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[WillyT]

Ferguson Police Report Raises More Questions Than It Answers
Saki Knafo - HuffPo
Posted: 08/22/2014 3:50 pm EDT Updated: 27 minutes ago

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It’s been nearly two weeks since a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, shot and killed an unarmed teenager, but the police department has yet to offer a full account of the hazy circumstances surrounding Michael Brown’s death.

An official incident report, which the American Civil Liberties Union obtained from police and released on Friday, answers none of the pressing questions that hang over the killing. If anything, it raises new ones.

The two-page document is almost entirely blank. It includes the address, time of day and a handful of other bare-bones details, but does not include a description of the scene, quotes from eyewitnesses, names of the officers involved, or any other pieces of information normally found on such documents.

“What’s going on?” asked Vanita Gupta, legal director of the ACLU. “What’s the Ferguson police chief thinking? What he’s doing?”

“We spent a fair amount of time looking at these two incident reports, trying to understand what they say, and frankly, more what they don’t say,” Gupta added. “They just further demonstrate the lack of transparency and lack of information that is being provided by the Ferguson police department about about the Michael Brown shooting.”

The Ferguson police department did not immediately respond to a voicemail requesting comment. The department only released the document after the ACLU filed a lawsuit demanding access to all incident reports pertaining to the shooting, Gupta said. Two and a half lines at the top of the report appear to be redacted.

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More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/22/ferguson-police-incident-report_n_5701131.html

ACLU Doc (.pdf file): http://www.aclu-mo.org/files/4314/0871/7727/Ferguson_Police_incident_report.pdf

[immoderate]

1. Cover. Up.

--imm

[hifiguy]

2. Lawyers are gonna be crawling over these douchebags

in ways they never even dreamed possible. It will not end well for the schweinerei.

[BklnDem75]

3. Ferguson is corrupt to it's core...

A corrupt chief in charge of a corrupt police force.

[0JSimpson]

4. This will get resolved

The Feds aren't going to have a fast one pulled on them. Even if the the murder charge doesn't stick every single person in that department is on their way to prison for obstruction, possibly perjury if they lie to the feds, conspiracy charges, and so many other civil rights charges that I can't even begin to name them.

[panader0]

6. Welcome to DU

What's with the user name?

[cwydro]

7. Maybe it's OJ?

[hifiguy]

8. He's in the slammer. Don't think so.

But I don't think this PD - which has demonstrated the collective IQ of a stump to this point - is gonna be able to buffalo the feds.

[Paper Roses]

50. Please give thought to your user name.

Any reference to that man offends many of us. Curious choice.

[0JSimpson]

61. My bad

I created this user name, thinking it'd be funny, but seeing as no one thinks it's as funny as I had hoped, I tried to change it, but, alas, I can't figure out how to change my username

[Paper Roses]

63. Contact the admins. They should allow you to change it.

Pick a new one and send them a e-mail explaining that your intentions were good but you judgement was off.

Welcome to DU under your new name.

[BainsBane]

5. Gotta pick your words carefully when engaging in a cover-up

The more you write, the more there is to be tripped up on, I guess.

[R B Garr]

46. LOL, exactly. It's literally fill-in-the-blanks as may be useful or necessary. n/t

[mrdmk]

58. More like, do not say anything you do not have too n/t

[treestar]

9. Wow that's BS

That's not a report.

[99th_Monkey]

11. From cold blooded murder, to leaving the body on street 5 hours, now this ...

... a complete sham mockery of a police report, as if to say FU to everyone and anyone who cares.

Clearly Ferguson Police ARE going out of their way
to insult Blacks everywhere, but especially The Family of Michael Brown

I. Have. No. Words.

[TheKentuckian]

18. Total travishamockery.

[BaggersRDumb]

26. These racist punks dont deserve the title cop or american

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ONLY a guilty person does this, ONLY a guilty person does this


ONLY a guilty person does this

ONLY...

Hey Ferguson officials

fuck you

[roody]

36. Welcome to ignore for the inappropriate (sexist) photo.

[BaggersRDumb]

37. You are right, that was inappropriate will delete it

[AverageJoe90]

48. Reminds me of the South in the '60s. nt

[99th_Monkey]

56. Yup. nt

[RebelOne]

62. Nothing compared with the South in the '50s.

I was there. I grew up in South Florida and remember well the discrimination.

[bluesbassman]

12. I'm just shocked that it wasn't written in crayon.

Guess that's where the redaction came in.

[JEB]

13. K&R for exposure.

[lunasun]

14. First 2 lines of report appear to be redacted !!

https://www.aclu.org/secure/donate-aclu?s_src=UNW140801WEB&ms=web_140819_defend_mar
Thank you ACLU for suing to get the information from them sad a report as it is
They released only what they had to

[surrealAmerican]

15. Even if those two lines had not been omitted ...

... it's only two lines. It couldn't have much detail about the shooting, could it?

[Ms. Toad]

16. .

[aggiesal]

17. 3 things can explain all this ...

1) They're truly corrupt, as stated in earlier posts
2) They're really incompetent, and really don't know what happened.
or
3) Both 1 & 2

I suspect it's #3.

[TheKentuckian]

20. Door number three, Monty!

These are the type of imperial scum that would catch a force choking from Darth Vader, clumsy and stupid.

[etherealtruth]

28. Oooo, oooo I know ... #3 n/t

[justiceischeap]

19. Ferguson PD thinks they're cute

I think I know what this is. Wilson started to file a report and was told before getting too far into it to stop. However, since the report was started they couldn't throw it out, so they kept it. When the ACLU went to court to get the incident report, they got this. That's my theory anyway.

[Rex]

21. But but but...

And the hits just keep on coming...they planned for this to be just like all other times they've treated the black community like dirt.

I can't wait to see what the FBI has to say about this.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

22. I half expect the next thing they'll claim is the cop found the body already dead.

[SunSeeker]

23. They claimed Brown's body lay there for 5 hours because of all the "investigation" they had to do.

So where the fuck is the description of that 5 hours of investigation? The report should be many pages long. WTF?!

[busterbrown]

24. Oh don’t you worry SunSeeker..

A photo will be out shortly showing blood trickling down the face of the cop who shot the kid...

However, won’t it be harder to photoshop waiting this long??

[heaven05]

25. 18 pages in a report

on the alleged robbery that michael brown supposedly was involved with. 18 page report on some goddamn cigars. This for a murder. Give me a break.

[Chemisse]

41. Seriously?!!

That alone makes a profound statement.

[heaven05]

53. sorry it was19 pages

I got the count wrong

[BaggersRDumb]

27. we MUST SEE, we DEMAND TO SEE Federal Charges filed...period

[trof]

29. Doubleyew Tee Eff INDEED!

K&R
Horse. Shit.

[frylock]

30. oh now, we've been assured that this is SOP for many PDs..

and that the nice officer isn't under any obligation to submit an incident report because of the 5th Amendment. surely, the ACLU is out of it's league here. this is totally on the up and up. nothing to see. please drive through.

[LibGranny]

31. Not surprised! This has been a cover-up from

the get-go!

[NJCher]

32. hmmm, this is an interesting adjunct to

what I heard on a radio program. I heard Cyril Wecht, the famous forensics pathologist, was looking into this death and requested info from the police department. They refused certain information.

This comes from his co-author on his books, Dawna Kaufmann.

There's a caveat to this. I wasn't listening closely to the program, being distracted by a project I was working on. But I think this is what I heard.


Cher

[santamargarita]

33. If they're filling out those silly police reports, they not out shooting innocent people.

please don't shoot!

[WillyT]

34. Kick !!!

[Uncle Joe]

35. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, WillyT.

[WillyT]

38. Thank You Uncle Joe !!!

[TNNurse]

39. Some people need to lose their jobs and

Some people should go to jail.

Can you send an entire police force to jail at one time??????

[grahamhgreen]

40. It's pretty clear nothing happened, move along.

[Chemisse]

42. I think they need to clean out the whole PD.

Get new - preferably non racist - leadership, and make every one of those officers reapply for their jobs.

Already we've seen 3 bad cops there: the one who killed Brown, the one who pushed the reporter, and the one who said he was going to "fucking shoot" a citizen. Imagine the rot that lies beneath these.

Oh, and edited to say the new PD should mirror the makeup of the community it serves!

[Chemisse]

55. Oh and here's another one.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/michael-brown-shooting/st-louis-county-cop-removed-active-duty-over-killer-comments-n187421

[blackspade]

43. A cover up for extensive corruption.

[uponit7771]

44. PROSECUTOR SAYS THEY HANDED OVER THE INVESTIGATION

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/michael-brown-shooting/michael-brown-protests-calm-ferguson-shop-owners-still-fearful-n187121

[JimDandy]

47. YOUR LINK DOESN'T SAY THAT. n/t

That

[mobeau69]

45. People are fornicating around while the FPD is covering up. Time to get serious!

The Brown's need to hire a major leaguer like Tom Mesereau. Or better yet, they need to hire Tom Mesereau. I mean no offense to the attorneys of record but if any offense is taken, tough shit. This is no time to mess around with a guy, no matter how much of a gentleman he is, who couldn't get Trayvon Martin's killer convicted. If there's a fund I'll contribute what I can. Mesereau would take these Missouri rubes to school.

[pintobean]

54. Crump isn't a prosecutor

and neither is Mesereau. A victim's family attorney doesn't try a criminal case, the state does.

Here endith the civics lesson.

Signed, a Missouri rube.

[Kablooie]

49. The police report was submitted by the county, not the city.

And it's with the grand jury right now and won't be released untl they are done with it.

At least that's the story on NBC news.

[Jappleseed]

51. All the wait for all the evidence trolls should be up in arms about this.

Oh wait they are not? Hmmm.....

[mercuryblues]

52. It does

show that the killer cop was on the scene for 7.5 hours afterward. Just how injured was he again?

[MoleyRusselsWart]

59. I can tell you this

I've see enough mild to severe head and eye injuries as a hockey ref of 15 years (and a player for 25) from punches, scuffles and so on to know for a fact, based on the videos of Wilson immediately after the shooting, that he did not receive any substantial injury to his eye. You can tell this by the lack of visual evidence in the videos, but more importantly by his behavior. He received no significant injury, and probably barely any minor ones.

[mercuryblues]

60. I am of

the opinion that the FPD are so used to not being questioned that they have no choice to obstruct. By not being questioned they are also very poor liars. By having it out there that the cop was on the scene for over 7 hours it proves he was not severely hurt. I don't even think a minor injury. He never rubbed or touched his face where he was supposedly injured.

[MoleyRusselsWart]

64. 100% agreed

[Jack Rabbit]

57. The Chief should be replaced

After the fact that Mike Brown was shot dead while unarmed and his body left uncovered for hours and the horrific behavior of law enforcement officers on the streets of Ferguson, the ugliest thing about this affair has been the willful contempt that law enforcement has shown to the public in this matter. The police have attacked journalists, who while not perfect are the eyes and ears of the public in matters such as this, they have withheld information about the incident that should be routinely disseminated and released information defaming the victim that is immaterial to his incident itself.

This incident report is part of this pattern.

Chief Jackson is clearly irresponsible. He is either orchestrating the stonewalling, winking and nodding while it happens or finds himself in the unfortunate position of presiding over a rogue police force that is out of control. This has got to stop, and it appears that Chief Jackson is not the man to stop it.