It’s official Day #2. CNN has decided there is enough activity in the #Hashtag social justice movement for Martese Johnson; they are now entering the preliminary stages of broadcast narrative advancement.
Here’s the general tone from the Associated Press – Note the: “if we don’t get it shut it down” chant – which is the original chant created by Anthony Shahid, the primary Ferguson agitator.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Students at the University of Virginia are demanding justice for a student who was injured during an arrest and appears in a photo with a bloody face as he is being held down by an officer.
About 1,000 students showed up — more than expected, so the rally for Martese Johnson was moved several times, finally ending up at an outdoor amphitheater.
Many chanted: “If we don’t get it, shut it down!”
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe has called for an investigation into the early morning arrest of Johnson, whose lawyer said he needed 10 stitches in his head.
Johnson was charged on two counts: obstruction of justice without force, and public swearing or intoxication, Charlottesville General District Court records show.
The Alcoholic Beverage Control agent who made the arrest, listed in court records as J. Miller, said in the arrest report that Johnson “was very agitated and belligerent.”
A statement from a group calling itself “Concerned Black Students,” however, claims the arrest of Johnson was unprovoked and extreme.
“The brutish force used resulted in his head and bodily injuries,” the group said in a statement. “His treatment was unprovoked as he did not resist questioning or arrest.” (read more)
This story has all the previous indicators of a manufactured controversy. Actually, if you look into the substance of the entire event it may very well have been staged.
“The guy to the right of Martese in this picture looks like the green hoodie guy from the video. The guy on the left may be the star witness, Bryan Beaubrun quoted in several articles.
Here is the link to Beaubrun’s facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Beaubrun?fref=ts
Notice his middle name on fb is Mike.
If you watch the video the green sweatshirt guy takes an ID from someone (perhaps the bouncer handed him back the fake ID that Martese was trying to use). You see green hoodie circle around and take a picture, then at the end of the video he comes back and says “MIKE, Mike, let me see your phone, then the video (which is clearly edited at this point) goes in for a closeup of the cops trying to handcuff Martese.
If you look at the video on You Tube, you will see they give credit to Bryan Beauburn, in one of the articles he is also given credit for the photo which is clearly taken by the green hoodie guy. Anyway, apparently the “several witnesses” seem to me to be the 2 friends who were with Martese.
Beaubrun stated that while they were having the conversation with the bouncer, a cop came and grabbed Martese by the arm (in a different article he stated that he took him by the elbow, slight change in the language, (grabbed by the arm sounds more confrontational than ,took him by his elbow) to take him over to talk to the other cops, and that all of a sudden he was on the ground.
IN another article he says it was about a minute later that Martese told the officer to let go of his arm, and pulled away and another officer grabbed him from behind and wrestled him to the ground. Then he goes on to refer to it as tackling, rather than wrestling. Says that’s what caused Martese to hit his head on the ground.
It just seems to me that the story keeps changing. If it was a whole minute from the time Martese was escorted over to talk to the other officers , and when he was “tackled”, it makes me wonder how much of the beginning of the video was edited out.
Instead of yelling out “His head is bleeding, his head is bleeding”, they should have yelled out to Martese “Hey man you’re bleeding, stop resisting so you can be treated”. It seems to me they were more interested in their video than the welfare of their friend”.
To the students at UVA, protest, protest, protest. To the police, recognize their first amendment right and be peaceful. #JusticeForMartese
— Russell Simmons (@UncleRUSH) March 19, 2015
https://twitter.com/danayasworld/status/578382132550176768
BACKSTORY AS PREVIOUSLY SHARED – Several elements are needed to qualify as #hashtag worthy for the #F**kThePolice and “Black Lives Matter” movement. At 4:21 am (March 18th) the qualifications were once again met.
√ A liberal geography.
√ A professional victim class.
√ A community infected with political correctness.
√ A group of impressionable young minds to engage social media.
√ A snappy narrative like “Black Lives Matter” etc.
√ A narrative that doesn’t need actual facts to support the racial meme.
√ Pictures showing a well narrated victim.
√ Videos carefully edited to only show a victim profile.
√ Overwrought protestation to the municipal authority (college Prez).
√ Knee-jerk Municipal authority acquiescence.
If the Social Justice #Hashtag pitch doesn’t take hold (ie. Tony Robinson, Madison Wisconsin) – Just cue up the next victim: “Martese Johnson” (Charlottesville, Virginia).
Charlottesville VIRGINIA – Martese Johnson, a third-year student in the College and a member of the Honor Committee and Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, was arrested at 4:21 a.m. on Mar. 18 in front of Trinity Irish Pub on the Corner.
Johnson was arrested on charges of resisting arrest, obstructing justice without threats of force, and profane swearing or intoxication in public. The arresting officer was Alcohol and Beverage Control special agent J. Miller.
Miller noted on the arrest record that Johnson “was very agitated and belligerent but [has] no previous criminal history.”
In the course of the arrest, Johnson sustained a head injury requiring 10 stitches.
Johnson was held at $1,500 bail with the specification he be released on an unsecured bond when sober. He was released at 6:01 a.m. on Wednesday morning. (read more)
OK, so we’ve got the alignment of liberal geography, severely PC infected community of Charlottesville Virginia (Remember Hannah Graham?) UVA college student, etc.
Now we need to introduce the Black Social Justice college group message – STAT:
Black Youth Project – […] Johnson is an active student on campus and is a member of UVA’s Honor Committee. Black Student Association and Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity.
A group of concerned black students sent this email to the university’s community:
This morning Martese Johnson emerged with a head injury requiring 10 stitches.
He was brutalized by Virginia ABC law enforcement outside of Trinity Irish Pub. His face was bloodied. His body was bruised.
Outside of the doors of Trinity Irish Pub, a mass of University students bore witness to the officer’s animalistic, insensitive, and brute handling of Martese. He was left with his blood splattered on the pavement of University Avenue.
Today, we are reminded of the gruesome reality that we are not immune to injustice; as University students, we are not impervious to the brutality that has reeled on news cycles around the country. We have marched and shouted that we are Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, but the proximity of this morning’s brutality to a member of our community has deepened that wound. It is no longer happening only on national television—it is a reality here and now at the University of Virginia that we must face as a collective. (read more)
Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock, the clock is now ticking on the college to respond. Yikes, quick crank up the PC filter box and rush it to the Director of Public Affairs:
Poor Police Chief Tim Longo dragged into another politically correct exercise to appease the Black Grievance Industry.
Police Chief Longo just finished dealing with the consequences from these UVA PC-ism’s with the decade long rampage he was forced to watch while Jesse Matthews murdered and raped his way across the state.
Now he’s part of another pc investigation.
Here’s the video:
Anderson Cooper, Don Lemon, Mark O’Mara and Sonni Hostin to opine just as soon as they calculate the reaction from social media.
Well, actually, let’s be specifically accurate: “social justice media“.