Some more embellishments and race-tainting by Derec in this thread:
And it wasn't a "toy" he was brandishing, and consequently it wasn't in the toy section, but rather in sporting goods section (as guns like those are used to hunt birds and small game). Why the dead guy decided to unpack the air rifle and wave it around while he was on the phone with his baby mama we will never know I guess.
Derec has zero evidence that Crawford was "brandishing" the weapon. Not even the most prejudicial *witness* statement says he was "brandishing" it.
Derec has zero evidence as to what department this air-rifle was actually in at this particular store. He only has his biased assumptions, which he is now repeating as if they are facts.
Derec has zero evidence that Crawford "unpacked" the air-rifle. That is again Derec's biased assumption that he is now repeating as fact.
Derec has zero evidence that Crawford was "waiving it around" - even the *witness* statement says he had it cradled in his arms.
Derec's repeated use of the term "baby mama" is pure unadulterated race-baiting - as is his use of "thug" or "thuggish" and his butchering of black victim's names
Several things wrong here:
- not a toy gun.
- didn't simply "pick it up". He had had to unpack it from its box.
- he wasn't shot on sight..
Derec has zero evidence that Crawford unpacked anything from its box, but here he is embellishing the facts to blame the dead victim.
No "compared. What is relevant is that he was brandishing an air rifle, the air rifle, while not-a-toy and dangerous in its own right was made to look like an actual assault rifle, and that he failed to comply with police orders to drop it.
Derec again embellishing in a prejudicial manner with his use of the word "brandishing". For someone who is allegedly such a stickler for the proper use of words, Derec consistently chooses them to blame the dead victims.
Derec also has zero evidence that Crawford "failed to comply with police orders to drop it". We do have two witness statements that the shots came immediately after the commands, so it sounds more like Crawford was not given time to comply. But Derec chooses to blame the dead black victim by portraying events as "he failed to comply with police orders to drop it."
whatever you think of
baby mama's grammar skills and name, she has been caught in two lies already:
LeeCee said:
“We was just talking. He said he was at the video games playing videos and he went over there by the toy section where the toy guns were. And the next thing I know, he said ‘It’s not real,’ and the police start shooting and they said ‘Get on the ground,’ but he was already on the ground because they had shot him,” she said, adding: “And I could hear him just crying and screaming. I feel like they shot him down like he was not even human.”
For one,
we know that it was not a toy gun and thus was not sold in the toy aisle, but rather a small game hunting air rifle sold in the sporting goods aisle. Second, "next thing I know"
implies that the shooting happened immediately after he picked up the gun from the shelf. But we know that was walking around the store with it,
waving it around, before the concerned customer called 911 and it would have been some time between the 911 call and the arrival of the police.
And by the way, I wonder how quick the family, the girlfriend and the
baby mama will hire
some shyster and sue.
Derec is again race-baiting with his use of "baby mama" instead of the young woman's actual name. He could have left it as "girlfriend" but he had to add four extra words in to continue with his race-baiting.
Derec race-baiting with his comments about grammar and comments about Leecee's name.
Derec embellishing the facts with his claim that "we know that it... was not sold in the toy aisle". We "know" no such thing. That has been Derec's speculation, not a fact presented in this case so far. As such, to call LeeCee a "liar" is factually wrong but consistent with Derec's long-held pattern of using the harshest possible terms for witnesses for the dead black victims. Moreover, it is even possible that LeeCee (or Crawford) was mistaken about the department the air-rifle was it. At my local Target, the toy and sports departments are side-by-side and tend to overlap. But Derec immediately, prejudicially and predicatably leaps to the accusation that the dead victim's girlfriend is a liar.
Derec embellishes the facts by claiming LeeCee is a liar because DEREC assumes that her use of the phrase "next thing I know" somehow "implies" a specific period of time. Derec has absolutely zero factual basis for his assumption, but he acts on his own biased beliefs to call the dead victim's girlfriend a liar.
Derec is race-baiting with his use of the word "shyster" for "lawyer". In Derec's very long history on this board and it's predecessors, Derec has only ever used the word "shyster" for a lawyer hired by a black family, with the lawyer typically being also black. This, along with his constant, consistent use of "baby mama" and various forms of "thug" to describe black people, and only black people, goes along with Derec's purposeful butchering of black victim's names is creating a long and consistent pattern of race-baiting on Derec's part. I, for one, am sick of it.
Maybe because he was not too busy talking with the
baby mama to acknowledge there is police around and actually complied with their orders. But no, there is no other explanation than race.
Frankly, Derec's own choice of words and arguments throughout this thread make it very very clear that there really is no other explanation other than race. None of the rest of us even need to say anything at all. Derec has already made that case clearly for us.
