Those eager to tar the police as racist thugs made full use of the "Hands Up" meme in the Ferguson episode, pushing the idea that Officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown as Brown had his hands up in submission, trying to surrender.
Forensic and credible eyewitness accounts showed this story was fabricated. Brown, who moments earlier had undertaken the strong-arm robbery of a convenience store, did not have his hands up. Instead, after having scuffled with the officer and attempting to wrest control of his revolver, Brown came at the officer again. It was at that point that Wilson shot him.
The truth most fortunately persuaded the grand jury, but is simply irrelevant to the race hustlers and police haters who have never given up their fake slogan and, indeed, used it all over the country in demonstrations this weekend.
Just today, however, we saw "hands up" for real. Here's the picture:
These are two of the hostages taken by a Jihadist in Sydney, Australia and freed by a police raid. The raid killed the terrorist, Man Haron Monis, a/k/a Sheikh Monis. Two of the hostages died in the raid. It is not yet known whether Monis murdered them or whether they were killed in the shootout.
The New York Times has the story. I'm waiting for libertarians, Al Sharpton and assorted other merchants of outrage to start yelping about the "over-militarized" Sydney police, but I suspect that for a day, anyway, they'll have the decency (and the shrewdness) to dial it back.
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