Lies, lies, misdirection everywhere. Tell me what I want to hear, so I can pretend to not live in fear.
Honestly, the name isn't important. This one officer, this one case, isn't important. What is important is what the course of action this officer took, and more importantly, how the police office allowed that to occur. a) apparently shooting someone running away is justified b) long standing issue of confirmation bias, sterotypes, etc, in pulling people over c) long standing issue of cops being power-hungry assholes. d) long standing issue of cops not having punishment for breaking laws, killing, etc. I say any officer who shoots and kills anyone without a weapon who is not actively attacking the officer or another person should be, at the very least, demoted and unpaid for a month, and at most fired. Also to be able to be charged by that person's family. One cop changes nothing. Outrage over one incident changes nothing, but it can be used to promote change. That change will not come from attacking and seeking punishment of a single officer, but seeing that the punishment and standards are changed, and then applied in this very case.
With the release of the name by police, what do you think of anonymous naming the wrong guy yesterday? Anon's "story" seems to be shifting over the past few hours (even around midnight PST last night) to "well, even if we are wrong at least the police have to release the name now!" I just wonder if they didn't do their due diligence (lol) because it was a win-win situation, or they did their due diligence and just fucked up anyways.
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Anon is what is what I think is strange is that Mike was stopped in connection to a robbery why didnt the popo say so earlier.
That's the same question I've been asking. Have you seen the police reports? I may have been missing something but all the reports from the store robbery say "Brown" not the "attacker" or "robber". Am I missing something? I read them briefly on my phone this morning in bed. Super strange.
I am pretty sure they where made after the fact. The Video bothers me the man in it is wearing sandals.
The report on the robbery was made after Brown was dead? That doesn't smell like a cover up at all!
It is something worse than a cover up was done to suggest that Mike was a person who deserved to die.
I don't think they did their due diligence and I don't think it was because they realized it was a win-win situation. I think they were just being the toolbags that they are and wanted attention like they always do. They probably got some anonymous tip (ha!) that it was someone and went with it. Real journalists use multiple sources, they just used an anonymous one and accepted it as truth and pushed it out there because they can.
Wait, so was "Jimmy Rustle" and this pastebin text the official release from Anonymous? Or an Anonymous impersonator? Who remains anonymous? And that's the damn problem with anonymity... I found that pastebin hilarious, I'm sorry to say. Distasteful, yes, but pretty solid trolling.
This was released after the initial one, which named an actual person, but the wrong actual person. It is as official as anything, Anonymous being the set of all people who use the name and all. It's either not possible to be an Anonymous impersonator, or they're all Anonymous impersonators.
Ahh, OK, thanks for clearing that up. I would have been surprised if the name "Jimmy Rustle" whooshed over insomniasexx's head.
Yeah that one is NOT the release I read! I can be dense but not that dense.
"Jimmy Rustle?" Seriously? That had to be a joke, right?
This is where I read about it: http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/226454/anonymous-releases-identity-of-ferguson-officer-who-shot-michael-brown/