-by Warner Todd Huston
Looks like CNN is trying to cover Obama’s rear end by quietly changing its story about how the DOJ’s Eric Holder told the Ferguson police to withhold the video showing slain teen Michael Brown robbing a local store. It now appears that Obama wanted riots to happen in Ferguson.
Early on Saturday a conflict between the local police in riot plagued Ferguson, Missouri and the federal government came to light over the release of the video of the store robbery that allegedly depicts slain teen Michael Brown robbing a local store only hours before he was killed by police. CNN reported that the feds delayed the release of the footage by telling the local cops not to release it to the public. The police eventually released it anyway, but only after nearly a week of rioting.
One of the reasons the police finally released the video was because the community was calling for more transparency from police. But CNN initially reported that Obama’s Department of Justice told them not to release the video.
Friday’s release of the store-theft video by Ferguson police occurred over the objections of federal authorities, a law enforcement official told CNN on Saturday.
Ferguson police had wanted to release the video Thursday but held off when the U.S. Justice Department asked them not to, arguing that doing so would increase tensions in the community, the source said.
But Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson released it Friday, announcing for the first time that Brown was suspected of stealing cigars from Ferguson Market and Liquor shortly before noon August 9, minutes before Wilson encountered and shot him.
The above paragraphs appeared in a story CNN posted on Saturday morning. But later in the day this rhetoric was mysteriously removed from the CNN story without any note that it had been done. But the DOJ involvement in the video release was mentioned by several other sources, many citing CNN. So, we know it was in the story at one time.
Still, at least one other reporter passed this info on to the public. Goldie Taylor of NBC Tweeted the following:
But note what this means. This means that the DOJ did not want made public information that might cast a bad light on the slain teen, info that might prevent more rioting. Eric Holder’s DOJ wanted to facilitate the martyrdom of Michael Brown and the truth did not matter.
One is almost tempted to believe that Eric Holder and Barack Obama wanted riots in Ferguson.
Further, why would the so-called “most transparent administration in history” urge less transparency, especially when civil unrest might result from the secrecy?
My Other Coverage of the Events in Ferguson
- You Built This, Mr. President, Ferguson is all That is Wrong With Democrats
- On Ferguson I Was Right No Indictment, Updated With Testimony
- Despite Rabble-Rousers Urging Ferguson Citizens to Vote, Few Bothered
- NPR-Celebrated Muslim Reporter in Ferguson Has Record as Child Molester
- Ferguson Fallout: School Lesson Teaches Kids To Agree With the Black Panthers’ Demands
- ‘The Atlantic’ Says Ferguson Riots White People’s Fault
- Ferguson: We’ve Seen Enough to Know That Mike Brown Was a Thug, Cop Innocent
- Note the Difference Between Bundy Ranch Protest and Ferguson Riots
- HuffPo ‘Reporter’ Stirs Race Hate in Ferguson
- CNN Quietly Changes Story that DOJ Held Back Ferguson Robbery Video
- Leftist Columnist Glenn Greenwald Somehow Blames Israel for Ferguson Riots
- VIDEO: Obama Was Back On Golf Course Only Seven Mins After Ferguson Address
- On Ferguson I Was Right No Indictment, Updated With Testimony
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, Wizbang.com, among many, many others. Huston has also appeared on Fox News, Fox Business Network, CNN, and many local TV shows as well as numerous talk radio shows throughout the country.
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