OMFG: "Fake" Josie Account of Michael Brown Killing Matches Wilson Testimony!!!

[IdaBriggs]

42. Interesting takeaway on your part.

From your link:

Dorian Johnson, 22, was arrested by police in Jefferson City, Missouri, in June 2011 after he allegedly stole a delivery package off a doorstep in an apartment complex. He was attending college at Lincoln University in the city, which is about 120miles west of Ferguson.

When cops asked Johnson for his name, he told them he was Derrick Johnson and that he was 16 - though he gave officer a birth date that would have made him 17, according to an arrest report obtained by MailOnline.

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He was charged with misdemeanor theft and filing a false police report. He pleaded guilty to the latter charge. When he didn't show up to court to answer the theft charge, a judge issued a warrant for his arrest.

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Johnson's lawyer, former St. Louis Mayor Freeman Bosley Jr., told WND-TV that the outstanding warrant had been 'resolved.'

He said Johnson had been arrested in St. Louis on the warrant. After 14 days, when the deputies from Cole County never came to extradite him back to Jefferson City, St. Louis police released him without charge.

So to recap, teenage college student ALLEGEDLY took a package in an apartment hallway (wonder about the evidence?), gave a false name when accused/got caught (we can't get people arrested on suspicion in my town, but again, heavy white population and "package theft" not usually worth the time of our police department), was accused of a misdemeanor and somehow ended up with an arrest warrant that could have derailed the young college student's life.

Huh. Really ties in with what we know about the Ferguson police doesn't it?

From Newsweek Monday, Aug 18, 2014 Driving While Black in Ferguson http://www.newsweek.com/ferguson-profiling-police-courts-shooting-264744

Despite Ferguson’s relative poverty, fines and court fees comprise the second largest source of revenue for the city, a total of 2,635,400,” according to the ArchCity Defenders report. And in 2013, the Ferguson Municipal Court issued 24,532 arrest warrants and 12,018 cases, “or about 3 warrants and 1.5 cases per household.”

(snip)The paper points out that in Ferguson, 86 percent of vehicle stops “involved a black motorist, although blacks make up just 67 percent of the population.” In addition, blacks stopped in Ferguson “are almost twice as likely as whites to be searched (12.1 percent versus 6.9 percent) and twice as likely to be arrested (10.4 percent versus 5.2 percent)”. Searches of blacks only results in discovery of contraband 21.7 percent of the time, whereas contraband is recovered from their less frequently stopped white counterparts 34.0 percent of the time."

Interesting that despite being a) present for an ALLEGED strong arm theft and b) holding the "stolen goods" the young man wasn't arrested on the spot despite the fact his compatriot was killed over the incident.

That would involve a trial and testimony though, wouldn't it? All on the record. Able to be used against the guy who grabbed his friend and shot him while in the car, then shot and killed him in front of witnesses that the police didn't interview until much later....

And the whole "former Jennings police officer/fired when department disbanded due to corruption" thing would probably come up in court as a "credibility" thing, wouldn't it?

Your mileage may vary, but I don't think I am the one having issues with "blinders".