POLICE SWITCH TO KUMBAYA TACTICS

Instead of confronting the protestors in Ferguson, cops mingled and marched with the demonstrators

On Thursday, after four nights of rioting, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon ordered the Missouri Highway Patrol to take charge of all the cops assigned to maintain order in Ferguson. He placed Capt. Ron Johnson, a black officer who grew up in Ferguson, in command of the operation.

Capt. Johnson made drastic changes to the tactics used before he took command. Thursday night there were no armored vehicles in sight and none of the cops were dressed in military garb, nor were they armed with AR-15s. Instead, officers mingled and even marched with the protestors. The demonstrations remained peaceful.

I am labeling the new police procedure as the Kumbaya Tactics.

Furthermore, the cop who shot Brown is being thrown to the wolves. The Ferguson police chief told the media that he will release the name of the cop who shot Brown, thereby satisfying the demand of Al Sharpton and the protestors.

I call that a Chickenshit Surrender.

UPDATE: Ferguson’s police chief named Darren Wilson, a 6-year veteran, as the officer who shot Brown. It has been reported that Capt. Johnson wished he had been consulted before Wilson’s name was released.

Surprise, surprise! Along with naming Wilson, the Ferguson PD revealed that Michael Brown and Dorian Johnson, the man who was walking down the street with Brown when Officer Wilson encountered them, are prime suspects in a strong-arm robbery that happened 10 minutes earlier at a convenience store.

A surveillance video of the robbery shows two black men wearing identical clothing to that worn by Brown and Johnson when they were encountered by Wilson. Brown and Johnson stole a $50 box of cigars and forced their way out of the store by shoving a man into a display rack as he was trying to stop them.

Johnson has been the vocal witness who got everyone's poopie in an uproar by claiming that Brown was shot down as he was running from Wilson and that after being shot he raised his hands and was shot again. Johnson's story, which led to a rush to judgment and to the riots, should now be taken with a grain of salt.

Well what do you know, another Trayvon Martin-like angelic figure unmasked.

Brown’s parents and Benjamin Crump, their attorney, are crying foul. Crump called the robbery allegations “the old game of smoke and mirrors,” and said, “It’s bad enough they assassinated him, and now they’re trying to assassinate his character.”

Tsk, tsk, shame, shame on those evil 'white devil' cops.