BILL COSBY vs BEVERLY JOHNSON - I BELIEVE HER (NO MORE SHAME) #MeToo

BILL COSBY vs BEVERLY JOHNSON - I BELIEVE HER (NO MORE SHAME) #MeToo:

BILL SEXUALLY ASSAULTED WOMEN FOR DECADES.

MORE MEN WHO USE THEIR POWER TO WRONGFULLY CONTROL AND DISRESPECT WOMEN NEED TO BE EXPOSED.

IT'S NOT ABOUT RACE, IT'S ABOUT ABUSE OF POWER.

IT'S NOT ABOUT BASHING MEN......IT'S ABOUT JUSTICE.

MORE WOMEN NEED TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST MALE ABUSE OF POWER AND SEXUAL ASSAULT EVEN IF IT COST THE WOMEN MONEY & FAME.......SPEAK OUT ANYWAY.

SPEAK OUT ANYWAY EVEN IF THE MEN WHO DID IT TRY TO PAINT YOU AS "MENTALLY UNSTABLE" OR AS "GOLD DIGGERS".

THANK YOU BEVERLY JOHNSON FOR SPEAKING OUT.

FORGIVENESS DOES NOT ELIMINATE CONSEQUENCES.

ESPECIALLY WHEN THE HARMFUL ACT WAS MALICIOUS INTENT.

NO MORE SHAME.


Post Sources: Vanity Fair, ABC, The View, Youtube


****** Bill Cosby Drugged Me. This Is My Story.


Like most Americans, I spent the 60s, 70s, and part of the 80s in awe of Bill Cosby and his total domination of popular culture. He was the first African American to star in a dramatic television series, I Spy, a show my family in Buffalo, New York, always watched. Cosby cut a striking figure on-screen then. He was funny, smart, and even elegant—all those wonderful things many white Americans didn’t associate with people of color. In fact, as I thought of going public with what follows, a voice in my head kept whispering, “Black men have enough enemies out there already, they certainly don’t need someone like you, an African American with a familiar face and a famous name, fanning the flames.”

Imagine my joy in the mid-80s when an agent called to say Bill Cosby wanted me to audition for a role on the The Cosby Show. Cosby played an obstetrician, and he sometimes used models to portray pregnant women sitting in his office waiting room. It was a small part with one or two speaking lines at most, but I wanted in.

I was in the midst of an ugly custody battle for my only child. I needed a big break badly and appearing on The Cosby Show seemed like an excellent way of getting Hollywood’s attention. I’d appeared in one or two movies already, but my phone wasn’t exactly ringing off the hook with acting jobs.

Cosby’s handlers invited me to a taping of the show so I could get the lay of the land and an idea of what my role required. After the taping I met all the cast and then met with Cosby in his office to talk a bit about the hell I’d been through in my marriage. He appeared concerned and then asked what I wanted from my career going forward. He seemed genuinely interested in guiding me to the next level. I was on cloud nine.

I brought my daughter to the next taping I attended. Afterward, Cosby asked if I could meet him at his home that weekend to read for the part. My ex-husband had primary custody of my daughter at the time, and I usually spent my weekends with her. Cosby suggested I bring her along, which really reeled me in. He was the Jell-O Pudding man; like most kids, my daughter loved him. When my daughter and I visited Cosby’s New York brownstone, his staff served us a delicious brunch. Then he gave us a tour of the exceptional multi-level home.

Looking back, that first invite from Cosby to his home seems like part of a perfectly laid out plan, a way to make me feel secure with him at all times. It worked like a charm. Cosby suggested I come back to his house a few days later to read for the part. I agreed, and one late afternoon the following week I returned. His staff served a light dinner and Bill and I talked more about my plans for the future.

After the meal, we walked upstairs to a huge living area of his home that featured a massive bar. A huge brass espresso contraption took up half the counter. At the time, it seemed rare for someone to have such a machine in his home for personal use.

Cosby said he wanted to see how I handled various scenes, so he suggested that I pretend to be drunk. (When did a pregnant woman ever appear drunk on The Cosby Show? Probably never, but I went with it.)

As I readied myself to be the best drunk I could be, he offered me a cappuccino from the espresso machine. I told him I didn’t drink coffee that late in the afternoon because it made getting to sleep at night more difficult. He wouldn’t let it go. He insisted that his espresso machine was the best model on the market and promised I’d never tasted a cappuccino quite like this one.

It’s nuts, I know, but it felt oddly inappropriate arguing with Bill Cosby so I took a few sips of the coffee just to appease him.

Now let me explain this: I was a top model during the 70s, a period when drugs flowed at parties and photo shoots like bottled water at a health spa. I’d had my fun and experimented with my fair share of mood enhancers. I knew by the second sip of the drink Cosby had given me that I’d been drugged—and drugged good.

[Editor’s Note: Cosby’s attorneys did not respond to Vanity Fair’s requests for comment.]

My head became woozy, my speech became slurred, and the room began to spin nonstop. Cosby motioned for me to come over to him as though we were really about to act out the scene. He put his hands around my waist, and I managed to put my hand on his shoulder in order to steady myself.

As I felt my body go completely limp, my brain switched into automatic-survival mode. That meant making sure Cosby understood that I knew exactly what was happening at that very moment.

“You are a motherfucker aren’t you?”

That’s the exact question I yelled at him as he stood there holding me, expecting me to bend to his will. I rapidly called him several more “motherfuckers.” By the fifth, I could tell that I was really pissing him off. At one point he dropped his hands from my waist and just stood there looking at me like I’d lost my mind.

What happened next is somewhat cloudy for me because the drug was in fuller play by that time. I recall his seething anger at my tirade and then him grabbing me by my left arm hard and yanking all 110 pounds of me down a bunch of stairs as my high heels clicked and clacked on every step. I feared my neck was going to break with the force he was using to pull me down those stairs. It was still late afternoon and the sun hadn’t completely gone down yet. When we reached the front door, he pulled me outside of the brownstone and then, with his hand still tightly clenched around my arm, stood in the middle of the street waving down taxis.

When one stopped, Cosby opened the door, shoved me into it and slammed the door behind me without ever saying a word. I somehow managed to tell the driver my address and before blacking out, I looked at the cabbie and asked, as if he knew: “Did I really just call Bill Cosby ‘a motherfucker’?”

Why that was even a concern of mine after what I’d just been through is still a mystery to me? I think my mind refused to process it.

The next day I woke up in my own bed after falling into a deep sleep that lasted most of the day. I had no memory of how I got into my apartment or into my bed, though most likely my doorman helped me out.

I sat in there still stunned by what happened the night before, confused and devastated by the idea that someone I admired so much had tried to take advantage of me, and used drugs to do so. Had I done something to encourage his actions?

In reality, I knew I’d done nothing to encourage Cosby but my mind kept turning with question after question. It took a few days for the drug to completely wear off and soon I had to get back to work. I headed to California for an acting audition. Not long after arriving, I decided I needed to confront Cosby for my own sanity’s sake. I thought if I just called him, he would come clean and explain why he’d done what he had.

I dialed the private number he’d given me expecting to hear his voice on the other end. But he didn’t answer. His wife did. A little shocked, I quickly identified myself to her in the most respectful way possible and then asked to speak to Bill. Camille politely informed me that it was very late, 11:00 P.M. and that they were both in bed together.

I apologized for the late call and explained that I was in Los Angeles and had forgotten about the three-hour time difference. I added that I would call back tomorrow.

I didn’t call back the next day or any other day after that. At a certain moment it became clear that I would be fighting a losing battle with a powerful man so callous he not only drugged me, but he also gave me the number to the bedroom he shared with his wife. How could I fight someone that boldly arrogant and out of touch? In the end, just like the other women, I had too much to lose to go after Bill Cosby. I had a career that would no doubt take a huge hit if I went public with my story and I certainly couldn’t afford that after my costly divorce and on going court fees.

For a long time I thought it was something that only happened to me, and that I was somehow responsible. So I kept my secret to myself, believing this truth needed to remain in the darkness. But the last four weeks have changed everything, as so many women have shared similar stories, of which the press have belatedly taken heed.

Still I struggled with how to reveal my big secret, and more importantly, what would people think when and if I did? Would they dismiss me as an angry black woman intent on ruining the image of one of the most revered men in the African American community over the last 40 years? Or would they see my open and honest account of being betrayed by one of the country’s most powerful, influential, and beloved entertainers?

As I wrestled with the idea of telling my story of the day Bill Cosby drugged me with the intention of doing God knows what, the faces of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and countless other brown and black men took residence in my mind.

As if I needed to be reminded. The current plight of the black male was behind my silence when Barbara Bowman came out to tell the horrific details of being drugged and raped by Cosby to the Washington Post in November. And I watched in horror as my longtime friend and fellow model Janice Dickinson was raked over the coals for telling her account of rape at Cosby’s hands. Over the years I’ve met other women who also claim to have been violated by Cosby. Many are still afraid to speak up. I couldn’t sit back and watch the other women be vilified and shamed for something I knew was true.

When I sat down to write my memoir in 2013, I pondered if I should include my Cosby experience. I didn't want to get involved in a he-said/she-said situation. Now that other women have come forward with their nightmare stories, I join them.

Finally, I reached the conclusion that the current attack on African American men has absolutely nothing to do at all with Bill Cosby. He brought this on himself when he decided he had the right to have his way with who knows how many women over the last four decades. If anything, Cosby is distinguished from the majority of black men in this country because he could depend on the powers that be for support and protection.

I had to use my voice as a sister, mother, and grandmother, and as a woman who knows that, according to the C.D.C., nearly one in five women has been sexually assaulted at some time in her life, and that women of color face an even higher attack rate.

In part because of what happened to me nearly 30 years ago, I have agreed to serve on the board of the Barbara Sinatra Center for Abused Children. The experience has been as humbling as it has been rewarding. Many of the young children I work with have been sexually abused and I watch in awe of their bravery as they work to recover and feel better.

How could I be any less brave?

(Beverly Johnson was a top model during the 70s and 80s and was the first African American woman to appear on the cover of American Vogue in 1974.)

BILL COSBY'S LEGAL DEFENSE TEAM DEMEANED WOMEN (CHARACTER ASSASSINATION)

BILL COSBY'S LEGAL TEAM DEMEANED WOMEN (CHARACTER ASSASSINATION):

COSBY'S LEGAL DEFENSE TEAM ATTACKED HIS FEMALE VICTIMS AND TRIED TO DISCREDIT THEM.

ATTEMPTING TO PAINT FEMALE VICTIMS AS "CRAZY" OR "UNSTABLE" IS AN OLD DIRTY TRICK.

THANK GOD IT FAILED.

SEXUAL PREDATORS & ABUSERS OF WOMEN NEED TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE.

TIME'S UP.


Post Sources: ABC News, Washington Post, Youtube


****** How Bill Cosby's defense team's vicious strategy backfired: ANALYSIS


Even in defeat, disgrace and public humiliation, they kept on coming after the women.

In an extraordinary post-trial interview on Friday with “Good Morning America” chief anchor George Stephanopoulos, Cosby representatives Andrew Wyatt and Ebonee Benson called one juror a racist and suggested that one Cosby accuser and a friend who say they were drugged and assaulted had initially gone to visit the comedian because “they like big, black men.”

Stephanopoulos seemed to wince, and asked her, “Do you really want to go there?”

She did.

Benson went on to compare Cosby’s conviction on three counts of felony sexual assault on Thursday to the fate of Emmett Till, the 14-year old Mississippi child brutalized and murdered in 1955 for whistling at a white woman.

“This became a public lynching,” Wyatt said of the trial. “The South came to the East.”

A number of Cosby’s dozens of accusers are African-Americans, as are Benson and Wyatt.

Employing a vicious defense strategy that sought to exploit race, gender, age and social activism, Cosby’s defense team went low early and kept on going -- launching stunning, mostly unfounded broadsides against the judge, the prosecutor, the witnesses and the jurors -– and openly mocked the widely accepted scholarship of a renowned expert on sexual assault.

Mocking Science

In a powerful, tactical move, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, prosecutors Kevin Steele, Kristen Feden and Stewart Ryan chose as their first witness in the retrial Dr. Barbara Ziv -- a sexual assault expert who testified that significant statistical evidence has shown that most sexual assault victims respond differently to attacks than victims of other crimes.

Anticipating withering defense cross-examinations from celebrity defense attorney Tom Mesereau and co-counsel Kathleen Bliss, the move aimed to give some measure of protection to the succession of six women who would follow, each testifying that Cosby drugged and sexually violated them.

District Attorney Steele knew jurors needed to first understand the degree of lasting trauma sexual violence can inflict before listening to the graphic stories they were about to hear, a colleague told ABC News.

Ziv testified that “the vast majority of victims of sexual assault do not report to authorities,” and that sexual assault reporting can be delayed “from days to weeks to months to years.”

She explained how common counter-intuitive behavior is in victims of sexual violence, and how they rarely act the way you would think they would.

“Most people don’t fight back, don’t say anything, and don’t, you know, immediately, when it’s over, don’t jump up and leave,” Ziv said. “They are in a state of shock, that’s how they describe it.

“The most common scenario is that when someone is being sexually assaulted, they’re sort of frozen, they don’t know what’s happening ... but they can take their time before they end the situation," she added. "That’s usually the pattern in the majority of sexual assaults.”

During closing arguments, Bliss characterized Ziv’s testimony as nonsense.

“We are not snowflakes,” the former federal prosecutor told jurors in her deep Oklahoma drawl. “We are not delicate flowers, and so this rape myth that someone like Dr. Ziv would ask you to buy into –- where if she says X, it’s rape; if she says Y, it’s rape; if she says Z, it’s rape.

"Whatever she says, don’t worry about the details,” Bliss continued sarcastically. “Don’t corroborate her. Don’t check her out.”

Shaming women

In some ways, the defense strategy was as simple as it was anachronistic: destroy the accuser’s credibility, shame her supporting witnesses and ridicule emerging science on the truly caustic effects of sexual assault on both the bodies and the psyches of victims.

Mesereau called Andrea Constand -- whose sexual assault case led to Cosby's conviction -- a “con artist” and a “pathological liar” so wily and deceptive that “you would need pliers to pull the truth from this woman.”

He accused her of “destroying the physical evidence” that could have proved Cosby innocent -- by not coming forward for a year after the alleged attack.

An email she cut, pasted and forwarded in college to one person became a “pyramid scheme.” Allegations of decades-old use of hallucinogens became an “addict[ion] to magic mushrooms.”

Constand acknowledged under cross-examination that she had been in Cosby’s hotel room at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut late one night after he invited her to the resort to see him perform.

“Did you think it appropriate that you be in a married man’s room in a hotel in Connecticut at that time of night?” Mesereau pressed.

Constand calmly replied that she was summoned to the room by the comedian to get some “baked goods that Mr. Cosby wanted to give me.”

She said she left the room within 10 minutes.

At another point, Mesereau suggested that Constand had violated the terms of her $3.38 million dollar settlement with Cosby by testifying, when a close reading of the language in subsequent questioning by Feden revealed that the attorney had left out a key element of the agreement -- and that Constand hadn’t violated the terms at all.

The five additional accusers came under equally lethal scrutiny.

In one of the most remarkable moments in the trial, Bliss told jurors that former supermodel and witness Janice Dickinson was a “failed starlet” and an “aged-out model” who sounded “like she had slept with every single man on the planet.”

“Is Ms. Dickinson really the moral beacon that the women’s movement wants?” she wondered aloud.

A sweet-voiced Midwestern grandmother named Heidi Thomas was painted as desperate for attention after a bid in her early-20s to become an entertainer.

Thomas finally got her wish, Bliss told jurors sarcastically, after getting to testify before the national press in a high-profile trial.

“She’s now living the dream, ladies and gentlemen," Bliss mocked.

Thomas had earlier testified to being summoned at the age of 24 to an empty home in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, for acting coaching, only to be drugged by Cosby and wake up in groggy horror and confusion. He forced himself onto her, she testified.

When accuser Janice Baker-Kinney denied repeatedly under cross-examination to conspiring with Constand against the star during a chance meeting at a women’s march last year, Mesereau openly mocked her.

“Are you rolling your eyes at me?” she demanded of the attorney, who without a moment’s hesitation shot back “yes,” drawing gasps from the gallery.

Under cross-examination, Chelan Lasha sobbed as she was called a liar who was convicted a decade earlier of making a false statement to police in an unrelated case.

Bliss portrayed all of them as having made up stories and come forward for “money, press conferences, TV show, salacious coverage, ratings.”

She paused for effect and concluded dismissively, “Sex sells.”

Taking on the judge

The circle-the-wagons defense strategy sought to impugn the motivations of all comers.

Judge Steven T. O’Neill denied a pre-trial motion by the prosecution to recuse himself from the case because his wife counsels college sexual assault victims and once may have made a $100 donation to a campus group. The group later made a donation to another campus group that had recently announced plans to protest Cosby outside of court.

The protest never materialized, and neither did the recusal.

In issuing his ruling, O’Neill accused the defense of trying to “trivialize” his wife’s work, and -- in a voice cracking with emotion -- he ultimately declared that “I am my own individual in making decisions here, and my wife’s personal beliefs and professional pursuits and what she does for a living are just of no consequence.”

After appearing to choke up, O’Neill apologized to the court “if emotions become a part of [this]."

“But it’s a difficult thing if the parties choose to bring the families into it," he added.

Playing the race card

During jury selection, Bliss claimed a peremptory strike of an African American woman demonstrated racial discrimination, even though two of the eight jurors by then impaneled were also black.

After a break, Bliss returned to court to claim to the judge that a member of her team had just overheard a Cosby prosecutor making a “repulsive” racially discriminatory remark.

An exasperated Steele called the claim “ludicrous” as one of his assistant district attorneys stormed out of court. The issue was never raised in open court again, and representatives for the prosecution, the defense and court administrators all declined to comment at the time.

On Friday morning, Wyatt was still litigating a failed pre-trial bid to have a different juror thrown out for, again, being overheard making a racist comment.

The actual remarks, if any, were never made public by the court, and Judge O’Neill rejected the defense motion bid to strike that juror from the pool.

But by then it was too late, Benson told Stephanopoulos on Friday.

“The bias was already there,” she said.

Asked whether the scores of women who have accused Cosby in recent years of sexual violence could really all be lying, Benson was ready with her own questions.

“Since when are all people honest?" she asked. "Since when are all women honest?”

BILL COSBY'S BLACK AMERICA DID NOT INCLUDE ALL BLACKS (CERTAINLY NOT POOR BLACKS) #PoundCake

BILL COSBY'S BLACK AMERICA DID NOT INCLUDE ALL BLACKS (CERTAINLY NOT POOR BLACKS):

BILL COSBY FORGOT WHERE HE CAME FROM......#PoundCake

BILL COSBY'S VIEWS DIVIDED BLACK AMERICA BY SHAMING POOR BLACKS AND BASHING YOUNG BLACK MEN.

NOW BILL COSBY WILL HAVE TO FACE THOSE YOUNG BLACK MEN IN PRISON AT THE AGE OF 80.

THE SAME PEOPLE YOU SHAME & BASH ON YOUR WAY UP TO SUCCESS, YOU MIGHT MEET AGAIN ON YOUR WAY DOWN.

BE CAREFUL HOW YOU TREAT YOUR FELLOW MAN.

PRIDE GOETH BEFORE DESTRUCTION.


Post Sources: The Root, CNN, Youtube


*******How Bill Cosby Divided Black America


In the wake of the Cosby verdict, former Ebony editor-in-chief Kierna Mayo reflects on her “shattered glass” Cosby Show cover and how it highlighted a great divide.

Wednesday, when the news broke, my stomach reacted first. I was home writing when the CNN ticker flashed:

"COSBY FOUND GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS."

The rush of emotions that followed was confusing, not fully placeable if you will. I texted a few friends (COSBY!!!!) and then I sunk back into my sofa, heart racing, belly in knots. What the hell is wrong with you? began the internal talk. I just wanted to understand the sensation. I needed to feel something less indecipherable. My nerves were a wrap; I reached for the vape.

Two years ago, after the soul-stirring funeral of a friend’s beloved mother, a glamorous, gorgeous, silver-haired black woman of a certain age approached me in a parking lot filled with hundreds of mourners. She stopped right in my face and grabbed my hand.

“I wanted to send you roses,” she said.

Initially, I had no response. I had no idea who she was, and no idea what she meant. I was frozen; struck partly by her unique beauty, but mostly by her odd comment and sheer intensity. Lady, I’m emotionally spent, I didn’t quite get out.

“Thank you so much. For that cover. For supporting me. I was one of his victims.”

One. Of. His. Victims. All of a sudden it clicked. She was talking about Bill Cosby. The cover she was referring to was the November 2015 issue of Ebony magazine. I was its editor-in-chief at the time. After a raucous debate about what image should cover our “family” issue, a staff member suggested The Cosby Show. The sexual assault accusations against Cosby had been pouring in by the day. First five women, then 12, then 30 and so forth.

As journalists, we were steeped in discussion about it for months; the entire black community had been. The problem was that there was a deep divide: those who were inclined to believe the women and wholly rejected Cosby’s social status as a reason to think he was incapable of the crime, and those who believed that white women, with the help of some black women, acted as agents of “the white man” and were all conspiring against an otherwise standup family dude, also known as Dr. Cliff Huxtable.

The magazine cover, featuring a classic shot of the original Cosby Show cast, was dropped with a press release, and before the issue hit stands I was being booked on cable news shows. The sweet image of that darling black T.V. family under an overlay of shattered glass (the crack began over Cosby’s face) struck a chord. As editors, we were attempting to capture a cultural moment: the Cosby Show mattered to America, to black America, but the black “respectability politics” that it trumpeted, for better or for worse, was being metaphorically challenged by the crimes of its star. Something about this perfect black family image was cracked, something was indeed shattered, and Ebony didn’t do it. But that didn’t stop the vitriol from coming.

“John Johnson (Ebony founder) would be turning in his grave,” read one comment from a reader. For some reason, that one stayed with me. Would he be? He was friends with Cosby, of course.

I admitted to CNN’s Brooke Baldwin that I hadn’t slept in two days in anticipation of the release. I knew that the pain, frustration and anger we held over the accusations against Cosby were deep and real. Wendy Williams asked me on camera if I felt physically intimidated by some of the backlash I was receiving. I responded half-jokingly by looking over both shoulders, and then explaining that it was exactly what I did walking out of my house to come to her studio.

After nearly a year of publically talking about the accusations and intently listening to whole swaths of black America debate the facts—and the feels—on that day in the parking lot, I was standing in front of a black woman who had actually been raped by Bill Cosby. Both of us already a mess from the service, we simply cried and held each other the way we both clearly needed. For about an hour, I listened to her story. Her young model-actress life. How they met. The what, when and where. All I could hear though, was the weight of her irreconcilable sense of guilt.

“I still feel so guilty,” she said, weeping. “I just feel like I really, honestly let black people down.”

She never wanted to tell. Not because it didn’t happen, but because “we need unity with our men.” She was sacrificing the self for the whole.

“Don’t say that! We are completely here for you,” I heard myself half-way lie. But is black America here for the victims of black men?

I re-posted that old Ebony cover on IG yesterday. And I’ve since confirmed that what I felt in the moment of his conviction was an emotional lack of clarity that actually made sense. Because there are no absolute winners here.

For Cosby’s victims, there may be some resolution, for his family—his stoic wife Camille in particular—there must be devastation especially now that Cosby is 80 and legally blind, and for his people, confusion. Looking at my Instagram, there is still palpable heartbreak and for some, frightening denial. Why our Dr. Huxtable? Why???

A few comments on my post right now:

“Fuck that metoo movement. I used to support it but its taking down successful black men and I’m not with it.

“This show will never be broken. It is one of the few things that was whole in Black history.”

“I don’t believe not one of these women.”

“We needed to see his shattered image. He is flawed! He is clearly capable of being twisted in spite of the contributions he’s given to our culture.”

“This cover is literally one of the bravest most amazing things done in media in the past few years.”

We were split and shattered by Bill Cosby. And I promise a single magazine cover didn’t create the maelstrom. After this verdict, the courage to face the truth about one black man and to really be “completely there” for his victims and for the countless other women who are sexually assaulted every year is our clear option.

Which way, black America? My profound hope is that with the Cosby conviction we have turned a page as a community. There was, sure enough, a time when we confused black genius, and the illusion of what is “respectable” with lived black decency, black integrity and black life.

Perhaps after yesterday, we’ll crack all the illusions that cover up great lies.

ANDREA CONSTAND vs BILL COSBY (USING POWER TO PREY ON WOMEN): #MeToo/ TRUTH PREVAILS

ANDREA CONSTAND vs BILL COSBY (USING POWER TO PREY ON WOMEN): #MeToo

TRUTH PREVAILS.

GOD IS EXPOSING MEN WHO USE THEIR POWER, RANK & MONEY TO ABUSE WOMEN.

GOD IS ALSO EXPOSING MARRIED MEN WHO BULLY & HUMILIATE THEIR WIVES TO COVER UP ADULTERY.

U.S. MILITARY VETS WHO ABUSE THEIR WIVES & SEXUALLY PREY ON WOMEN ARE NOT EXEMPT.

FEMALE DOCTORS WORKING FOR VA HOSPITALS OFTEN SHIELD VETS WHO ABUSE THEIR WIVES & PREY ON WOMEN........THIS NEEDS TO BE EXPOSED TOO.

TIME'S UP.


Post Sources: New York Times, Youtube


****** Andrea Constand Makes First Statement Since Bill Cosby’s Conviction: ‘Truth Prevails’


Andrea Constand, the woman whose sexual assault complaint against the television icon Bill Cosby led to his conviction, broke her long public silence with a short Twitter message Friday thanking the local community.

“A very profound and heartfelt thank you to the Commonwealth of PA, Montgomery County, for their service and sacrifices,” she wrote, seemingly addressing the district attorney’s office and the jury that on Thursday convicted Mr. Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting Ms. Constand.

“Congratulations,” she added. “Truth prevails.”

Following a high-profile trial like Mr. Cosby’s, the vindicated party traditionally makes the media rounds, appearing to discuss the case on the “Today” show or “Good Morning America.” Ms. Constand has not yet done so.

Outside the courtroom, where Ms. Constand testified that Mr. Cosby had drugged and molested her at his home in 2004, she has been reluctant to speak about the case. That may be due, in part, to the nondisclosure agreement she signed as part of her $3.38 million settlement she reached with Mr. Cosby in 2006.

Last year, a judge ruled that Mr. Cosby could pursue a lawsuit against Ms. Constand based on two Twitter posts she wrote in 2014.
(“I won’t go away, there is a lot more I will say,” she wrote in one.) But as the #MeToo movement against sexual abuse has gained influence, women who have agreed to settlements with powerful men — including Harvey Weinstein, Bill O’Reilly and Donald J. Trump — have broken their nondisclosure agreements, arguing that speaking out was more important.

Ms. Constand’s lawyer, Dolores Troiani, said by phone on Friday that she and her client were evaluating their options and the enforceability of the contract with Mr. Cosby.

“Obviously everyone in the world has sent me an email or text, but we’re just stepping back and seeing where we’re going to go,” Ms. Troiani said, referring to the extensive media requests for interviews with Ms. Constand. “I think we’re taking a breather, for one.”

At a news conference after the verdict on Thursday, Ms. Constand stood by, letting the Montgomery County district attorney, Kevin Steele, and Kristen Gibbons Feden, the special prosecutor on the case, speak about its importance.

Mr. Steele commended Ms. Constand for fighting through two trials. “She has been a major factor in a movement that has gone in the right direction, finally,” he said.

FERGUSON BUSINESSES HIRE WHITE, ARMED MILITIA MEN TO INTIMIDATE PROTESTERS (KKK OR "OATH KEEPERS"??)

ARMED, WHITE PAID MILITIA MEN WATCH GUARD OVER FERGUSON BUSINESSES & INTIMIDATE PEACEFUL PROTESTERS:

KKK MEMBERS OR "OATH KEEPERS"??

THEY ARE NOT VOLUNTEERS, SOMEONE IS PAYING THEM.

HOW DID THESE WHITE MEN ACQUIRE HIGH-POWERED WEAPONS??

WHO HIRED THEM??

Article Source: NY Times

ARTICLE: "On Rooftops of Ferguson, Volunteers Patrol, With Guns"

FERGUSON, Mo. — When Sam Andrews awoke on Tuesday morning, he found his wife watching a television interview with a woman whose bakery had been vandalized during the violent unrest here on Monday.

“She said, ‘You’ve got to go help her,’ ” Mr. Andrews said in an interview on Saturday morning.

And so Mr. Andrews, a former Defense Department contractor who is now a weapons engineer in the St. Louis area, set to work. Under the auspices of a national group called the Oath Keepers, Mr. Andrews accelerated plans to recruit and organize private security details for businesses in Ferguson, which are receiving the services for free. The volunteers, who are sometimes described as a citizen militia — but do not call themselves that — have taken up armed positions on rooftops here on recent nights.

“It’s really a broad group of citizens, and I’m sure their motivations are all different,” said Mr. Andrews, who is in his 50s. “In many of them, there’s probably a sense of patriotism. But I think in most of them, there’s probably something that they probably don’t even recognize: that we have a moral obligation to protect the weakest among us. When we see these violent people, these arsonists and anarchists, attacking, it just pokes at you in a deep place.”

Mr. Andrews declined to say how many people were assisting in the effort, saying only that the number was “more than five, less than 500.” He estimated that men make up about 80 percent of the volunteers. About 80 percent are white, and 10 percent are black.

But on Saturday, with the county police said to be threatening the Oath Keepers with arrest, the volunteers decided to abandon their posts and instead protest against the authorities. During the evening, Mr. Andrews and some of his colleagues appeared on South Florissant Road, conducting a protest of their own. They ate pizza and stood beneath a handmade sign critical of Chief Jon Belmar of the St. Louis County police.

Just after 8:30 p.m., those protesting Mr. Brown’s death crossed paths with the Oath Keepers. Mr. Andrews shook hands with the demonstrators, many of whom have also been critical of Chief Belmar.

That some business owners accepted aid from a group regarded by some as an antigovernment militia is a testament to the rawness of emotions here following a riot on Monday night, after a grand jury declined to indict a white police officer, Darren Wilson, who shot to death Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, on Aug. 9.

Since then, the riot police have tussled on the streets with protesters. Convoys of National Guard Humvees patrol the streets, and law enforcement officials have confiscated guns, firecrackers and homemade firebombs from arrested protesters. The Oath Keepers, equipped with militia-style gear and often clad in camouflage, have joined the volatile mix.

Their presence is a symbol of the continuing criticism of Gov. Jay Nixon’s handling of security before and after the grand jury’s decision became public. In the days before the announcement, Mr. Nixon declared a state of emergency and sent the Guard to Ferguson. Yet, in the initial hours following word of the grand jury’s decision, the Guard played only a limited role.

Troops protected a police command post and other facilities, but they were not posted along the main commercial corridors where property destruction was rampant.

“The governor said himself, I think on TV, that the businesses will be protected by the National Guard during this situation,” said Reggie Jones, the mayor of Dellwood, a neighboring city where many businesses were damaged in Monday’s unrest. “Unfortunately, that did not happen until Tuesday. But we were expecting it to happen on Monday.”

After the destruction that night, Mr. Nixon ordered hundreds more soldiers to Ferguson, saying, “We must do better, and we will.”

But for people like Mr. Andrews, the governor’s vow was of little solace. So while the New Chinese Gourmet restaurant at the end of a block of South Florissant Road appears to have little in the way of defense beyond the painted wooden boards that cover its windows, armed men and women on recent nights have roamed the rooftop it shares with a dental practice and a law office.

“When they’re here, there’s definitely a weight lifted off of our shoulders,” said Davis Vo, whose family owns New Chinese Gourmet. “I’d be lying if I said otherwise.”

On its website, Oath Keepers released a recruiting message to “all skilled veterans and patriots” and asked them to “grab your gear and start rolling toward Ferguson.” The post listed nine types of people the group was seeking, including paramedics, police officers, “private drone operators” and videographers who could “film any encounters with looters.”

Mr. Andrews said he researched the qualifications of each volunteer, as well as whether any might have racially based motivations to participate.

“I don’t want any racists in my group,” he said. “I don’t want any people who want to visit violence on any group. I only want professionals with real credentials that can be verified and have experience in dealing with violence.”

But the St. Louis County police, Mr. Andrews said, and other law enforcement officials have expressed misgivings.

“When we hear information that someone, or a group, is providing security without a license, our department has to investigate the issue,” a police spokesman, Shawn McGuire, said in an email on Saturday.

Mr. Andrews said that the warning on Friday was tantamount to a temporary shutdown order, and he said he did not expect his volunteers to defy it.

DARREN WILSON QUITS FERGUSON POLICE DEPT; FEARS FOR HIS LIFE; CALLS FOR HIS INDICTMENT NOT SILENCED (PEACEFUL PROTESTS & BOYCOTTS TO CONTINUE)

DARREN WILSON IS QUITTING FERGUSON POLICE DEPT.

THIS NEWS COMES FROM WILSON'S ATTORNEY.

WILSON CLAIMS HE FEARS FOR HIS LIFE.

HE STILL NEEDS TO BE INDICTED FOR EXCESSIVE FORCE WHICH RESULTED IN MURDER.

#JusticeForMikeBrown

Article Sources: Agency France Press; Yahoo News

ARTICLE: "Cop At Center Of Ferguson Case To Leave Force"

Washington (AFP) - The Missouri police officer who killed an unarmed black teen sparking months of protests in the city of Ferguson will never return to policing, his lawyer said.

Darren Wilson is currently in discussions with the Ferguson, Missouri police department on the terms and conditions of his departure, attorney Neil Bruntrager said this week.

"There's no way in the world he can go back to being a police officer," the lawyer said.

"It's not a question of if, it's a question of when," Bruntrager said of Wilson's departure.

Wilson shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown in August claiming he acted in self-defense.

The shooting set off days of racially-charged protests that erupted again this week after a grand jury on Monday announced that Wilson would not be charged over the fatal shooting.

Bruntrager told CNN that Wilson, who has said his conscience is clear, could simply not go back to work given the outrage over the case.

"The first day he would be back on the street something terrible would happen to him or to someone that would be working with him," he told CNN.

"The last thing he wants is to put other police officers at risk," the attorney added.

#BLACKOUTBLACKFRIDAY; #NOTONEDIME; ECONOMIC BOYCOTTS AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY & RACIAL PROFILING

#NotOneDime

#BLACKOUTBLACKFRIDAY

BLACKOUT BLACK FRIDAY 2014: (ECONOMIC BOYCOTT)

Current 21st Century BLACK Buying Power = $1 Trillion Dollars!

STOP POLICE BRUTALITY AND RACIAL PROFILING IN AMERICA

It's time to Stop POLICE BRUTALITY and RACIAL PROFILING in the United States of America!

In GOD'S eyes All Human Beings are EQUAL and Valuable, even if some of them did arrive in America as Captive Slaves!

You want BLACK Money but don't want to Respect BLACK People.

Have you forgotten that BLACK People are IMMIGRANTS Too??

But you don't want to HIRE BLACK People so we can WORK with DIGNITY.

Instead you want to bring over Non-BLACK IMMIGRANTS and give them JOBS while the National BLACK Unemployment rate remains at more than 10%.

Or if you do HIRE BLACK People, you want to Mistreat them as if they have NO HUMAN RIGHTS.

If BLACK People speak out against RACIAL INJUSTICE, you want to MURDER Our Men & Boys.....throw BLACK Men in PRISON and RAPE BLACK Women.

FERGUSON'S BLACK Churches and Complacent, Older BLACK Leaders have Endorsed the RACIAL DIVISION in that region by being AFRAID to speak up!

It's the year 2014.

Why is the KLU KLUX KLAN and FEDERAL GOV'T still practicing INSTITUTIONALIZED RACISM??

Together We Should Have Overcome RACISM By Now As A Nation!

BLACKOUT BLACK FRIDAY 2014: (ECONOMIC BOYCOTT)

Thus I repeat.

Current 21st Century BLACK Buying Power = $1 Trillion Dollars!

STOP POLICE BRUTALITY AND RACIAL PROFILING IN AMERICA



Article Sources: AOL; Examiner; Huffington Post; International Business Times; TIME; Youtube

DARREN WILSON ALLEGED TO BE ACTIVE MEMBER OF FERGUSON KKK; HAS HISTORY OF VIOLENT BEHAVIOR

IT'S NOW BEING REPORTED DARREN WILSON IS AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE FERGUSON KLU KLUX KLAN.

IT'S ALSO BEING REPORTED THAT MANY OTHER WHITE FERGUSON POLICE OFFICERS ARE ACTIVE KKK MEMBERS.

DARREN WILSON HAS A HISTORY OF VIOLENT BEHAVIOR.

FERGUSON KKK RAISED MONEY FOR DARREN WILSON'S LEGAL DEFENSE.

Sources: Anonymous; Daily Mail; Examiner; CNN; Sports Act News; Web Pro News; Youtube


ARTICLE: "KKK In Ferguson: Klu Klux Klan Police News Leaked, Darren Wilson Alleged Member"

Is the KKK in Ferguson at this very moment?

Anonymous, the online hacker group, is said to have recently released a mass of highly secret details and information regarding Ku Klux Klan members.

According to Anonymous, there is a definite connection between some police officers of Ferguson and members of the KKK, and that Darren Wilson himself might be involved with the organization.

Sport Act News shares this tense allegation this Wednesday, November 26, 2014.

With violent protests still continuing in Missouri this week, the KKK in Ferguson would only make racial strains more heated at this point in time.

Now the online Internet hackers of Anonymous are saying they have released data on Ku Klux Klan members that have a distinct “link” to Ferguson police force authorities.

The group alleges that they have been able to infiltrate the main Twitter account of the KKK, known as @KuKluxKlanUSA.

Having the Twitter account now rumored to be under the hacker’s control, Anonymous has threatened to reveal a number of hidden details with the US public.

The press release notes that this seizure of the social media site is part of a continued “clash” between the pair of groups regarding the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown and Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson’s shooting of the unarmed teen.

It appears that Anonymous says they have discovered a tie between Ferguson police officers and KKK members.

This is, at least, what the group is claiming this Wednesday afternoon.

An alleged video was leaked last week saying that a set of well-known members of the Ku Klux Klan within the Missouri state branch of the organization were in support of officer Darren Wilson.

The sect is called the Traditionalist American Knights of the KKK, and were reported to have been in attendance for a private rally backing the white policeman over the black teen.

According to Web Pro News on the KKK in Ferguson story, the members of the St. Louis suburb who secretly participate in the Klan are allegedly called the “Ghoul Squad.”

Now, the Anonymous hackers are questioning whether Wilson himself may be a part of the underground community.

The group has also alleged to “list every Klan member” within Ferguson and has reportedly spurred an “OperationKKK” crusade based on the leaked details.

They say the Ku Klux Klan has already begun to share intimidating notices of “lethal force” that may be used toward active protestors of the Ferguson shooting.

The case gets more complicated after Anonymous revealed an unidentified insider provided concrete proof of ties regarding police officer Darren Wilson and the KKK.

However, details of this breaking news are allegedly being kept hidden by the hackers at this time because to share this information would result in his life being in “immediate danger.”

“I know for a fact that the TAKKKK had a lot to do with what went on in Ferguson.” ex-member of the TAKKKK, Henry Harrell, told Anonymous.

Apparently, there was a so-called “mole” within Ferguson’s law enforcement force that has been working with the hackers group to bring the identities of the Ku Klux members into the limelight.

An unknown activist, who goes by “Kafir,” said that the NOWsec independent journalism website has inner connections and details on the matter.

Darren Wilson, the Ferguson police officer who was not indicted this week by a Missouri grand jury, has said that he has been brought into a wrong and negative perspective over the shooting of Michael Brown.

The cop claims he was defending himself from a large 18-year-old who was the one who initiated the attack.

ARTICLE: "Darren Wilson And The Violent Confrontation With His Wife's Ex-lover: Court Documents Reveal Volatile Home Life Of Officer Who Shot Michael Brown - Which Grand Jury Never Heard About"

**Policeman who shot teenager had previously been involved in violent row at his then girlfriend's ex-partner's house.

**Wilson was at the home with Barbara Spradling - woman he has now married - when her ex attacked the policeman, and damaged his car.

**Incident was just six months before death of Michael Brown and was followed by bitter ongoing custody dispute between wife and her older ex.

**Wilson was still married to his first wife during the incident, which resulted in ex being convicted of three misdemeanors.

**Grand jury was not told about his turbulent home life while they decided on his actions in shooting Michael Brown.

Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson was involved in a violent altercation with the father of his lover’s child that saw assault charges brought in a case closed just six months before the Missouri cop shot dead Michael Brown.

Ferguson erupted as protesters reacted angrily to news of the Grand Jury’s decision not to indict the officer for the fatal shooting.

Wilson, 28, had been in hiding since August 9 when he pumped six bullets into the unarmed teen until the day after the verdict, when was interviewed by ABC News..

While the Grand Jury considered the evidence, Brown’s family waited for answers and protesters seethed with anger, Wilson married his lover, fellow Ferguson officer, Barbara Spradling, in a secret ceremony in St Louis County.

The couple are now expecting their first child together.

Now, court documents seen by MailOnline have revealed the turbulent history of the relationship that ended two marriages, sparked an ongoing custody battle and saw Wilson and Spradling, 37, embroiled in the assault case with her former lover, John Blumenthal, 52.


Papers filed at Jefferson County Court expose the true extent of Wilson’s disrupted home-life and show the volatile backdrop against which the officer undertook his life of public service.

They reveal pressures of which the Grand Jury was unaware as they considered the Wilson’s state of mind when he pulled the trigger on August 9 and discharged 12 rounds. Six bullets hit home, felling the 6ft 2 teenager.

According to court records, on 16 May 2013 John Blumenthal returned home around midnight to find Wilson - 24 years his junior - on the sofa with the mother of his child in the house that he and Barbara Spradling still shared.

The couple’s then four-year-old child was asleep in bed when a violent confrontation took place.

In her account Spradling stated that Blumenthal, who worked for Neihaus Construction, was ‘depressed over losing his job.’

She said that he stated ‘he wanted to kill himself [and] that he was not coming home ever again.’

But Blumenthal did come home. Spradling said, ‘My boyfriend [Wilson] and I were sitting on the couch when we heard banging on the garage and front door.’

Spradling let Blumenthal in and, she stated, ‘He immediately became aggressive and started hitting my boyfriend with a pillow as hard as he could. John then tried punching him several times.’

Spradling then recounted that her former partner, ‘Pulled my hair out of my head, choked me, punched me in the face and hit me in the face with his shoe. He continued to pull my hair several times.’

Assault charges leveled against Blumenthal were dismissed in August last year after he pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor charges.

Documents filed at Hillsboro, Missouri’s Jefferson County Court on July 1 2013 detail the grim events of the midnight brawl between Blumenthal, the mother of his child and her lover and colleague Wilson.

Blumenthal pleaded guilty to two counts of disturbance of the peace and one of destruction of property.

In his probable cause statement Wilson ‘advised that the defendant attempted to strike him several times with a closed fist, as well as placed him in a headlock, causing abrasions to his face and chest.

‘The victim further stated that the defendant kicked his vehicle, causing a dent which would cost approximately five hundred dollars to fix.’

To add a further layer of complexity to Wilson’s fraught domestic background, he was still married to his first wife, Ashley Brown, 30, at the time the incident took place, although the couple had separated three months earlier.

Divorce papers finalized on 18 November 2013, after just 16 months of marriage, state that the union was ‘irretrievably broken.’ Contrary to previous reports they did not have children together and Ms Brown was not pregnant at the time of their split.

Documents filed in the County of St Charles and St Louis show that Wilson and Brown married on October 15 2011 when he was 25 and she was 21.

At the time Brown is described as working for St Louis based healthcare company SSM while Wilson had already embarked on his career at Ferguson - where he met Spradling, the woman who last month became his second wife.

When Wilson and Brown’s divorce was finalized - by which time he and Spradling were living together - both parties walked away with what they brought into the marriage. They paid their own attorney fees and court costs and Brown reverted to her maiden name.

The only items mentioned specifically are that Wilson took his Chevrolet Cruze 2011 - the one dented by an enraged Blumenthal - and Brown took her Pontiac G6.

And though theirs was a blame free divorce, Wilson agreed to pay his former wife $4000 in medical arrears incurred on her payments ensuring her coverage on his police health insurance. He paid another $250 a month for up to 12 months towards her health insurance until she got cover from her employer.

Spradling’s dealings with Blumenthal remain unresolved.

Court records indicate that on August 25, just two weeks after Wilson shot Brown, a case was filed with social services in the dispute between Spradling and Blumenthal over custody of their five-year-old son.
The child is believed to have been living with his mother and her now husband, Wilson, at a police safe house for the past three months. The details of the ongoing custody dispute are not a matter of public record.

Blumenthal’s first marriage to Terry Vanessa, 50, ended with their divorce in November 2003.

Within five months of that dissolution being finalized Spradling had moved into Blumenthal’s family home and though she and Blumenthal never married they lived together for a decade.

When they first got together Spradling, 13 years younger than Blumenthal’s first wife, was 27 to his 42.

He was a member of Glendale Fire Department’s C Shift where, as an alumni of the Greater St Louis County Fire Academy, he served for 15 years.

He is also a qualified Emergency Medical Technician who, on 27 August 2007, assisted at a clinical save that saw Abbott Ambulance honor him with an award.

A clinical save means that a patient’s heart has stopped beating and is restarted long enough to transport them to hospital.

In 2009 Spradling gave birth to their son. At the time Darren Wilson, 28, was working just 20 minutes down the road as a rookie cop at Jennings Police.

In 2010 Jennings city council decided that tensions between black civilians and the police force were so bad that they had to fire everybody and start from scratch.

Wilson was one of the few to get a new job and made the fateful move to Ferguson – bringing him into Spradling’s orbit and, ultimately, Michael Brown’s.

Blumenthal had taken a job as Safety Director for Niehaus Construction by the time of that showdown between the him, Spradling and her then lover Wilson.

And though Spradling’s statement made in May 2013 notes that Blumenthal was depressed at having ‘lost his job’ his most recent employment information still lists him at the firm.

None of the three were available for comment.

Darren Wilson is about to become a father for the first time, he revealed during an exclusive interview aired on Wednesday.

The 28-year-old officer broke the news that his wife, fellow cop Barbara Spradling, 37, is pregnant during an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos at a secret location.

The couple married quietly on October 24 in front of his lawyer and a judge in Overland, Missouri.

The interview marks the first time Wilson has spoken publicly since he shot dead unarmed teenager Michael Brown on August 9. It was aired after a grand jury’s decision not to indict him on any charges was announced and sparked mass riots in Ferguson, Missouri.

Wilson confirmed he had recently gotten married and his wife was pregnant, adding that the couple 'just want to live a normal life'.

However, Wilson conceded that there would be 'a new normal' for him following that fateful Saturday in August where an altercation on a quiet Ferguson street led to him shooting the unarmed 18-year-old.

Wilson said that being a police officer in Ferguson was the 'job of my life' and that his only dream in life was to be made sergeant.

'I wanted to stay on the road for 30 years and then retire as sergeant and have a retirement,' Wilson said. 'That’s all that I wanted.'

He has served for four years in the St Louis suburb and another two in another town.

The cop refused to say whether he would return to the force or resign, saying that decisions were still being made.

He added: 'I'm not sure it's possible. I mean, you think they would accept me? You think it'd be safe for me?'

He also said other officers could be at risk because of his reputation.

Wilson said that 'stressful was an understatement' to describe his life following the Michael Brown shooting.

'You are always looking to see if someone is following you or has noticed you,' Wilson said. 'I grew a beard, it was uncomfortable but it helped. You take precautions, where you sit in a restaurant, where you drive.

'Everything has to run through your head. It’s every time you walk, you make sure no one’s following you, everything.'

However the cop said he wanted something good to emerge from his experience. He told GMA: 'I would love to teach people. I would love to give more insight on … into the use of force and anything I can.

'Anything that I can get out of this career I’ve had so far and of the incident, I would love to give to someone else.'

Michael Brown's family reacted with anger on Wednesday, saying Wilson's interview added 'insult to injury'.

The teenager's mother, Lesley McSpadden, told CBS she didn't think Wilson wanted to kill Michael but that 'he wanted to kill someone'.

Wilson also revealed on Wednesday the moment that he knew he had killed Michael Brown.

'I saw the face he had go blank,' he said. 'His face was blank. I knew he had passed.'

Wilson had earlier recalled how he was on his way to grab lunch on August 9, when he came across Brown and friend Dorian Johnson walking single-file in the middle of the street.

Just a few minutes later, Brown would be shot dead after allegedly starting a fist-fight with the cop.

Wilson said Brown would be alive today if he had just followed his original order to stop walking on the street, and move to the sidewalk.

The 28-year-old officer was interviewed at a secret location less than 24 hours after the grand jury decision was announced.

He talked Stephanopoulos through each step of the confrontation which culminated in Wilson firing his gun for the first time in his law enforcement career and killing the unarmed teen.

While he feels remorse for Brown’s death, Wilson maintained that he made the right choice to use lethal force in the fight and would do it all over again.

'I don’t think it’s haunting; it’s always going to be something that happened,' he said. ‘The reason I have a clear conscience is because I know I did my job right.'

St Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch revealed on Monday that Wilson was trying to arrest Brown in connection to a reported robbery on the day the 18-year-old was shot dead.

Wilson said he was in his police SUV when he saw Brown and Johnson and that he pulled up next to them, asking them to move to the sidewalk.

He said the two ignored his request and it was then that he noticed Brown carrying a handful of cigarillos - the same items stolen in a convenience store robbery he heard reported over the his police radio minutes earlier.

Wilson admitted he ‘probably never would have noticed the cigarillos’ if Brown ‘had just followed orders’.

Wilson said he would have left the two alone, and driven off in search of food as he was doing before.

Instead, Wilson said Brown was defensive from the start of their conversation, saying ‘f*** what you have to say’ when the officer asked him to move off the street.

Noticing the cigarillos in Brown’s hand, and how Johnson’s clothing matched the description in the robbery report, Wilson called for back-up and then pulled his car out in front of the pair to block their path.

Wilson says he planned to get out of the SUV and talk to the pair until back-up arrived, but that Brown slammed his driver’s door shut when he attempted to exit the vehicle, saying ‘what the f*** are you going to do about it?’

The officer then tried to push out the door to free himself from the vehicle, but says Brown kept pushing the door shut and eventually reached his hands into the vehicle to throw the first punch.

For the next 10 seconds, Wilson and Brown were engaged in a fist fight and the cop says it was then that he ‘felt the immense power’ 6'4', 292lb Brown had. Wilson is the same height and 210 pounds. Wilson has repeatedly used the analogy that he felt like a five-year-old grappling with Hulk Hogan.

‘He was a very large, a very powerful man,’ Wilson recalled.

Afraid that the next blow could render him unconscious, Wilson says his training kicked in and overrode his actions. He says he immediately ruled out mace, saying it could have been used to disable Brown but that Brown could have grabbed it and used it against him as well.

‘The only option left was my firearm,’ Wilson said.

But when Wilson reached for the handgun on his hip, he claims Brown reached for the weapon and tried to turn it around to shoot the officer.

Wilson was eventually able to wiggle the weapon free and turn it towards Brown, warning: ‘Get back or I’m going to shoot you’.

‘You’re too much of a p**** to shoot me,’ Wilson recalls Brown replying.

Brown continued to struggle for the gun, and it jammed the first two times that Wilson tried to pull the trigger. He was successful on the third try, firing the first shot at Brown from inside his vehicle. It was the first time Wilson ever fired his gun in his five-year career as a police officer, he revealed.

He says that first shot startled both himself and Brown, who backed up a few inches.

‘We were both in shock. It was shocking having to pull the trigger. It was also shocking that this was the only option that I had,’ Wilson said.

But he says the shot didn’t stop Brown, and that he actually became ‘even angrier’ coming back at the officer again.

Wilson responded by firing more shots, that sent Brown running away from the vehicle,

He says he then called for back up again, saying shots had been fired. That was a call that none of his fellow-officers received. WIlson claims it’s because the radio had been turned from channel 1 to 3 in the midst of the struggle with Brown.

Wilson says he then gave chase to Brown, saying it’s not his job to ‘sit and wait’ and he needed to keep the teen in sight for when back-up arrived.

That’s when Brown turned around and starting coming back towards the officer. Wilson says he also saw the teen reach towards his waistband, and feared Brown may be concealing a weapon - though some witness accounts, including Johnson, said Brown was lifting his hands in surrender.

Wilson said reports that Brown raised his hands 'were incorrect'.

‘My initial thought was, is there a weapon in there?’ Wilson said.

As the teen started ‘charging’ towards him, Wilson said he feared for his life and thought: ‘Can I shoot this guy? Legally can I? And the answer was I have to, he will kill me if he gets to me.’

FOX NEWS AND DAILY CALLER USE RACE-BAITING TO STIR UP MORE FERGUSON FURY (FUELING RACIAL DIVISION)

FOX NEWS & DAILY CALLER MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS PRACTICED RACE-BAITING EVEN ON THANKSGIVING DAY WHEN REPORTING ABOUT FERGUSON:

FOX NEWS & DAILY CALLER EMPLOYEES NEED TO START WEARING THEIR WHITE SHEETS WHILE ON-AIR.

DARREN WILSON IS ALLEGED TO BE AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE KKK.

What a shame that even on THANKSGIVING Day, the FOX NEWS and DAILY CALLER Media organizations were trying to stir up more #Ferguson-related RACIAL DIVISION in this Country.

Now both RACIST Media organizations are reporting that Young WHITE People who joined in on PEACEFUL Protests Tuesday & Wednesday nights, were actually told to act as "Human Shields" for BLACK Protesters.

What a Huge Freaking LIE!

So it's okay for Young WHITE People in America to Shoot up BLACK People or Lord over BLACK People, but it's Not acceptable for Young WHITE People to join in and march side-by-side with BLACK People for RACIAL JUSTICE??

FOX NEWS employees & DAILY CALLER Staff need to pull out their WHITE Hooded Sheets and slide those appropriate garments (for them) over their regular clothes while live On-Air when reporting such RACIALLY DIVISIVE Garbage!

RACIST Media organizations like FOX NEWS and the DAILY CALLER will help keep GOP Candidates Out of the WHITE HOUSE for another General Election.

There is a Big difference between Mid-Term Elections and General Elections.

Most Young WHITE People in America are NOT Racist like DARREN WILSON of whom is being reported (Examiner) to be an active member of the KLU KLUX KLAN.

So if FOX NEWS and the DAILY CALLER think they can attract more Voters to support GOP Candidates via RACE-BAITING, think again!

Instead of Celebrating in Nov 2016, the GOP will be Crying just like in 2008 and 2012.

If a Media organization constantly and frequently uses RACE-BAITING in its Reporting practices and constantly refers to BLACK People as "Stupid Voters" or as "Demons" or "Gangsters" or "Violent Animals"..........

Then YES!

Those Media organizations are indeed RACIST Media organizations!

I'm just saying.

Article Sources: Daily Caller; Examiner

ARTICLE: "PROTEST RULES: White Michael Brown Protesters Told To Serve As Human Shields For Black Protesters"

White protesters joining Michael Brown demonstrations in Toronto this week were told to stay away from the center of attention and to serve as human shields between black protesters and the police.

“WHITE/NON BLACK ALLIES” were addressed in information disseminated by “Black Lives Matter” Toronto protest organizers in advance of demonstrations that began in the city Tuesday night after the Ferguson, Mo., grand jury exonerated police officer Darren Wilson.

“While we appreciate the solidarity shown by White and Non-Black POC, want to remind folks of some things: Please refrain from taking up space in all ways possible. Remember that you are there in support of black folks, so should never be at the centre of anything,” the rules stated.

“Refrain from speaking to the media. Black voices are crucial to this.”

“Stand behind black folks or between us and the police.”

“If you see a cop harassing a black person, come in and engage. (chances are they are least likely to arrest you),” the rules stated.

NORTH CAROLINA LEADERS DISCOURAGE BLACK STUDENTS FROM ENGAGING IN PEACEFUL FERGUSON PROTESTS (KKK & THE NAACP)

#NorthCarolina

BLACK COLLEGE STUDENTS IN NORTH CAROLINA DISCOURAGED FROM ENGAGING IN PEACEFUL PROTESTS TO SUPPORT FERGUSON:

THE KLAN & SCARED BLACK LEADERS KEEP A TIGHT LOCK ON BLACK PEOPLE IN NORTH CAROLINA.

NORTH CAROLINA IS STILL RULED BY THE KLU KLUX KLAN.

As Hundreds of Thousand of Young People engaged in Nationwide Peaceful Protests Monday night and Tuesday to show Solidarity and support for FERGUSON.........

In NORTH CAROLINA you only heard Crickets.

Crickets and the voice of a North Carolina NAACP President
(Dr William Barber).

BLACK College Students in NC were basically Discouraged from engaging in Peaceful Protests as a public show of Solidarity for FERGUSON.

You see in NORTH CAROLINA the KKK still Controls every facet of State and Local Government entities.

You see in NORTH CAROLINA the KKK also Controls BLACK Leaders.

In fact there are some areas of NORTH CAROLINA that no BLACK Human Being would dare to venture.

Especially at night because they may go missing, or they might be LYNCHED!

Wait a minute!

Is this NORTH CAROLINA in the 19th Century or the 21st Century??

I am indeed referring to 21st Century NORTH CAROLINA!

The BLACK Leaders in this region don't want to admit it because they are SCARED and ASHAMED, but it's 100% TRUE!

Whenever BLACK People want to Peacefully Protest in this State it is Only allowed for POLITICAL reasons, such as the "Moral Mondays" Protests.

The NAACP-led "Moral Mondays" Protests conducted earlier this year, were used to help U.S. Senator KAY HAGAN maintain her seat in Congress.

Well this Political tactic backfired and HAGAN lost to her GOP Opponent THOM TILLIS.

So other than for POLITICAL reasons, BLACK Citizens in NORTH CAROLINA are NOT allowed to engage in Peaceful Protests.

Especially in the Cities of CHARLOTTE.......DURHAM.......and GREENSBORO.

GREENSBORO is the North Carolina KLAN Headquarters location.

While CHARLOTTE and DURHAM are Centuries old safe havens for the KLAN.

Whenever BLACK People in NORTH CAROLINA attempt to rise up and Speak up for their U.S. CONSTITUTIONAL Rights, the WHITE Leaders in North Carolina call on NAACP Leaders to Shut us down!

Or the WHITE Leaders in North Carolina call on NAACP Leaders to Slander us........BLACK List us and Label us as "CRAZY" & "Troublemakers".

Thus I repeat..........

BLACK COLLEGE STUDENTS IN NORTH CAROLINA NOT ALLOWED TO JOIN IN PEACEFUL FERGUSON PROTESTS:

THE KLAN & SCARED BLACK LEADERS KEEP A TIGHT LOCK ON BLACK PEOPLE IN NORTH CAROLINA.

NORTH CAROLINA IS STILL RULED BY THE KLU KLUX KLAN.

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ARTICLE: "NCCU Students Have Subdued Reaction To Ferguson Decision"

For the dozens of students gathered at N.C. Central University Monday night to watch the Ferguson grand jury announcement, they already had a sense of what the decision would be.

When it was announced that the grand jury will not indict Ferguson, Mo. police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown, their reaction was subdued.

"I don't think any of this was ever set up to bring an indictment," said Jordan Perry, a NCCU junior who watched the announcement in the school’s James E. Shepard Memorial Library. "We can tell just from the delays that have been going on. I think everybody kinda already knew. We were just kinda holding on to a scrap of hope that maybe something positive would happen but I think we already knew.”

Fabiola Doissaint, a NCCU sophomore, didn't agree with the verdict.

"I just feel bad for Ferguson right now," she said. "To me, this seems unrealistic to me. This is crazy right now. Ferguson will not sleep tonight."

The grand jury's decision was announced by St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch shortly after 9 p.m. Monday.

"Our only goal was that our investigations would be thorough and complete to give to the grand jury, the (U.S.) Department of Justice and public all the evidence to make a fair decision," McCulloch said.

President Barack Obama, who spoke from The White House following the announcement, said disagreement is expected, no matter the grand jury's decision.

"We are a nation built on the rule of law," he said during a live media briefing. "And so we need to accept that this decision was the grand jury's to make. There are Americans who agree with it and Americans who are deeply disappointed, even angry. It's an understandable reaction."

Obama urged protesters to do so peacefully.

“Let me repeat Michael’s father’s words, hurting others or destroying property is not the answer," he said. "No matter what the grand jury decides, I don’t want my son’s death to be in vain. I want it to lead to incredible change, positive change. Change that makes the St. Louis area better for everyone.”

The anticipation of possible protests led Ferguson school officials to cancel school on Tuesday.

Several vigils and protests are planned across the Triangle and throughout the country on Tuesday. N.C. NAACP President William Barber, who has traveled to Ferguson and met with community leaders there, will share his reaction during a news conference Tuesday morning.

A vigil will be held at Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh at 6 p.m. Tuesday.

Ferguson protests made international headlines for weeks following the Aug. 9 confrontation between Wilson and Brown, which inflamed tensions between the city’s majority black residents and majority white police force.

During the initial protests, local law enforcement – dressed in riot gear and carrying militarized weapons and vehicles – were criticized for what some perceived was a heavy-handed response, prompting the Missouri State Highway Patrol to oversee police efforts. The Missouri National Guard were also called in to help quell the riots and violence.

Locally, the Ferguson protests were a reminder of the multiple marches after the death of Jesus Huerta, 17, who died in November 2013 after shooting himself while handcuffed in the back of a Durham police car. The marches resulted in multiple arrests and damage to police cars and a police building.

Hundreds attended peaceful Ferguson protests and marches in Durham and Raleigh in August.

Wilson, the police officer, encountered Brown when he told the teenager and another person walking in the street with him to move out of the roadway, according to Brown’s autopsy report from the St. Louis County Medical Examiner's Office.

“The deceased became belligerent towards Officer Wilson,” the report said. “As Officer Wilson attempted to exit out of his patrol vehicle, the deceased pushed his door shut and began to struggle with Officer Wilson. Officer Wilson had his service weapon drawn, as the deceased began to run towards him, he discharged his service weapon several times.”

Witnesses said Brown, who was shot six times, was killed while his hands were up, or while he was running away.

The claim led to the protest slogan “hands up, don’t shoot,” which was echoed across the country. During an August protest in Durham, attendees raised their arms in the air and held signs that read “don’t shoot.”

Days later in Raleigh, about 70 people chanted “hands up, don’t shoot” and held their arms in the air while marching on the sidewalk from the old Wake County courthouse to the state Supreme Court building.

The shooting also prompted a federal civil rights investigation. U.S. Department of Justice officials said civil rights charges against Wilson are unlikely, according to The Washington Post.

Wilson faced potential charges that ranged from second-degree involuntary manslaughter, punishable by up to four years in prison, to first-degree murder.


ARTICLE: "NC NAACP: Michael Brown's Family Didn't Have Advocate"

Leaders of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP responded Tuesday morning to a St. Louis County grand jury's decision not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, saying the decision was an "indictment and a charge against a system that is not willing to fully address the racial and discriminatory flaws that exist."

Speaking at a 10 a.m. news conference, NAACP President William Barber railed against a judicial system that he says perpetuates discrimination and the criminalization of black men.

"It's an indictment on a district attorney who was elected to be an advocate for the people and the search of truth as opposed to an advocate for the perpetrator," Barber said of the decision not to indict Wilson. "Mike Brown's family did not have an advocate in the secret rooms of the grand jury."

Prosecuting Attorney Bob McCulloch said the jury of nine whites and three blacks met on 25 separate days over three months, hearing more than 70 hours of testimony from about 60 witnesses, including three medical examiners and experts on blood, toxicology and firearms.

"They are the only people that have heard and examined every witness and every piece of evidence," McCullough said, adding that the jurors "poured their hearts and soul into this process."

After the announcement that Wilson would not be charged, violence erupted in the streets of St. Louis County. There were 61 arrests in Ferguson overnight, many for burglary and trespassing, and there were 21 more arrests in St. Louis, where protestors broke some store windows.

At least 14 people were injured during the violent night.

At Tuesday's news conference in Raleigh, Barber cautioned journalists in attendance about how they cover the protests.

"There is something underneath the protests. We have to deal with the fact, and we have to put this front and center," he said. "The reality of racial injustice in our system are not figments of people's imaginations. America cannot ignore the cry, the pain, the hurt."

Barber also called for reforms to the justice system that he said gives police officers "too much power." He said the NAACP and other civil rights groups are asking for reforms that will stop police abuse and require mandatory training on racial bias and the use of force. Barber also said every police officer should be required to wear cameras on their bodies to record every encounter with a civilian.

"A police officer is the only one I know that can knock on my door, hand a piece of paper to me and take my son out of my house in handcuffs and I don't do everything I can to stop him," he said. "That's power."