Posted on 09/21/2014 6:09:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
All of the most recent protests in Ferguson over the slaying of Michael Brown seem recent since the protestors have all asked for the same thing: That is to slap the cuffs on Darren Wilson, the officer who gunned down Brown on August 9. The reasons given for Wilson's freedom by some are that the prosecutors and cops almost never arrest and charge other cops with misconduct, the St. Louis County Prosecutor is a bigot, and there's no smoking gun piece of evidence to base an arrest on.
These are all powerful blocks to clamping the cuffs on Wilson. But they aren't the prime reasons. The single biggest barrier to arrest and prosecuting police officers in the use of deadly force in the shootings of unarmed civilians -- even those who have committed no crimes or are even suspected of crimes at the time of the shooting, as is the case with Brown -- is the ancient self-shielding uttered by the officer of the magic words, "I feared for my life or the life of others."
These words are codified in law in many states. Missouri is one of them. It's called the Missouri Defense of Justification Statute. It flatly says that an officer can use deadly force when "he or she reasonably believes" it's necessary to protect life. The operative words are "reasonably believes." Translated, that means that there is no written code, rule, or guideline for what exactly reasonable belief is or means. It's purely a judgment call by the officer at the moment he or she draws his or her pistol and opens fire....
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...
Because he shot his assailant.
We can also remind liberals that the grand jury is considering the case. He’s not in jail now because there has not been an indictment, yet anyway. It may still happen.
Liberals need to understand that these legal processes take time. We don’t do rushes to judgement in this country.
Ut oh....the rioting crowd will not be happy to hear this.
HuffPo’s Black Voices? Sounds racist. I bet they don’t have a White Voices section.
For the lynch mob, even a cuff t’aint enuff.
They want the verdict first. To them a trial wouldn’t be needed.
Liberals need to understand that these legal processes take time. We dont do rushes to judgement in this country.
The article is full of lies and distortions. I will say one thing. It is one of the few I have read in which the words, “unarmed teen” are not used.
Only in Liberal Land is a felonious assault and battery on a peace officer not a crime.
>>So strong-arm robbery isn’t a crime in Earl’s world? And show us the proof that the prosecutor is a “bigot” beyond just your say-so, Mr. Hutchinson...<<
Neither is rape, attempted murder nor murder. Blacks cannot be guilty of any crime against a white.
Like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebJBVqrZHGM
is the ancient self-shielding uttered by the officer of the magic words, “I feared for my life or the life of others.”
Magic words, try hiring someone to do that job without the ability to defends ones self. They do have family’s they want to go home to.
Who’s this Ofari Hutchinson? His style of writing struck me as an attempt to be the new Mickey Spillane. The reason the LEO isn’t in cuffs is because he has not committed a crime.
And the reason young Brown is no longer with us is because he DID commit several crimes on that day, and his final B_I_G mistake was to attempt to charge down an armed LEO after a previous attempt to take the LEO’s weapon from him and committing bodily harm to said LEO in the process.
You don’t tug on Superman’s cape! You don’t spit into the wind! You don’t pull the mask off the Lone Range, and you don’t try to charge down an armed LEO after busting him in the face and attempting to steal his weapon only moments before.
The fact that he had to place 6 shots on the assailant to cause him to cease advancing is enough proof that the force was justified. Most reasonable attackers would have ceased at the first (wounding) shot. IMHO
I’m sure there was a strong rebuttal by Huffington Post’s White Voices column./s
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He should have been arrested and jailed. Wasn’t he tried and convicted in the media already?
My posted comment that may not have a long life...
‘Could you do another article on why the Black community supports thugs?’
You could take out the smoking gun part too.
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