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Lt. Gov: Obama Pressured Missouri Governor to Make National Guard Troops STAND DOWN While Ferguson Burned
Above: One of more than 2 dozen Ferguson businesses completely destroyed in last night’s rioting
by Brian Hayes | Top Right News
Dozens of businesses were looted, burned, and destroyed in Ferguson last night. Hundreds of gunshots were fired by so-called “protesters”.
But despite mobilizing the National Guard for more than a week in preparation for this expect chaos, Gov. Jay Nixon (D) told them to stand down. Ferguson Mayor James Knowles told FOX 2 reporters late on Monday night that he had repeatedly pleaded with the Governor’s office to deploy the the National Guard Monday night… But his requests were “completely ignored”:
On Tuesday morning Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder put forward what people in St. Louis are all asking today: Did the Obama administration lean on Governor Nixon to tell the National Guard to stand down?
“He (Governor Nixon) declared a State of Emergency almost a week ago and mobilized the National Guard. Then they were kept away at the crucial time while Ferguson burned…Via America’s Newsroom (h/t Jim Hoft):
We know they were kept away because they did not come in and stop that from the get-go. They were deployed in other parts of the St. Louis region… Why were they not in there at the first sign of an overturned police car or a smashed police car window with a show of force that would have stopped this?
Here’s my question that the governor must answer – Is the reason that the National Guard was not in there because the Obama Administration and the Holder Justice Department leaned on you to keep them out? I cannot imagine any other reason why the governor who mobilized the National Guard would not have them in there to stop this.”
Was this what Obama meant when he took to the airwaves before the riots to demand “police restraint”?
And Obama was not the only Administration official to put pressure on Nixon. DW Ulstermann reports on how Attorney General Eric Holder also demanded that Troops stand down:
Eric Holder was reportedly upset the Missouri Governor announced a State of Emergency days before the Darren Wilson Grand Jury decision was announced, and adamant there would be no National Guard soldiers patrolling the streets of Ferguson. (A decision that in more “normal” time would be left to the governor to decide)So Obama and Holder told police to stand down, but told the protesters a week ago to “stay the course.” Should we really be surprised with the mayhem that resulted last night?
More off the record reports indicate Holder’s office made a number of angry calls to Governor Nixon expressing the administration’s displeasure at what they viewed to be a too strong response to the threat of rioting.
Therefore, on the night of the rioting the National Guard soldiers were nowhere to be found in Ferguson, and the city was left to burn, all courtesy of Eric Holder and the Obama White House.
Darren Wilson’s attorneys describe officer’s life in hiding, laud his staunchness
Wilson then spent about a week with one of his attorneys, Greg Kloeppel, until finally he moved into what his legal team now calls the “quote-unquote permanent location,” which they declined to disclose. Wilson hasn’t been back to his ranch-style home since he stopped cutting the grass midway through.
“You want to buy a house?” another Wilson attorney, James Towey, asked.
Wilson’s four-person legal team spoke with The Washington Post on Wednesday about their strategies during a 3 1/2- month period from which Wilson emerged facing no criminal charges but also contending with a lost career and reputation. They said that their client, who had become nationally a “poster child for bad race relations,” was the perfect legal weapon behind the scenes: He stayed silent publicly, and when he spoke to investigators and jurors, his version of events remained consistent.
They also described a period of life on the run in which Wilson bounced from house to house but rarely went out in public. One exception: He did get married to Barbara Spradling, a fellow police officer, obtaining a marriage license in Clayton, Mo.
After St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert P. McCulloch announced the grand jury decision, released documents showed that Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson and key witness Dorian Johnson differed on several accounts in their testimonies.
Another attorney, Neil Bruntrager, said that Wilson used “certain [disguise] tricks” he had learned as a police officer to go out incognito, without specifying what they were. He preferred going to movies because of the darkness.
“He cross-dressed a lot,” Bruntrager said as a joke.
In the first weeks after the shooting, Wilson retained hope that he would be able to reclaim his job as an officer. Although the Ferguson department hasn’t yet officially determined Wilson’s future, the decision makes little difference, Wilson’s attorneys said. He won’t be returning to that police department or any other.
“At first [his thinking] was, ‘I want to go back, I’m a cop, I want to still be a cop,’ ” attorney Danielle Thompson said. “It took some time for him to realize that wasn’t exactly going to be what happened.”
Towey added: “I think I expressed to him, ‘Do you realize your first call [back on the job] will be to a blind alley where you’re executed?’ He took a pause for a minute, thought about it and said, ‘Oh.’ That is the reality.”
As the grand jury proceedings moved along over the past few months, Wilson’s attorneys — a group familiar with representing police cases — said they felt confident that they had the upper hand. That’s largely because witnesses who did speak publicly told conflicting stories about the 90-second encounter between Wilson and Michael Brown. If the grand jury had determined that Wilson should face a criminal trial, they would have had plenty of ammunition when cross-examining witnesses, they said.
They determined quickly after the shooting that Wilson shouldn’t speak publicly — in contrast to George Zimmerman, a volunteer watchman who in 2012 shot black teenager Trayvon Martin — because it could only hurt his case.
“[Zimmerman] is an idiot, Darren was not,” Towey said. “Any criminal defense lawyer that has half a brain says, ‘Shut up, don’t say a word.’ ”
Wilson gave his first and so far only interview Tuesday to ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos, saying that he didn’t think he could have handled the confrontation with Brown any differently.
“Everybody says that [his story] was so rehearsed and he was so prepped,” Thompson said. “But the way Darren tells the story has not changed from the minute the shooting occurred. He could probably tell it in his sleep if he had to.”
“If I could, I’d show you my notes from one hour after it happened,” Kloeppel said, referring to an interview Wilson did at Ferguson police headquarters Aug. 9. “Same story.”
The shooting of Brown was not necessarily destined to become a flash point for so many broader issues in America. Wilson’s attorneys think that the case turned into a perfect storm because of the initial, public testimony of Dorian Johnson, who was walking with Brown when Wilson stopped them. Johnson said soon after the shooting that the friends weren’t causing any harm and that Wilson — in making the stop — grabbed Brown by the neck while still sitting in the driver’s seat of his Chevrolet Tahoe. Things intensified into a short chase, but Brown eventually raised his hands in surrender, Johnson said. Wilson then “fired several more shots.”
Even now that the grand jury proceedings are over, Wilson’s team still smarts about Johnson.
“Total bull,” Towey said of the hands-up narrative, noting that Brown’s blood trail indicated that he might have been charging toward Wilson as the last shots were fired.
Wilson’s shooting of Brown remains highly contested and has sparked protests across the country. Testimony released this week after the grand jury’s decision included conflicting accounts of the August shooting.
Lesley McSpadden, Brown’s mom, who did not witness the shooting but who has talked to witnesses, portrays an event in which Wilson was the aggressor, talking to the teens in vulgar language, grabbing Brown, and finally shooting him in the back.
A lot of people were “compelled to let us know what they saw,” McSpadden said Wednesday in an interview with Charlie Rose on PBS. “Because they knew that this kid did not deserve what happened to him. … He stopped, he turned around to get down on his knees like the officer asked him. I believe he was shot close up. I don’t think my son was lunging at him in any kind of way.”
St. Louis County prosecutor Robert McCulloch has faced intense criticism for his handling of the grand jury — particularly his decision not to request any kind of charges. Instead, McCulloch left all judgment to the jurors themselves, deluging them with the kind of evidence you’d normally only see in a jury trial. Questioning of those who appeared in front of the grand jury was fairly friendly.
Bruntrager declined to criticize the process and said there was a reason for running such an informal grand jury: to let witnesses talk freely.
“To get a narrative going,” Bruntrager said. “I think it was actually perfect for what they needed to do, which is get the information out there.”
Wilson’s attorneys said he has no plans to specifically apologize to Brown’s family. After the grand jury decision, Wilson, through his legal team, released a statement that did not mention Brown.
“Even if he gave the most heartfelt apology, they’d still not like it,” Towey said.
“Taking a life is a horrible thing to have to do,” Bruntrager said. “And yet, the key phrase is, ‘to have to do.’ Because that is what he thinks. Is that going to make the Browns feel any less grief?”
The Washington Post
[Watch] Mark Levin – The Left Is Undermining The Judicial System, Pushing Their Agenda
Hannity follows with some Jesse Jackson lowlights in which he gutturally mumbled that the Ferguson Grand Jury was just a hangman’s noose.
Mark Levin describes Farrakhan as a “Violent, hateful, racist anti-Semite and the fact that the ‘president’ of the United States didn’t denounce those comments, the fact that the Attorney General of the United States didn’t denounce those comments, the fact that not a single Democrat went to the floor of the House or the floor of the Senate and denounce that man and what he stands for, and not even a Republican as far as I know, it’s unbelievable to me.”
He continues, saying, “As far as Jesse Jackson is concerned, Ferguson is not Selma. And Michael Brown is not Emmitt Till. There was no racial profiling here; there was no racist police officer here. The “militarization” of the police force had nothing to do with this. This police officer was acting in self-defense and Michael Brown was the perpetrator here. Now this country’s being turned upside down by this ‘president’ and Attorney General and their surrogates. So the question is why, and I’ll tell you why.”
Levin says, “In the black community, under our first black ‘president’and our first black Attorney General, it’s miserable. High unemployment, the schools stink and they oppose school choice. What else is going on? Black on black crime is through the roof. Nine out of then blacks are murdered by blacks, you’ve got gang violence in inner cities like Chicago, what are they doing about it? Nothing. When they met on Monday did they talk about it? Not a word.”
He asks, “What about those shop owners who were burned out in Ferguson, MO, overwhelmingly black and Hispanic. Were they invited to speak on Monday? Nothing. So now Obama and Holder and their surrogates are doing what? They’re undermining our police officers, all police officers regardless of race. Pushing what? An agenda that nationalizes local police forces? Why, why? Is Obama doing such a great job? He’s doing a disastrous job. This has nothing to do with racial profiling, nothing to do with racist cops, nothing to do with the militarization of the police force and yet this is what they burp up and spit out.”
He says the criminals, many of whom have visible and discernible faces on surveillance video should be tracked down and prosecuted, that the civil rights division of the DOJ should be doing some real police work to determine who the perpetrators are and prosecute them.
Levin also points to the Grand Jury only becoming involved as an effort to placate the rioters in the first place, that there was never any actionable evidence of wrongdoing on the part of Darren Wilson.
Hannity asks Levin why, if they really care, aren’t Holder and Sharpton in cities like Newark and Chicago, addressing the crime rates. The answer Mark Levin gives is simple, “They don’t care. They are pushing an agenda, they are trying to nationalize something that never happened.” He also points out that those high crime towns are run by Democrats, so they aren’t about to go in and draw attention to their failing policies.”
He also turns the tables asking, what about the police officers killed in the line of duty? Nobody, not even the Attorney General, has bothered to remember those deaths in this discussion.
Rick Wells is a conservative writer who recognizes that our nation, our Constitution and our traditions are under a full scale assault from multiple threats. Please “Like” him on Facebook, “Follow” him on Twitter
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