DOJ case against Ferguson cop fizzles out

Mr. Deez

Mr. Deez

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The Justice Department is about to drop the criminal civil rights case against Officer Darren Wilson. Link. This case was f-ing ******** from the beginning and shouldn't have led to a federal investigation.

On a broader issue, I'm not sure why the civil rights mafia chooses this kind of cases to rally around. The fact scenario is almost always the same. Some black dude is doing something illegal or stupid. Cop confronts him. Black guy runs from, smack talks, and eventually gets physical with or threatens the cop. The cop shoots him. Civil rights crowd hypes up the fact that the black guy was unarmed and screams racism. Local government investigates and rightly doesn't prosecute the cop. Civil rights crowd screams racism again and riots. Federal government investigates (and smack talks and plays politics if a Democrat is in the White House) but ultimately doesn't do anything either.

These cases are losers for one simple reason. No reasonable person is going to fault an officer or presume racism on the part of an officer if he uses force against someone who has gotten physical with him. And if the guy tries to get the officer's gun or is big and strong enough to seriously harm the cop, nobody is going fault him for shooting the guy. And though it makes for great political rhetoric, it doesn't matter if the guy is unarmed, because that fact is rarely known by the cop at the time of shooting. (It also doesn't help when the narrative of the black dude being a nice guy turns out to be BS, but that's a side issue.) So in the end, the civil rights movement has egg on its face.

What's sad is that there is a racial problem in the criminal justice system, but it's not in the individual cops. It's the juries. Juries tend to distrust black witnesses and tend not to empathize with black litigants (criminal or civil). That means that blacks don't get the benefit of the doubt in the courtroom as often. That has been true in my experience, and every lawyer I've known pretty much agrees. In the criminal context, that means they get convicted more often, and get harsher punishments. That's where you see real injustices, but that's a hell of a lot harder to fix, which is why guys like Sharpton don't get involved in it very much.
 
the first accounts were that an unarmed black teenager was shot while he had his hands up for walking down the middle of the street. Shot multiple times. That will get some attention.

The media got rolling on what appeared to be a good story. Later, several days later, the police started leaking some info and somewhat later a lot of info suggested the original storyline was bs.
by that time the usual suspects had weighed in and some folks were really riled and assuming a police coverup and so the demonstrations were the story and then the no bill and the riots became the story.

24 hour news at your fingertips.

black men are treated different, do have some grievances and some cops are out of control with their authority.

Black men commit an awful lot of the crime in this country.
 
I heard some NAACP lawyer on the radio talking about how disappointed he was about this. They (the civil rights mafia, as you call them) just want an eye for an eye regardless of the circimstances and don't confuse them with the facts.

I may have to break down and watch the Al Sharpton show just to see the delicious moral outrage he'll be spewing today.
 
It really scary to see how far that some are willing to push this BS case forward for the goal of satisfying social media hashtag activists, looters and college kids who seem to want to get behind some cause, no matter how senseless. The scenario put forth by the media initially was found to be a fabrication and yet it's still being debated. The government even seems willing to overlook the facts to pacify a bunch of idiots. If things were just slightly more "in the gray zone" in this case, that cop would be screwed.

Certainly racism exists. It just seems like the activists amongst us have been waiting for an incident to get behind. This seems promising at first and not being willing to admit they are wrong and back off, keep pushing forward regardless of fact. Idiots.
 
I think the unspoken reality is that the actual cases of racial injustice by cops (as distinguished from general injustice by cops) is actually very, very small. When you get past the anecdotal stories and start drilling down on the facts, it is rarely what was initially reported.

Bad cops doesn't play well with the Sharptons of the world. Only race does. The problem with Garner was the black woman supervisor that was on the scene as well as the fact that it was lcal businesses that called the police complaining about Garner in the first place. There was no racial targeting and even Sharpton cant spin a racist black woman cop being present.

There seems little doubt that there are cops that are dangerously over aggressive and they need to be eliminated from the force. What there does seem to be a LOT of doubt about is whether or not these cops are racist. I think the evidence, or lack of evidence, says they arent racist. if there were actually an abundance of race related cop shootings there would be an abundance of cases that that the NAACP and Sharpton could raise hell about. Surely no one argues that those groups are actively looking for such cases. he fact that we get Garner and Brown seems to suggest that more legitimate cases dont exist.
 
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