MO - Grief & protests follow shooting of teen Michael Brown #18
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I was able to read it. He talks about MB being unarmed and his body left out for hours...yada yada yada...and how it's been "proven" that he wasn't facing a murder charge and that the rumors are racist...yada yada yada...oh....and they should be spending their time on subpoenaing every single employment record of OW, including every police report, etc...yada yada yada...
Letter dated today. One portion "his body was left uncovered on the ground in the baking sun for four hours". I saw a better res photo earlier. If I see it again, I'll try to add it.
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UGH...as if to say that if you side with OW then black lives don't matter to you and you feel that white officers can simply begin running around executing any black person they see...yep...sure...ok then....and you are right...the silent thing is the best thing they could do...
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"We know his body was left uncovered on the ground in the baking sun for hours"
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Ummmm, because she's my daughter?!? Because we joke around?!? Because I can and it isn't a big deal?!?
I am of the same thoughts as you regarding ESPN though. I've been keeping an eye out to see if it gets picked up and I haven't seen it. I'm gonna assume the kid just got picked up on a warrant or something.
Great compilation there, Klood-N. I love to see disparate dots connected. And it's scary how many risk factors and lack of protective factors were present in MB's life. It's very sad.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch spokesperson Tracy Rouch sent BuzzFeed News a statement refuting what Crump wrote in his letter.
The open letter by Benjamin L. Crump, the lead attorney for the Michael Brown family, is a gross mischaracterization of the weeks of extensive coverage in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch since the Aug. 9 fatal police shooting of Michael Brown.
His letter misconstrues why the Post-Dispatch filed a legal request to determine whether Michael Brown, 18, had a juvenile criminal record. Reports by some bloggers and others on social media have contended that he had a juvenile criminal record.
Our sole motivation is to determine the facts as we continue reporting on many facets of this story.
A family court judge denied the Post-Dispatch legal petition after a hearing about whether to release any possible juvenile record, which led to a Sept. 4 story that shed new light on the issue: Michael Brown had no serious felony convictions or pending cases in juvenile court, meaning no class A or Class B felonies. That was news.
Additionally, the Sept. 4 Post-Dispatch story included this response:
Post-Dispatch editor Gilbert Bailon disputed the idea seeking any juvenile records was designed to impugn Michael Brown.
We are a news organization that pursues facts, which are the basis of coverage. Innuendo and speculation through various forms of media have raised questions about whether Michael Brown had a criminal record. We are seeking to find those facts without prejudgment or bias.
It is ironic that todays new information appears favorable to Michael Brown by stating he had no record of adult or serious juvenile crimes, yet some have characterized the pursuit of that information as damaging to Michael Brown, Bailon said.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mikehayes/m...ays-media-was-going-after-clicks-with#391a38e
The open letter by Benjamin L. Crump, the lead attorney for the Michael Brown family, is a gross mischaracterization of the weeks of extensive coverage in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch since the Aug. 9 fatal police shooting of Michael Brown.
His letter misconstrues why the Post-Dispatch filed a legal request to determine whether Michael Brown, 18, had a juvenile criminal record. Reports by some bloggers and others on social media have contended that he had a juvenile criminal record.
Our sole motivation is to determine the facts as we continue reporting on many facets of this story.
A family court judge denied the Post-Dispatch legal petition after a hearing about whether to release any possible juvenile record, which led to a Sept. 4 story that shed new light on the issue: Michael Brown had no serious felony convictions or pending cases in juvenile court, meaning no class A or Class B felonies. That was news.
Additionally, the Sept. 4 Post-Dispatch story included this response:
Post-Dispatch editor Gilbert Bailon disputed the idea seeking any juvenile records was designed to impugn Michael Brown.
We are a news organization that pursues facts, which are the basis of coverage. Innuendo and speculation through various forms of media have raised questions about whether Michael Brown had a criminal record. We are seeking to find those facts without prejudgment or bias.
It is ironic that todays new information appears favorable to Michael Brown by stating he had no record of adult or serious juvenile crimes, yet some have characterized the pursuit of that information as damaging to Michael Brown, Bailon said.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mikehayes/m...ays-media-was-going-after-clicks-with#391a38e
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I'm finding the wording in the last paragraph interesting , and I'm trying to determine if it's more double speak. IDK, maybe I'm just beginning to read all of their statements that way. What's interesting is he's blaming a "blogger of spreading unfounded rumors," when according to the journalist (can't remember his name!) he got the info from police sources. That could be BS on his part in an effort to make his story more compelling, IDK.
THe comment about trying to find out this info in order to "prove he deserved it," is another example of their inflammatory BS IMO
Thank you. It seems such a waste that his voice and instructive lessons are silenced for those who want to exploit his death. What if just one young person saw the truth, examined their life, and straightened out or just one parent suddenly flashed on the warning signs and restructured their life to be that anchor? Makes me frustrated and sad what's being done.
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the GJ is . . . MB is not the only case that's being viewed by the GJ of StL County
Whatever label you want to use on him. It is him that will or will not be indicted. And not every officer involved shooting goes to a GJ by they way. In fact, very few do. What you may be thinking of is in cases of this type where there may be charges, McCulloch does use the GJ, its not that every police involved shooting goes to a GJ.
[h=1]Response to letter from the Brown family attorney[/h]
Our sole motivation is to determine the facts as we continue reporting on many facets of this story.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...b-874a-b46c37718dd9.html#.VBNq_XYemh0.twitter
Our sole motivation is to determine the facts as we continue reporting on many facets of this story.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...b-874a-b46c37718dd9.html#.VBNq_XYemh0.twitter
It's their E60 program. I have it set to record at 1:15 in the morning, but they rerun so many of those things I don't know for certain this is the one that originally aired on Tuesday or not. The segment on E60 is called Four Weeks In Ferguson. They had like 3 stories they did during the show and this was one of them.
http://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/relationships-and-special-occasions/parenting/aisha-sultan/how-michael-brown-s-mother-showed-strength-long-before-her/article_f8ae96c1-7da3-5f51-9ab6-0da4f653dde3.html
"A woman who knew Lesley [MB's mom] as a child shared a glimpse. Adrienne Hirschfeld was a room mother at Reed Elementary in the Ladue School District, one of the most affluent in the metro area, where her son went to school and Lesley attended as a transfer student, Hirschfeld said. In the fifth-grade memory book, Lesley shared a collection of memories, which reads like a grade-by-grade appreciation of each of her teachers."
The article has these sweet grade by grade notes from little Lesley to her teachers, maybe all white.
"A woman who knew Lesley [MB's mom] as a child shared a glimpse. Adrienne Hirschfeld was a room mother at Reed Elementary in the Ladue School District, one of the most affluent in the metro area, where her son went to school and Lesley attended as a transfer student, Hirschfeld said. In the fifth-grade memory book, Lesley shared a collection of memories, which reads like a grade-by-grade appreciation of each of her teachers."
The article has these sweet grade by grade notes from little Lesley to her teachers, maybe all white.
Don't twist it. The fact is he's not a suspect. And that's a difference between him and Michael.
Link to this shooting being an exception to standard procedure.
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