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.
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.
We have coverd this many, many times:
The Michael Brown Black Lives Matter narrative was a monstrous lie. Yet one that continued to motivate the Black Lives Matter movement.
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:
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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