The damning portrait that liberals have painted of Darren Wilson — as a trigger-happy white cop who wrongly shot dead a black teen — is quickly dissipating, says Jim Hoft, founder of the conservative news blog, The Gateway Pundit.
"It seems like he's just a mild-mannered cop who's doing his job. So this whole narrative that was painted by the left is just being blown apart in pieces," Hoft said Monday on "The Steve Malzberg Show" on
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"The first was when the officers in the county released video of Michael Brown robbing that store … and then last week, when we found out how damaged this police officer was during the confrontation," Hoft said
"Darren Wilson, they say his face was just completely mangled after this attack, that it was very bruised and swollen," he said.
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