NOT IN AMERICA: COMPLY, YOU WILL LIVE, RESIST AND YOU DIE. THAT IS LOGICAL IN ANY UNIVERSE. THIS STATEMENT WAS IN THE MISSOULIAN OPINION SECTION THIS MORNING, REFERRING TO THE GARNER CASE IN NEW YORK, AND THE BROWN CASE IN FERGUSON, MISSOURI, BOTH UNARMED BLACK MEN, KILLED BY WHITE POLICE OFFICERS. IN THIS COUNTRY, CITIZENS HAVE RIGHTS, COPS HAVE OBLIGATIONS TO GUARANTEE THOSE RIGHTS. AND SINCE WHEN DID PROTECT AND SERVE, BECOME PROTECT YOURSELF AT ALL COSTS, AND JUST CLAIM YOU FEARED YOU WERE IN DANGER, BEFORE KILLING A CITIZEN? LET'S TAKE THE GARNER CASE--ALLEGEDLY ARRESTED, CHOKEHOLD AND ALL, FOR SELLING UNTAXED CIGARETTES, AS SINGLE CIGS . . . THIS IS A BULL SHIT ARGUMENT IN THE FIRST PLACE, BECAUSE, WHAT WAS CEASAR'S, OR THE TAXES, HAD ALREADY BEEN PAID BY GARNER, THE STATE IS NOT ENTITLED TO GET DOUBLE THE TAXES OUT OF A SINGLE PACK OF CIGARETTES. SO THE OFFICERS WERE FAULTY IN HARASSING GARNER IN THE FIRST PLACE, "BUT FOR" THIS HARASSMENT, THE DEATH WOULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED. SHOP OWNERS, DO NOT OWN THE SIDEWALKS IN FRONT OF THEIR STORES, AND I HIGHLY DOUBT, THAT GARNER WAS DOING A KNOCKOUT BUSINESS, THAT THREATENED THE STORE AS TRUE COMPETITION. SO THE OFFICERS, WERE TOTALLY OUT OF LINE IN THE FIRST PLACE, AND MAYOR DE BLAZIO, IS CONSIDERING CHANGING POLICIES, NOW THAT CRIME IS AT A RECORD LOW, NOT ENFORCING TOTALLY LAME ASS INFRACTIONS, IF GARNER WAS EVEN DOING THAT. HAD GARNER'S HEALTH BEEN THE CAUSE OF DEATH, HE WOULD HAVE DIED ON THE STREETS BEFORE THE OFFICERS GOT THERE, OR ALREADY BEEN DEAD . . . IT WAS THE CHOCKHOLD, A PROCEEDURE THAT HAD BEEN BANNED, ACCORDING TO EARLY NEWS ARTICLES--ONE ARTICLE HAD IS BANNED IN THE FIRST PART OF THE NEWS CLIPPING, AND NOT BANNED OR AN ACCEPTED POSITION, LATER IN THE SAME ARTICLE--SOME OF US, THAT NOTE OF THESE DISCREPANCIES, BUT LIKE MOST NEWSPAPERS, THEY WILL EVENTUALLY SPIN IT IN THE POPULAR POSITION, AT THE STRONGARM OF THE COPS! WHICH LEADS ME TO THE FACTS IN THE MICHAEL BROWN CASE . . . THIS CLOWN THAT MADE THE STATEMENT, SAYS, IF YOU JUST LOOK AT THE FACTS, YOU WILL KNOW, THAT THESE TWO MEN, JUST CHOSE TO IGNORE THE OFFICERS, AND FAILED TO COMPLY WITH THEIR DEMANDS, AND SO, THEY DESERVE TO BE DEAD, PLAIN AND SIMPLE . . . YOU SIMPLETON! NOW WHICH VERSION OF THE FACTS, ARE YOU GOING TO RELY ON? THE ONES THAT CAME WITH VIDEOS, FROM WITNESSES, RIGHT AT THE SCENE OF THE CRIME? OR THE PROSECUTOR, PRESENTING THE FACTS, AS THEY CAME OUT OF THE SECRET GRAND JURY, AFTER FOUR MONTHS? THINKING CAPS HERE, WHICH ARE MORE RELIABLE, VERIFIABLE, AND FRESH? I WAS IN LAS VEGAS, IN AUGUST WHEN THE BROWN KILLING BY WHITE OFFICER WILSON, WENT DOWN. I SAW THE EARLY WITNESSES, THREE YOUNG BLACK TEENS, ONE HAD A CELL PHONE VIDEO TAKEN FROM THE SECOND STOREY APARTMENT ACROSS THE STREET, AND IT TOLD A WHOLE DIFFERENT STORY, THAN EVENTUALLY CAME OUT, FOUR MONTHS LATER, AFTER THE GRAND JURY, FAILED TO INDICT WILSON, WHO WALKED OUT SMILING, AS IF HE KNEW HIS SORRY ASS WAS COVERED, AND WHAT THE OUTCOME WOULD BE--HE KNEW HE HAD HIS TEAM WAS BEHIND HIM, COPS, PROSECUTOR, GRAND JURY . . . SURPRISE, SURPRISE, SURPRISE, THERE WAS HOPE, BUT NO SURPIRSES! THEN THERE WAS ANOTHER TEEN, WHO FOLLOWED OFFICER WILSON DOWN THE ROAD, AND CAUGHT THE INDICENT ON HER CELL PHONE, WHEN THINGS DIDN'T SEEM RIGHT TO HER, WITH THE OFFICER'S AGRESSION, SHE STARTED THE CELL PHONE CAMERA ROLLING . . . FEARING HIS LIFE, HUH? THAT IS NOT WHAT I SAW IN EITHER VIDEO, RIGHT AFTER THE INDICDENTS--THE PROSECUTOR SAID, AT THE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT THERE WOULD BE NO INDICTMENT, THAT THERE WERE DISCREPANCIES IN THE WITNESSES TESTIMONIES--YEAH, AND YOUR POINT, YOU HAVE ONE ACROSS THE STREET, ONE BEHIND THE CAR, AND ONE WALKING WITH BROWN--HELL, YEAH, THEY ARE ALL GOING TO COME FROM A DIFFERENT VANTAGE POINT, ALL SEE DIFFERENT VIEWS OF WHAT WAS GOING ON, BUT THAT DOESN'T DISCREDIT THEIR TESTIMONIES! HAVE YOU EVEN SEEN THE MOVIE VANTAGE POINT, WITH WILLIAM HURT, AS PRESIDENT? THE MOVIE IS BASED ON THE ASSASSINATION OF THE PRESIDENT, BUT FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE 8 WITNESSES, WHO ALL SAW THE SHOOTING, BUT FROM 8 VANTAGE POINTS! THEN, YOU TAKE ALL THOSE VANTAGE POINTS, THOSE WITNESSES, AND CREATE A FACT PATTERN THAT FITS, WITH THE BALLISTICS REPORTS, AUTOPSIES, ETC. IT KILLS ME, THAT THE GUY WHO WAS STANDING WITH MICHAEL, THROUGH THE WHOLE THINGS, WAS DISCREDITIED, DUE TO THE SHOPLIFTING, REALLY? HIS STATEMENT IS NOT COMPROMISED IN ANYWAY, THAT SHOPLIFTING TAPE NEVER BECAME AN ISSUE, UNTIL DAYS AFTER THE SHOOTING! THIS WAS THE FIRST OF THE CONTROLS, THE COPS STARTED EXERTING, AS THEY STARTED TO PROTECT WILSON, AND DO A CHARACTER ASSASSINATION OF BROWN, IMPLYING THAT THE TWO BOYS, WERE JUST STREET THUGS--BROWN WAS TO START COLLEGE THE VERY NEXT DAY! WILSON DIDN'T KNOW JACK, ABOUT THE CIGARS, AT THE TIME, ACCORDING TO THE POLICE CHIEF, THAT WAS ONE OF THE CHANGES IN THE NEWS, AFTER THE SPIN TOOK PLACE, AND WHETHER HE SHOPLIFTED OR NOT, IS INCONSEQUENTAL, THERE COULD HAVE BEEN A MURDER IN THE STORE, AND YOU DON'T KILL THE SUSPECT, YOU ARREST, HAUL THEIR ASSES IN FOR QUESTIONING, THEN EITHER BOOK'EM, OR RELEASE THEM, YOU DON'T GET TO KILL THEM! . . . IN THE ACCOUNTS I HEARD, OFFICER WILSON, DIDN'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT THE CIGARS, AT THE TIME OF THE SHOOTING, HE WAS JUST PISSED THAT THE TWO TEENS, SURPRISE, DIDN'T DIG HIS DEMANDS, AND JUMP TO COMPLY, WHICH IS WHAT REALLY LED TO THE EXCHANGES BETWEEN BROWN AND WILSON--HAD A COP DEMANDED I GET OUT OF THE STREET, THEN BARELLED UP ON MY ASS, HITTING ME WITH HIS SQUAD CAR DOOR, RATHER THAN SHOW SOME RESPECT, THEN CLAIMING FOUL PLAY, WHEN MICHAEL, TURNS ON WILSON, WHO NOW HAS HIS GUN OUT OF HIS HOLSTER, WHICH EVEN HAS A SNAP, HE HAS TO POP TO GET THE GUN OUT, SO MICHAEL, GRABBING THE GUN, POINTED IN HIS FACE, WAS THE ACT OF SELF-DEFENSE, WHICH HE WAS ENTITLED TO! THE WAY THE FACTS, AS I SAW THEM IN AUGUST WENT DOWN, IT WAS BROWN, AND RIGHTLY SO, WHO WAS IN FEAR OF HIS LIFE, NOT WILSON, THE AGGRESSOR! IF YOU WILL RECALL, THE COPS DIDN'T RELEASE WILSON'S NAME FOR 9 DAYS--WORKING OUT THE STORY, AND THEN, THERE CAME THE LEAK, OF WILSON'S SIDE OF THE STORY, FROM SOME UNANOMOUS PERSON, AT A LOCAL BAR--NOW I SUPPOSE, THAT PERSON, WHO WAS TOO CHICKEN SHIT TO EVEN GIVE THEIR NAME, AND WAS NOT THERE, WAS CONSIDERED MORE RELIABLE THAN THE THREE BLACK WITNESSES, THERE AT THE SCENE, YOU KNOW, WILSON'S FRIEND HAD TO BE WHITE, THEREFORE, RELIABLE, AND THE THREE TEENS, WHO NEVER ONCE CHANGED THEIR STORIES AT ALL, WERE FULL OF DISCREPANCIES! GOOD GOD! THE COPS SHOP, THE PROSECUTOR'S, HAD 9 DAYS TO CONCOCT SOME BULL SHIT STORY, TAKING THE FACTS, AND TWISTING IT FOR POOR OFFICER WILSON--MICHAEL WAS NOT THERE TO PRESENT HIS SIDE, AND THE TEENS WHO DID PRESENT THE OTHER SIDE, AS EYE WITNESSES, WERE IGNORED! . . . I HAVE LITERALLY, WATCHED, A WEEKS WORTH OF NEWS VIDEOS, STARTING WITH AN INCIDENT, WHILE I WAS A UTAH ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL, UTAH PROSECUTION COUNCIL, IN THE CRIMINAL ENFORCEMENT DIVISION, OF A MAN, WHO NO LONGER WOULD DEAL WITH THE DEA, OR THE DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION, AND WHEN HE REFUSED TO WORK WITH THEM, HAVING A HARD TIME DECIDING WHO WAS WORSE, THE DRUG DEALERS OR THE COPS, WHO WERE STOPPING THEM UNDER THE FREEWAY, AS THEY LEFT, MY POTENTIAL CLIENTS, CHEMICAL PLANT, TOOK THE DRUGS, AND DEMANDED THE MONEY BACK FROM MY CLIENT! LATER, HIS CHEMICAL PLANT WAS BURNED TO THE GROUND . . . IT WAS THE SIZE OF A COSTCO! HE SAID HE COULD HAVE PUT THE ALLEGED FIRE OUT WITH A GARDEN HOSE, BUT WAS STOPPED BY THE COPS AND THE FIREFIGHTERS, WHO BLOCKED HIM, TOLD HIM THEY WOULD ARREST HIM IS HE CROSSED THE CAUTION TAPE, WHILE THEY CHANTED, BURN BABY BURN! HE GAVE ME 7 DAYS, AND ABOUT 7 TO 10 HOURS OF NEWS, AND WHAT STARTED AS A SMALL CHEMICAL PLANT FIRE, TURNED INTO A TWO WEEK, LIFE THREATENING ORDEAL, WITH MY POTENTIAL CLIENTS, BEING HELD RESPONSIBLE! WHEN A NEIGHBOR TRIED TO HELP, THE NEIGHBOR'S HOME WAS BURNED TO THE GROUND TOO! THE COPS ARE NOT ABOVE REPROACH, AND IF THE OPINION SECTION WRITER, THINKS THAT, HE IS SORELY MISTAKEN, AND HE HAS NOT RUN UP AGAINST THEIR POWER STRUCTURE, AS I HAVE PERSONALLY, TRYING TO DEFEND CLIENT'S RIGHTS, PROTECT THEIR PROEPRTY, AND FIGHT OFF THE CONTROLS THEY HAVE OVER THE PRESS. CHECK THE OKLAHOMA BOMBING OF THE FEDERAL BUILDING, STARTED WITH BOMB EXPERTS, SAYING IT HAD TO BE 16 STRATIGICALLY PLACED BOMBS IN THE PARKING STRUCTURE, UNDER THE BUILDING TO HAVE BLOWN THE WAY IT DID . . . ONE WE LATER, IT WAS SOLEY THE ACT OF MCVEY AND NICHOLS! KIND OF LIKE THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION, OR THE WORLD TRADE TOWERS, WITH NOBODY BEING ABLE TO ACCOUNT FOR BUILDING NUMBER 7 GOING DOWN, LIKE A DEMOLITION, 12 HOURS AFTER THE WORLD TRADE TOWERS? THE WIND, THE ASHES, THE SMOKE? IT JUST HAPPENED TO BE THE FBI BUILDING, TWO BLOCKS AWAY . . . GUESS THEY THOUGHT, NOBODY WAS WATCHING THE NEWS AFTER ALL DAY! WELL I WAS, AND NOBODY IN 14 YEARS HAS GIVEN A VIABLE EXPLANATION FOR THAT BUILDING GOING DOWN! ALL OF THE FACTS, THE STORIES, THE EXPERTS, THE WITNESSES, ETC., JUST MAGICALLY EITHER DISAPPEAR, GET PUSHED UNDER THE RUG, IGNORED, DISCREDITED, OR THE POWER STRUCTURES DISTANCE THEMSELVES, AND PEOPLE LIKE THE NUMB CHUCK, WHO WROTE THIS ARTICLE THIS MORNING, DOES, BELIEVEING EVERYTHING HE IS TOLD, BY THOSE WITH A VESTED INTEREST IN THAT SIDE OF THE STORY, PROMOTING MILITARIZED POLICE FORCES, ALL THE MONEY WE NEED FOR THEM, JUSTIFYING COP KILLINGS, THAT ARE A MORE RECENT THING UNDER THE PATRIOT ACT, GIVING POLICE POWERS, THEY HAVE NEVER, HAD BEFORE, MAKING THEM INFALIBLE, GODS, WITH ONLY SPLIT SECONDS TO DECIDE THE FATE OF SOMEONE THEY ARE ALLEGEDLY THERE TO PROTECT! THE CITIZEN . . . I WAS NOT SHOCKED, BUT HORRIFIED, WHEN SOMEONE INTERVIEWED ONE OF THE COPS, NEAR A TANK, AND HE SAID, THERE NUMBER ONE JOB, WAS TO PROTECT THEMSELVES! WHAT THE FUCK?