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The Ferguson Circus is Over, Get Ready for the Next One
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On November 24, 2014 @ 10:36 pm In The Point | 4 Comments
It was all but inevitable that Darren Wilson wouldn’t be charged. The evidence wasn’t there. The only way that charges would have come in would have been due to the weight of political pressure. That’s what happened to George Zimmerman but that case also fell through.
But that doesn’t really matter.
The activists and media are already prepared to jump over to the next shooting and the next case. The template is set.
Goodbye Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown. The next case is already waiting somewhere. A white man, preferably a cop, shooting a black man. And the rest of the story writes itself.
The next case has already presented itself.
A Cleveland police officer was less than 10 feet away when he shot and killed a 12-year-old boy carrying a replica gun near a playground, and video of the shooting is clear about what happened, police said Monday.
The boy was approached by officers Saturday responding to a 911 call about a male who appeared to be pulling a gun in and out of his pants.
The 911 caller said the gun was “probably fake,” then added, “I don’t know if it’s real or not.” Deputy Chief Edward Tomba said Monday that he didn’t know whether a dispatcher shared that information with responding officers.
The president of the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association has said the officers weren’t told the caller thought the gun might be fake.
Police say Tamir Rice, who died Sunday, had an “airsoft” gun that appeared indistinguishable from a real firearm. Airsoft guns fire spherical plastic pellets and have orange tips to show they aren’t real firearms, but police said the one the boy had didn’t have the bright safety indicator.
They say the boy was told to raise his hands and was shot when he pulled the pellet gun from his waistband, though he hadn’t pointed it at police or made verbal threats.
The case is ready made to be Fergusonized or Trayvonized. The inconvenient facts will be brushed aside. The media coverage will focus on the self-pitying bigotry of the activists. The organic public intellectuals will troop in to accuse America of being a genocidal prison state on MSNBC.
The script is already written. The cameras are ready. The play goes on.
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