Posted on 09/14/2014 6:10:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The indignation was instantaneous. Neighbors in Canfield Green poured from their apartments and stared at 18-year-old Michael Brown, unarmed, face down in the street, shot dead by a police officer.
Then, fueled by camera phones and social media, the outrage jumped out of this suburban apartment complex, crossed St. Louis County, traversed the country and, over the weeks, spread across the world. The Rev. Al Sharpton, preaching at Brown’s funeral two weeks later, said the teen was left in the street “like nobody cared,” as if his life “didn’t matter.”(continued)
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They want it both ways.
He was left in the street because there is only one chance to do an investigation and they wanted to get it right.
I live in what’s probably classified as a white, middle class, suburban neighborhood. Last year, one street over from us, a young man chased his father from their house to a neighbor’s yard, where upon he stabbed him to death. Emergency responders were on the scene quickly. But “the body” was left on the porch of the neighor’s house for several hours. To the best of my knowledge, there have been no outcries of racial discrimination, incompetence, indifference or any other ulterior motive. The crime scene needed to be kept as intact as possible in order that evidence could be collected, and despite what you see on TV crime shows, the reality is, it takes time to do all that. I suspect that is what happened in Ferguson; but the “community organizers” and/or media already had their script ready to go.
Actually, the reason it was left longer than ‘normal’ was because it was a ‘shooting of a citizen by an officer’.
The Governor, the ST. Louis County Police, and Ferguson Police have an agreement that in these cases, the St. Louis County Police must be called in to do the investigation.
Because the MEDIA was all over this case (with the help of Anthony Sahid), word got to the governor quickly and he retroactively ordered the STLCounty Police to ‘take over’ the investigation.
Regardless to the exact ‘reason’ , it is policy, and It took a while for the St. Louis County Brass and Detectives to arrive on the scene. The Ferguson Cops had to stand and wait, leaving the body untouched awaiting STLC.
This was known from the very beginning, but has been ignored by everyone who finds it convenient to ignore it.
“are cigars worth being killed for”
Shoulda thought about that when he stole them and then attacked a police officer.
Thanks for the info.
“That and “are cigars worth being killed for” and “he could’ve been an HVAC mechanic” and the rest of that nonsense...”
HVAC mechanic, yeah right. He would have lasted about 2 weeks in school.
I remember when I went into HVAC Tech School back in 1983. 1560 hours of intense training. First up, electrical theory. lost about a third of the class.
What difference, at this point, does it make?
No one collected Chris Steven’s corpse either, and I don’t see a bunch of whining about that.
Well, on Tee Vee the coroner is there before the next commercial break, so one would normally expect that in real life. In this case it was at least a couple of commercial breaks.
Four hours was too long... they’re right on this one...
” a young man chased his father from their house to a neighbor’s yard, where upon he stabbed him to death”
Another one on anti-depressant drugs I would bet.
Just because it is “policy” doesn’t mean it is correct. I think they should have quickly taken four hundred photos of the position of the body in relation to the curb and then hustled it out of there. If only to cut back on gawking and foolish threads like this one.
Oh, you mean like..."community organizers"?
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Quick...get to the body, take it off the street....stretch the arms over the head so when rigor mortis sets in, he’ll have his hands up....good idea!!
It appears “body left in the street” is all they have left.
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That would be “unarmed body left in the street.”
Anybody can be an HVAC excellent technician if he doesn't actually have to do it.
At 18 or 19, this MENSA candidate, academically, was two years behind his age level.
Three-D laser equipment can make a computerized 3D image in a couple of hours, if the MENSA neighborhood had cooperated and not interfered and compromised the scene for the forensics team and the LEOs.
Memo to ignorant “journalists”:
It’s a crime scene! The body doesn’t get moved until the proper authorities investigate and move said body.
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