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Its a common problem with the pro-mike brown camp not being able to actually research before opening their mouths. As you may have guessed by the title I am specifically referring to the nonsense concerning the distance Michael Browns body was from Wilson's SUV. It has been said by rags like the Daily Kos (your home for leftist propaganda) and certain blogs here that the Ferguson PD (FPD) and Darren Wilson have been lying this entire time about the distance between Officer Wilson and Brown. 

According to these sources the FPD has been claiming that that Brown dropped thirty five feet from Wilson's SUV where he was stationary and shot brown when he ran back. In actuality (according to these less then reliable sources) Wilson lied and actually chased Brown while shooting him in the back, it is this that leads to the 148 feet away from the SUV.

Now, there is one problem here. It is true the FPD originally said Wilson was stationary, but according to Wilson's own version he took a much more logical route when dealing with an individual who just assaulted him and gave chase after Brown with his weapon drawn, but not firing his weapon, it was only after Brown turned to attach did Wilson open fire.

This explains why Brown was 148 feet away from the SUV, because he was being chased by the man he attacked, and was shot approximately 35 feet away from him(incidentally nearly perfectly what is considered 'standard engagement range' to many Police Departments). 

So what have we learned? Only that the people who continue to support the thug that was Michael Brown can't do research to save their lives, that or they are intentionally spreading lies. Doesn't really matter.

Leave it to the NYT for providing a class-discussion prompt:

Why was NYT’s executive editor Jill Abramson fired today, and replaced by managing editor Dean Baquet, less than three years after she was appointed the first woman in the top job? 

"Several weeks ago, I’m told, Abramson discovered that her pay and her pension benefits as both executive editor and, before that, as managing editor were considerably less than the pay and pension benefits of Bill Keller, the male editor whom she replaced in both jobs. “She confronted the top brass,” one close associate said, and this may have fed into the management’s narrative that she was “pushy,” a characterization that, for many, has an inescapably gendered aspect.

Sulzberger [the paper’s publisher] is known to believe that the Times, as a financially beleaguered newspaper, needed to retreat on some of its generous pay and pension benefits; Abramson had also been at the Times for far fewer years than Keller, having spent much of her career at the Wall Street Journal, accounting for some of the pension disparity. (I was also told by another friend of hers that the pay gap with Keller has since been closed.) But, to women at an institution that was once sued by its female employees for discriminatory practices, the question brings up ugly memories. Whether Abramson was right or wrong, both sides were left unhappy. [Update: A third associate told me, “She found out that a former deputy managing editor”—a man—“made more money than she did” while she was managing editor. “She had a lawyer make polite inquiries about the pay and pension disparities, which set them off.”]”

"Even though she thought she was politely asking about the pay discrepancy and about the role of the business side, and that she had a green light from management to hire a deputy to Baquet, the decision to terminate her was made. Sulzberger met with her last Friday, and reportedly told her that it was time to make ‘a change.’"

The New Yorker

Fun fact:Jill Abramson once admitted to having a tattooof the “amazing ‘T’ in The New York Times newspaper” on her back.

Pity.

Lake Powell, Utah

The contrast of colors and textures is quite exquisite.

Trauma is not just the result of major disasters. It does not happen to only some people. An undercurrent of trauma runs through ordinary life, shot through as it is with the poignancy of impermanence. I like to say that if we are not suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, we are suffering from pre-traumatic stress disorder.