Posted on 08/15/2014 12:36:56 PM PDT by IChing
I strongly suggest you actually read the article.
Regarding the issue of Darren Wilson not knowing that Michael Brown had just robbed the store: So this shows that Wilson knew nothing about the robbery and Brown did because he committed the robbery. Was Brown agitated? Do you know how many cops have died when they pull over a car at a traffic stop and the persons inside the car have just committed a crime but the cop doesn’t know that they committed a crime? The assailants/robbers think that the cop making a traffic stop knows.
After all, what do FACTS have to do with the case?
Who thinks there will be a few freepers who wish they hadn’t gone off before all the facts were in?
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Hell, there is a FReeper right now - on another thread - still stuck on stupid arguing that Brown was shot from 35 feet away.
I’ll not say anything more.....
Maybe the cops didn't want to rush to judgement, like the media and protesters wrongly did.
That was one of the takes of an ex-fed prosecutor on Fox today.
And another thing, what the hell is it with people that think Fat Bastard just dropped in his tracks? Look at the size of him-— he was hit with pistol shots not a Browning 50 cal. He couldn’t have maybe staggered off a little?
I read the article. For one thing, much of the article’s arugment that the shooting was justified even if Brown was fleeing is based on the premise that the officer knew that Brown was a suspect in the robbery. That has not been established, and the Chief has made statements today that suggest that the officer may not have known.
Also, the article ignores the eyewitness statements that Brown was shot at least once while attempting to surrender (hands up, etc.). While there are arguments in favor of justifying shooting Brown in his initial flight from the officer, there is simply no way to justify shooting someone who has his hands up and is trying to surrender. (assuming that is what happened, of course - if not, then it’s a whole other story).
It actually nauseates me that you and I were born in the same city, and that I currently live in the county were you allege that you were a prosecutor for 25 years.
Are you senile? You’re basing your remarks of how you’d exercise official power over the cop’s fate based on blatantly spurious allegations, and you expect us to take you seriously?
You didn’t even read the article.
YEP
Notice that the Chief did not release any of that information today even though it was sitting in his lap.
I could make neither heads nor tails of what he was saying. I did distinctly hear him frequently use the dreaded "n" word quite clearly, though.
So now, two sides of the story are coming out. Which side will the POTUS take, do you think? More to come.
Next Benjamin Crump gambit, "Shoplifting does not deserve the Death Penalty."
Crump knows the cop will probably walk, but someone with deep pockets (City of Ferguson?) has to pay off Michael's relatives .... and Crump ... of course ... before this "crisis" is allowed to pass.
If the Chief states there are 35 feet of shell casings and
seven shots fired, they have just poured concrete around
those as facts.
When did he switch from “Unarmed” to “Fat Bastard”?
And why wasn’t I notified?
For the record, I’ve been calling him “Sweetums”.
“The cop committed a crime”.
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Right.... He should have voluntarily HANDED OVER his weapon to Big Mike instead of shooting him.
As dozens of others have alrady concluded.... YOU are a moron.
Well, the curious bit now is that the store he robbed was the store burned down. How convenient...
...that explains the subsequent looting, others just getting in on the action started by those inflicting retribution on who they presumed a snitch (”how DARE the victim call the cops!”).
Free Republic used to be a gathering place of thinkers, wisdom and common sense. Knee-jerkery and hyperbole is becoming all to common place here.
When I sais so.
I don’t think that’s going to happen, but I’ve been wrong before. We’ll see.
The fambly of the Angel is now on TeeVee riling up the homies again.
Saying that whatever pictures the PoPo put out showing the Darling robbing a store are irrelevent.
NOTHING else matters except the 18 year old chile’ was not doing anything while just walking down the middle of the street.
Seems to me that little Mikey KNEW he robbed a store earlier and when the Coppers came, whether or not the cops were looking for lil’ Mikey as a suspect...lil Mikey THOUGHT he was gonna be busted. Hence, the struggle in the cruiser etc.
Oe even said.
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