Journalist Charles C. Johnson of Got News confirmed earlier this month that he was told by multiple St. Louis area authorities that Michael Brown had a substantial criminal record as a juvenile – including a second-degree murder charge.
Confirmed earlier report that #MichaelBrown had juvenile arrest record involving second degree murder… Working on getting report #Ferguson
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) August 18, 2014
Since then, he has worked to facilitate the posthumous release of his records.
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Today my lawyer & I filed a lawsuit in to release #MichaelBrown juvenile criminal record. I’ll be posting soon. #HandsUpDontShoot #Ferguson — Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) August 21, 2014
Brown, whose death in a police shooting sparked ongoing protests in Ferguson, Mo. and across the country, has been portrayed by some as an innocent victim of a racist officer. Subsequent reports have cast doubt on that depiction, and Johnson hopes to shed even more light on the man’s past by releasing details from his prior arrests.
KMOX spoke to a lawyer currently suing to have Brown’s juvenile records released.
“What we’re arguing is that since he is deceased, those documents revert from being confidential,” Johnathon Burns said, “they revert back to the public sphere. Missouri common law applies, and under Missouri common law, court records and virtually all other documents are open to the public.”
Others see the situation differently, including Tricia Harrison, an associate law professor at Saint Louis University.
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“To suggest that the general public has a right to know what any juvenile does in any situation is ludicrous,” she asserts.
Of course, the actions of minors are made public for a variety of reasons on a regular basis; and as Johnson notes, it is telling that even legal scholars are unaware of the law in regards to his request.
It’s sad to me that even some law professors seem not to know that juvenile records become public after death. #Ferguson#MichaelBrown
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) August 28, 2014
Johnson wrote that, as part of the suit to gain access to Brown’s records, Burns is citing another case that bolsters his claim. In 1984, he explained, an 18-year-old was beaten and ultimately died after stealing a pack of cigarettes. During a subsequent wrongful death lawsuit, the victim’s parents pleaded for the court to keep his juvenile record private to no avail.
It’s racist to release a dead white juvenile’s records but not a dead black juvenile’s records. #Ferguson#MichaelBrown — Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) August 28, 2014
H/T: IJ Review
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Is Barack Obama Using The Riots In Ferguson For Political Gain?
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The police officer was doing his job. The thug attacked the officer. The rioters and protesters want to cover up the thugs criminal history so the jury would not know his criminal history. The thug supporters live to riot and loot. They look for excuses….and their signs say it all. “We are all Michael (thug) Brown”
I say make his records available to CNN and FOX News… CNN was pretty much encouraging the protesters and inciting racism. They covered it non stop, asking for the protesters for their comments.
Go Go GO! Get that record out to the people and show them the TRUTH! It’s time the world stops with the racism and let’s go of the lies of this administration. It’s time to expose them for who they are.. They are evil.. and deserve no less than what they get for their sedition..
Why does the black community support criminals like rodney king, trayvon martin & mike brown? It makes them look foolish & dilutes their message. Surely in a country this large their is legitimate people and incidents they could support to advance for their cause.
The black community is similar to Hamas in this respect. We give them money, time, and materials, to make something of their lives, and they fritter the opportunities away, as Hamas did in building tunnels to attack Israel with.
There is, and has been, no restriction on blacks in the computer hierarchy is there?
Think of it, rather than whining about this, or that, they could have been the leaders in this new industry, which has generated a trillion dollars, or more, of new found wealth.
We’re told that all men are created equal. This new field, began around the time of the push for equal education for all, could have been a great stepping stone upward for all supposed downtrodden peoples.
Looks like someone missed the bus, even though it gave ample notice it was coming.
How, when the clamoring amongst blacks for equal opportunity never stops, could this, earth shaking, new computer revolution be allowed to pass by without partaking in the riches it afforded those willing to work hard to succeed in that new business?
The key words Stewart are “partaking in the riches it afforded those willing to work hard to succeed in that new business?”
Most of them don’t want to have to work much less work hard for anything. They want to use their skin color as a crutch to get their demands met with the least amount of effort put into it.
It was never about equality, the communists were and are behind “civil rights”, it is a Trojan horse that hides the plan of state sponsored genocide of white people. The Stalinist plan from 1928 at the world communist convention, called for the media c to keep the race issue continually before the public, and to villify all things pertaining to white people, they are to be portrayed as inherently evil, and only public enemies. Through this means they would establish a Black Soviet State in the Southeast region of this country, and Atlanta would be the capital. This was accomplished by MLK the homosexual, communist, black bigot, whom the KGB financed. The next phase , which we are entering now calls for blacks to rise up at the instigation of the communist “community organizers-activists” and begin rioting and killing white people and occupying their homes and businesses and take over this country, and it will start in the Southeast region of this country first. So despite all the lies spewing from the lying mouths of this communist homosexual, administration, they are fully imbued with Lucifer’s spirit who is using them to implement his plan to kill as many humans from this planet as he possibly can. Jesus b is going to step in very soon and destroy the wicked blacks and all who follow their satanic example. He hates white people more than any other race because he knows white people are Semitic and Jesus has used Israelites – white people, to spread the gospel around this world, communists are completely evil, they have shed the blood of well in excess of 230 Million people in less than a century. The Rockefellers, Rothschilds, and the Warburgs, financed the boys he via in 1917 in Russia, and the uprising in China in 1948-1949, communism is nothing more than a mass murder machine, masquerading as government
Exactly !! .. I’ve Been Saying THIS
punk got what was coming to him!
If its true, the parents should be thrown in jail for not telling anyone their son had a history of violent crime.
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Of course they don’t want his record revealed. It’ll extinguish their claims that he was a innocent lil boy and expose him for the punk he really was.
This Tricia Harrison, an associate law professor at Saint Louis UNIVERSITY. Is likely a black and knows if his past comes out to the public it will cast a negative light on the black community. She says:
“To suggest that the general public has a right to know what any juvenile does in any situation is ludicrous,” she asserts. However, she is likely one of those that says”It takes a village to raise a child”, But you’re not allowed to know what that child does.
If you commit a crime of assault, rape, murder or anything that in some way has caused harm to others, no matter what the age, it should be public knowledge.
So you have a 15 yr old neighbor who rapes someone and you’re not permitted to know of the danger living next to you because of a 3 yr age difference. As any woman that has been raped if it would be better or worse or any difference if the person who raped them was 15 yrs old or 55 years old. Juveniles can commit just as much traumatic actions as an adult can. They should not be blanketed and hidden from the public knowing the risks and the dangers around them. They have a right to know the danger they have. The law is more concerned with protecting the criminal than protecting the citizens.
Thug n possible murderer….. changes everything.
The Race Baiters of DC and their lap dog media tried to keep a lot of this out of the public to make him the perfect victim and they got what they wanted riots and out of control mobs using less than 1 functioning brain cell the whole time and they are still promoting this . One photo of Mr. Brown showed him wearing a jacket with his gang colors, another with gang hand signs, video of the store show him stealing/robbing and harassing the store employee , many eye witnesses have taken the officers side not to mention photos of his injuries show what Mr. Brown did to his face prior to the rest of the situation.. He was no poor misguided little teenage boy.. he was a big man, who had no respect for others, the law and did as he pleased. The records are part of his past and how he was in the present. Its time for all this to stop… Its a hate crime created by Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to create race baiting and riots.
Now that this little tidbit is out……wonder how Obama, Sharpton, Holder and Jackson are going to try and spin it?
They will likely try to get it stricken from the record during any trial claiming his past has no influence or relevance on his current day character or attitude and actions that are in question.
THIS community doesn’t want transparency. They want to feel justified to continue their violence, hate, and RACISM. They WANT a reason to hate whites.
Just another dead wannabe schmigger thug. Good fertilizer.Throw Sharpton and jackass jackson in the same hole. Better yet Odummy Holder pelosi and dirty harry too.
I am surprised that no one in this community did not come forward to tell the truth about the real dead thug. That is the black way all victims living on the WHITE MANS tax dollar. Most to stupid to realize their own tribes sold the weak ones into slavery.
Most of them are probably afraid to speak up – They have graffiti all over the place that says “Snitches get stitches”, so they are scared to speak the truth because they have to live in that community amongst the jungle animals.
I would hate to demean this boy but …the black community has brought it on them selves…he is far from the nice college bound student they were selling,.,…
Let’s face it, Michael was a huge misfit who thought his size and bulk would carry the day. Sorry, time bullies learn a hard lesson, just like Michael. He earned his death. It was not given to him. I suspect Mom hoped by his going to college he might mature and learn a different way of thinking and living. Too bad, he didn’t want that change but just to keep on doing the same thing over and over. He earned a degree and it is called a Death Certificate and he was legally killed!
What are you trying to do to this poor little misunderstood choirboy? For the past three weeks we’ve been led by the black community and their tarnished angels to believe that Michael was preparing to enter the seminary so he could teach the good folk of the Good Book. Ooops! Now the truth begins to appear. Well, we white folk could see it was the usual primitive protest and the rioting, destroying, and robbing celebration that goes with it. Even Shrimpton, Bammie, and Holder are going to have to suffer the stupidity they showed. And they deserve to be treated like jackesses, because they are.
Now they’ve got a witness says the local gangs were hired by Holder to create the riots. Judge says the evidence is very damming!!!!
As a lawyer would argue – it goes to character your Honor. That is what his record will reveal. If A Juvenile Can Be Tried In This Country As An adult, Then His Records Should No Longer Be considered sealed.
Unseal his record. This will at least prove the officer did not shoot him because he was prejudice it was because this so call college bound criminal started to beat him and he had to defend himself. Sorry people but this man was not the good person they made him out to be. No mother should lose a child but if you’re a gangster an try to beat a cop you’re going to end up dead.
I’m having trouble seeing how the juvenile record matters. If the guy had been a perfect angel and pillar of the community – and went for an officer’s gun while resisting arrest – his shooting would still be justified. If he was a lifelong hoodlum/thug – and didn’t go for a gun – it wouldn’t be justified (petty crime doesn’t rate the death penalty). The juvenile record gives all sides something to yell about, but it’s irrelevant. All that matters is whether he tried to use a lethal weapon against police officers.
Actually it goes to pattern of behavior. They are trying yo say his would NEVER confront a cop much less beat him or go back to finish the job.
well ALL gang members, thugs, bullies, 100% of thrm will come back and beat bloddy till you are not moving if you dont submit. Used to get picked on as a kid. Happened everytime. Do I learned to fight. I was smallest kid in school till 8th grade. More then a few times I played possum, the punks would taunt me to fight back. When they get in just right spot, lights out moron, just stand up putting your forhead into his face n jaw. 2x bigger bully become a crying baby holding his face. I started to us the retreat tactic in fight all tge time to get bullies to a place I had advantage…they would come after me 5 at a time. No fair fights! I kept kicking their butts, they would come back with more friends. I learned alot about bullies, how and when they did what they did. Lol 8th grade I went from 130lbs 5′ skinny turd to 185lbs 5’8″ about 7″ body fat lol I got a new nickname that year. TANK! Put 4 in the hospital n the fights ended. 42 now and I see mike in town he still crosses the street lol… idiot I forgave him back in 8th grade. Lol
it never changes bully allways taunt and come back to finish the job till you submit, run away, or cant fight back.
now this POS punk was willing to beat a COP! By that action alone he must be arrested and detained. Someone willing to that will hurt anyone. So bleeding he stood upto a thug 2x his size. What do people expect the cop to do, go hand to hand to subdue him. That “BOY” was the size of a football Center, he would be an issue for most bouncers and people trained in combat with a head injury!
now we find out he has a history of violence, full details soon. He was no angel, he was a CRIMINAL! Who cares what his color was.
The cop did his job!
They are trying to paint him as the lil innocent choirboy that was a model law abiding help little ole ladies across the street type of citizen. They (black community) are trying to build and fabricate a false image so as to in someway justify their destructive and violent natures of what the world has witnessed in Ferguson. Because of their intentional lies and fabrications of the character of this lil’ 300lb boy and their attempts to villainize this cop as the aggressor indicates that his past records should be unsealed to show which side is lying. Because there are so many different stories out there and the black community is making up stories as they go as to what they saw or didn’t see and as to his character and attitude, you must look at people’s history to see who the people in question really are.
Smashing the cops head in and grabbing or wrestling the cops gun shows his intention was to do harm and intent to kill the cop.
What doesn’t make sense to me is people claiming that the cop pulled or tried to pull Brown into the vehicle through the window. Think about that for a minute. You’re wrestling with a 300lb man and you are in a sitting position in the vehicle in which you have limited range of motion. Then you pull a big man in through the window which he will now be over top of your lap between the steering wheel and your chest. He (Brown) has the upper hand now because he has you pinned in your seat with his right side and right arm. Leaving his left arm able to grab your pistol or shotgun if you have one mounted on your dash. I don’t buy the story that the cop pulled him into the window of the vehicle. I think it will come out in trial that he in fact on his own reached into the vehicle in order to try to access the cops pistol or other weapon. Sit in a drivers seat and have a large person lean over you into the vehicle and press against your chest. pinning you to the seat. You won’t even be able to reach the steering wheel much less do much to defend yourself. The only motion you will have is from the elbow to the fingers.
I think all records should be open, including presidential records. If we allow records to stay closed, we never know the truth about anyone or anything. Secrets need to be open.
I can agree to a point as far as for anyone who is earning an income that comes from taxpayers money or public money. People should have the right to know where their money is being spent and on who. What they do outside the office or off the clock so to speak or when they are not working is their time and no one elses business what they are doing unless it is of a illegal nature and they are caught. Then it should be brought in front of the public. If a person commits a crime no matter the nature or the age, it should be public. Murders and such like that should be public and not sealed. When records are sealed it indicates something being hidden. Such as the case of 9/11 and the assassination of JFK where they (Govt) sealed the records for 50 years. Because they knew that if it was public, people would be stepping up and contesting the BS narrative that the govt and the Warren Commission was pushing on the public. Why should any records pertaining to the assassination of a President be sealed or classified. It has nothing to do with national security. Its not giving away any military secrets or anything like that.
NOBAMA2012 I agree. Do you think 9/11 was an inside job or anything like that? Not that there’s anything wrong with it if you do. Me personally, I don’t know; but I do know we were lied to about a lot of things regarding what actually happened that day.
Sorry personal records should be private till you enter public life… commit a FELONY, or Die.
till then it should stay private
The records of dead people are made public, and have always been, Professor.
WHAT,you mean to tell me that this little boy was really a killer,no way Jose,he was just a little guy tryin to walk home from the store.Like I had any doubts a black man was a criminal,it is in their blood.
I really do not think you would see signs saying “JAIL KILLER COPS” if this was a BLACK cop who shot an unarmed WHITE kid, so these people are HYPOCRITES because they do not condemn all KILLER cops only WHITE KILLER COPS and it still has not been proven that this cop did any wrong yet he is condemned because of his skin color, this shows the mentality of the protesters and the rioters. They only see the skin color of the cop and not the good side or the bad side of all cops BLACK, WHITE, ASIAN, AND LATINO. A UNARMED WHITE KID WAS SHOT BY A BLACK COP in front of a 7/11 but you do not hear any rioting or screaming or tears being shed by blacks for him, they only scream because he was a BLACK THUG and they identify with that, and they can not admit they are wrong, PERIOD!!!
Take a look at this photo of someone in Ferguson after the shooting. This PROVES how really stupid so many of them are:
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2014/08/29/photo-of-the-day-n1884889?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm
FYI, all agencies, police, and military are Trained to put 2 in the chest….. not leg or arm.
Liberals like make you think that is how it works like in TV n Movies. Never has never will. You shoot to kill or use a taser. To bad many states have banned tasers.
to many cops have died from hitting arms n legs and the dieing because they Criminal killed them.
yes it sucks! If they illegally enter you home and you defend, you will die or be seriously hurt.
If you assault a cop they will be shot!
If you assault an armed citizen you will be shot!
police train civilians…. we are trained to shoot 2 in the chest with 9mm and up. 2 in the face right between eyes n mouth(little triangle) .38 to 22lr. No class will ever teach “wounding” a person assaulting you.
yes you try to talk them down if possible. If weapon is pointed at you or your family, or they are attacking, your trained shoot, if they continue to come after you, you shoot again.
most will run away from just seeing a gun.
Once its proven that the little punk got what he deserved , they should go arrest the race baiters for inciting the riot . And hold them financially responsible for the damage .
Can we start at the TOP of the list: Obama, Holder too?
Regardless to the outcome of Brown and the cop. The race baiters and the rioters and the ones who incited the riots have committed crimes of their own regardless to the outcome of the cop whether it is found a justified shooting or not. I was wondering why Browns friend and the girl who claimed to be an eyewitness had attorney’s. I found it strange that someone would need an attorney just for telling what you saw. Browns friend I can understand because he was involved in the robbery or present at the time and walked out with Brown. They were the first to tell stories that brown had his back turned and his hands up giving up. As we have seen the autopsy reports, we now know those stories are lies. But because of those lies, Ferguson broke into chaos and looting and destroying the town based on the narrative of him being shot in the back with his hands up.
Browns friend and this girl should be brought up on charges for inciting a riot along with Holder and Obama if money is traced back to them as is claimed by some judge claiming it to be convincing evidence.
It is sad that the parents lost their son as it would be for any parent but it is also sad that the cop is being threatened and had to go into hiding. I said it when this first happened and will keep saying it that the death is not the reason they are rioting and looting in the show me state. This is what they do when they want to be in the public eye and this is what they do when something goes on that they can play the race game just like Obummer. Holder , Jackson with the criminal son doing so little time for what he did and he even stooped so low as to try and get donations for his church when he was in Ferguson and it was reported they ran him out of town.
Both him and Sharpton use anything to solicit donations to support their church but is that where the money goes or does it go on their thousand dollar plus suits, $500.00 shoes. The blacks are so stupid as to think that Jackson and Sharpton are out for them, that they are going to change things for the blacks. They use the blacks for money and to march in public and scream racist or bigot.
Just like that racist president and his moo use the race card for everything and he is another one who only does if it benefits them or him. He sure the hell don’t care about this country or our safety. God Bless America and keep Her safe.
We need pictures of all the murdered in Chicago for just this month. Weed out the ones where no person of interest identified and no apprehensions.. Parade those pictures around these protestors seeking “justice”.
Tribal mentality keeps certain communities locked into violence, they have the power to escape but chose to remain silent.
The juvenile records matter because eyewitnesses are giving different accounts of the shooting. Some say Brown raised his hands without advancing toward the Officer Wilson, while others say Brown advanced. And since no video exists of the shooting, we must rely on eyewitness accounts. And since the accounts don’t agree, we must rely on character witnesses, as well. And juvenile records act like character witnesses. Was Michael Brown a gentle giant who caused no trouble? Then probably he didn’t advance at the Officer Wilson. Did he have a history of aggression and criminal behavior? Then maybe he advanced at the officer.
If we want to see where the root of the problem is of this divide between black people and white people look no further. You must check out this link. You might remember this Obama add campaign during Obama’s re-election. For the first time in Presidential HISTORY a presidential candidate basically said, “VOTE FOR ME BECAUSE I AM BLACK”. THIS add campaign should have never been allowed but it did and here we are as a divided as we could possibly be and all though it didn’t exactly start 2 years ago but it has gotten a little out of hand since Obama ran for re-election and since this campaign add was advertised.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdjoHA5ocwU
I could you imagine if Mitt Romney would have said what Obama said except replace all those black words with white words, I think our white candidate should have done it out of spite just to make a point that using your race or skin color as your reason to vote makes you someone who’s vote shouldn’t count because you don’t know truly what you’re voting for.
Those Democrats are using these people like guinea pigs and they’re to naive to see it. Oh, yes indeed, shine the light on them with those records! Shine the ever loving light on them!!!!!
It’s “ludicrous” to believe that the records will change anyone’s mind about anything associated with the death of Michael Brown – people have made up their minds about the incident. Obviously, he was a teenage thug with a record, but regardless of whether a person is squeakily clean or a convicted felon, when that person chooses to attack a uniformed police officer, anyone with an ounce of common sense should realize that the ramifications are going to be very negative and extremely unpleasant for that person, as they should be!
Another “failed” cover up from this administration !!?? One sign in the protesters picture I TOTALLY AGREE WITH is ……… WE ARE ALL MICHAEL BROWN. If they only realized how accurate that statement is !!!!!!!!!!!!! If brown was going to college , it wasn’t for an education . Just my thought !!
I realize it is not a popular belief but I think our communities would be far better off if more street punks met the same fate. My vote is for more street Justice and less money spent in courts, appeals and prisons. There ought to be bonuses paid to Officers that effectively eliminate “repeat offenders” from the community and court systems.
Gets my vote. They don’t fear the courts…since all they typically do is give them a slap on the wrist. I figure we should apply the same thinking to the border. When border patrols come across somebody they’ve sent back more than once, and especially when we already know they’re violent criminals…things would slow down drastically if they just showed up dead floating down the Rio Grande or something.
Such a nice young man just getting ready to enter college. GAG ME WITH A SPOON ! Oh never mind, I don’t need the spoon !!!!!!
I GUESS… MOM & DAD… DIDN’T KNOW… that their ‘little darling’… PROBABLY WASN’T UP TO ANY GOOD… MINOR POINTS (like the truth) ALWAYS seem to get in the way… I BELIEVE… THEY OWE US ALL… AN APOLOGY… RIP… MICHAEL BROWN… SORRY YOUR PARENTS… let you down!!
Yeah….guess mom and dad DID let him down…he was living with grandma. Hmmmmmm wonder why?
Yeah they did sooo much better
If a kid is a big enough man to Rape, Rob, and Kill, he should play by the same rules as a man. Past criminal behavior is a good indicator of how his current behavior got him dead!
Why should the record of Michael Brown be sugar coated to make him seem like an angel and why is the police officer having his life tore apart over this. Brown was not an innocent little boy and the fact that he was just a punk who while nobody deserves to be shot and killed but the cop didn’t deserve to be treated like this punk was treating him.
This man (he was not a child) was no angel and why everyone is acting like he was is just another cover up or being made up to make it look like the cop was a cold blooded killer. Look at what they are saying this Brown had done so does that show him to be an angel. I think not and I think it should be left alone. If it does not go the way the blacks want and if the cop isn’t charged they are going to riot again and loot the stores which is all they need (the blacks) to riot or rob.
Guess what everyone it has been determined that the young man that so many despise doesn’t have a record. I hope all of you judges rot in hell. I can’t believe how you people say such mean things about a person who lost their life. No one deserves to be killed over trumped up allegations. Look at the officers photos. Not a scratch, bite, punch, nothing. He was red because he probably struggled putting the handcuffs on the big guy. No one deserves to lose their life over stupidity. Yes Mike Brown Jr shouldn’t have stolen any cigars or bullied the clerk. He could’ve hurt the older man. Yes he was wrong. Many of you guys mentioned his mother put him out. To me it sounded like he moved outside of his school district and the only way he could continue to go to that school was to use grandmas address. So I believe he stayed with his grandma from time to time. His dad was involved in the kids life. As many stated he wasn’t. I’m praying for this family. Many people made remarks stating this lady was on welfare. How can someone have a van being on welfare. I believe the dad and mom worked. The stepdad had a record. I hope they win their wrongful death lawsuit because no one deserves to take someone’s life, no matter what the circumstances are or were. God please touch this family and heal their broken hearts…
St. Louis County Prosecutor’s office confirmed that Brown had no prior misdemeanors or felonies against him.