Posted on 08/12/2014 9:14:52 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
But even if this account is 100% true, and we have only the police officer's testimony on it, the struggle for the gun was over. The police officer had his pistol and Brown was unarmed and fleeing. Why the need to shoot him?
Methinks that Crump and the rest of the race hustlers got into a huddle and made up the story "Rachael Janteal style".
The thing I want to know about this story is why the policeman would bother stopping two kids walking home just because they were walking in the street rather the sidewalk?
My guess is that Ferguson is not a very busy place so unless they were walking in the middle of the road what is the story here?
If we go by the witnesses then this cop instigated this thing that ultimately spiraled out of control.
Lot of facts remain to be determined here but the key question is the action of the policeman here.
Did I miss the </sarcasm> tag on that post?
I didn’t say that in this instance the officer is blameless.
I said that the continuing “unarmed” meme is a falsehood that is continually disseminated by the press. People with criminal intent ARE ARMED. Sounds like this Brown fellow didn’t have this intent.
>>there was an exchange of words<<
Officer: Don’t walk in the Middle of the Street, it’s dangerous. Get on the sidewalk.
Kid: Yes Officer. Sorry. Have a nice day.
In my world that’s what happens. My Parent’s taught me common sense.
No way I would have an “exchange of words”, which I assume to be much more than what I wrote above with a Police Officer when I was a teenager.
When he's unarmed, 30 feet away, and running in the opposite direction? How?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tueller_Drill
Yeah, there’s a clear intent from the media that we are not to use weapons in self defense against physically superior threats to our well-being.
Any comment on the behavior of people of the “urban culture” is considered to be “dissing”, and worthy of a beatdown.
Wow — no wonder he was staying the summer with his grandmother in Ferguson.
If there was a struggle in the that car then that officer may have marks on him to prove that. If the gun went off in the car where did that bullet go.
If the police are confiscating any video of the incident then exactly what did that video show?
Way too many questions and not enough information.
Brown’s autopsy findings will be very interesting.
Another thread highlights an attack in New York City of an “unarmed” black yoot punching a 70+ man in the face as he walked down a sidewalk. Yeah, “unarmed” does not equal harmless.
It’s so small I thought it would be obvious! LOL!
I think you hit the crux of the issue —
It paints a different picture than what I'd read about the incident from other sources. I'd thought this was about the arrest of a man who tried to seize an officer's sidearm while struggling in the back of a police car as he was being taken into custody.
Seems to be not the case at all, if this young man is to be believed. Meanwhile, the police are all clammed up 'pending an active investigation'. Gosh, I suppose the police are frustrated with their inability to speak to the media about the story they're just bursting to tell in order to set the record straight on what happened in the death of this man.
I'll wait for more information of course before passing judgement.
Well then I imagine the police had better shoot anyone who gets within 30 feet of them. For safety's sake.
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