QUESTION for all the unarmed child supporters.........what happeneds if you decide to take an officers gun?
If the Politico is admitting the facts, it must be really bad for the liberal/progressive writers. Their meme must be exploding.
George Zimmerman might beg to differ here.
If Wilson or anyone would simply point out that he (Wilson) was protecting the community, and not just Wilson it would be better.
In any case, body cameras are not the answer. Our judicial system works when used properly
People either believe this or not. No amount of camera recording will convince the unconvincible
I wanna know WHY this became such a ridiculous national story? Who benefits from this? What is the agenda that keeps this story alive? Anyone with 2 brain cells in their head can clearly see he was a thug and acted stupid and reckless. You try and reach for a cops gun you’re pretty much guaranteed something bad is going to happen.
> “This is a terrible tragedy”
No it’s not. A tragedy is an unforeseeable event, a freak event like a tree falling on a passerby.
Attacking a cop has consequences. Brown attacked a cop, the consequences are obvious. He had a chance to surrender, he charged instead. There’s nothing tragic about it - he got what he wanted.
Hear! Hear!
As an expression of justice, no. As an expression of naked political power, that is precisely what the Left was (and remains) after in this. Are we actually to believe that the 170 cities the media are trumpeting participated in demonstrations did so spontaneously? Not a chance.
The original Occupy riots were a tune-up. This was a dress rehearsal. The next one will be for real.
“It’s unusual, yes, but not unheard of for prosecutors to present a case to a grand jury without a recommendation to indict. Regardless, who could really object to a grand jury hearing everything in such a sensitive case? If any of the evidence were excluded that, surely, would have been the basis of other howls of an intolerably stacked deck.”
I have served on a Criminal Grand Jury here in California. I did not feel that the prosecutor was trying to stack the deck in the four cases I heard, but rather simply layout what had occurred and let us decide whether or not there was enough evidence to indict. A Grand Jury is simply a mechanism to bypass arraignment and all the pre-trial crap that clogs up the system. It’s a good process from my experiences with it.
Are there still Freepers who believe that the main problem is scary-looking cops rather than rioting vandals?
The big evidence was the blood trail which went past or away from Wilson, and far *past* were the body fell on the street.
This clearly proves the suspect turned around and headed back towards Wilson and totally supports the witnesses who were telling the truth.
“The bitter irony of the Michael Brown case is that if he had actually put his hands up and said don’t shoot, he would almost certainly be alive today”
Bitter? Who’s bitter? It’s more of a “teachable moment”.
Has anyone seen or heard about a toxicology report on Michael Brown?
The initial altercation
Johnson: Wilson reversed back quickly, screeched to a halt and said: ‘What the f*** did you say?’
Wilson: Reversed back calmly and asked: ‘Hey guys, why don’t you walk on the sidewalk?’
The tussle in the car
Johnson: Brown was never inside the vehicle, never punched the officer and did not have his hands on the gun. Wilson had his hands on Brown’s neck. Wilson: Brown suddenly punched him and ‘completely overpowered’ him before grabbing his gun and turning it towards the officer’s hip.
The pursuit and the shooting
Johnson: Brown ran off three car lengths and stopped as the second shot hit him in the back. He turned around and was ‘riddled with bullets’ before he could move.
Wilson: Claims he only fired when Brown was facing him. Says Brown kept running towards him and would not stop until the sixth round went into his body.
Were Brown’s hands up?
Johnson: Yes. One hand was raised slightly above the other. Wilson: No. Says that it would be ‘incorrect’ to say that.
The justification
Johnson: It could have been resolved without deadly force. Told the jury: ‘We definitely wasn’t posing a threat to his life’.
Wilson: Says he acted within the law because he was in fear of his life. Says his conscience is clear: it was him or me.