Quote:Bob Schroeck wrote:It's standard practice when cops kill someone for them to put out whatever they can find to make the dead guy look bad. Kind of like how they killed that guy in New York for breaking up a fight, and then announced that he'd previously been arrested for the heinous crime of selling untaxed cigarettes. Pretty soon, the media had forgotten about the fight entirely and was claiming he was being arrested for selling cigarettes when he died.
Talking about dick moves by the Ferguson P.D., what do you think of them releasing a video that purports to show the shooting victim robbing a convenience store, allegedly recorded some months ago? "See, see, he was a criminal, so we were right to shoot him!" is of course the implicit message here. You can tell from the sound bites on the radio that the governor and the chief of the state police are so clearly pissed at the Ferguson police chief for pulling this, but are trying not sound like it.
All this does is make it clear Ferguson's police are just playing CYA. Have they been spending the past four-five days doing nothing but playing soldier and trying to find a justification?
The fact that it took them six days to announce that he "matched the description of a suspect" (for our foreign readers, that's a common US police euphemism for "black") pretty strongly suggests that he had a spotless record and they were completely unable to dig up any dirt on him.