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To: Clint N. Suhks

A rational thinker. How refreshing.

i think it is fair to question the use of deadly force. Could Wilson have just injured him? But I do think the facts and the speed with which it all happened left Wilson no choice but to shoot to stop him before he could grab Wilson’s gun again.

Everyone keeps saying Brown was unarmed but they ignore that he was trying to become armed by stealing the officer’s gun. That is the KEY factor, imo.


3 posted on 11/26/2014 7:59:09 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
i think it is fair to question the use of deadly force. Could Wilson have just injured him?

Too "Hollywood". In real life if you fire your weapon you fire to stop the assailant, you do not shoot to kill or shoot to "wing".

5 posted on 11/26/2014 8:06:09 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
i think it is fair to question the use of deadly force. Could Wilson have just injured him?

He did just injure him, with the first ten shots or so! Needed a bigger gun. The last shot to the head took Brown down, just in time as Brown got closer and closer to Wilson.

6 posted on 11/26/2014 8:06:49 PM PST by roadcat
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

It took 3 officers to beat down Rodney King hyped up on PCP who kept getting
up and wouldn’t stop resting arrest.

How does any officer know if he is dealing with that kind of force from a man
that kept on coming after 11 rounds were were fired at him? The 12th round
was necessary.


7 posted on 11/26/2014 8:07:16 PM PST by Clint N. Suhks ( Laughter is the best medicine, unless you have diarrhea.)
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