Yesterday, August 9, was the nine year anniversary of one of the many distorted, exploited and incompetently reported race-related incidents that have hurled the United States decades backwards in race relations. It was on August 9, 2014 that hulking thug Michael Brown was shot and killed by policeman Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri in self-defense after Brown escaped custody, tried to take Wilson’s gun, and charged him with all of his 300 pound bulk. But because the 18-year-old’s pal and partner in crime told the credulous media that Brown had put his hands up and cried “Hands up don’t shoot!” before the fatal shot, Brown’s death was reported as an execution by a racist cop. This, in turn, resulted in horrific riots in Ferguson, full-scale social justice virtue-signalling by the mainstream media (like the 2014 display by CNN’s hacks above, referencing both the Brown shooting narrative and the death of Eric Garner), and a boost to the fortunes of the racist Blacl Lives Matter movement, which had been launched by another falsely reported tragedy, the death of Trayvon Martin.
Even though Barack Obama’s untra-partisan and race-obsessed Attorney General, Eric Holder, would have loved to show that Darren Wilson had murdered Brown, it was once again demonstrated that, as John Adams said, “Facts are stubborn things.” His DOJ found that there was no credible evidence to back up the “hands up, don’t shoot” narrative. To the contrary, forensic and eye-witness evidence made it clear that Brown, who had just committed a petty theft and intimidated a shop-owner, punched Wilson after the officer arrested him, tried to grab pistol in the patrol car, and after he had bolted from the vehicle charged at Wilson, precipitating the fatal shooting. A grand jury exonerated Wilson, whose career was destroyed and life was ruined, but he was just a white cop, so c’est la vie!
This isn’t a controversy, like whether Oswald had help on the grassy knoll, or whether a flying saucer crashed at Roswell. The facts of Mike Brown’s death have been settled, and they show beyond question that the race activists hyped and publicized a fictional account to advance their agenda and divide the nation. But what happened yesterday? As Legal Insurrection documents in another of its exhaustive examinations of the Mike Brown scam, Woke World, progressives and Democrats pretended that it was 2014 all over again.
Incredibly—or maybe not, since these people have no shame or reluctance to use falsehoods for political gains—the State Department’s Special Representative for Racial Equity and Justice Desirée Cormier Smith returned to the lie yesterday at an official function, deceitfully, by not specifically misstating the facts but deliberately implying that the false narrative was true as the Secretary of Defense looked on:
That’s just nauseating: officially sanctioned Biden administration propaganda propping up a Marxist, violent, anti-law enforcement and anti-white organization. But as Gregg Re, a lawyer and former Fox News writer, indicated, Smith’s deceit (The State Department website describes her as “a recognized racial justice expert with a deep and steadfast commitment to equity and justice”…but not the truth, apparently) was far from an anomaly. Here’s “Squad” member Rep. Cori Bush:
Brown is often represented with that graduation photo, a wonderful example of photographic deceit. Bush, of course, is one of the denizens of the bottom of the Congressional barrel. Then there’s lawyer Ben Crump, who has made millions suing police departments after a black perp gets himself shot in the act of resisting arrest. Facts are supposed to matter to lawyers, but not Crump:
As you can see, Ben opted for a photo taken when Mike Brown was about 12 and looked like Gary Coleman. This tweet is sanctionable dishonesty under the legal ethics rules, but bar associations are too busy disbarring lawyers who represented Donald Trump to discipline a plainly dishonest race-huckster.
Next up…
The EJI says it is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the U.S., challenging racial and economic injustice, and protecting basic human rights, and apparently won’t let facts and reality get in its way. The grand jury didn’t “refuse” to indict Wilson: it couldn’t indict him because the evidence didn’t support a conclusion that he had committed a crime. These are the people and groups inflicting DEI on the country. Like…
Isn’t that nice? The SPLC is, disgracefully, used as an authority to identify “hate groups” and represented to the public as non-partisan, objective and trustworthy. Finally, there’s this one:
It’s good to know that the organization is so versatile, and misrepresents other things besides gun statistics.
It’s also good to know, or at least important to recognize, that these people and groups who the news media presents to the public as the “good guys” are really villains, using lies and deceit to increase racial tensions and national division.
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Pointer and Source: Legal Insurrection
Ethics Alarms 
Clarification:
Was the CNN photo from yesterday?
-Jut
No. Was that unclear? I’ll clarify that.
This is the political left’s brazenly obvious demonization tactic in full view, it’s business as usual.
It’s getting harder and harder to see those that support the political left, their propaganda and their lies as as being anything other than pure totalitarian evil, pure anti-Justice & anti-American & anti-Constitution evil.
Someone convince me that there isn’t an outspoken minority in the political left and those that support it want to burn down the USA so they can rebuild it from the ashes into their on delusional totalitarian utopia. While your at it, convince me that there isn’t a silent majority in the political left that has been brainwashed into hating the political right in its entirety and are literally willing to vote for the Devil to oppose that perceived evil.
A bit tangential, but it is disturbing that Twitter is adding “user added context” to its posts. The context in this particular example (at the bottom of Cori Bush’s post) happens to be accurate, but that is moral luck.
I dunno, Rich. I think when an elected official or other “authority” delivers unequivocal falsehoods—and this is one—the “added context” is a fair and necessary compromise between pulling the tweet and letting it hang out there deceiving people.
Ask Humble Talent about the “added context” feature. He loves it. I think it’s great. It’s a grassroots counterbalance to the “fact checkers” who more often than not are really just spinners themselves.
Why not use his photo and state is was nine years ago this thug assaulted and battered a store owner, punched a police officer and tried to take his weapon while the officer sat is his car. In the struggle for the firearm the thug got shot. Learn the lesson. It’s not the guns it’s your sons.
Use their rules!!!!
Going through the replies to each of these tweets, it gives me hope that virtually nobody’s buying the narrative anymore. Almost all the replies (with various degrees of snark), are letting these bleeding hearts have it with the truth.
This might also reflect, however, the increasingly conservative tilt of ‘X’, as there has been a progressive exodus since Elon decided to discourage censorship of the “wrong” people.
I recall a great deal of progressives declaring they’re exodus from Twitter… but it seems like most of the blowhards didn’t put their money where their mouths are… I don’t think all that many actually did leave.
And the human tendency (meaning both sides do it) to ignore the things you don’t want to think about. All the people who would absolutely defend these things will slink away, giving the appearance that no one supports it.
It’s like a comment board after a college rivalry game–the comments will overwhelmingly support the winning team to the point that it looks like the losing team doesn’t have a fan left. Until the next pre-game comments.
I wonder how much these lies have contributed to the demise of law enforcement in the US. The corruption and scandals I see in law enforcement are horrendous. Now, maybe it has always been this bad and I just didn’t know about it or maybe these vendettas against police officers has resulted in the good cops leaving and no good cops wanting to enter the field. The West Virginia State Police scandal is just horrifying. Then I see this scandal about the Connecticut State Police. Over 25% of the State Police officers in Connecticut entered fake citations into the ‘Racial Profiling Database’. They also failed to enter 16,000+ tickets into the database. I refuse to believe this is the only incident of wrongdoing by these officers. This tells that at least 25% of the Connecticut State Police force is untrustworthy and has likely falsified reports and committed other misdeeds while on duty.
How can we have a criminal justice system with this level of corruption occurring in our police forces? If we can’t trust the officers, why should they allowed to testify in court? If the police officers can’t testify in court, how can we have a criminal justice system?
I wonder why they didn’t post his graduation photo or photos of him smiling in other poses?
Does anyone remember any FBI raids let alone deadly FBI raids against any of the people who threatened to kill Trump or simulated killing Trump?
Anyone wonder if 6:15 AM is a responsible time to serve a search warrant?