Michael Brown Shooting Case: Ferguson Police Chief Becomes Target For Black Panther Murder Plot
According to reports by the Daily Caller, Brandon Orlando Baldwin and Olajuwon Ali Davis--two men affiliated with the New Black Panther Party--allegedly premeditated the murders of Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson and St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch, shortly after a Nov. 24 press conference where McCulloch announced that the county grand jury had decided not to indict Darren Wilson for his actions. Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old black teenager, was fatally shot on Aug. 9 by Darren Wilson, 28, a white Ferguson police officer.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch claims that the two men, whom go by the names Brandon Muhammad and Ali, purchased a pipe bomb with the intent to blast the Gateway Arch. In an undercover police sting, it was discovered that the men desired to secure two explosives but couldn't afford them until an Electronic Benefit Transfer card was refilled by one of their girlfriends. Both men were indicted last week on weapons charges when Baldwin acquired two hi-point .45-caliber pistols some time amid Nov. 1 and Nov. 13, from a Cabela's in Hazelwood intended for a third party. After their Nov. 21 arrest, made three days prior to McCulloch's announcement, announcements for additional charges of the planned bombing and double homocides are expected to be filed in the near future.
CNN reports, however, that Darren Wilson has been a recluse nearly four months in the wake of a controversial police shooting that resulted in protesters jamming the streets, with a select few resulting to rioting, looting and arson throughout the night following the decision. According to the report, Wilson spent most of that time hiding out in dark movie theatres and in the shadows of other nightlife, under close surveillance by fellow officers who have volunteered to protect him, since he went into hiding after he began receiving death threats via e-mail and phone. He also became a victim of cyber-stalking across various social media platforms.
"Fraternal Order of Police members from the surrounding area volunteered and have provided him with security from that time, right up until the present," FOP spokesman Jim Pasco told CNN reporters Ben Brumfield and Brian Todd.
He has since moved from residence to residence. Just says after the shooting, in the midst of pushing a lawn mower across his yard, a neighbor alerted him that his home address was circulating online. Immediately, he packed his belonging and within three hours, he uprooted his life began to go "underground."
"He had to leave the grass, literally, half mowed," Neil Bruntrager, Wilson's lawyer, told CNN. "He's had to learn to live in a way that makes him completely unnoticeable."
Bruntrager also joked that his client "cross-dressed a lot."
He also resigned from the Ferguson police force after rising concern for the "safety of his colleagues," CNN states.
"I have been told that my continued employment may put the residents and police officers of the City of Ferguson at risk, which is a circumstance that I cannot allow," Wilson said in statement.
His attorney James Towey supported Wilson, expressing to The Washington Post: "I think I expressed to him, 'Do you realize your first call (back on the job) will be to a blind alley where you're executed?' He took a pause for a minute, thought about it and said, 'Oh.' That is the reality."
However, according to USA Today, Wilson's problems are far from over. On Monday, Dec. 1, the FBI arrested Jaleel Tariq Abdul-Jabbaar after the Seattle area resident allegedly posted multiple death threats to Facebook against a Ferguson police officer with the initials "D.W." The U.S. Attorney's office says the man began posting extortions to kill the officer and members of his family on a Facebook page soon after the Brown's death.
"Are there any REAL BLACK MEN that would love to go down to Ferguson Missouri to give back those bullets that Police Officer [D.W.] fired into the body of Mike Brown. If we're unable to locate Officer [D.W.] then We'll return them to his wife and if not her then his children," a Nov. 11 post read.
According to the Huffington Post, the complaint also states that private messages divulged Abdul-Jabbaar attempted to obtain a strong arm even though he has a felony record. In addition, Abdul-Jabbaar has a prior drug charge in Philadelphia in 1992 and a 2009 federal charge for unlawful possession of a firearm, the consequence of a "shoot-out arising out of a domestic violence incident involving his friend's sister."
Upon the Ferguson grand jury reaching their decision, another post read, "Ready to go and kill some cops." The following night, Abdul-Jabbaar posted an illustration depicting a black man murdering a white officer, with the message: "We black folks should've been doing this to the police last night."
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