I know all the cries of liberal bias on CNN that are out there. I've taken them with a grain of salt but even I have to admit its clearly there.
Its getting more bizarre too. What's worse is people in general accept this and what is reported as normal.
Its not.
I just wrote about CNN taking side of mother being denied right to drug newborn daughter with illegal narcotics.
I thought that was bizarre but a short time ago I saw a video on CNN where Don Lemmon said things that were even more out there about events in Ferguson MO.
I have seen how they twist and slant everything on this event already but this takes the cake.
The suspect in this whole thing Mike Brown, was shown on released video committing a strong arm robbery minutes before the fatal encounter with the police officer.
Now the officer did NOT know Brown was a robbery suspect when the encounter happened. Matter of fact, as I've said, this looks to be another case of blacks not wanting to do what they're told. I think it'll boil down to that in the end. Brown didn't think the cops had a right to tell him anything. That led to the fatal confrontation. Being told to get out of the road offended him basically.
This video adds another dimension to this, a very, very relevant dimension.
Anyone with the slightest bit of intelligence would be able to ask a simple question "What would someone who had just committed a felony robbery be thinking and/or do if then encountering a police officer minutes later?"
Don Lemon firstly says that its not really a robbery. He calls into question if its anything at all much less a crime. He and the host of the show say its nothing more than shoplifting with a little bit of force added but not really a crime.
Okay stop right there! Really?!?
Its a felony robbery not shoplifting. Not even remotely related to shoplifting other than both involve taking something from someone else.
For anyone to blow it off like that would be ridiculous but for a major reporter for a major news organization to do so is beyond bizarre and totally unacceptable.
The man had just committed a violent robbery and I don't care if it was over a pack of gum for seventy nine cents, its was a robbery with force used.
That gets to the second thing Lemon went on to pontificate about. He says the release of the video by police is entirely irrelevant to the shooting which happened only minutes later. That it had nothing to do with the what the officer did.
Like any good lie or misdirection there is a sliver of truth there. It had nothing to do with what the officer did but it might have had everything to do with what Brown did. What he did, how he did it and why he did whatever he did do.
Think about that. He just committed a violent felony and a cop says come here (According to black witnesses of events) how do you think a person running from a violent crime might react to that?
It has everything to do with this case. It might not be just because he didn't like being told what to do. It could very well be he didn't do what he was told but when the officer then stopped and said come here he thought that the officer knew he was wanted and that was why he fought and things escalated to deadly force.
Both parties state of mind, actions and reasons for those actions are entirely relevant to the final outcome of what happened.
If Brown thought the officer knew and attacked the officer thinking he was fighting for his freedom that definitely changes things and has total bearing on what took place.
For Lemon to say the violent robbery which had just taken place, which had made Brown a wanted man, which may have put this officer in danger in the first place, has nothing to do with the shooting is absolutely bizarre and beyond belief even taking into account the anti-police attitude of CNN.
It goes with the denizens of the area who are already claiming its a faked video and its not Brown in the video. They are also claiming its some campaign to denigrate the Bloods gang member, Brown, who also attacked a white person in an unprovoked attack last year.
Mike Brown by his actions is destroying himself as more and more come out about him. Most go to state of mind and thought processes which do have direct bearing on events or quite possibly may have.
A person who has the thought process of antagonism with the police who is a violent criminal and may think a number irrational things which permeate the black culture can and do often have direct bearing on interactions with law enforcement.
A white person in the middle of the street walking and being told to hit the sidewalk would do it even if saying F-you to the cop as they moved. A black person due to culture and upbringing may just say the F-you part and defy the cop, remaining walking in the street daring the cop to do something as all accounts say happened in this case.
For a responsible newsperson to ignore reality to that extent and deliberately try to alter facts to support the unsupportable, to take a side in this that is not supported by reality much less facts and then present it as reasonable and factual is beyond irresponsible.
And now as I type this MSNBC not surprisingly has doubled down on CNN Lemon's comments. They are saying robbery occurring minutes before Brown attacked cop had nothing to do with anything and all reporters were jaw dropping stunned when it was released.
How can it not have something significant to do with Brown's actions that day. He'd just committed a violent felony robbery five minutes before encountering the cop. The cop didn't know he was dealing with an armed robbery suspect. The cop was blindsided by a violent felon attacking him.
Just unbelievable.
Welcome to the new not so much truth of reality.
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