Nine Years Later, Race Hustlers are Still Lying About the Death of Michael Brown
The “hands up, don’t shoot” lie gave birth to the formal Black Lives Matter movement. Possibly the most significant social and political movement of the past decade, one that has re-shaped our country, was based on a lie that is repeated year after year after year. I’m never, ever, going to stop telling the truth about it.
Nine years ago today, Michael Brown was shot dead by policeman Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. The death created the Black Lives Matter movement, which prior to that was only a hashtag, and took it to national fame, based on the claim that Brown was shot with his “hands up” while pleading “don’t shoot.”
But the Black Lives Matter movement was birthed based up on a lie. Two lies, actually. The first was the lie about the Trayvon Martin shooting that created the hashtag – Martin was not shot because he was black while wearing a hoodie. He was shot one time by George Zimmerman while Martin was beating him to a bloody pulp mixed martial arts style and slamming his head into concrete. We covered the trial exhaustively, and Zimmerman properly was found by the jury to have acted in lawful self-defense.
- Five years after Trayvon Martin’s death, myths and lies about case live on (February 16, 2017)
- Seven years after Trayvon Martin shooting, the falsehoods, propaganda and misinformation are worse than ever (February 26, 2019)
But the Brown lie was even bigger, because it birthed both the formal movement and the movement’s overarching propaganda slogan, “hands up, don’t shoot.”
In reality, Brown was a criminal who strong-armed a local mini-mart then sucker punched Wilson who was seated in his patrol car and reached to steal Wilson’s service pistol, leading to the first shot. When Wilson exited the vehicle Brown made a second charge at Wilson, and who fired the fatal shot.
Extensive investigation by local prosecutors and the Obama/Eric Holder Department of Justice, including review of forensic evidence such as Brown’s fingerprints on the muzzel of Wilson’s gun and bruises on Wilson’s face where Brown punched him while trying to steal the gun, exonerated Wilson.
[Ferguson PO Darren Wilson injuries]
[Ferguson PO Darren Wilson injuries]
We have coverd this many, many times:
- Two years ago Michael Brown died, and a movement based on lies was born (August 9, 2016)(this post has links to our exhaustive contemporaneous coverage)
- Five years ago Michael Brown died, and a movement based on lies was born (August 9, 2019)
- Reminder: “Hands up, don’t shoot” is a fabricated narrative from the Michael Brown case (June 4, 2020)(this post sent some people at Cornell Law School into a rage at me).
The Michael Brown Black Lives Matter narrative was a monstrous lie. Yet one that continued to motivate the Black Lives Matter movement.
“Hands up don’t shoot” protest in Columbus Ohio pic.twitter.com/8aQs4kqQBT
— THE ONE AND ONLY🏆 (@jussmikeyy) May 29, 2020
They have about 20 officers guarding White House and secret service are on top of the roof while protesters chant “Hands Up! Don’t shoot!” #DCProtest #BlackLivesMatters pic.twitter.com/H3yN4rqZNU
— ® (@_maaaaarisa) May 29, 2020
The lie will not die, today there were memorials to Brown’s death which continued the lie.
Matt Walsh makes a good point about the lie:
This only goes to show how the Left plays the long game. The whole Michael Brown narrative has been definitively exposed as a hoax but they will keep repeating it year after year after year until we get tired of correcting it and the truth is forgotten by history.
Here are some of the commemorations of Brown’s death. Keep in mind the people and groups tweeting these lies, they are the cream of the leftist social and racial justice movements:
Today is the 9th anniversary of Mike Brown’s killing.
He would be alive today if the institutions of racism and white supremacy were eradicated.
He should be alive today.
We will never forget.
We will continue to fight for justice and accountability. pic.twitter.com/7E2svmNMOb
— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) August 9, 2023
the state department's new 'equity representative' just eulogized violent thug Michael brown, with Tony blinker looking on. impossible to overemphasize how their entire movement is built on lies and repeating lies despite all evidence. it's not just cori bush and ben crump pic.twitter.com/aL4fTVDFlO
— Gregg Re (@gregg_re) August 9, 2023
You left out the part where he sucker punched a cop in the face and tried to steal his weapon, was shot once, then made a second charge at the cop resulting in the fatal shot. Obama's DOJ found no credible evidence his hands were raised or he was saying 'don't shoot' when… https://t.co/JNLnuhvQaW
— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) August 9, 2023
On this day in 2014, Michael Brown, an unarmed Black teenager, was killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, MO. A grand jury refused to indict the officer, who was never held accountable. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/wbAQ2Y4LMk
— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) August 9, 2023
Nine years ago today, Michael Brown was shot and killed by a police officer in Ferguson, MO. He was 18 and unarmed.
Law enforcement failed Michael, just as it's failed too many more times since to protect Black lives. We must ensure public safety is a right—not a privilege. pic.twitter.com/9Sj5SdAipo
— GIFFORDS (@GIFFORDS_org) August 9, 2023
At 18 years old, with plans of starting college, #MichaelBrown's life came to an unexpected end #OTD after he was shot by a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer. The teen was unarmed.
Today, we remember Michael.#TheMarchContinues #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/0zJGWq7jLg
— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) August 9, 2023
Mike Brown.
You matter so much.
Before you were dehumanized, discarded and disregarded, you were loved.
You still are.
Before your name became a hashtag, your parents named you.
I’m praying for them today. pic.twitter.com/rCHj2hYDea
— Be A King (@BerniceKing) August 9, 2023
It has been nine years since 18-year-old Michael Brown was murdered by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri.
A witness reports that Michael had his hands up in the air before he was shot and killed.
“HANDS UP, DON’T SHOOT!”#EndGunViolence #BlackLivesMatter #BLM pic.twitter.com/QsCugrumgV
— Newtown Action Alliance (@NewtownAction) August 9, 2023
Possibly the most significant social and political movement of the past decade, one that has re-shaped our country, was based on the lie about how Michael Brown died. So the lie must be repeated year after year after year.
I’m never, ever, going to stop telling the truth about it.
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Is there such a thing as an honest race hustler? That’s like asking if there’s an honest person in the Democrat leadership. And if anyone thinks that isn’t rhetorical, the answer to both is no.
It’s a business. Nothing more.
Hands Up
Don’t Shoot
More like,
Hands Up
We’re Gonna Loot
Back in the 60’s those riots were cover to loot, they still are. Many of those social problems could be fixed by removing rioters, looters from our gene pool. Everyone, including blacks would be much better off after a culling. What better way and time is there for this, instance justice.
That is incorrect. It is “pants up, don’t look”.
The PO is lucky it happened 9 years ago, a few years later
He’s in MN and he’s a dead man walking, in prison for LIFE
Wilson, Chauvin, Zimmerman etal are all heroes
they prevented further harm being perpetrated by these thugs in the future, which you know damn well woulda happened
these thugs can’t cut it in the real world, so they try and destroy everyone else’s world
It was a huge mistake to have allowed those injustices, it is not too late.
I’ll add that one of the most courageous groups of people in the country is the jury the Ferguson-Brown case. It was still early days after the Travon Martin incident, but I doubt such a jury could be assembled anywhere in the country today.
The jury in the Chauvin trial is a classic example of what to expect in trials today. There, the combination of ignorance plus flat out in-your-face willingness to ignore facts-information-disclosed in trial testimony resulted in what amounts to nothing more than a posse dressed up in the costume and theater of a legal proceeding. With rare exceptions, politicized legal community itself has reduced, allowed the term “rule of law” to become little more than a quip, a meaningless throwaway line in the the country today.
The problem is societal morality; it won’t be, can’t be, fixed by the silliness of passing laws that make it a violation of the law to disobey the law.
Came here to post the same. Well said.
No post about race hoaxes should omit a quote by ex-slave Booker T. Washington.
Way back in 1911 he said:
“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
“My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience”
Or in 2013, this summary:
There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don’t want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.
“The Booker T. Washington Reader,” Simon and Schuster (2013), p.199.
Provides a really nice context in the matter.
The 2013 quote is a century old. Sorry for the typo.
1911 was a very good year
So the democrats and fascists lied. And a highly ignorant and brainwashed populace believed.
Color me shocked.
It’s the eternal tension between:
(The price of liberty is eternal vigilance,
You have a Republic, if you can keep it.)
and
(You can fool some of the people all of the time.
There’s a sucker born every minute.)
Both viewpoints are true.
Their collision condemns any hopes of good government.
STILL believe…
Cori Bush
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Today is the 9th anniversary of Mike Brown’s killing.
He would be alive today if the institutions of racism and white supremacy were eradicated.
He should be alive today.
We will never forget.
We will continue to fight for justice and accountability.
Nothing to do with believing.
It’s prolonging a lie to keep a gravy train running.
The fact that they can’t find ONE actual legitimate unarmed black man shot by police to be their mascot, and have to constantly resort to lying about thugs like George Floyd, Michael Brown, or Trayvon Martin, demonstrates what an utter crock of shit the entire racism narrative is.
There is at least one. His name was Walter Scott, and he was shot in the back by Michael Slager while running away after being stopped for a broken brake light. This was caught on cellphone video, as was Slager dropping something (his taser, iirc) by Scott’s body afterwards.
Scott’s child support (going through the state of South Carolina) was misfiled, and he was arrested and held for failure to pay, when he had paid in full and the state made a paperwork error. This caused him to be fired from a job which paid very well. When he could not find a job that paid equally well, the state did not adjust his child support and he fell in arrears. There was
a warrant for his arrest for failure to pay, and while it wasn’t actively being pursued, it would have turned up when the cop ran the paperwork, and then he’d get held again – for something he couldn’t help – and fired again. So when he was stopped in a friend’s car for a malfunctioning brake light, he fled.
There were a few protests at the time, but it got rapidly dropped.
You haven’t heard about it because it’s not useful to the racial grievance crowd. Being told not to shoot an unidentified man running away from a traffic stop – black or white – makes zero impact on cops. They know they’re only allowed to shoot a fleeing man if there’s danger to others (e.g. if they stop an armed man whose ex has an order of protection against him and he runs towards his ex’s house, they can shoot him.) Hearing that again, even in the form of murder charges brought against the cop who killed a man that way, doesn’t change their behavior. Being told that if they defend themselves against a black man attacking them makes cops reluctant to get into that situation, and making the cops reluctant to enforce the laws on blacks is EXACTLY the point of BLM.
(April 4, 2015; Charleston SC; Slager is in for 20 on federal civil rights charges after pleading guilty to get state murder charges and other federal charges dropped; said murder charges got a hung jury in the first trial and there was no other trial.)
This is the one that came to mind for me. The video is brutal to watch.
Yes. It *is* what the other cases purport to be, and the movement doesn’t talk about it.
Because the bad guy in this case is Democrat government.
Their ‘solution’ to this racism BS is more Democrat government.
They can’t highlight a case that demonstrates just how toxic their incompetent government is.
The video is a thing of beauty
No, I’m sure you haven’t heard of it because at every stage it was a Democrat government that screwed over a black man.
Even if he, himself, were innocent, they will never, EVER highlight the story of government screwing a black man, because their entire schtick is their benevolent government is necessary to save them from the evil Republicans.
False
Scott took the taser from Slager and shot him with it, then ran as he threw it to the ground, a dangerous fleeing felon, fair game. It’s disgusting that “conservatives” burned a good cop to assuage the mob. This only emboldened the anti-white, anti-justice Woke activists, and brought more grief to Chauvin, Lane, Thao, Keung, Potter, Dean, Drejka, Bryan, and the McMichaels, and it’s growing
Cops can only shoot an armed felon if he’s running toward his ex’s house, and she has a restraining order against him? You must be a lawyer, or a wizard, or something
Botham Jean: An accountant and literal choir boy, shot sitting in his own living room, in his boxer shorts, eating ice cream.
So what? There was absolutely no evidence that Amber Guyger shot Jean out of animus, racial or otherwise, or for any other reason than entering the wrong apartment by mistake and thinking Jean was an intruder
Well, we did have a legally armed black man (Philando Castile) shot by a Hispanic cop for no reason short of unprofessional panic; and an unarmed (and somewhat unclad) white female (Justine Diamond) shot by a Somalian cop for much the same reason. Both in uber progressive Minneapolis-St. Paul. Hm.
Castile was carrying illegally, his CCW permit immediately invalidated by illegal drug use. He also stupidly reached into his pocket immediately after telling the cop he was armed, probably because he got high
Ah, yes. According to the vile, dishonest and stupid Dumb-o-crats, the cure for cancer will never be discovered, because of alleged “gentle giant,” Michael Brown’s self-inflicted demise.
He had a job interview coming up ‘soon’.
(Sorry, I binge watched a bunch of those defendant arraignment videos last weekend and that is such a constant claim in them that one judge said he was single-handedly putting employment agencies out of business)
Note that it’s not just race hustlers getting in on all the lying.
Check out the enthusiastic me-tooism exhibited by the gun-grabbing professional liars at Giffords and Newtown Action Alliance.
Mutt Romney for one
Romney sure is a POS.
Those would be aprentice race baiters. Semi-pros as it were.
Anyone know where Wilson is now, and how he is earning a living (or not)? I hope someone offered him a job somewhere.
To me the biggest mystery of the whole story is why Wilson did such a foolish thing as to voluntarily resign his job with no deal. If they wanted him out they should have paid him to leave. What did he think was going to happen, that other police forces would be lining up to hire him?! Maybe smart ones would, but how many of those are there?
I seriously doubt he left a pauper without a plan, stripped of his former life and doomed to wander the country looking for place he could start again anonymously.
But it’s possible.
I heard Iowa, I hope he and his wife are raising a family now.
I’ll never tell 😉
The “hands up don’t shoot” canard is very, very much implied in the Michelle Obama biopic, produced by the woman who is married to Jack Smith, the latest prosecutor out to get Trump. What a pair! Leads me to think Michelle O is running and and that the lie will never die. They won’t let it, it’s too useful. https://pd1000.substack.com/p/is-michelle-obama-running
I love how they use his picture in cap and gown at graduation.
Why not just use his baby pictures?
Or the picture of him beating the hell out of the shop owner he stole from before he assaulted the cop and got himself shot.
With Trayvon they used pictures of him as a pre-teen.
Like Treyvon who was only shown by his grades school picture not his later thuglife pics
I don’t see the logic here. Am I to infer that had these two, small, particular incidents been just as described that the violent BLM movement would have been justified?
Who cares? Stop explaining the nasty, tawdry, agony aunt details to stubborn idiots with blocked ears. The real issue is that scum-of-the-earth, Ivy-educated white people are ginning up racial violence among low IQ minorities for their own gain. Attack the cabal and stop bothering with the sideshow.
Agony Aunt?
It’s a British term; I learned it from a British woman. It means a sympathetic person who will listen to your troubles. It’s more or less the same as “sob sister”.
I remember that whole Hands up bs was started by a local political activist. Of course, I could not remember his name,, but the internet doesn’t forget.
He was Anthony Shahid. Seriously.. a little bit of trivia.. but it caught on like wild fire,..
Here, if you are interested
https://www.npr.org/2015/08/08/430411141/whether-history-or-hype-hands-up-dont-shoot-endures
Hopefully those who project the “hands up” lie will feel the full force of American blow back. As for Michael, good riddance.
BLM was us and will always be a race baiting Marxist fraud
The other lie that will not die and is used repeatedly by the dementia patient in the WH is the “very fine people” lie.
Tell me “Black lives matter” as a declarative sentence, and you’re preaching to the choir.
Tell me to support Black Lives Matter the organization–no way.
America does NOT have a race problem, America has a PROBLEM RACE.
Black lies matter.
I live in St. Louis and worked with a guy who knew Michael Brown and lived in his neighborhood. His take: “Michael Brown was a thug. Michael Brown would be alive today if he hadn’t tried to be a badass.”
It may not be sheer coincidence that Judge Tanya Chutkan, who will be presiding over the trial of Donald Trump on the January 6 charges, is known for two things:
Throwing the book at January 6 defendants.
Acting as an apologist for BLM.
Perhaps a closer examination of the alleged Federal cases against Donald Trump won’t detract from continued investigations of DIE, CRT, and so on.
#BlackFAMILIESMatter -> All families matter.
If I recall, the “hands up, don’t shoot” narrative was put forth by of one of Michael Brown’s pals at the scene. With the press eager for content, they were interviewing anyone at hand who had something to say.
I remember reading about a local who was angry because a convenience store had been burned to the ground. He was demanding that someone had better fix it quick because now he had to go further out of the neighborhood to get his smokes.
His confederate lied and stated that that’s what happened because home boy also was on probation IIRC, and would be in serious trouble if pinned as an accessory.
Now Ferguson is a tobacco desert
Seems to me that Brown just committed suicide by cop.
As a side note I have an “All Lives Matter” sticker on my vehicle. Outside a small general store an elderly black woman stopped me and said “I like your sticker young man” I told her that all Americans matter no matter who they are and she said “Amen”
The best reply to Cori Bush’s BS tweet was something to effect of:
“You got dragged so hard (in Community Notes), it made the pavement and street ugly.”