CMV: There is a litany of information regarding the shooting of Michael Brown being extralegal and that the investigation into his death was corrupt. Claims that all the facts support Darren Wilson and that the black people of Ferguson just became irrationally "emotional" are inaccurate and racist.

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Lisa Bloom does an excellent job pointing out all the investigatory and legal errors in the proceeding against Darren Wilson.

The highlights are these:

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   The prosecutor refused to recuse himself for bias despite having several police officers in his family.

   
   


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   The police illegally attempted to distort the narrative by presenting a video of Brown appearing to commit a crime to give the impression that the cop was responding to it when he was called.

   
   


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   There were inconsistencies with witness testimony (as there are in most trials), but numerous witnesses agreed on the fact that Brown had his hands up when he was killed and that Wilson fired on him while he was running away.

   
   


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   Two of the witnesses who "supported" Brown included a man a football field's distance away from the shooting and a woman who was an admitted racist.

   
   


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   Despite the constant toting of the autopsy as "proving" Brown wasn't shot in the back, most of it was based on the fallacious notions that autopsies can provide definitive answers about body positions before death and the fact that the publicly available drawing made it appear that his hands were at his side when he was shot.

   
   


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   The grand jury was read an outdated and unconstitutional law about what justifies a police shooting that was never substantially corrected.

   
   

Whether or not you believe the shooting was legally justified has no bearing on the fact that there is plenty to suggest that it wasn't and the questions of fact should have been presented to jury in a real trial. Unfortunately many could not see past their own ideological agendas and the property destruction to recognize the obvious larger issues of police overreach and corruption in our justice system that the shooting highlighted. The racial issues in the trial were always far more subtle and nuanced than our horrible media is capable of analyzing, but I think the blatant dehumanization of the people of ferguson and thugs who couldn't "look at the facts" think was indicative of a type of racist reductionism that is almost exclusively applied to large swaths of black people. Change my view.

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