CHICKENS COMING HOME TO ROOST – AT 10:20 A.M. ET:  What is sad is that there are serious, important issues involving policing and police/community relations.  Every good police commissioner knows that.  Those issues are being drowned or distorted by false claims, rhetoric, and political correctness, and chickens are coming home to roost.  From London's Daily Mail: 

A key witness to the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, has been arrested on charges of drug possession and resisting arrest.

Dorian Johnson, best known for falsely claiming that Brown, 18, called out ‘hands up, don't shoot' before Officer Darren Wilson opened fire on him in August 2014, was taken into custody Wednesday afternoon.

Johnson was arrested on Acme Avenue in St Louis at around 3.20pm along with his two brothers.

Police sources told St Louis Post Dispatch Johnson tried to get rid of narcotics and 'interfere' with officers as they were trying to arrest one of his brothers on a drug charge.

His other sibling was arrested on a warrant related to an armed robbery.

Johnson himself was taken into custody for resisting arrest, even though police sources said the young man 'was not combative and did not physically confront officers,' according to Fox 2 Now.

He is also accused of discarding narcotics. Police said Johnson was in possession of a drug-laced cough medicine, which he hurled to the ground.

Dorian Johnson is expected to be formally charged as early as Thursday.

COMMENT:  He is, of course, innocent until and unless proved guilty in a court of law.  But the rush to judgment in Ferguson, especially by CNN and other outlets, produced horrible reactions in the streets.   So, too, in Baltimore, where six cops face serious charges based on a quick "investigation" that seems designed more to satisfy the mob than to satisfy justice.

May 7, 2015