walked the talk:
Reached out 2 #MikeBrown family over weekend+offered 2 pay 4 funeral. Im frm #STL. Ill do anything 2 help. #HandsUp❤️ pic.twitter.com/66w0GIp97p
— Kimora Lee Simmons (@OfficialKimora) August 15, 2014
..as well, NELLY mentioned starting up a scholarship fund in Michael Brown’s name.
KEVIN HART , T.I and NBA ball player AL JEFFERSON are pledging $15,000 a year in college tuition to teens hand-chosen by Michael Brown’s family.
Countless other celebs have extended, at bare minimum, their acknowledgement of knowing whats going on whether in support of Mike Brown or having felt empathy for the entire situation as a whole.
Meanwhile as:
- (allegedly) the KKK (adorned with its 2 million collected signatures) petitions a “yearly purge of African Americans”
- the (less 200k) frustrated people of the community (black and white alike) petition President Obama to enact new federal laws to protect citizens from police violence and misconduct
- the St. Louis P.D is thinking of a master plan-trying to connect the dots and get out of explaining why they threw African American sergeant Darren Wilson under the bus as if he was the shooter of Mike Brown
…Tiffany Mitchell, 27,
…and the main eyewitness account/person [the friend Dorian Johnson, 22, who was with Mike Brown at the time of the shooting and has yet to be interviewed/questioned by the police department];
I interviewed the key witness to the Michael Brown shooting last night.
The police haven't.
Think about that.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) August 12, 2014
…both can (certainly?) let the public know if the cop who killed Mike Brown was:
Darren Wilson: the African American eighteen-year veteran of the Ethical Society of Police
…or back to the drawing board with:
Bryan P. Willman
…or is it this “Darren Wilson” (having surfaced 7 days later Saturday, August 16, 2014)
https://twitter.com/goldietaylor/statuses/500687628648579072
SIDENOTE: About (“certainly?”).
Something else you learn in criminal law/criminal justice:
“Eyewitness” accounts where something traumatic happened and those eyewitnesses are counted on as giving crucial details about certain things that happened during that traumatic event (and especially the race or identity of the “alleged”) their recollection may (or may not be) considered. Why? Because psychologically, criminologists take into strong consideration there’s always a chance that after the fact, “eyewitness” testimonies are recollection of what they think (or wish were so) –after the fact/traumatic event.
Like for, instance, (on the convenience store video tape above): Although it looks like Dorian Johnson is the dread-head guy on the footage along with Mike Brown (dressed like the deceased in the above pic), it shall remain that the two guys (on the tape) are “allegedly” Mike Brown and Dorian Johnson until proving that
