Was Michael Brown Executed? Civil Rights Attorney Benjamin Crump Is Stirring the Pot with that Wild Assertion

It seems like the Ferguson, Mo. turmoil will never subside long enough for the community to process and heal from the events of August 9.  As you might recall, Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot and killed that night by a white police officer.

What started as peaceful protest in the aftermath of the shooting quickly turned into a series of nightly confrontations between police and thugs who saw an opportunity to engage in looting, vandalism and other forms of mayhem.

To no one’s surprise, New Black Panther Party members, Al  Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, Sr. have all been to Ferguson to stir the passions of the people. Unfortunately for the rabble rousers, new evidence indicates that the situation is far more complicated than the mainstream media’s initial portrayal of the event.

It turns out that college-bound Michael was no innocent angel. Like Travyon Martin and hundreds of other young black men killed in confrontations, Brown was headed in the wrong direction. Minutes before his deadly encounter with the police officer, Michael reportedly had been involved in a strong-armed robbery of a convenience store.  From autopsy reports, we now know that he had marijuana in his system.  Marijuana impairs judgment and can make some people more aggressive.

The civil rights community is not backing down from its version of Michael’s death, claiming he was murdered. Despite evidence to the contrary, Benjamin Crump, the family’s attorney, is claiming that Michael was executed with a back-to-the front wound, a claim that’s not supported by two independent autopsies, including one that Crump himself ordered.

In other words, this noted civil rights attorney is making wild accusations that can only serve to keep people’s passions inflamed.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s Department of Justice has promised to conduct a third autopsy, and Holder will meet with law enforcement officials in Ferguson.  By asking for a third autopsy from the highly politicized Justice Department, Crump is rejecting the independent analysis of his own forensic pathologist.

Unfortunately, Holder’s entry into this fray is unlikely to boost the confidence of millions of Americans who have watched his politically charged handling of numerous legal situations in which his office has failed to enforce the laws of the land.  After a Florida jury found George Zimmerman innocent of murder in the 2012 shooting death of Travyon Martin, Holder’s Department of Justice conducted its own criminal civil rights investigation in a case even though the FBI had found no evidence of a civil rights violation.  By interjecting himself into that situation, Holder exceeded the federal government’s powers to intervene in local cases.  Now, we must eagerly await the result of the third autopsy in the Brown case?

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