In the nearly two weeks since Officer Darren Wilson killed unarmed pot-smoking gang-sign-flashing teenager Michael Brown, residents of Ferguson and of St. Louis County and of Missouri and of the entire world, basically, have been demanding answers to some pretty basic questions, including "WHAT THE EFF?!?!?" The Ferguson Police Department has been reluctant to answer any such questions or provide the department's Here's What The Eff Happened Report, and now we know why:
Larry O&#039;Donnell had a copy of the report on his <a href="http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/the-last-word" target="_blank">show </a>last night. It wasn&#039;t very helpful, and appeared to have been prepared that morning. It <i>was</i> typed up, though. These people have standards.
O&#039;Donnell&#039;s theory was that the cop went straight to his lawyer after the shooting, and the lawyer said, &quot;Holy crap, man, we can&#039;t let an ignorant racist like you incriminate himself in his own report, so don&#039;t file one.&quot;
I&#039;m sure the conservative media will be howling about giving him the chance to get all lawyered up and saying that he should have been sent straight to Gitmo instead. Thanks, Obama.
The basic thing about this case that leaves me speechless is (as I&#039;m sure someone else has pointed out here in the past two weeks) is that on the one hand, there is as of yet no reason to arrest this cop, because due process must be observed, but on the other hand, all the due process that was needed for him killing a blah youth on the street was that he was.... a blah youth on the street. Which would be a little hard to explain in a report.
It&#039;s common everywhere I&#039;ve lived to have another law enforcement agency investigate when it&#039;s an officer-involved shooting - sometimes it&#039;s county sheriff, sometimes it&#039;s state police or highway patrol.
But there should be at minimum a report of the initial contact. even if it only says &quot;I, Officer such-and-such, observed X and did Y.&quot;
So it disappeared like the broken eye hole bone on Wilson&#039;s head ok we got it case closed
Larry O&#039;Donnell had a copy of the report on his <a href="http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/the-last-word" target="_blank">show </a>last night. It wasn&#039;t very helpful, and appeared to have been prepared that morning. It <i>was</i> typed up, though. These people have standards.
O&#039;Donnell&#039;s theory was that the cop went straight to his lawyer after the shooting, and the lawyer said, &quot;Holy crap, man, we can&#039;t let an ignorant racist like you incriminate himself in his own report, so don&#039;t file one.&quot;
I guess they&rsquo;re waiting for the movie to come out or are they&#039;re hoping if they ignore it long enough will all go away.
I see what you did there.
Is today WTFF?
Those DD-5&#039;s man, they are a pain.
The K-9 unit ate the report. Sorry.
I&#039;m sure the conservative media will be howling about giving him the chance to get all lawyered up and saying that he should have been sent straight to Gitmo instead. Thanks, Obama.
I&#039;m sure he was busy trying to find the real killer.
Oh, that report will show up eventually.
Like about 20 seconds after the all-white jury finds Officer Wilson &quot;not guilty&quot;...
The basic thing about this case that leaves me speechless is (as I&#039;m sure someone else has pointed out here in the past two weeks) is that on the one hand, there is as of yet no reason to arrest this cop, because due process must be observed, but on the other hand, all the due process that was needed for him killing a blah youth on the street was that he was.... a blah youth on the street. Which would be a little hard to explain in a report.
It&#039;s common everywhere I&#039;ve lived to have another law enforcement agency investigate when it&#039;s an officer-involved shooting - sometimes it&#039;s county sheriff, sometimes it&#039;s state police or highway patrol.
But there should be at minimum a report of the initial contact. even if it only says &quot;I, Officer such-and-such, observed X and did Y.&quot;
Remember that story about the mom who got arrested for letting her kid play in the park, and how her police interrogation was on the local news? <a href="http://wonkette.com/557482/..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://wonkette.com/557482/teevee-station-sued-ju...">http://wonkette.com/557482/... Maybe we could hear what Officer Wilson had to say about the incident?
You had me at Paladin.