Tag: Michael Brown

Karma’s A Bitch Sometimes

It was a bullshit story to begin with:

Man Who Helped Spark ‘Hands Up Don’t Shoot’ Hoax Shot And Killed

Dorian Johnson, whose account of Michael Brown’s 2014 death fueled the “hands up, don’t shoot” movement and was later contradicted by federal investigators, died in a shooting Sunday, police said.

The 33-year-old was killed when someone shot him around 8:30 a.m. at a Ferguson, Missouri, apartment building less than a mile from where Brown died eleven years ago, Ferguson Police spokesperson Patricia Washington confirmed, CNN reported. Police detained one person but released them without filing charges, St. Louis County prosecuting attorney Melissa Price Smith said.

“This appears to be a domestic incident involving a claim of self-defense,” Smith continued, adding that the case remains an active investigation.

Ferguson police clarified that no officers shot Johnson. “There had been earlier rumors that this was an officer-involved shooting however that information is incorrect. No officers, Ferguson or otherwise, were involved in this incident other than to begin our investigation,” the Ferguson Police Department (FPD) stated in a post.

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One less parasite to the system. Justice served, cold, very cold

‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’: one of the biggest hoaxes of our time

Above: Surveillance video showing Michael Brown choking a shop owner shortly before he attacked police officer Darren Johnson, who shot Brown in legitmate self defense, according to the Obama Justice Dept.

The following is a news analysis.

It’s been ten years since the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, launched violent riots and a movement that is largely based on misinformation to this day.

  • Brown’s hands weren’t raised.
  • Brown did not say “don’t shoot.”
  • Brown was not shot in the back.
  • Brown was shot in the front.
  • Brown was attacking police officer Darren Wilson.
  • “Eyewitnesses” quoted uncritically in the media were lying since they couldn’t have seen the events.

We were played.

It’s incredible how many people still don’t know the whole “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” narrative was a hoax and never happened (even according to the Obama Justice Dept.) Officer Darren Johnson continues to be slandered a decade later as misinformation is still circulated, even by some members of Congress. This is largely the media’s fault.

Officer Wilson was cleared of all charges and violations. On March 4, 2015, the Obama Justice Dept. cleared Wilson of civil rights violations finding that numerous witnesses quoted uncritically in the media were not credible, they apparently lied in their accounts (Brown had his hands raised and was shot in the back) since it turns out they couldn’t have witnessed the events. (However, none of them were held accountable.) The DOJ also found that the credible witnesses supported Wilson’s account. Brown did not have his hands up in surrender. Forensic evidence shows Brown was moving toward Wilson, supporting Wilson’s account that Brown had attacked him and tried to choke him.

Read the DOJ findings for yourself at the link below.

Click to access doj_report_on_shooting_of_michael_brown_1.pdf

Story by Sharyl Attkisson