So the disclosure of Brown's strong arm robbery which occurred 10 minutes before meeting Officer Wilson is "character assassination?" But a smear on Officer Wilson's dead mother is supposed to mean anything at all?

You've already proved yourself a hateful racist by advocating the murder of "white oppressors," now you have proven you can't be taken seriously in anything you say.

So the officer was likely to kill a 300lb, 6'4" man because his mother, dead for a decade, was a grifter which may have pushed him to an unblemished career as a police officer?

Is that what you're trying to say??

So much for the family unit. Turns out that the murderer Darren Wilson came from bad stock, his thrice married mother was a convicted felon who preyed on her neighbors.

Mother of policeman who shot dead Michael Brown was 'a serial con artist who defrauded thousands of dollars from neighbors in stolen credit card scheme'

Neighbor's claim Wilson's mother was a known con artist
She would allegedly befriend people in the community and steal their identifies to take out loans and rack up credit card debt
Durso died when her son - now 28 - was about 18.
Neighbors claim the policeman accused of shooting dead an unarmed teenager in St Louis had a serial con woman for a mother, MailOnline can reveal.
Darren Wilson?s mother Tonya Durso won the trust of her neighbors then cheated them out of hundreds of thousands of dollars by stealing their identities and taking out vast loans and credit card debt.
At the time she committed the offenses she was on parole for similar crimes elsewhere the state and afterwards died at the age of 35 under mysterious circumstances.
Neighbors today revealed how they were stunned that Wilson became a police officer after his mother behaved so deviously towards them.

Wilson was finally named on Friday by police in Ferguson, a suburb of St Louis, in Missouri that has been torn apart by five nights of protests and rioting over the death of Michael Brown, 18.
Wilson accused by witnesses of shooting him even though he had his hands up.
Ferguson police only disclosed his name after coming under intense pressure and facing lawsuits by civil liberties groups.
Wilson is 28 and currently lives in Crestwood, a suburb of St Louis which is 94 per cent white and 1.6 per cent black.
His house is a $180,000 bungalow with a pool and a basketball hoop in the drive on a sleepy street in a neighborhood that one resident described as 'solidly middle class'.
But Wilson?s life has not always been so idyllic.
He grew up in St Peters, another majority white suburb of St Louis, where his family were popular and well thought of - until his mother?s deception was exposed.
She had three children by at least two different men and lived with her husband at the time in a large detached bungalow on the leafy street.
Mickelle Gordon, 39, a dental assistant, lived over the road from the family and said that Wilson's mother was ?charismatic? and ?charming? and first targeted her brother Jason, who lost tens of thousands including some of his pension.
Gordon said: ?He used to work lots and saved all his money. She said that she was an investor and that she could help him.
?She got his social security number and stole his identity. She used it to take out loans, credit cards and went through his savings. He never got it back?.

After that she fooled Gordon?s mother Sandy Finney, 67, an office manager, and stole her ID too.
Finney said: ?My husband and I were naive. She cleaned us out for at least $100,000 and $30,000 in cash which we didn?t get back.?
She explained that his mother used to intercept her mail and sent of for pre-approved credit cards that she would use herself.
She got into do much debt that she had to take out one loan after another just to keep the scam afloat.
Finney claimed that Wilson's mother made a copy of the key they had left by the front door to let herself in when she wanted, using the cover story that she was letting the cat back in the house.
But really she was forwarding her calls from creditors to her own number so Finney had no idea how much debt she was in.

The charade came tumbling down in February 2001 when Finney was told by her own bank that she could not deposit any money and the authorities were alerted.
According to public records Wilson's mother pleaded guilty to six counts of forgery and one count of stealing at the 11th Judicial Court in St Louis.
In 1998 she had already admitted another six counts of stealing in an unrelated matter.
His mother's victims say however that she did not serve any time in jail and went into bankruptcy in October 2002
The following month she died.
Finney said: ?They were not able to tell us if it was a suicide. As a victim you are not told anything?.
Only afterwards did she discover that his mother was on probation in Washington, Missouri, for doing something similar to somebody else.
Finney added: ?I?m surprised Wilson passed the background checks to become a policeman. People can change but that was a bad home. His mother was a serial conwoman?.
Wilson's mother died when he would have been 16.

What effect that had on him at that age is unclear, but it appears that he bounced around the St Louis area at a number of addresses.
At the age of 22 for reasons only Wilson knows, he signed up to join the police and live a life on the other side of the law from that which his mother chose.
At Wilson?s current home, neighbors knew nothing of his dark family past and their biggest concern was that rioters would come and wreck the street if they found out where he lived.
A female school teacher told MailOnline: ?Our neighborhood didn't do anything wrong. I'm worried people are going to come up here and start looting.
'They just moved in and seemed like nice people.
'Things are pretty quiet round here'.
Nobody answered at the door when MailOnline visited.
A husband and wife in their 60s who had lived in the neighborhood for many years said that it was full of respectable people.
The man said: 'Crime is not really an issue around here. The biggest thing we have to worry about is the occasional party from teenagers but we don't have any at the moment?
In a surprising twist, it can also be revealed that Wilson won a commendation for 'extraordinary effort in the line of duty' in February, according to NBC's Tom Winter.
He spent four years with the Ferguson police department and two previous years in the Jennings district, Winter said.
Neighbors told USA Today that Wilson was 'tall and slim' and was often seen walking his dog.
Another neighbor, Ron Gorski, told USA Today: 'He's a young guy. 'Things happen and it's a complicated situation. I feel for the family and the entire country.'
Ferguson police chief Thomas Jackson said the shooting had been 'devastating, absolutely devastating' to Wilson, adding: 'We had no complaints about the officer. He was a gentleman. A quiet officer. He has been an effective officer.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic ... n-credit-card-scheme.html

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Nonsense is ignoring the freaking video that shows Brown robbing a store and assaulting a much smaller man minutes before his confrontation with a police officer who has an unblemished record.

And nonsense is ignoring the video and audio taken in real time by a witness saying that Brown was running towards, not away, from the policeman, putting the 'hands in the air, don't shoot' meme in the garbage pail.

As always, you're entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.

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Countries have gone to war for less. This incident was a tipping point. How much injustice would you suffer peacefully and silently?

Look why don't you incontrovertible trolls (Monroe, JCMan, Devils and a couple of others like them) do us all a favor and use your "talents" and tactics elsewhere such as this site for Darren Wilson. People have said wait for all the facts and you are concocting what happened as though it's indisputable fact (Brown beat him because he stole cigars, eye socket fracture, Wilson fearful for his life, when Brown lunged at him, he was forced to shoot him dead, case closed) You were not there and then have the audacity to say all of the other eyewitnesses are lying. Like Trayvon and your zealous defense of Zimmerman (another incident none of you was present but nonetheless professed to know all the facts), it's obvious to me that a lot of your views emanate from a taint of anti-blackness and "well he had it coming" mentality. Asif pointed it out when one of you said "oh they are all animals anyway" Once you go there, it demonstrates the caliber of people you are and shows that you feel you're the arbiter of who deserves to live and die. Darren Wilson like George Zimmerman can also lie as the people they killed aren't there to tell their version of the events. Also, why wasn't a police incident report been filed.

GO HERE WITH YOUR ILK http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2 ... on-donors-racist-ferguson

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/03/opi ... -oath.html?pagewanted=all

And spare the hyperbolic lynching rhetoric. You really should be ashamed of yourself. George Zimmerman is still alive despite your saying the same thing about him (these blacks will lynch him). And if you want to know about real lynching, read up on the looting, vandalism and murder of black women, men and children in the St. Louis Riots of 1917. http://teachinghistory.org/history-content/ask-a-historian/24297

And Webmaster, I don't know if you're just inordinately busy, don't care and just want clicks, but I thought you had a tenets of community behavior/TOS for this site about people conducting themselves appropriately on this site. Dissent and debate is encouraged but you have strormfront trolls on this site. Do you want to encourage that nonsense?

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Remember that Brown's body showed "no signs of struggle." So even if this new shady rumor is true, it shows that Brown was punching the officer in the face and did not get hit back.

In my opinion, the single most crucial fact will be whether Brown's fingerprints are on the officer's gun. If true, it would prove that he did punch the officer in the face and tried to grab his gun. There is simply no acceptable reason for a suspect's fingerprints to be on a gun. Good luck telling that to the race baiters though.

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In a peaceful manner, which they have utterly failed to do, and you have utterly failed to comprehend.

Instead we have lootings and arson on one hand and constant demands for lynch mob style "justice" on the other. I bet if people knew where Officer Wilson is right now, someone from the mob would kill him.

The Ferguson community at large will not be happy until the officer is convicted of murder, regardless of the truth or what any facts have to say.

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From the Salon non-piece linked above

Now, CNN?s Don Lemon has reported that Wilson did not, in fact, have a broken eye socket, but was treated at the hospital for swelling around his face and eyes. Lemon has not revealed the source of the information, citing instead ?a source close to the investigation,? which, frankly, is just as shady as the opposing rumors.

Eye socket fracture not true apparently http://www.salon.com/2014/08/21/cnn_r ... d_a_fractured_eye_socket/

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Which 5?

People are called trolls when they are trolling. Period. All five of you guys are trolls, this is my last comment on this subject because none of you trolls really care about whats going on down there. Have a great day trolling.

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The Ferguson community has every right to voice their concerns about justice not being served. If it's not transparently fair and impartial, then they're right - there is a problem.

The police are rightly held to a higher standard given their position of trust, and privileges that they enjoy and we don't. In this high-profile case justice is more likely to be served given all the attention, but we haven't yet answered "day-to-day, who polices the police?" in this country.

I guess people are called trolls if they point out that

Brown robbed a store minutes before (video evidence)

Brown assaulted a store employee minutes before (video evidence)

Brown was charging a policeman when he was shot (from a real time video taken by an eyewitness)

Brown was shot in the front, not behind (from each autopsy performed, including one commissioned by his family)

Brown broke the eye socket of the policeman when assaulting him.

The policeman had a clean record with not a single civilian complaint lodged against him.

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I posted an article that you demonstrably failed to comprehend, despite feeling the need to comment on it, and it is the article that is stupid and not you?

The posts from you two are a perfect example of political correctness in action. You know, the type to freely use and abuse the rhetoric of virtue in an effort to enforce conformity and silence dissent.

Read that exhaustive list. So many different types of people whose opinion you simply will not tolerate. An endless list of "trolls."

Unfortunately you have finally gone too far. You cannot silence dissent because the core of your position is rotted. Have you ever thought that equality means you don't get a free pass on bad behavior because of race? Has the Ferguson community thought that maybe justice includes judging others in the same manner as they want to be judged? The truly amazing thing is they are treating this officer in the same manner or far worse than they claim to be judged when they interact with the police.

Nailed it USER. Basically classified the loquacious ignoramuses on this thread: JCMan, Monroe, Devils, aka TRIPTYCH TROLLS

If you're paying attention to the events unfolding in Ferguson -- and by God, you better be -- then you probably already know there is a group of people in this country of ours who are determined to change the focus of the conversation about the killing of Mike Brown and the subsequent protests, attempting to shift the lens away from the Constitutional rights of U.S. citizens and the killing of a black teenager. If you're reading this, you probably already know the folks I'm talking about. But here they are. #Staywoke.

The Full-Blown Racist Troll
Block on sight. Some of them are friends of your Facebook friends -- block them. Some of them are your Facebook friends. Many of them are accounts like the one I have screenshotted below: anonymous and relying on blatantly racist language, such as blackface imagery, monkey references, use of the N-word, etc. These have exploded over the last week. We're talking hundreds. I've been using Twitter avidly for years and I can't recall ever seeing quite this much racist bile taking over an event-related hashtag (#Ferguson) as I have this week. Block them and report them for spam immediately.

The "Wait for Evidence" Troll
This troll may or may not be anonymous and pretends to be focused on respecting and upholding the law. "We don't know what happened yet," they say, "wait for evidence before you lambast an officer of the law." They pretend that things like racism, police brutality, police corruption, etc. don't exist and insist that if concrete evidence is released, they will be swayed to feel "sympathy" for Mike Brown. But they won't. When evidence arises, they find objection to its relevance or veracity. They then transform into The "Mike Brown Shouldn't Have [insert human action here]" Troll, to follow.

The "Mike Brown Shouldn't Have [insert human action here]" Troll
This troll (and the others as well) will go great lengths to justify the taking of black life. "He shouldn't have run," "he shouldn't have been sagging," "he shouldn't have been walking down the middle of the street," "he shouldn't have stolen something." These trolls come in all races and will insist that when a police officer (or a homeowner, or a security guard) assaults a person of color, that person must have done something to deserve it. The fact that Mike Brown was shot at least 6 times doesn't register as overkill, even when two of those shots were in the head. They will also extend effort to paint Ferguson as a ghetto, where this kind of thing happens all the time. Nope. Ferguson, Missouri had zero murders.

The "Police Are the Good Guys" Troll
These folks have a blissfully na?ve version of police in their heads, the one fed to them since they were children that says police are the good guys and that no matter what they do, they must have had a reason. These people have no concept -- or pretend to have no concept -- of the depth of white supremacy and the way it is ingrained in every facet of our culture... even our police. Because they believe the police are always right -- and usually because they also believe that groups of black people are inherently violent -- they have no qualms about police dressed in military gear, sitting on tanks and tear-gassing American citizens. 'Murica. You may also hear these trolls say, "What about due process?" Well... we would proceed with due process. If they would actually arrest Darren Wilson. Which they haven't. So...

The "Violence Just Begets More Violence" Troll
These people are the riot-shamers. They roll out the word "looters!" at every chance and are not interested in the fact that only a small number of people at the protests have actively looted, or that Ferguson protestors actually locked arms to prevent said looting. These trolls hide behind anonymous accounts, they masquerade as sane coworkers, and they work for CNN and other major media outlets. They focus on the "unrest" in Ferguson and talk about it out of context in an attempt to 1) divert attention away from the killing of an unarmed black teenager and/or 2) disguise their lack of critical thought. As Mia McKenzie of Black Girl Dangerous said so well in this post:

"a community pushing back against a murderous police force that is terrorizing them is not a 'riot.' It's an uprising. It's a rebellion. It's a community saying We can't take this anymore. We won't take it. It's people who have been dehumanized to the point of rightful rage. And it happens all over the world. Uprisings and rebellions are necessary and inevitable, locally and globally. This is not to say that actual riots don't happen. White folks riot at sporting events, for example. Riots happen. But people rising up in righteous anger and rage in the face of oppression should not be dismissed as simply a 'riot.'"
The Concern Troll
These are among the more passive aggressive trolls you will encounter. They not only target victims like Mike Brown with statements like "I wish he hadn't stolen those cigars: he might be alive," but target the community as well, saying things like "Should they really be out there protesting with little kids? I worry about that kind of parenting."

Let me make one thing clear in case you weren't sure: these people aren't worried about the children of Ferguson. They're not actually "concerned" at all," despite their title. These people employ words like "worry" and "I wish" and "concern" to communicate their disapproval of black people doing anything besides playing the Martin Baker role. If they were actually concerned, they would see the images of police with hidden badge numbers, tear-gassing eight-year old girls, and be concerned about the escalation of violence police in Ferguson are responsible for.

The "But What About Black on Black Crime!" Troll
Yes, 85 percent of violent crime against black people is perpetuated by other black people. But guess what? The exact same is true for violent crime committed against white people: the vast majority of those crimes are committed by other white people. People who use the term "black on black crime" either 1) work for Fox News, 2) are seeking to portray black people as violent and out of control, and/or 3) seek to portray black people as only caring about black lives when there is a way to blame white people. Let's run that back: 1) If they work for Fox News...you already know. 2) If we're going to make sweeping statements about people being violent and out of control, perhaps we should focus on young white males. 3) Anyone who would fit with #3 is not interested in facts, otherwise they would be aware of the vast number of organizations and movements to end gun violence in black neighborhoods... spearheaded by black people. The real motivation behind this troll (and all of them really) is to distract from the matter at hand, and that's that an unarmed black teen is dead.

The "Don't Make This A Racial Issue!" Troll
These are the pearl-clutchers. "This could have happened to anyone! Let's not make this a racial issue and instead focus on getting this cop off the street!" Yes, we should focus on getting this cop off the street, but we must also focus on the conditions that made this killing possible, and that is one of racism, white supremacy, and police violence that has been being built and rebuilt since the birth of this country. No, this wouldn't have just happened to anyone. A black male is killed by police every 28 hours in America. This is a racial issue.

These trolls will also accuse you of being racist for talking about racism and start quoting to you all the times black people perpetuated "reverse racism" against white people. Suggested action? Block and keep it moving.

The Misinformation Bots
These are particularly dangerous and I have seen a lot of them in the past week. I won't speculate on where they come from -- although I have a fairly good idea -- but their sole purpose is to spread misinformation about Mike Brown and Darren Wilson, targeting people tweeting under the #Ferguson and #MikeBrown hashtags and sending them to false articles on homemade websites about alternate eyewitnesses that saw Brown attack Wilson, etc. Don't engage with these people: they likely get paid for it. Report them as spam and, you guessed it: keep it moving.

The "I Wish We Could All Just Get Along" Troll
These trolls might mean well. They might. But that doesn't mean they're not trolls. You post/tweet an article and they tweet back, "This is all really bad, but I wish this wasn't happening. Can't we all just get along?" They're trolling you. We all wish we could get along. But right now a boy is dead and is receiving no justice by the system that supposedly exists to protect him. Injecting Pollyanna-isms aren't helping anyone. If you really want to help and the frontlines aren't for you, just donate to the Michael Brown Memorial Fund. And stay out of the way.

This isn't an exhaustive list. When a black person is killed in America, trolls come out of the woodwork in an attempt to justify or distract from the taking of that life. After finishing this post, I'm not even sure "troll" is the right word, but I'm not sure if I have a better one either. Weights, perhaps. Cinder blocks shackled to the rising tide of Americans who want better, believe in better; who see the killing of another black kid in America and say "enough." These people are not merely trolls. "Troll" implies something harmless, a faceless entity in the underbelly of the Internet. These people are not harmless. They are part of the problem. Unfortunately I don't have a solution for the problem they pose: they are not interested in self-education. They are not interested in empathy. They are not interested in challenging the worldview that has tucked them in at night and told them the police are here for our protection and that black people deserve what they get. They are interested only in standing very still, while the rest of us move forward. All I can say is this: move on without them. Block, report, and move on without them. Even when they're friends.


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Of course but this goes far beyond that. Al Sharpton and the rest of the race baiters are actively encouraging lynch mob justice, and anarchy. If they truly had their way, the looting, rioting, and arson which occurred in Ferguson would be repeated throughout the country.

They should be locked up based on that alone, but instead, liberal slop like MSNBC gives him a platform and a microphone. It is a very sad state of affairs in our society when indefensible behavior is not only defended (by some), but actively encouraged.

Honestly, it is scary stuff. Pretty sure if MB had killed the white cop (or even a 7 year old white child) no one would be protesting.

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Some of them claim the robbery video was photoshopped. We are dealing with people going through unimaginable mental gymnastics to justify their utterly indefensible positions.

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The race-baiters will claim the fingerprints were placed there after the fact. Even if they had video of Brown charging the cop they'll deny it, like they claim the robbery and assault by Brown at the store has no relevance to the situation.

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The store owner probably made that up because he knew the upstanding members of the Ferguson community would retaliate against him for calling police. Too bad they did anyway.

Anyway you raise an irrelevant point. We already know Officer Wilson was not responding to the robbery. The reason Brown's robbery is relevant is because it happened 10 minutes before meeting Wilson. He had no way of knowing Wilson DIDNT know. It also makes it far more understandable why he attacked Wilson, because he didn't want to get busted for it.

Finally, there are rumors that Brown's fingerprints are on the gun, and the report is being shown to the Grand Jury. If true, it essentially 100% proves the cop was telling the truth. That 300 pound Brown punched him in the face, fracturing his eye socket, Brown tried to grab his gun, Wilson got a shot off, Brown ran, but turned around and started charging at his weakened foe.

The truth will come out soon enough.

How could the cops search for a robber matching a description when the store owner is saying that he never called the cops?

It certainly seems like there is a lot of missing information...

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Yes but the vast majority of arrests were from the surrounding area so I'm not sure of your point.

Also the shopkeeper that Brown robbed made a point of saying that he didn't call the police after the robbery. Why? Because he feared retaliation from the upstanding members of the local community. Too bad this didn't work and his store was looted anyway.

Of 163 arrests since shooting, only 7 from Ferguson

Read more: http://www.kmbc.com/news/of-163-arres ... on/27662362#ixzz3B3e5hMD4

Quote: Oh look, it is OS trying to be funny again! And failing, as usual! Points for effort? Unfortunately, no. I'm happy with incisive, I'm fine with funny, and both is even better. Pity you can't manage either.

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Sorry you posted an incredibly stupid article that made no freakin' sense. If you thought it was intelligent analysis then I strongly suggest you focus your pity inward.

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Thanks JCmanH8, I had not seen this picture, no doubt part of some vast liberal media conspiracy. It does indeed lend credence to your theory that Mike Brown was a large black male.
It's probably best if you stick to posting pictures from now on, I know you don't like reading articles.

Here's a picture of the murderer Darren Wilson. As you can see he is a fine genetic specimen. Ape arms that reach down to his knees, ears that look like they can pick up Direct TV and a magnificent dome topped off with the ever-popular male pattern baldness.




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Well you certainly have low reading comprehension and you clearly have difficulty constructing sentences and expressing yourself. So my pity stands.
I made no claim, I posted an article which you read and that lump of pork fat you call a brain processed it as meaning there was a group of white supremacists in Ferguson, MO.