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Police: Teen Fatally Shot By Ferguson Officer Was Suspect In Convenience Store Robbery
KMOX/CBS News St. Louis ^ | 8/15/14

Posted on 08/15/2014 9:50:39 AM PDT by Kartographer

Ferguson police released the name of the officer that fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown, while also revealing that Brown was a suspect in a convenience story robbery over a $48.99 box of cigars.


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To: GeronL
Well if enough to be termed lacerations I would expect that to be the case.....also created swelling. Will be interesting to see the visuals once they release them.
81 posted on 08/15/2014 11:06:15 AM PDT by caww
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To: GeronL

Actually, just about every photo appears as though it could be a gun. It looks like he has one at his stomach, his neck and it really looks like a gun in right hand, bottom right picture.


82 posted on 08/15/2014 11:08:55 AM PDT by Toespi
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To: caww
premature news serves nobody’s interests...

I see your point. But if the officer was responding to a strong-armed robbery, and Brown was a strong suspect, that is not premature news that needs to be investigated.

It is simply a fact. There was a robbery, and Brown was a suspect. Period.

Oh, but it gets worse. The original report was that Brown was stopped for walking on the street. The Chief left that story float around for almost a week before contradicting it.

That might be proper police procedure (although I don't see it). But it is also terrible PR. And you can't say that PR doesn't matter. It does. No organization can be successful if it cannot manage PR. The police are no different.

83 posted on 08/15/2014 11:09:52 AM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: GeronL

Wow. Makes my head hurt.


84 posted on 08/15/2014 11:10:32 AM PDT by Jaded (Really? Seriously?)
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To: Leaning Right; Dallas59

Because a good professional police department don’t go off half cock and release information that hasn’t been thoroughly checked double check swore proven and investigated. Their job is NOT to provide headlines! Their job is to establish FACTS. Unfortunately you can not do such a thorough investigation at the speed of half-truths, innuendo,supposition and out right bald-face lies that the media is more than willing to print and the race-baiters more than willing to spread.


85 posted on 08/15/2014 11:10:33 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Charles Martel

Probably because he got physical, otherwise just shoplifting.


86 posted on 08/15/2014 11:11:39 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: glock rocks
Me too, but I hold my Glock sideways.

Your aim is prolly better than mine then.

87 posted on 08/15/2014 11:14:14 AM PDT by Noamie
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To: Noamie

I had my dentist make a matching grill for my glock. ;-)


88 posted on 08/15/2014 11:15:16 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: caww

I wonder if that box of stolen cigars was in or around the police car as further evidence against the two perps.


89 posted on 08/15/2014 11:15:31 AM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: Kartographer

Why did the sheriff say the guy was shot from 35 feet?


90 posted on 08/15/2014 11:16:28 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Kartographer
Watch the robbery video here

91 posted on 08/15/2014 11:19:22 AM PDT by glock rocks (In DC, nobody can hear you scream)
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To: Kartographer; Dallas59
Because a good professional police department don’t go off half cock and release information that hasn’t been thoroughly checked

Well, sure. But either a radio call went out saying there was a strong-arm robbery, and someone fitting Brown's description was a suspect, or such a call didn't go out.

How long would it take to check for sure? A couple of hours at most.

92 posted on 08/15/2014 11:19:41 AM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: timestax
I'm sure they have what they will need...and still getting more.

People just don't wait for investigations to be completed. They do have a system, and in this case need to be especially thorough. They'll be releasing the cops photos of his lacerations...and likely the second autopsy of the kid. Plus there's other forensic information to come I'm sure.

However...it doesn't look good for the kid at this point....pretty evident he was roughing the guy up and that took the kid over the threash-hold of simply shop lifting cigars....and he took himself downhill further thereafter.

93 posted on 08/15/2014 11:23:11 AM PDT by caww
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To: caww
the kid built on that further by resisting the officers and attacking one in a fight.

I think it's important to distinguish between facts and allegations. That somebody, probably Brown, assaulted the store clerk is a fact. The video proves it.

That Brown resisted arrest and assaulted officers is at this point only an allegation. Quite possibly true, but not really proven yet.

94 posted on 08/15/2014 11:26:31 AM PDT by Sherman Logan (Perception wins all the battles. Reality wins all the wars.)
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To: Leaning Right

Maybe didn’t have the store video to prove some of the situation?


95 posted on 08/15/2014 11:26:32 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Toespi

err...

video: http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3193261/posts

.. no gun is evident


96 posted on 08/15/2014 11:27:40 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Leaning Right

Maybe on a normal day, but in the middle of a riot?


97 posted on 08/15/2014 11:30:22 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Leaning Right

If I a Police Chief went before the cameras before at least 24 hours after such a shooting I call him incompetent and in need of being replaced!


98 posted on 08/15/2014 11:32:17 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Shimmer1
oh great. Now some on here who endorsed him being shot in the back will REALLY be glad.

Call us crazy, but some of us want to know all the facts before we condemn the policeman.


99 posted on 08/15/2014 11:33:15 AM PDT by Iron Munro (A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.)
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To: Leaning Right; Dallas59

>>Why didn’t the police release all this info in the beginning?

>>That’s what I can’t figure out.

Too busy dealing with all the rioting and looting?


100 posted on 08/15/2014 11:38:22 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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