Ferguson redux

[whell]

Originally Posted by bobabode

To be fair, the 'Hands Up, Don't Shoot' meme grew out of an eyewitness account of the shooting. There was a white out of town construction worker who said that Mike Brown had his hands up when shot. Correct or not, apparently the DOJ disagreed in their report.

If one good thing came out of this, it's shown that race relations in America have a long, long way to go.

edit - Beat me to it Tom. Thanks for the link.

WaPo just gave "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" 4 Pinocchios.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...n-in-ferguson/

But we also care about setting the record straight. Investigators have overwhelmingly rejected witness accounts that Brown had his hands up in a surrender before being shot execution-style. The DOJ has concluded Wilson did not know whether Brown was armed, acted out of self-defense and was justified in killing Brown. The majority of witnesses told federal investigators that the initial claims that Brown’s hands were up were not accurate. “Hands up, don’t shoot” did not happen in Brown’s killing, and it is a characterization that deserves Four Pinocchios. Politicians should step carefully if they try to highlight this expression in the future.