Ferguson in Flames

APTOPIX Ferguson_Schu(29)Grand jurors in Ferguson, Mo., refused to indict local police officer Darren Wilson yesterday, heroically resisting pressure from President Obama on down to lynch an innocent police officer who fought off a violent attacker.

The decision is infuriating left-wingers across America because it rebuts the underlying assumption they embrace which is that white police racism caused the death of Michael Brown, a young black thug who tried to seize Wilson’s gun in an attempt to do the officer harm.

As fresh rioting was already underway in the St. Louis area, the decision also angered President Obama who could barely contain his hostility in a disgraceful, unprecedented television appearance following the release of the announcement about the non-indictments. Obama urged activists to refrain from using violence. The president himself bears direct responsibility for fomenting the combustible situation, however.

The county’s elected prosecuting attorney, Robert McCulloch, calmly explained the process in detail last night that the grand jury employed in choosing not to return indictments in five potential charges from first-degree murder to lesser offenses.

McCulloch is a white Democrat who has come under heavy fire from race-baiting members of his own political party. His partisans hate him because he does not share their antipathy for police officers, and presumably, because he is the wrong color. McCulloch easily secured the Democratic nomination for his office in a primary election four days before Brown was killed. In that contest, he handily beat former state public defender Leslie T. Broadnax, a black woman, by a margin of 71.4 percent to 28.6 percent.

McCulloch said many witnesses gave testimony that was not believable. Witnesses fabricated events, admitted they were in error, clung to discredited factual accounts, or gave evidence inconsistent with the physical evidence.

McCulloch said grand jurors were “the only people who heard every witness … and every piece of evidence.”

“These grand jurors poured their hearts and soul into this process,” he said. The grand jury consisted of nine whites and three blacks and was meeting every week since Aug. 20 to hear evidence in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown. The panel convened for 70 hours and heard from 60 witnesses.

Perhaps in a conciliatory gesture to those who wanted Wilson strung up, McCulloch referred to the death of Brown and the events surrounding it as tragic. Obama too used the word tragic.

But that is the wrong word.

Recall that Brown, an 18-year-old black male, was killed in Ferguson, Mo., on Aug. 9 by white police officer Darren Wilson after he attacked Wilson and tried to grab his handgun. Brown’s defenders characterize him as a gentle giant even though a few minutes earlier he was captured on video committing a strong-arm robbery at a convenience store, roughing up a much smaller clerk in the process. At autopsy Brown’s height was 6′ 5″ and his weight was 289 lbs. As previously reported, autopsy results were consistent with witness accounts that Brown reached for Wilson’s gun during their fateful altercation.

Brown’s death was not tragic. He was a villain. The evidence shows that he initiated potentially deadly force against an officer of the law and suffered the consequences of his actions. Grand jurors only needed a little bit of evidence to indict Officer Wilson. The evidence needed only to establish that probable cause existed to charge Wilson with a crime. The prosecution couldn’t even satisfy that low legal bar. The Wilson case may never have made it to a grand jury at all were it not for the antics of left-wing racial grievance groups working with and taking directions from the Obama administration.

The decision not to indict Wilson is not a tragedy. Far from it. The decision is just, proof that the grand jury system that was created to prevent governments from railroading unpopular defendants still works.

The tragedy is that Wilson had to be subjected to a three-month-long circus in which he was wrongfully accused of being a racist, murdering cop. He was demonized in the media day in and day out, a process that continues in the nation’s newsrooms even after last night’s announcement.

Petulant, as America’s childish Commander-in-Chief is wont to be when he fails to get his way, Obama sounded angry that grand jurors failed to indict Officer Wilson. The plot by Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, and Obama operative Al Sharpton to lynch Wilson in the courts failed.

Coming across like a Latin American caudillo, Obama sounded disgusted with Ferguson police and police forces across the nation in a press briefing last night.

Instead of accepting the grand jury’s wise decision, Obama set about stoking the flames. After spending months stirring up racial antagonism, Obama pontificated as if an innocent bystander of the events.

The decision “was going to be subject of intense disagreement not only in Ferguson, but across America, so I want to just say a few words suggesting how we might move forward,” he said, without noting that Wilson’s use of justifiable force against Brown became a national issue at his instigation.

Ignoring the fact that the death of Michael Brown had everything to do with his threatening, abusive behavior and absolutely nothing to do with his race, Obama implied cops hate minorities.

“We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation,” Obama said, even though no broader challenges that we face as a nation played a role in Brown’s death.

“The fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color,” he said, without noting that he and his comrades-in-arms in the world of community organizing have created distrust and disharmony where none previously existed.

Obama then blamed white people for Michael Brown attacking Darren Wilson.

“Some of this is the result of the legacy of racial discrimination in this country,” Obama said even though there is no evidence that the residue of racial discrimination played any role in Brown’s death.

“And this is tragic, because nobody needs good policing more than poor communities with higher crime rates,” Obama said. “The good news is we know there are things we can do to help, and I’ve instructed Attorney General Holder to work with cities across the country to help build better relations between communities and law enforcement.” Obama said this even though the case at hand provided no evidence that there is a problem between communities and law enforcement.

The president then pivoted to make a pitch for affirmative action in police departments:

That means working with law enforcement officials to make sure their ranks are representative of the communities they serve. We know that makes a difference. It means working to train officials so that law enforcement conducts itself in a way that is fair to everybody. It means enlisting the community actively on what should be everybody’s goal, and that is to prevent crime.

These are mere policing platitudes Obama is lip-syncing as he advances the notion that only black police officers are suited to work in black communities. We do not know that it makes a difference. In fact, enforced diversity can be deadly.

We know that in the rush to furnish communities with cops of the correct skin color corners are likely to get cut and people will die as a result. Economist John Lott found in a 2000 study that the apartheid approach to police staffing led to increases in violent crime, especially in black neighborhoods. This is because the forced lowering of standards put less-qualified officers of all skin colors on the streets.

Even though the justice system ultimately worked in Ferguson, Obama pretends there is still a problem because there aren’t enough blacks in the local constabulary, in his view. He urged communities “interested in working with this administration and local and state officials to start tackling much-needed criminal justice reform,” even though the Brown-Wilson saga does not prove any reform of the criminal justice system is needed.

Obama continued ignoring the facts, insisting there is a problem.

“We have made enormous progress in race relations over the course of the past several decades … but what is also true is that there are still problems and communities of color aren’t just making these problems up,” Obama said, again ignoring that there is no evidence of a problem.

“Those who are only interested in focusing on the violence and just want the problem to go away need to recognize that we do have work to do here, and we shouldn’t try to paper it over,” he said without proving there is any work to be done. “Whenever we do that, the anger may momentarily subside, but over time, it builds up and America isn’t everything that it could be.”

It is as if the psychosis our troubled president suffers from regarding Ebola, the virus Obama is lovingly importing from West Africa, has spread to other issues as well. Only Obama and his fellow travelers say there is a problem in Ferguson.

The mass hysteria over Michael Brown’s death that Obama and his allies generated continues.

It is yet another success for America’s first Alinskyite president.

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  • FedUpWithWelfareStates

    This display of Obama, Holder, et al, is exactly why we do not need Negroes in any leadership role at the federal level…They will not represent ALL of America…

  • MrUniteUs1

    No evidence that Brown hit Wilson in the face.
    No evidence that Brown grabbed Wilson’s gun.

    shot at Brown while he was alongside the car, and while chasing Brown down
    the street. A bullet grazed Brown’s arm causing him the flinch. It might
    have looked like a shot in the back from some angels. Wilson then
    stopped turned around and put his hand up. This according to several
    witnesses including 2 white construction workers. Wilson continued
    shooting. Brown stumbled forward and fell to his death.

    • ricpic

      The grand jury saw ALL the evidence and decided otherwise you lying scum.

      • MrUniteUs1

        What lie? Wilson said he was hit with a barrage of punches.
        Where’s the evidence?
        You don’t know if the grand jury received all of the evidence.
        Did the see the video of the two White constructions saying he had his effing hands up?
        You don’t know if any voted to send the case trial.
        Maybe none or maybe 8. 9 yes voted were needed to send the case to trial.

    • cjkcjk

      After reading the sum of your comment here and on other issues, I conclude YOU are a vile RACIST.

  • laura r

    holder says they are doing “more investigation”. he wont be happy untill DW is dead & body is displayed. they pulled this w/GZ. but michael brown is the bigone, maybe they will milk this? its a racewar for sure. i read wilson is getting 1/2million from PD when he retires. maybe he should just take off & live in south america or canada. somewhere which doesnt have an arrangement w/the US.

  • Steven Hecht

    Obama has shown himself in Ferguson. If anyone would like confirmation that Obama is a leftist radical, read
    http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dr-armando-de-la-torre-and-steve-hecht/obama-revealed-in-guatemala-policy/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=c72ce1cc97-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-c72ce1cc97-156990833

    Guatemalan leftist radicals criminally mistreat and oppress the peasants they claim to represent, using the same grouping message Obama uses. When the government acts to enforce the law, the radicals spin is they are “criminalizing social protest.” That is, the radicals are justified in committing any crime whatsoever because they represent, according to themselves, the aggrieved group.

    Does this type of thinking sound familiar? Of course, Obama must try to disguise this thinking for his U.S. audience, but his overt actions in support of violent, anti-American radicals in Guatemala who employ exactly the same techniques he uses clearly reveals the true Obama and helps put his Ferguson actions in context.

  • D.Watson

    Yes D Brown….exactly right.

  • hitz
    • UCSPanther

      Don’t give them any advice. The sagging pants makes it more difficult to run, and slower running = easier targets.

  • ElizabethAlexander

    “…I’ve instructed Attorney General Holder to work with cities across the country to help build better relations between communities and law enforcement.” Soooooo, the exact opposite is going to happen, then?

  • MrUniteUs1

    True but close range does not automatically mean, grabbing the gun. You can think of other scenarios. I know you can. Michaels Brown’s fingerprints were not found on the gun.

  • CapitalistPig

    I heard the President give his perfunctory calls for calm & civility in his opening remarks, move on to a few awkward comments then within a few minutes went into essentially apologizing to, rationalizing & egging on these Ferguson savages—I turned the TV to the Monday Night Football game in disgust. Who does he think he;s kidding?
    White liberals I suppose. Nature’s dumbest mammal.

    • FNLED

      Reading your stuff.

      A racist sociopath parody troll.

      Amirite?

      • CapitalistPig

        Look what it did for Lebron J of Miami Fl. You’ll have to read my profile.
        …….I rest my case.

      • CapitalistPig

        Went back & was reading yours–
        Limpwristed leftist nonsense based on the false premises of your discredited ideology–coupled with their usual intellectually lazy tactic of calling anyone & everyone who disagrees with you a racist.
        Politico & Media Matters?………really? Are these your only news sites? Maybe I didn’t go back far enough but that would explain a lot. I’ll bet you hang out with the Huffin-Glue Pest heavyweights too.
        Didn’t see you give any references to that Swizz Army knife of prog-lydyte talking points–Fox News. That tends to be coupled with the racism charge too so I’ll give you a little credit—-But I was getting bored, maybe I missed it.

        • FNLED

          I’ll give you a little credit too, in that I agree that men that have kids need to take responsibility for them.
          By force if necessary.
          Is that “limp wristed”?

          • CapitalistPig

            We used to have strong marriage laws, even stronger laws making divorce a gold plated pain in the @$$ & maybe more importantly, a culture that ostracized the divorced, dads who abandoned their children to single motherhood or the state & out of wedlock births.
            About the only thing that could be said for it was………it worked.
            Anything short of that is limpwristed IMHO. I’ll leave it to you to decide where you stand.

        • FNLED

          Media Matters isn’t a News site.

          Get informed.

          • CapitalistPig

            I use the term generically–as in news & opinion. Media Matters is a nutwad greased liberal chasing contest in print.
            Like Mother Jones between sessions with the bong.
            I used to read them when I was younger, along with Rolling Stone—after a short time it was obvious I wasn’t mature enough & actually having a job, didn’t have the time to read people telling me how gloomy life can be for 20 year old trust fund hippies.

        • FNLED

          False premises?
          Discredited ideology?

          Lots of assumptions in your post there.

          Let’s debate it.
          What “discredited ideology” do you want to ascribe to me?

          Then we’ll discuss Reaganomics and who’s winning the wealth redistribution battle the last 35 years.

          • CapitalistPig

            I don’t think equality of outcomes is possible—-more to the point though, it isn’t even desirable.
            If that’s your premise of discrediting Reagan–don’t bother, you already lost.