Posted on 11/28/2014 9:42:27 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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Wilson also testified that even after being shot and wounded several times, Brown continued to “charge” at him, with an intent to kill. “When he stopped, he turned, looked at me, made like a grunting noise and had the most intense, aggressive face I’ve ever seen on a person. When he looked at me, he then did like the hop … you know, like people do to start running,” Wilson testified.
It’s hard to fathom what is more absurd, the idea that a multiple gunshot wound victim would keep coming for more, or that a grand jury would believe it.
I’ve never been accosted by the police, which makes me something of a statistical oddity. I assume however that if I ever am, I would be terrified and I certainly wouldn’t attack an armed officer. I’m not a coward. It’s just that I just don’t have a death wish. And, contrary to some peoples’ opinions, neither do the overwhelming majority of African-Americans.
This is why it’s hard for many to understand Wilson’s story. Basic common sense tells us that if someone has a gun and you don’t, you don’t pick a fight with them and you certainly don’t run at them full speed with your arms out while being fired on. Brown tested positive for marijuana, but not for a drug that historically associated with aggressive behavior like PCP. Nothing in his history supports the notion that he was prone to sudden, heedless violence.
The concept of physically overpowering black males taunting police to shoot them feels like a myth while the prospect of being targeted by an overzealous white person, who’s finger is on the trigger, is a reality that plagues many African-Americans.
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And the physical evidence.
The "reasoning" the author uses is hogwash, too. Adrenaline can keep you going far past what you'd assume is possible, one of the reasons shooters are taught to keep firing until the target goes down and stays there.
Someone else is thinking like me, as the same idea was posted to Reddit.
Synthetic marijuana (a.k.a., “spice”) does not show up in traditional toxicology tests.
Anger, paranoia, and violence have been reported as a side effect of synthetic marijuana intoxication.
I wonder if Michael Brown may have also been smoking spice as well as weed that night.
Adam Howard wasn’t there. He didn’t see what happened first hand and first of all, someone coming at you several times can pose a threat to your life.
In case he’s forgotten it, self-defense is a complete legal defense against murder. This is exactly what happened here. The Grand Jury found no reason to conclude, based on all the evidence presented to it, that Darren Wilson wasn’t anything but truthful.
What should be pointed out is all of Michael Brown’s witnesses lied, perjured themselves and changed the facts to fit their beliefs. All of that tells us a lot more about what Howard takes from the case than it says about the good man whose reputation and integrity he trashes.
Mr. Howard, you’re not fit to shine Mr. Wilson’s shoes.
That stuff is pretty nasty too. I know on guy who uses it like breathing air, I guess he has gotten a tolerance of it, and I know a guy who spent 6 hours spacing out after a puff.
I don’t know why people are so stupid these days
If it were a lie by the prosecutor, we would have heard about it.
The boy needs to follow up with an article, “Why It Isn’t Important Whether or Not I Believe Darrin Wilson.”
I think there is another problem with the liberal elite when they analyze Michael Brown. Ezra Klein said Michael Brown was not a “hardened felon”, so his reported actions towards Darren Wilson do not make sense. I would say the opposite applies. A hardened felon probably would be cool towards the police to try to avoid conflict. A hardened felon, who knows the criminal justice system, probably does not have a death wish. He probably knows he can cop a plea.
This is the same sort of thought process from MSNBC.
I have a nephew (who is white), who had run-ins with the cops when he was Michael Brown’s age. He acted foolish towards the cops and resisted arrest. He learned from it.
I also knew plenty of black teenagers back when I was in high school 30 years ago who had anger issues, and had big chips on their shoulders, especially regarding white people, or authority figures.
The photos of Michael Brown flashing “gang signs” suggest not that he was a member of a gang, but that he had a chip on his shoulder when it came to authority.
Combine youth with testosterone with intoxication with “black rage”, and you could easily have behavior like Michael Brown’s.
Could be a Freudian slip. A "wasteband" would encircle waste.
Facts have smacked Booker, Obama, and all the race baiters for years...but for come causes, facts are inconvenient.
Adam, you’re quite clearly an idiot.
Sit down. Shut up.
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Erudite +1
When (color or ethnic group) people get rid of the frigging hyphenations and become Americans, become individuals rather than identify themselves by their (color or ethnic group)ness, then they will be truly free of the slavery of identifying with and not daring to speak out against the thugs, the druggies, the hookers, and the other social dregs they feel obligated (or even forced by peer pressure) to defend.
What a weight that will be to get off their shoulders, to dump the anger fomented against (other color or ethnic group) people for defending themselves, their lives, their families, and their property, just as any decent (color or ethnic group) people would.
There was physical evidence that ....I can’t spell the word and spell check is not guessing it. ....cooberated his account. Plus some witnesses.
Y sure can’t believe MSNBC!
In movies one shot drops the killer. In real life that happens sometimes but not often. In the real world killers often keep charging forward.
MSNBC should do 10 minutes of research before thy put out such drivel.
Eh, okay. Must confess that I’m straining to see how your story applies to my original point. I assume you’re implying that Michael Brown acted irrationally and not Officer Wilson. In which case, I agree. But Mr. Brown did not seem to be very smart in the first place.
In any case, my original point is that the author of this blurb has decided that Wilson was in the wrong simply because Wilson is a white cop and Brown was a black teenager.
That’s part of the problem. Most of these libtards don’t understand real life outside of their bubble. If their Leftist friends at Starbucks agree it can’t happen, then case closed.
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