December 18, 2014
Searching for the Next Michael Brown
By
Colin Flaherty
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A big target of racial hostility
Families are lining up to make their son the next Michael Brown. Waiting to tell their story of how racist cops killed their child For No Reason Whatsoever.
The
latest example comes from Philadelphia, where, early Monday morning, police shot Brandon Tate-Brown. The details are familiar enough: the 26-year old Tate-Brown was driving at 3 a.m. without headlights when two officers stopped him.
If this stop was anything like most others, then Tate-Brown convinced himself he was being pulled over for one reason only: driving while black.
Soon after he got out of the car, a struggle began. That’s how reporters describe it, so they can leave open the journalistic possibility that instead of Tate-Brown resisting arrest and attacking police, maybe the cops attacked him For No Reason Whatsoever.
Other than that they are degenerate racists, of course.
Whether Tate-Brown attacked the cops or the cops attacked him For No Reason Whatsoever, he was soon back in his car, lunging for a gun.
There they killed him.
The gun was stolen. The dead man was a hardcore convict with a history of shooting people and doing time in prison. Being in possession of that gun – stolen or not – would have been ticket back to the penitentiary.
That did not matter much to the outlaw’s family.
“From my eyes, he was a good guy,” Tate-Brown’s mother told the local NBC affiliate. “I would like to know why the police have the right to kill instead of disabling. It has to stop.”
Tate-Brown’s mother last saw him during the Sunday night Philadelphia Eagles football game. The family said he had a jovial spirit despite a difficult past, said the reporter for the NBC affiliate. He had just gotten a job and was getting his life together, they said.
It is not known whether he learned that jovial spirit in prison, where he recently spent five years for trying to kill someone. He had four prior convictions, two for attempted murder and related charges (including violation of the Uniform Firearms Act), theft, and receiving stolen property.
The next night, Tate-Brown’s mother was in the street and, with the assistance of Al Sharpton’s National Action Network,
was telling a crowd that her son would never do anything like starting a fight with a cop.
No one seemed to care that she was not telling the truth.
About 100 miles down the freeway in Baltimore, just a few hours before, another cop faced the same situation – this time with a different result.
A cop at a gas station noticed the strong aroma of sweet, sweet marijuana coming out of a car. So he radioed a patrol car to make the stop.
The police removed the driver from the car without incident. But in the back seat, 19-year old Donte Jones refused the request to get out of the car while sitting with his hands in his waistband. Police threatened to tase him, so he shot one. Three times.
He ran. They caught him. Alive.
Later at a press conference, police officials described Jones as a repeat offender with weapons violations.
The cop is still alive.
The
Baltimore Sun, known more for the absence of crime coverage than actual crime stories, actually got at least part of this one right:
The shooting comes just hours after hundreds marched city streets to demonstrate in the wake of two high-profile deaths of individuals in police custody. Police commissioner Anthony Batts said the timing of this shooting was not lost on him against the backdrop of the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and Eric Garner in New York.
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