Illinois Lt. Governor Tweets That Michael Brown Was “Murdered”
In fact, Brown was shot when he sucker punched a cop and tried to grab his service weapon. Yet 11 years after Brown’s shooting, the lie persists and is spread by politicians and activists.
On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown was shot dead by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri.
According to the narrative, Brown was a “gentle giant” who was shot by a racist cop just for being black, while his hands were raised shouting ‘don’t shoot.’
“Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” became the rallying cause of a new group formed after the shooting, Black Lives Matter, which previously was just a hashtag (after the Trayvon Martin shooting).
BLM, which became arguably the most influential movement of this century – weaponized completely after George Floyd – was based on a fabrication and lies. Michael Brown was not shot with his hands up while shouting don’t shoot.
Michael Brown, a petty street criminal, was shot when he sucker-punched Wilson who was sitting in his patrol car, reached in and tried to steal Wilson’s service pistol leading to the first shot to Brown’s hand. After Wilson exited the vehicle, Brown then made a second charge at him, at which point the second and fatal shot was fired. There is no credible evidence that Brown’s hands were raised at the time or that he was shouting ‘don’t shoot’. That’s what Obama’s DOJ found in its report:
Wilson and other witnesses stated that Brown then reached into the SUV through the open driver’s window and punched and grabbed Wilson. This is corroborated by bruising on Wilson’s jaw and scratches on his neck, the presence of Brown’s DNA on Wilson’s collar, shirt, and pants, and Wilson’s DNA on Brown’s palm. While there are other individuals who stated that Wilson reached out of the SUV and grabbed Brown by the neck, prosecutors could not credit their accounts because they were inconsistent with physical and forensic evidence, as detailed throughout this report.
Wilson told prosecutors and investigators that he responded to Brown reaching into the SUV and punching him by withdrawing his gun because he could not access less lethal weapons while seated inside the SUV. Brown then grabbed the weapon and struggled with Wilson to gain control of it. Wilson fired, striking Brown in the hand. Autopsy results and bullet trajectory, skin from Brown’s palm on the outside of the SUV door as well as Brown’s DNA on the inside of the driver’s door corroborate Wilson’s account that during the struggle, Brown used his right hand to grab and attempt to control Wilson’s gun. According to three autopsies, Brown sustained a close range gunshot wound to the fleshy portion of his right hand at the base of his right thumb. Soot from the muzzle of the gun found embedded in the tissue of this wound coupled with indicia of thermal change from the heat of the muzzle indicate that Brown’s hand was within inches of the muzzle of Wilson’s gun when it was fired. The location of the recovered bullet in the side panel of the driver’s door, just above Wilson’s lap, also corroborates Wilson’s account of the struggle over the gun and when the gun was fired, as do witness accounts that Wilson fired at least one shot from inside the SUV.
Although no eyewitnesses directly corroborate Wilson’s account of Brown’s attempt to gain control of the gun, there is no credible evidence to disprove Wilson’s account of what occurred inside the SUV. Some witnesses claim that Brown’s arms were never inside the SUV. However, as discussed later in this report, those witness accounts could not be relied upon in a prosecution because credible witness accounts and physical and forensic evidence, i.e. Brown’s DNA inside the SUV and on Wilson’s shirt collar and the bullet trajectory and close-range gunshot wound to Brown’s hand, establish that Brown’s arms and/or torso were inside the SUV….
Although there are several individuals who have stated that Brown held his hands up in an unambiguous sign of surrender prior to Wilson shooting him dead, their accounts do not support a prosecution of Wilson. As detailed throughout this report, some of those accounts are inaccurate because they are inconsistent with the physical and forensic evidence; some of those accounts are materially inconsistent with that witness’s own prior statements with no explanation, credible for otherwise, as to why those accounts changed over time. Certain other witnesses who originally stated Brown had his hands up in surrender recanted their original accounts, admitting that they did not witness the shooting or parts of it, despite what they initially reported either to federal or local law enforcement or to the media. Prosecutors did not rely on those accounts when making a prosecutive decision.
While credible witnesses gave varying accounts of exactly what Brown was doing with his hands as he moved toward Wilson – i.e., balling them, holding them out, or pulling up his pants up – and varying accounts of how he was moving – i.e., “charging,” moving in “slow motion,” or “running” – they all establish that Brown was moving toward Wilson when Wilson shot him. Although some witnesses state that Brown held his hands up at shoulder level with his palms facing outward for a brief moment, these same witnesses describe Brown then dropping his hands and “charging” at Wilson.
The fabrication and lies about the Brown shooting gave rise to riots in Ferguson, to the BLM movement, and to the hijacking of the movement by anti-Israel activists. The lie was so embedded in BLM that during the George Floyd riots “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” became a rallying cry.
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 persists year-after-year, so I repeatedly have written about the fabrication:
- Two years ago Michael Brown died, and a movement based on lies was born (2016)
- Five years ago Michael Brown died, and a movement based on lies was born (2019)
- Reminder: “Hands up, don’t shoot” is a fabricated narrative from the Michael Brown case (2020)
That 2020 post ‘triggered’ people at Cornell Law School leading to unsuccessful attempts to get me fired and for a boycott of my course.
The lie resurfaced today on X on the anniversary of Brown’s death, including in a post by the Lt. Governor of Illinois:
Michael Brown graduated from high school 8 days before he was murdered. He should be here today, living the life he imagined for himself that day.
In his memory, we continue the fight for justice and equality.
Other politicians also made similar posts:
Eleven years ago, Michael Brown’s life was stolen. He should still be here today.
The time to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act is now. We cannot move forward with systemic failures that continue to take Black lives. pic.twitter.com/vx3iFTGth8
— Rep. LaMonica McIver (@RepLaMonica) August 9, 2025
Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year old Black teenager, was killed senselessly 11 years ago by a police officer in Ferguson, MO.
I’m tired of watching our Black boys die. He should be alive today!
Today and everyday, we must continue our fight for justice. pic.twitter.com/VJDy58wYPN
— Rep. Frederica Wilson (@RepWilson) August 9, 2025
As did a professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School:
Eleven years ago Michael Brown was killed. His death reminds so many of the fragility of all Black lives. May we think of him and embrace the lives and protect the lives of all the young who deserve to grow old. Rest in power. pic.twitter.com/iEegCwtj99
— Rev. & Prof. Cornell William Brooks (@CornellWBrooks) August 9, 2025
And Bernice King:
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. #MikeBrown pic.twitter.com/30bjlZ6hlc
— Be A King (@BerniceKing) August 9, 2025
And the activist group Students Demand Action on Instagram:
And on and on it goes.
The lie persists, it will never go away, it’s too essential to what’s left of the BLM movement.
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It says all you need to know that ghetto culture makes saints out of thugs.
Since the 1960’s, the role models of black culture have descended from those who have overcome society’s adversity to those who have earned it.
Gay culture did the same with Matthew Sheppard.
There was a case in South Carolina which really was a cop murdering someone. A guy was traffic stopped and fled, the cop shot him in the back with no evidence he was dangerous, and he died.
Turns out he fled because he had a warrant for non-payment of child support. He hadn’t fully paid child support (he had paid some, not enough) because SC had refused to adjust his child support after he was fired and couldn’t get as well paying a job. He had been fired for having been imprisoned for failing to pay child support. That time his failure to pay child support was because SC had misfiled his payments, which has been on time and in full.)
But the angry-cop forces of chaos talk about Michael Brown, a thug who got what he deserved, instead of Walter Scott, a man who fled from the cops because he was being abused by the system and who was murdered by it.
They do this because it’s not enough to punish cops for murdering people, they also have to punish cops who kill in self defense.
Okay by me. I have no intention of ever going to Illinois.
Illinois is like a backed up toilet that people keep using…. overflowing with human filth.
You misspelled “Chicago.” That’s the real problem in Illinois.
Very True… Many years ago they reversed the flow of the Chicago rivers because they were polluting Lake Michigan with raw sewage.. now the river flow inland and connect to the Mississippi to send the pollution to greater Illinois and St. Louis.
Given the path Brown was clearly heading down, Vegas odds say he’d now be dead–likely at the hands of another black guy–or in prison even if he hadn’t met his maker in 2014.
Or, if still alive, there’d be a string of victims behind him. Darren Wilson saved a lot of people from being robbed, beaten, and possibly raped and murdered.
Good riddance, Michael Brown.
He acted like a thug and died a thugs death.
The Communists have a limited imagination.
I got into a disagreement with a resident Dr , who was part black about Brown.
He bought it 110%
He showed me a picture of his med school
All the students, black and white were in the lawn with their hands up
Nauseating
N reasoning with these people
Disgusting racist assholes who will never he held accountable for spreading lies. What was left of my caring about the black community, and after the Reverends Al and Jessie it wasn’t much was completely eradicated by the Marxist, racist, anti-western, anti-normal BLM grifters and the progressive dramacrat enablers. Considered the same people are now expressing the virulent antisemitism they always felt they can all go take a short hike off a very tall bridge. I don’t care if the fall kills them, they drown, or the sharks get them.
It’s fiction. It only has to work as fiction to have an audience. They even know it’s fiction. They like it, want to live in that world, and pay with clicks.
It’s not something you can correct them on because they know it’s fiction already.
When there was as yet no shrub of the field upon earth, and as
yet no grasses of the field had sprouted, because Yahweh had
not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to till the
soil, but a flow welled up from the ground and watered the
whole surface of the earth, then Yahweh molded Adam from
the earth’s dust (adamah), and blew into the nostrils the breath
of life, and Adam became a living being.
Everybody knows that’s fiction but nobody can avoid literalizing it.
You can even spot the mechanism – life appears with the first literary effect: breath of life. It still works. A confusion of use and mention is hard to think back past, so produces an origin.
You either believe the Bible is true, or you don’t.
I do
Do not, therefore, pretend to know what I believe…
…or what I should believe.
It is possible to believe the Bible is true without believing that this story literally describes an actual event. That’s not my position, but I understand it is the position of the Roman Catholic Church, which represents a whole lot of Bible-believers.
Belief actually happens backwards. As Wittgenstein wrote of belief in the redemption
What combats doubt is, as it were, redemption. Holding fast to this must be holding fast to that belief. So what that means is : first you must be redeemed and hold on to your redemption (keep hold of your redemption) – then you will see that you are holding fast to this belief.
_Culture and Value_ p.32-33 (1937)
So with TDS and hands up don’t shoot. Belief isn’t the first mover. Attachment is.
Wittgenstein a few years later
“575. When I sat down on this chair, of course I believed it would bear me. I had no thought of its possibly collapsing.”
Believing is a token in a later account, not a present thing that happens.
Who knows what the act actually consisted of. What is important, is that it is the only instance in the Bible where God, and for lack of a better description, infuses a soul into man. You will find it no where else in the Bible. Yet, you will find voluminous references that we are all living souls.
The concept is basic and important.
It was passed to Eve when God made her directly from Adam, and Eve, being the mother of all, according to the Bible, passed it on to everyone else
It is unbroken chain passed by mother to child.
That is why we believe that abortion is murder.
Because the act kills a living soul.
You can not come to this position without extrapolating from the original act.
An act of God.
Without that, you are lost.
And that’s put over with a literary trick. What AI can’t do is literary effects because it experiences only what’s literal and not what is surprising, for want of a better description. The literary effect unique to life happens in the same words that god creates life, “the breath of life.”
That’s not something about god but about literary effects.
If it had said god blew air into adam’s nostrils, it wouldn’t work. It would just be a doubtful fact instead of, so to speak. a simultaneous demonstration. A confusion of use and mention, technically.
That’s a literary trick because you can’t think back past it, with that confusion in it. It makes an origin.
Technically your position is that of a dogmatist. Nietzsche on dogmatism
Supposing truth to be a woman – what? is the suspicion not well-founded that all philosophers, when they have been dogmatists, have had little understanding of women, that the gruesome earnestness, the clumsy importunity with which they have been in the habit of approaching truth have been inept and improper means for winning a wench?
Certainly she has not let herself be won — and today every kind of dogmatism stands sad and discouraged, if it continues to stand at all!
(Beyond Good and Evil, preface)
Think of truth as a woman that has to be won. This does not call for guns.
Incidentally that biblical passage was said to have been written by a woman, the Book of J.
the other criminals in that whole circus were the bought media
one thing is certain: in the eleven years since the incident, brown hasn’t killed, assaulted, robbed anyone else
that’s a good thing and thank you to officer Wilson for your courage and for making it so
He also didn’t father 12 children for the taxpayers to feed, house, clothe, medicate, and provide daycare.
This is one of the things that makes the left, the left: They learn talking points, not facts.
It obvious that the demonrats would like to ignite another round of “mostly peaceful protests”.
If it ever happens again, I hope they are mown down, en masse
Those were my first thoughts when I saw this article.
What, they couldn’t get a pic of him as an 8-year old?
When will some responsible black “leader” suggest that Mr Brown’s sudden end was the result of a couple dumb decisions? And also tell the young-uns they could avoid such an end by simply obeying laws, keeping their hands to themselves, and not taking things that were not theirs. But, no, that is not happening.
Bad behavior that results in the deaths of young black men is a necessary part of the liberal political script. If tomorrow young black men stopped doing things that get them killed by the police, the Left’s agenda would lose that much traction. They’re like anti-gunners – if it weren’t for firearms deaths, how would they promote the gun control agenda? They need the deaths, the deaths give their agenda the major portion of its impetus. This is why they have no interest in proposed solutions to gun violence that don’t include gun control. They’re afraid they’ll work.
In fact, the “young-uns” are being told that it is OK to take things that are not theirs with the current approach to shoplifitng and bail. That starts the ball rolling toward more serious crime and more ghettos as stores abandan neighborhoods.
That responsible block leader would get shouted down as an uncle Tom, or a bootlicker, or whatever other phrase you might wish to pick.
Maybe that Chris Rock video could be circulated again.
The truth has been so firmly established, and published so widely, that it’s implausible that these people didn’t know it. So I imagine that, even as a public figure, Darren Wilson has a viable defamation case against Stratton, McIver, and Frederica Wilson
I would sure love to see that happen.
Some day the fiction surrounding George Floyd’s death will be as obvious as this lie. Police doing their job with a drug insane junkie went to prison and some are still there. The black community and the woke whites have made him into a saint!
Many Democrats behave in a way that suggests they want to provoke a civil war. Don’t they realize how awful any civil war becomes? Families can turn against one another. All the pent up passions get released and develop into an orgy of violence. I doubt any of the big mouths like Juliana Stratton would fight in the conflict they seem to want.
All this opens the question: can blacks and whites co-exist peacefully in the US? I once thought they could, but contemporary events suggest to me that they can’t. I still remember my first day in the first grade where this black boy went around punching everyone (including me) in the stomach. That was a very long time ago, but I still remember his name. So it must have made a big and lasting impression. Fortunately he was instantly removed from the school. Today I doubt that would happen. New York City today has morphed into far different place from the one I grew up in.
If New York City elects a Muslim communist as mayor, the city will have crossed the rubicon. The wealthy will move to other states, and I expect both the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ will move as well, along with many corporate HQs. Then where will NYC get the money to fund its generous welfare system? Obviously, NYC will go screaming and demanding a bailout from the feds. Given our poltroonish double-crossing GOP they could get it.
“ All this opens the question: can blacks and whites co-exist peacefully in the US? I”
At this rate I doubt it.
No…
Once I thought it was possible, but no going back
Either they go back to Africa or we gift them Georgia and Mississippi
No, please! California and New York.
Keep pushing that lie for Cultural Marxism
Michael Brown was a clown
mugged a clerk, what a jerk
Mugger a cop,got F’d up
Thus ended Michael Brown
Suck it up. Everybody has with the birth certificate.
Hands up don’t shoot uses the grocers’ apostrophe in the pic.
before a civi war begins (as the progs are anxious for) would do these liars/grifters well to read “sordo on the hilltop” and, if they possess the intelligence, heed its ancient message—otherwise, there will be no quarter for them and their personal fate will be assured
“A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.”
Make no mistake, all these people a just despicable liars on a mission.
father figures are in shorter supply in the blck community than common sense
LaMonica McIver? You better put some ICE on that.
ISWYDT. 🤣
Another example of people that will swallow anything. No wonder this is the age of hoax, and so many come through one side, courtesy of a lap dog media.
The NYT story on the “starving” Palestinian was disseminated to millions, the correction to thousands. Oh well.
I think some U.S. English dictionary has as one of it definitions
liar = Democrat
There are several interesting aspects of this case one of which this article clearly points out – the longevity of the myth that Michael Brown said “hands up, don’t shoot” shortly before being killed. The other interesting aspect is that of the witnesses and their testimony. Some people came up as witnesses even though they did not see anything all because they wanted to be part of something important. Others were there but their story was not credible – perhaps they were trying to relate a doctored narrative. A few witnesses were credible. The net result was that the over all set of witness testimony was unreliable. The forensics, however, told an irrefutable story particularly of the fatal bullet track entering in front and somewhat high then exiting in the back and lower in the body. This bit confirmed that Michael Brown was charging officer Wilson head on. It should be noted that there were witnesses whose testimony independently confirmed the situation deduced from forensics. At this point we should all continually be on guard to refute the false Michael Brown “murdered” story.
Ah, yes. Future cancer cure-discoverer, the “gentle giant,” Michael Brown, fresh from committing a strong-arm robbery at which he assaulted and menaced the store clerk, was “murdered” by a police officer possessing the temerity to defend himself against Brown’s murderous attack.
Similar to how St. Trayvon of the Blessed Skittles was “murdered” by George Zimmerman, because Zimmerman possessed the temerity to object to Martin’s attempting to murder him by repeatedly slamming his head into a concrete sidewalk.
Rational Americans are so tired of Dhimmi-crats’ dishonest and corrosive canonization of black, sociopath criminal thugs.
The world is a better place with this thug at room temperature.
The sociopathic thug possesses more value to humanity and the universe as fertilizer, than he ever did as a live person.
As a retired DEA agent, I can tell you that when you try to take a cop’s gun away, deadly force is justified.
The principle you alluded to is accepted as morally just and consistent with common sense, by every person in the U.S. who isn’t a Dhimmi-crat/leftist/socialist/”progressive”/”liberal.”
“BLM, which became arguably the most influential movement of this century… “
Tsk, tsk, Professor. MAGA is the most influential movement of this century, bar none.