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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFormer FBI Asst Director: "I have seen that demon face... just look at the convenience store video."
Said on CNN this morning by one of their legal analysts, a former Assistant Director of the FBI:
"Officer Wilson talked about how (Mike Brown) looked like a demon... that may sound strange but having served on the street, I have seen that demonic face, many times... and if you don't believe me, you can see it for yourself on the convenience store video, just moments before he was shot!"
I forget his name, he had a hispanic name (how sad)... Joe somebody. Naturally there's no article about it on search engine.
Nope... no civil rights issue here. No literal demonization of the victim by the defendant AND the prosecutors!
Meanwhile, Ex-Mayor and former "white ethnic cop" (funny how people's ethnicity is never brought up and never hurts their standing in police circles so long as they are "white" whatever that means) Rudy Giuliani made an ass of himself on CNN again, talking about how 87% of the crime in "his city" is caused by blacks and only 8% by whites and "that is the real issue here", that is why police officers don't trust the citizens in these communities and he would have flooded the streets with cops. He also disingenuously claimed he didn't put lots of cops on Park Avenue when he was mayor because that's not where the crime was (no street cop presence in gentrified / gentrifying Manhattan neighborhoods... sure. Nope, Chuck Giuliani! The issue is the cops in Manhattan were there, and beefed up -- but they were there to arrest / harrass any threatening black teenagers and other "potential hoodlums" that might have appeared in the neighborhood. Actual arrests would naturally be made on the home turf where they thought all those "black criminals" lived.) He also said "you mess with us, you get arrested", us meaning "me and my white-ethnic cop friends" apparently, showing how impartial these ethnically-white former prosecutors, who seem to get along fine because of their ethnicity, are.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)Dehumanization. That's all it is. It's easier to kill or to justify killing when you've dehumanized the victim.
Leopolds Ghost
(12,875 posts)Like in a horror movie! Why, I heard Obama was a demon too! He's got dark skin and everything.
Man from Pickens
(1,713 posts)exorcism by 9mm
Leopolds Ghost
(12,875 posts)Leopolds Ghost
(12,875 posts)Nothing but tacit approval of the comment I saw on-air, about how imposing and demonic looking Michael Brown was (one commentator noted that Darren Wilson was also huge, 6'4" and 240 lb. but was ignored because everyone knows white people, especially blondes like Wilson, are helpless victims.)
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Leopolds Ghost
(12,875 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)He's a former FBI agent and an expert on nonverbal communication. He sometimes appears on CNN.
Leopolds Ghost
(12,875 posts)But that is because I'm dyslexic, not because both of them have scary white-ethnic names or something.
Giuliani, on the other hand... he does kind of look like a vampire... I'll show myself out now...
When you say "an expert on nonverbal communication" do you mean:
a) he knows demon faces when he sees them
b) he is an actual expert on nonverbal communication (them all-crucial hands that protect you from getting shot)
c) he is a completely inarticulate and idiotic commentator? or possibly all three
Oh BTW, another CNN legal analyst (former prosecutor and current defense attorney) came right out and said that "in Missouri and many states, officers have the right to stand their ground and shoot when someone looks like they're about to come after them." They also have the right to shoot a fleeing suspect so both analysts agreed there was no possible way he could be indicted because he couldn't possibly be guilty!
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)these people are all pathetic cowards!
gvstn
(2,805 posts)Who could of anticipated someone being shot might get some adrenaline? The institutionalized blatant racism in this whole fiasco is embarrassing for Missouri.
Leopolds Ghost
(12,875 posts)Officer Wilson doesn't even lift, yo... he never had a chance
gollygee
(22,336 posts)He's magic or something.
nobodyspecial
(2,286 posts)would make someone angry.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)fear and anger.
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)I guess those criminals don't count in his mind.
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)Who can turn themselves into demons with superhuman powers. Remarkable how similar this narrative is to Zimmerman's, replete with a sympathetic prosecutor. Don't mess with success
Leopolds Ghost
(12,875 posts)uponit7771
(90,347 posts)deutsey
(20,166 posts)I heard it on TV, so it must be true.
johnnyreb
(915 posts)That should trip up a few demon-face advocates.
Sienna86
(2,149 posts)Former Assistant Director, FBI?
Leopolds Ghost
(12,875 posts)I would say "that asshole" but my mind is like a sieve these days, apparently, so I don't want to speak out of turn. Clearly I'd be one of those "unreliable" witnesses or (as one of the former prosecutors said on CNN) "if you have a reliable defendant as a witness, then there's nothing wrong with having the defendant testify before the grand jury!" Make sense?)
Because you only want to prosecute unreliable defendants.
Leopolds Ghost
(12,875 posts)Although he is very non-descript looking, but I'm convinced it was him. (and he definitely said it, on Tuesday).
I wouldn't be surprised if the grand jury-deniers (new phrase) came out and claim it wasn't said at all, though. Am I a "credible witness"?
Oh, no wait, they wouldn't be upset by the statement being made about the victim being a demon, why would they care?
So, how many people are stopped and frisked in St. Louis on the basis of the description "middle-aged white male in a business suit"?