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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe're going to hear what they say happened...from HIM
WTF CNN? No - you are repeating hearsay. We don't care what friends of Wilson have to say and you are not hearing from him.
Demand the official report - why is all the narrative you folks are pushing on the side of the cop who executed an unarmed teenager.
CNN - always wrong and proud of it.
FarPoint
(12,209 posts)I sense where they are going and can not stomach it.
boston bean
(36,186 posts)speaks for Wilson and the media runs with it.
Demand the initial police incident reports which should have been made public way before now. And demand the full footage of the video store incident.
Those videos were obviously snippets of the event and are not the entire event.
What a bunch of lazy asses they are.
Something is very wrong here with the police not releasing what is public record and manipulating video to not show the entire event.
malaise
(267,808 posts)An unnamed woman calls a radio station and says she is Wilson's friend and this is what happened. I mean WTF!!! Why are they doing this?
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Yet CNN runs with it. Eyewitness accounts permitted in court yet CNN calls eyewitness accounts "unreliable" because they are "traumatized". You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows at CNN.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)...
wandy
(3,539 posts)What CNN broth forth was a well scripted document written by a friend(s) and given to a RW outlet(s).
Many a friend(s) used almost the exact same wording and precise use of the same dog whistles and key words.
This was the narrative the haters were waiting for and thanks to a friend(s) "disclosure" they were given the crap distortion that makes the truth almost irrelevant.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025400792
It was only a matter of time before corporate media like CNN would pick it up and run with it.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)That caller heard the story from Wilson's girlfriend. This is NEWS?
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)BobbyBoring
(1,965 posts)But I can't imagine a "friend" of Wilsons would live in that hood and be a witness. I doubt he has many black friends.
think_in_code
(6 posts)These folks are essentially arguing that Michael Brown had a death wish. They are basically saying that he was so angry at the cop that he chose to put his head down as if he were a bull and charge a police officer who was shooting at him. Who does that? Who in their right mind would charge somebody who is shooting at them. That goes against human nature. In addition, all of the shots were close together on the right side of his body. If somebody is charging at somebody and was shot in the process wouldn't there at least be some chest wounds. Also, what ever happened to a taser. All police officers carry them so if Brown was charging him why not use that instead of a gun. Lastly, why has the cop not released any sort of statement backing up his claim and why have the police not released the incident report. If the case was so cut and dry we would not be using a random radio show call in as evidence of anything.
ljm2002
(10,751 posts)...and not only "Who does that?" but there is the fact that at least 4 eyewitnesses say he was surrendering when the final barrage of bullets flew and killed him. Also: he was charging like a bull after being shot in the eye? Reeeaaallllly??? How stupid do they think we are? (never mind, I already know the answer -- they think our minds and opinions are infinitely malleable to their manipulation of the truth)
And Welcome to DU!
gollygee
(22,336 posts)who independently have the same story, whose names we know. Then there's an anonymous call by someone claiming to be a friend of Wilson, which would make her biased even if she's telling the truth about who she is, and she's telling the version of events from the person who could be arrested over the event.
Who is more reliable as a witness in the US? Whose story are people seeming to find more believable? I am really troubled by the answers to those questions.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)They've had enough time to edit.
malaise
(267,808 posts)THey've had ten days to create their own narrative
Octafish
(55,745 posts)...to let them pick and chose the very best and most plausible of story elements from which to generate their own narrative, coincidentally in the process, proving their own innocence.