Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
After months of investigation, the Justice Department has decided not to indict Officer Darren Wilson on federal charges of depriving Michael Brown of his civil rights.
In fact, DOJ's 86-page report completely demolishes the entire"hands up, don't shoot" story that sent people into the streets all over the country.
The Department looked at the physical evidence and the autopsy reports and talked to scores of witnesses.
First of all, let me quote from the report:"The accounts of the witnesses who have claimed that Brown raised his hands above his head to surrender are inconsistent with the physical evidence or can be challenged in other material ways." That's DOJ's way of saying baloney.
What's more, the department says it couldn't find a single person who claims that Brown said don't shoot.
Not one.
And you'll recall that some witnesses claimed they saw Officer Wilson shoot Brown in the back, but as the report points out, all the entry wounds on Brown's body are on the front.
Then finally, there's this.
DOJ lists the most credible witnesses and then says, quote, All agree that Brown ran or charged towards Wilson and that Wilson shot at Brown only as Brown moved towards him.
The report also notes that Brown was reaching for his waistband and that Officer Wilson could not have known that he was unarmed.
In other words, the shooting took place exactly the way Officer Wilson described it from the very beginning.
This was an eminently justified police shooting.
Well then, how did the incident blow up into front-page news that went on for months?
Because of these so-called witnesses who lied.
Here's a tidbit from the report: Witness 120 subsequently acknowledged that he did not see Brown get shot, but assumed he'd been executed while on his knees with his hands up based on common sense and what others in the community told him.
Got that?
Common sense told him that white policemen execute blacks on their knees all the time.
And anyway, other black people told him that that's what happened, so it had to be true.
You may recall, is exactly what our foolish media reported.
As usual, they passed along hysterical accusations of racist police violence without bothering to check what really happened.
And you think they're going to apologize for all the trouble they caused?
Are the people who rioted and called for Officer Wilson's head on a platter, are they going to apologize?
Are Al Sharpton and Cornel West going to apologize?
Ha! As you probably know, DOJ released another report today that's getting a lot of attention.
This one accuses the Ferguson Police Department as a whole of all kinds of abuses and racism.
Unlike the first one, which was written by the Criminal Division, this one is by the notoriously politicized Civil Rights Division.
I haven't read that report in detail.
But I did see that DOJ interviewed lots of blacks who had dealt with the police department and talked to all kinds of community groups.
Well, I wonder what they heard.
Don't forget the witnesses from the Wilson Report, the ones who changed their stories, and especially Witness 120, who said simple common sense told him Michael Brown was executed while he was surrendering.
The Ferguson PD has gone through the ringer because of just one two-minute incident in which an officer behaved correctly and that should never have attracted national attention.
I hope they don't get bullied and beaten up by the feds, but I'm not optimistic.