{"id":1871,"date":"2014-11-20T16:39:37","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T21:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2014-11-20T16:39:37","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T21:39:37","slug":"down-outright-murder-a-complete-guide-to-the-shooting-of-michael-brown-by-darren-wilson-the-intercept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1871","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Down Outright Murder&#8221;: A Complete Guide to the Shooting of Michael Brown by Darren Wilson &#8211; The Intercept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/firstlook.org\/theintercept\/2014\/11\/20\/everything-know-shooting-michael-brown-darren-wilson\/\">&#8220;Down Outright Murder&#8221;: A Complete Guide to the Shooting of Michael Brown by Darren Wilson &#8211; The Intercept<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 28px 0px;\">The nation is on edge, awaiting a grand jury decision in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown \u2014 an unarmed African American teen in Ferguson, Missouri \u2014 by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson more than three months ago. The decision is expected any day and there is widespread belief, based on weeks of leaks to the media and laws that historically favor police officers in lethal force cases, that Wilson will not be indicted. Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has preemptively declared a state of emergency in anticipation of protests.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 28px 0px;\">Brown\u2019s killing, the culmination of an incident that the\u00a0<em style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;\">St. Louis Post Dispatch\u00a0<\/em>would\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #df3f3d; text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/multimedia\/special\/darren-wilson-s-radio-calls-show-fatal-encounter-was-brief\/html_79c17aed-0dbe-514d-ba32-bad908056790.html\">later report<\/a>\u00a0lasted no more than 90 seconds, devastated a family with high hopes for their college-bound son and sparked some of the most significant civil rights demonstrations in a generation \u2014 casting a harsh light on the\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #df3f3d; text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/deadly-force-in-black-and-white\">disproportionate number<\/a>\u00a0of black men killed by police, on St. Louis County\u2019s exploitative and racially discriminatory\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #df3f3d; text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2014\/09\/03\/how-st-louis-county-missouri-profits-from-poverty\/\">municipal court system<\/a>, and on the\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #df3f3d; text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/08\/24\/us\/in-washington-second-thoughts-on-arming-police.html?_r=0\">militarization of law enforcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 28px 0px;\">In the months since Brown was killed, numerous eyewitnesses have come forward to describe what they saw during the teen\u2019s final moments, while controversial disclosures to the press have served to describe Wilson\u2019s version of the events that day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 28px 0px;\">This is everything we know about the shooting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 28px 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Down Outright Murder&#8221;: A Complete Guide to the Shooting of Michael Brown by Darren Wilson &#8211; The Intercept. The nation is on edge, awaiting a grand jury decision in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown \u2014 an unarmed African American teen in Ferguson, Missouri \u2014 by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson more than three months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1315,308,1316,519,533,1314],"class_list":["post-1871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-darren-wilson","tag-ferguson","tag-grand-jury","tag-michael-brown","tag-missouri","tag-murder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1872,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions\/1872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}