Ferguson police execute an unarmed 17 yr old boy (Update: Ferguson police chief to resign 3/19)
- Thread starter Canon
- Start date
fukking disgusting. Someone needs to "see" McCullough real soon.
so is this the thread to talk about this bullshyt?
Report: Darren Wilson's Key Witness Lied About Everything
In a damning new report by the Smoking Gun, a crucial witness in the grand jury deciding whether to indict former Ferguson, Mo. police officer Darren Wilson is revealed as having fabricated her eyewitness account of the altercation between Wilson and unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown on Aug. 9. "Witness 40," identified as 45-year-old Sandra McElroy, has a documented history of racist remarks, criminal behavior, and mental illness.
"Witness 40": Exposing A Fraud In Ferguson
Read more thesmokinggun.com
McElroy's testimony has been latched on toby Wilson defenders because of how closely her report matched the embattled police officer's. But as the Smoking Gun points out, the timing of McElroy's interviews with authorities is suspicious: Both her statement to St. Louis police on Sept. 11 and another to Justice Department prosecutors on Oct. 22 immediately followed stories detailing Wilson's account of the day:
McElroy provided the federal investigators with an account that neatly tracked with Wilson's version of the fatal confrontation. She claimed to have seen Brown and Johnson walking in the street before Wilson encountered them while seated in his patrol car. She said that the duo shoved the cruiser's door closed as Wilson sought to exit the vehicle, then watched as Brown leaned into the car and began raining punches on the cop. McElroy claimed that she heard gunfire from inside the car, which prompted Brown and Johnson to speed off. As Brown ran, McElroy said, he pulled up his sagging pants, from which "his rear end was hanging out."
But instead of continuing to flee, Brown stopped and turned around to face Wilson, McElroy said. The unarmed teenager, she recalled, gave Wilson a "What are you going to do about it look," and then "bent down in a football position…and began to charge at the officer." Brown, she added, "looked like he was on something." As Brown rushed Wilson, McElroy said, the cop began firing. The "grunting" teenager, McElroy recalled, was hit with a volley of shots, the last of which drove Brown "face first" into the roadway.
"I know what I seen," she apparently told skeptical investigators. "I know you don't believe me." Her story of how she wound up in Ferguson that day doesn't sound convincing, either:
When asked what she was doing in Ferguson—which is about 30 miles north of her home—McElroy explained that she was planning to "pop in" on a former high school classmate she had not seen in 26 years. Saddled with an incorrect address and no cell phone, McElroy claimed that she pulled over to smoke a cigarette and seek directions from a black man standing under a tree. In short order, the violent confrontation between Brown and Wilson purportedly played out in front of McElroy.
But when she testified before the grand jury charged with deciding whether to indict Wilson, her story changed:
McElroy, again under oath, explained to grand jurors that she was something of an amateur urban anthropologist. Every couple of weeks, McElroy testified, she likes to "go into all the African-American neighborhoods." During these weekend sojourns—apparently conducted when her ex has the kids—McElroy said she will "go in and have coffee and I will strike up a conversation with an African-American and I will try to talk to them because I'm trying to understand more."
McElroy also brought a highly-touted journal with alleged entries penned in the days surrounding Michael Brown's killing. The entry dated Aug. 9 starts, "Well Im gonna take my random drive to Florisant. Need to understand the Black race better so I stop calling Blacks ******s and Start calling them People."
No Justice: Darren Wilson Walks Free as Grand Jury Fails to Indict
Read more
If McElroy's testimony in Darren Wilson's grand jury proves to have been made up, this will not have been the first eyewitness report she fabricated:
McElroy's devotion to the truth—lacking during her appearances before the Ferguson grand jury—was also absent in early-2007 when she fabricated a bizarre story in the wake of the rescue of Shawn Hornbeck, a St. Louis boy who had been held captive for more than four years by Michael Devlin, a resident of Kirkwood, a city just outside St. Louis.
McElroy, who also lived in Kirkwood, told KMOV-TV that she had known Devlin for 20 years. She also claimed to have gone to the police months after the child's October 2002 disappearance to report that she had seen Devlin with Hornbeck. The police, McElroy said, checked out her tip and determined that the boy with Devlin was not Hornbeck.
In the face of McElroy's allegations, the Kirkwood Police Department fired back at her. Cops reported that they investigated her claim and determined that "we have no record of any contact with Mrs. McElroy in regards to Shawn Hornbeck." The police statement concluded, "We have found that this story is a complete fabrication."
According to the Smoking Gun, McElroy was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at age 16 and has gone untreated for the condition for 25 years. She also has a history of posting racist comments on social media:
An examination of McElroy's YouTube page, which she apparently shares with one of her daughters, reveals other evidence of racial animus. Next to a clip about the disappearance of a white woman who had a baby with a black man is the comment, "see what happens when you bed down with a monkey have ape babies and party with them." A clip about the sentencing of two black women for murder is captioned, "put them monkeys in a cage."
McElroy's YouTube page is also filled with a variety of anti-Barack Obama videos, including a clip purporting to show Michelle Obama admitting that the president was born in Kenya. Over the past year, McElroy has subscribed to three channels devoted to mystery and real crime shows, as well as a "We Are Darren Wilson" video channel.
McElroy has rarely used her Twitter account, though she did post a message in late-October in response to a news report that several Ferguson drug cases had to be dropped because Darren Wilson failed to show up for court hearings. "drug thug will be arrested again who cares," wrote McElroy.
And her behavior on Facebook indicates a bias toward Wilson's story:
In the weeks after Brown's shooting—but before she contacted police—McElroy used her Facebook account to comment on the case. On August 15, she "liked' a Facebook comment reporting that Johnson had admitted that he and Brown stole cigars before the confrontation with Wilson. On August 17, a Facebook commenter wrote that Johnson and others should be arrested for inciting riots and giving false statements to police in connection with their claims that Brown had his hands up when shot by Wilson. "The report and autopsy are in so YES they were false," McElroy wrote of the "hands-up" claims. This appears to be an odd comment from someone who claims to have been present during the shooting. In response to the posting of a news report about a rally in support of Wilson, McElroy wrote on August 17, "Prayers, support God Bless Officer Wilson."
Multiple attempts by the Smoking Gun to contact McElroy—including her three Facebook pages—were left unanswered.
Don't know when people will realize this
Don Lemons dumb ass reporting on John Crawford like he was just killed today. Stupid ass is clueless, asking will John Crawford death now add to the protests.
That guy is horrible. Just bad
you see why its funny to me our generation gets this "you guys dont read" generalization nonsense? your fiance's mom was saying the same sort of nonsense my mom was saying. Notice how she mentioned looting not happening in Dr. King's time when people who really fought in that time would start laughing their ass off at her.....but they talk about us not reading yet your more knowledgeable than her in this matter(im gonna assume your a young breh but maybe im wrong and your older)...
the only temporary cure for people like this is for them to actually read things like jim crow as christmas gifts so they do not continuously pull facts out their ass...shyt gets mee heated. these the same type of people that shyt on Malcolm X .
notPsychosiz
I started this gangsta sh-
The Nigerian
The Realest Member of TheColi
The system is working exactly as intended.
JasonSJackson
Jah Sun Ma'at Ra
A gofundme for the accused is pending.
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/cop-...or-no-traffic-violation.276488/#post-11373080
For those that really want to make a statement, this is the opportunity.
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/cop-...or-no-traffic-violation.276488/#post-11373080
For those that really want to make a statement, this is the opportunity.
loyola llothta
☭☭☭
loyola llothta
☭☭☭
What happened to Brandon Tate-Brown?
In any situation that wants to be thorough and fair, there are systematic protocols. In the case of how police deal with the public, these exist.
In the case of how the public deals with the police, however, usually the media is tasked with the job of getting the story from police for the public. That’s typically our (the public’s) system, or protocol, of sorts, used for getting answers out of the local authority. But, in the last 24 hours, Brandon Tate-Brown’s case has gone silent.
In the few articles the Philly media provided, they made it a point to emphasize that he had a “detailed” criminal past. Yes, we get that he’s had a past. Philadelphia police, themselves, have a not so shiny past. But as we can clearly see from his journaling via social media, he was very much in the process of regretting and righting his wrongs.
Tate-Brown, in the last two weeks on social media had detailed, almost every morning, his excitement about going to work. He announced his new apartment and car in the subsequent weeks after getting a 9-to-5. He was even working overtime due to the amount of money it produced. Just days before he was gunned down, he posted on Facebook that he was going to be attending school.
If it weren’t for his Facebook profile being set to public, we would not have known any of that.
It seems, these days, the media has become more of a mouthpiece for the police and government than they are for the local people.
I’m hoping the next wave of Philly media information not only keeps away from re-killing a dead man via his reputation, but that it represents the info that people want to — need to — know about what happened on that night Tate-Brown was pulled over.
In light of the recent events in Ferguson, Ohio, and New York City, I would think there should be a heightened sense of getting a steady stream of information on a case like this to the inquiring public. Because, after all, if you want to win back or keep trust, you have to do a little extra work — especially if times are tough. That’s just how human interaction typically works.
On Monday morning, December 15, 2014, Brandon Tate-Brown, 26, was gunned down on the 6600 block of Franklin Ave in Philadelphia at the hands of law-enforcement. The story, which immediately garnered attention from the public and media, produced a steady stream of information, to begin.
The story went as such: Tate-Brown was pulled over somewhere around 2:40 a.m. According to police, he was driving with his headlights off, and that’s why he was pulled over. Police said, when they approached the car — a Dodge Charger with Florida tags — they saw a handgun on/in the center console.
They asked Tate-Brown to exit.
From there, the first flag goes up for me. Here are two different ways Philadelphia reporters have phrased the story transition from that point:
The first reporter, Philadelphia Inquirer writer, Aubrey Whelan, writes:
Later, a Daily News reporter, Vinny Vella, posted this description of the transition:
Which leaves me to ask, what, exactly, happened after a compliant Brandon Tate-Brown pulled over, and a compliant Brandon Tate-Brown exited his vehicle at request of the police officers?
One thing is for certain, something happened in between that we haven’t been told yet.
There have been pictures floating around (that I won’t post on this blog) of Tate-Brown’s body laying twisted on the sidewalk by the open passenger side door of his Dodge Charger.
The police say he went for his gun, and that’s when he was shot — with a single bullet — to the back of his head, and he died.
If his body was not moved, I’m struggling to imagine what happened, being that the bullet shell-casing was marked on the driver’s side several inches left of his bumper/muffler. (Note: the following pictures are from live shots taken just over two hours later.)
If the Philly police’s narrative is going to be: “We asked him to get out of the car, and a struggle ensured, and he forced his way back into the car to go for gun.” My questions are:
Here’s another reason “Why did the struggle start” is important: Because how do they KNOWhe was going for his gun? Are they just assuming? How can we assume he was going for gun? We need to know what happened during the encounter. Dash cam video (which I’m almost positive Philly police have) would be very clutch. We’ve seen plenty of cases where cops have reacted prematurely in fear letting shots off even after telling the vehicle driver to reach for something.
In any situation that wants to be thorough and fair, there are systematic protocols. In the case of how police deal with the public, these exist.
In the case of how the public deals with the police, however, usually the media is tasked with the job of getting the story from police for the public. That’s typically our (the public’s) system, or protocol, of sorts, used for getting answers out of the local authority. But, in the last 24 hours, Brandon Tate-Brown’s case has gone silent.
In the few articles the Philly media provided, they made it a point to emphasize that he had a “detailed” criminal past. Yes, we get that he’s had a past. Philadelphia police, themselves, have a not so shiny past. But as we can clearly see from his journaling via social media, he was very much in the process of regretting and righting his wrongs.
Tate-Brown, in the last two weeks on social media had detailed, almost every morning, his excitement about going to work. He announced his new apartment and car in the subsequent weeks after getting a 9-to-5. He was even working overtime due to the amount of money it produced. Just days before he was gunned down, he posted on Facebook that he was going to be attending school.
If it weren’t for his Facebook profile being set to public, we would not have known any of that.
It seems, these days, the media has become more of a mouthpiece for the police and government than they are for the local people.
I’m hoping the next wave of Philly media information not only keeps away from re-killing a dead man via his reputation, but that it represents the info that people want to — need to — know about what happened on that night Tate-Brown was pulled over.
In light of the recent events in Ferguson, Ohio, and New York City, I would think there should be a heightened sense of getting a steady stream of information on a case like this to the inquiring public. Because, after all, if you want to win back or keep trust, you have to do a little extra work — especially if times are tough. That’s just how human interaction typically works.
On Monday morning, December 15, 2014, Brandon Tate-Brown, 26, was gunned down on the 6600 block of Franklin Ave in Philadelphia at the hands of law-enforcement. The story, which immediately garnered attention from the public and media, produced a steady stream of information, to begin.
The story went as such: Tate-Brown was pulled over somewhere around 2:40 a.m. According to police, he was driving with his headlights off, and that’s why he was pulled over. Police said, when they approached the car — a Dodge Charger with Florida tags — they saw a handgun on/in the center console.
They asked Tate-Brown to exit.
From there, the first flag goes up for me. Here are two different ways Philadelphia reporters have phrased the story transition from that point:
The first reporter, Philadelphia Inquirer writer, Aubrey Whelan, writes:
Later, a Daily News reporter, Vinny Vella, posted this description of the transition:
Which leaves me to ask, what, exactly, happened after a compliant Brandon Tate-Brown pulled over, and a compliant Brandon Tate-Brown exited his vehicle at request of the police officers?
One thing is for certain, something happened in between that we haven’t been told yet.
There have been pictures floating around (that I won’t post on this blog) of Tate-Brown’s body laying twisted on the sidewalk by the open passenger side door of his Dodge Charger.
The police say he went for his gun, and that’s when he was shot — with a single bullet — to the back of his head, and he died.
If his body was not moved, I’m struggling to imagine what happened, being that the bullet shell-casing was marked on the driver’s side several inches left of his bumper/muffler. (Note: the following pictures are from live shots taken just over two hours later.)
If the Philly police’s narrative is going to be: “We asked him to get out of the car, and a struggle ensured, and he forced his way back into the car to go for gun.” My questions are:
- Why did the struggle start?
- Why did he go from completely compliant to non-compliant in an instant?
- Where was the struggle? What side of the car?
- If the struggle moved to the other side of the car, then how did the bullet shell casing land where it did? (Drivers side)
- Did you move the body?
- Did you move the bullet shell-casing?
Here’s another reason “Why did the struggle start” is important: Because how do they KNOWhe was going for his gun? Are they just assuming? How can we assume he was going for gun? We need to know what happened during the encounter. Dash cam video (which I’m almost positive Philly police have) would be very clutch. We’ve seen plenty of cases where cops have reacted prematurely in fear letting shots off even after telling the vehicle driver to reach for something.
loyola llothta
☭☭☭
More on that lying bytch witness #40, good read
anyone from the DC area know if the protests will still be going on next week? i'll be in the area at that time and plan on participating.
PoPimp84
All Star
His bytch ass contradicted himself throughout the whole interview.
lip-less devils