Controversy is in the making in Dallas and it will never be settled. Decades from now people will still be debating it, similar to the Kennedy assassination. The killing of Joshua Brown is turning into a conspiracy theorist’s dream since some people are never going to believe the “official” police version of events.
The story of this killing (and the riveting back story) is custom made for a great book and perhaps even a movie, an enterprising young writer’s dream. Too bad I’m otherwise engaged and have no desire to go to Dallas.
Brown testified as a key witness in the Bothem Jean/Amber Geyger murder trial. He lived next door to the St. Lucia native and on the witness stand said that he heard voices before the shooting but could not understand what they were saying, but most critically he stated that he did not hear Geyger order Jean to “show his hands,” something she said she did twice. Some people believe that sunk the former Dallas cop.
A little over a week later Brown was allegedly killed in a drug deal gone bad, but few people believe the police are telling the truth. However, I don’t happen to be one of them. The fact that three people are involved makes me suspicious of a setup since the more people involved in staging a killing or anything else underhanded, the more chance that something is going to go wrong and that someone will trip up or simply begin running their mouths. Even cops are not that dumb.
There’s an old saying that “Two people can keep a secret, as long as one of them is dead.” In the Brown killing one of the men accused of being involved in the drug deal gone bad was shot and ended up in the hospital where he was arrested. Are the hospital personnel who treated him involved in the cover-up also? How many medical professionals would put their careers (and perhaps their freedom) on the line to frame someone for killing Brown?
The case puts me in the unusual position of defending the veracity of police, whom I believe will lie in a minute when it suits their purposes. I also believe that cops are not above retaliating and killing Brown for testifying or having someone do it.
But in this case, there are going to be three young men charged in the killing of Brown and the deals they are going to make to avoid spending the rest of their lives in prison will only add more fuel to the conspiracy fire. In the end, it might be good that most people don’t believe the police since being doubted just might make the cops work harder to win the public trust — and that would be a good thing.
From CoolCleveland correspondent Mansfield B. Frazier mansfieldfATgmail.com. Frazier’s From Behind The Wall: Commentary on Crime, Punishment, Race and the Underclass by a Prison Inmate is available in hardback. Snag your copy and have it signed by the author at http://NeighborhoodSolutionsInc