; the cops here have murdered all kinds of people. The city is almost broke from paying out lawsuits. Lapel cameras are the solution, but they must be turned ON!! The Abq. cops have these cameras but for some strange reason, I can think of only a single cop shooting that was videotaped. A mentally ill young man was killed in the foothills because he was camping in a spot where no camping was allowed. Somehow they got most of the gory thing on video, but most of time, they say afterwards, “I forgot to turn it on.” or “I turned it on; must have malfunctioned.” Being a cop must be a scary job. I can’t imagine driving into a bad neighborhood wondering, is someone going to shoot me?? But the few bad cops must be thrown out of the departments. They make all of the department–cops–look bad.
I’m not defending anyone here–I wasn’t there. But the photo seems to show that Wilson was attacked. I doubt there are any law enforcement officers commenting on this post, but it’s a pretty tough call to decide, under such pressure, whether your life is in danger. People love to modify Michael Brown’s name with “unarmed” but that is immaterial as to whether he presented a mortal threat.
Don’t get me wrong–I think most cops are fascist thugs (ex LE myself, BTW). But this case had been so politicized, and I’m disappointed that FAIR has jumped on this band wagon. It’s not Wilson’s fault that Fox News is exaggerating his injury. And again, that exaggeration has no bearing on his lethal force decision. Liberals, Neocons, Neolibs–you’re all liars.
A lot of valid points have been made as far as less than equal jusice for blacks still the case in 2014. But seperate the Michael Brown case from this significfant concern. Blacks do not want Michale Brown as their poster child for justice. More and more it can be seen that he was just as responsible for his own death as the young man, under the influence of marjuajna ran out onto the track in front of Tony Stewart’s vehicle. Unfortunatally a true victim will come along probable sooner than later who genuinely demonstrates the unjustice, but Michael Brown is not the example.
Andy, the accounts I have read have Brown being seriously wounded by two bullets, one in the leg and one in the arm, and on his knees turned away from Wilson begging him not to fire more. And Wilson summarily executed him with two bullets to the back of the head, perhaps because of an earlier minor skirmish, out of anger and revenge. But that in no way under the instant circumstances was the deadly shooting justified. Michael Brown is the perfect example, and I see many blacks rallying to his cause in Chicago, because his murder so epitomizes what is all too typical for young black, usually poor, males. We had an assembly and march in Chicago Friday, “Black Lives Matter,” attended by about 300 spirited demonstrators that was led by young black men because they are Mike Brown, and know that they could be the next Mike Brown.
” ” GODD 4 days ago There seems to be no end of experts here……none of which spent one minute, of the week plus, examining the evidence and listening to testimony.
All the supreme court had to do is talk to this group of know it alls…what a sad group of morons….I am ashamed of all of you!” ”
And the Biggest moron (GODD) just spoke and proves beyond a shadow of doubt that Fux Snooze Moron Trolls can’t wipe their own Butts without reusing the rag on their nose.
So please explain to us all, since your obviously “THE ONLY EXPERT” here a) how you came to the conclusion that Not on of us has spent more than a minute on studying this. You don’t even have clue as to “who” we are. So take your Fux Snooze Troll Bellowing and go back, sit in front of the Boob Tube, with your ‘Experts’ who can tell you how to breathe, since your incapable of it.
@Kevin Bradshaw – I hear you, that is sort of what I was hinting at; the prosecution needs to be investigated for possible tampering with evidence by decree, actually not unheard of before this.