Sometimes irony isn't even ironic, it's just what happened.*
The friend who witnessed Michael Brown's death was shot and killed Sunday morning less than a mile from where a police officer killed Brown.
The Ferguson Police Department confirmed Dorian Johnson died of injuries sustained during the shooting that occurred around 8:30 a.m. Sunday on the 9600 block of Abaco Court.
The location of the shooting is just 15 minutes away by foot from where Ferguson officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Brown on Canfield Drive.
Ferguson Police Public Information Officer Patricia Washington said police took one person into custody in relation to the shooting on Sunday.
That person was released within a maximum 24-hour hold without criminal charges filed, said St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Melissa Price Smith said in a statement on Monday.
"This appears to be a domestic incident involving a claim of self-defense that is being investigated," Price Smith wrote, adding that the investigation is ongoing.
Washington said Sunday that earlier rumors that the shooting involved police were not true.
Johnson witnessed the fatal shooting of Brown in August 2014. The two were stopped by Wilson for walking in the middle of the street. Johnson spoke at a memorial on the 10th anniversary of Brown's death last year.
After Brown's killing, Johnson unsuccessfully filed suit alleging that Wilson illegally stopped and used excessive force on the pair. An appeals court dismissed the suit in 2019.
F*** this guy most especially. I like that the cops are taking a "wait and see" attitude on his shooting death.
As Smell the Glove noted: Sometimes things just have a way of working themselves out.
Also from Hot Air: Trump says he'll be taking an interest in the Charlotte light rail butchery.
Gee, why didn't Donald Trump know about this ghastly murder in Charlotte, NC, before yesterday evening? The same reason the rest of us didn't hear about it, until the surveillance video of the stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee went viral. The media refused to cover it, as Beege covered in detail yesterday. (True story: I first heard about it from Beege, and I suspect a number of our readers had the same experience.)
I did hear about it sometime late last week... but only when the video had just begun going viral.
Why are media outlets refusing to cover this story? For the same reason that they rely on cooked crime data: narratives. The case of Iryna Zarutska reminds us of the costs of leaving dangerous psychopaths and criminals on the street. The abominable public-safety conditions in America's cities provide evidence of the failure of progressives who have controlled them for decades. The success of Trump's intervention in DC re-teaches the lessons learned in the 1990s about enforcing the law and keeping dangerous people in prison.
A decade or more of apologizing to criminals gave us Decarlos Brown and took from us Iryna Zarutska. That's the real news, that's the real truth, and the AP and NYT would rather say nothing than report it.
In addition, some savages started a GoFundMe not to support Iryna's family but the disgusting lifelong criminal Black Jack the Ripper. GoFundMe has, surprisingly, shut that effort down.
Vibe shift.
Below, another Gentle Giant, this one female (ish), didn't do nuffin and was just executed by evil white cops for no reason at all.
- Explanation of "that's not irony, that's just what happened."
It's a line from my favorite (or second favorite) sitcom, Just Shoot Me. Nina realizes that an unknown man she ran down at a stoplight fifteen years ago is none other than her colleague and friend Elliot -- who was hospitalized by the hit-and-run, and didn't get to propose to the woman he loved before she went on round-the-world cruise.
Nina: "You know, it's ironic. The very night I ruined Elliot's one chance at true love was the same night I hit him with my car."
Maya: "That's not ironic, that's just what happened."