http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/01/1348631/-Joe-Scarborough-has-a-Lecture-for-Black-America?detail=email
Apparently Black people just don't know what's good for them. They don't know how to pick their own heroes according to Joe Scarborough, because he says that "Michael Brown is a Thug... who knocked over a Liquor Store...and doesn't deserve to be the face of Black Oppression in America"
"The cops have every reason to be pissed off this morning," Scarborough said. He argued that the five players on the St. Louis Rams who raised their arms in solidarity with Ferguson on Sunday based their gesture on "lies" that contradicted findings of a grand jury investigation.
There are a lot of things to respond to in this, but I'm just going to address how many facts Joe gets grossly wrong. He buys into the Darren Wilson narrative hook line and sinker, claiming that that Dorian Johnson's story - that Wilson was the aggressor, that he grabbed Brown by the throat, that he shot at him as he ran away and then functionally executed him as he attempted to surrender, is the only sane, rational, reasonable conclusion.
In the end though, he perpetuates the sin he so clearly claims to abhor. The deadly dangerous arrogance of certainty.
Before I get into the meat of this one other thing that Joe gets wrong is the claim 12 year-old Tamir Rice who was shot dead by police in Cleveland had a real gun, not a toy. It was a Toy, a BB Gun, and the Officers refused to give him first aid or CPR.
So when he goes on and on about "Lies" - he just told a Whopper right there.
Apparently what set Joe off was five players of the St. Louis Rams holding their hands up in solidarity with the Michael Brown protests, and the police union who demanded that these player be punished. The NFL has declined to do so, meanwhile the Ex-Cop who demanded the punishment turns out to have a history of lying to protect crooked cops.
Roorda, a Democrat who most recently served in the Missouri House of Representatives before running for a seat in the state Senate and losing, was fired from the Arnold, Missouri police department in 2001 for misconduct after having been previously warned in another case where he was found to have lied in a police report.
According to court documents, in 1997 Roorda was reprimanded for attempting “…to try to ‘cover’ for another police officer by filing a report that contained false statements as to what happened during a suspect’s apprehension and arrest. As a result of this false report, all charges against the defendant involved were dropped.” The court notes that Roorda was informed, “If it is ever determined again that you have lied in a police report, you will receive a more severe punishment, up to and including termination.”
not sure what being Democrat had to do with his record, was that some kind of shallow inference? he was very obnoxious and nonchalantly arrogant in what he was saying was true just like O'Reilly when sharing their advanced knowledge of the Black experience and all the do's and don'ts and why's and because's. that only the right wing base actually buys, guess those around the table coward and did not challenge him maybe fearing not getting a call back, after all he is the HMDIC.
So that's the perfect person for Joe to hitch his wagon too.
But something truly odd seems to have happened here, somehow a Grand Jury which is supposed only make determination if probable cause exists has now become the Determiner of FACTS in this case. That simply because they choose not to vote for indictment, everything that was presented in Darren Wilson's favor has been deemed and blessed as true and everyone else who disagrees is a liar who needs to be punished with perjury.
how long has he been hiding his real feelings, law is not deserved by those who are not White but are dead by the hand of a White officer who everyone loves so much they risk their jobs to stack the court and direct the jury toward a no way the cop is wrong decision never any hint of prosecution which is their job or was it? we will never enter the realm of reconciliation because one side denies the separation because of race and that their actions are perpetrated on that dynamic.
