Columnist On Michael Brown: ‘Darren Wilson Had To Put This Animal Down’
The frustration from Charleston Daily Mail‘s editor and publisher Brad McElhinny was clear when TPM reach him by phone on Tuesday afternoon.
“I’ve had better days,” he said.
His exasperation was understandable. On Saturday, Don Surber, the West Virginia paper’s lone editorial columnist, took to his personal blog to offer his thoughts on “police brutality” and the killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown.
“This summer I had an epiphany as I watched packs of racists riot in Ferguson, Missouri, in support of a gigantic thug who was higher than a kite when he attacked Ferguson Police Department Officer Darren Wilson, who unfortunately had to put this animal down,” Surber wrote.
By Sunday morning, Surber appended an update to the top of the post and crossed out the final phrase of the sentence.
“I made a factual error. Michael Brown was not an animal but a man. Big. Brutal. High,” Surber wrote in the update. “His death was a justifiable homicide and not a putting down.”
“Factual error”? Or was it how Surber really feels, then amended by the harsh light that exposed him?
Pilotshark October 29th, 2014 at 11:13 am
““I made a factual error. Michael Brown was not an animal but a man. Big. Brutal. High,” Surber wrote in the update.”
well you are a Worm, Small,Petty, Low and you really need to be removed from the air, or the air removed from your lungs.
burqa October 30th, 2014 at 3:17 am
Yes, because only OUR side is permitted to dehumanize others and object when the other side does the dehumanization.
That way it’s fair.
Carla Akins October 29th, 2014 at 11:15 am
Excuse me? There’s proof he was high as a kite at the time of the shooting? Proof of attack? Sounds to me the only thing there is proof of his Brown’s size.
The Wise Wizard October 29th, 2014 at 11:56 am
Therefore, if I drive to his shitty town and the columnist appears big and/or high to me, I can unload 5-10 rounds into his skull? Good to know what the standard is for conservative Frittatas.
Carla Akins October 29th, 2014 at 11:56 am
Sure sounds that way.
R.J. Carter October 29th, 2014 at 11:18 am
No matter which side you pick, if you have to demonize and dehumanize the other side, you are either on the wrong side or you’re not helping the right side.
tracey marie October 29th, 2014 at 1:07 pm
in this case he is on the wrong side
R.J. Carter October 29th, 2014 at 1:27 pm
Maybe. Maybe not. (If you’re on the Grand Jury, you really shouldn’t be leaking statements…)
tracey marie October 29th, 2014 at 2:06 pm
“be put down” he is on the wrong side of life and intelligence
R.J. Carter October 29th, 2014 at 2:33 pm
Oh on that, I agree.
tracey marie October 29th, 2014 at 2:44 pm
we rarely understand each other on first glance
tiredoftea October 29th, 2014 at 11:51 am
Yup, post racial as all hell, right SCOTUS?
fahvel October 29th, 2014 at 1:20 pm
sicker and sicker is the usa and its racist low life scum. how do these things wake up in the morning?
burqa October 30th, 2014 at 3:14 am
Yes.
The right move is to be like them.
Bunya October 29th, 2014 at 2:48 pm
“,,,who unfortunately had to put this animal down,”
What an asshole! Who says something like this?
Well, maybe I’d say that about Dick Cheney, but that would be justified.
fancypants October 29th, 2014 at 5:12 pm
it must be the difference between coward and columnist ?
in this case this goon is both since he cant say this in person to his family