Posted on 09/01/2014 8:44:16 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Darren Wilson might eventually be exonerated for the death of Michael Brown and there's a chance he indeed acted appropriately, at least in terms of self-defense, that fateful day. The law protects him, but it also allows the family of Michael Brown to inquire as to how their unarmed son was killed while walking in the street. Shoplifting cigars from a convenience store does not deserve the electric chair and Wilson never knew of the alleged theft. According to The Wall Street Journal, Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson "said the officer stopped Mr. Brown because he was walking in the road and disrupting traffic."
Time magazine has quoted Police Chief Thomas Jackson as stating, "This robbery does not relate to the initial contact between the officer and Michael Brown." So, don't connect the two incidents when trying to justify Brown's death. There might indeed have been a scuffle at one point after Brown was told to get on the sidewalk, but Wilson did not have a fractured eye socket, a CNN source dispelled that myth. One can't say Brown was a human deadly weapon if Wilson simply had bruising and not a fracture, or something of that nature. In court, Wilson will have to prove that an unarmed man (not committing a crime that moment and undeserving of death for any alleged prior crime) not only went after his gun, but was also either beating him as he shot six times, or rushing towards him with deadly intent before the shooting. Either way, it's hard to go from "get off the street" to scuffle within a car or suicidal charge at a Glock staring at you, without question Wilson's mindset, or behavior during the interactions of that fateful day....
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...
The Ferguson police have less than nothing to do with releasing of evidence or doing anything else in this incident. The state's attorney, the governor and the US Department of Justice hold all the cards in this case.
My understanding is that if a target ix 6 feet away or more, they wouldn’t get residue.
So much for the presumption of innocence.
The loons keep setting up a construct in which a cop can only use his weapon in the final millisecond prior to certain death.
“By the same token, if the evidence clearly showed that Officer Wilson was in the right then it would have been released by now to show that the Ferguson PD was the crack police force they want people to think they are.”
No.
The grand jury reviews the shoot and then issues a no-bill.
The PD will not release the full report as it is used in the grand jury proceedings and even if they did release the report indicating innocence, then there are many that would holler, whimper, whine, squeal and cry about a police cover-up.
Can’t win.
Release the report and be accused of trying to affect the grand jury and engaging in a cover-up, or let the system work and be accused of hiding something indicating guilt or less than seller actions.
Agendas are powerful drivers that limit one’s ability to think rationally or clearly.
I am not sure what to think about this.
Let us stipulate that the local police department may not be the sharpest tools in the shed. I don’t fault them for that, really. Just sayin’. This whole episode has clearly overwhelmed them. And the folks who claim “militarization” of the police force—if this had NOT overwhelmed them, then they would have had to be ready for serious civil unrest at all times = militarization. So I don’t see how a rational person takes stock of every event of the last 2-3 weeks (including rumors and uncorroborated Sharptonisms and whatever convenient omissions might be made) and with the benefit of hindsight claims the right to armchair quarterback the whole thing. To be clear, I am neither a 100% supporter nor detractor of “the police”.
But no doubt, they (the local PD) have since pre-Michael Brown acquired skilled legal and perhaps PR representation and they are of course smart to do so. It is IMO in their interest to release snippets of information so that the “fog of war” starts to impinge upon the self-assumed righteousness of the feral crowd. If the rioter’s side is going to work to poison the well, it’s fair game to chuck it right back at them.
Indeed, did we not learn this with GWB? To sit passively while the other side throws dirtbomb after dirtbomb may have some aspects of acting “above the fray” but the cumulative effect of doing nothing in the face of relentless attack is a negative.
That is why I said “likely.”
And if you just committed a crime, it is LIKELY that will shape your actions: http://www.lawofficer.com/article/lifeline-training/open-letter-captain-ronald-s-j
(p.s.—is that you, UC?)
“The loons keep setting up a construct in which a cop can only use his weapon in the final millisecond prior to certain death.”
Very true, well said.
‘My understanding is that if a target ix 6 feet away or more, they wouldn’t get residue.’
Here is some info that may or may not be helpful. Either way, it’s interesting:
“Tests show that people standing within 3 feet to the side of a shooter may have GSR on their hands, whereas those standing 10 or more feet in the same direction typically will not.6 This can vary with the type of gun and ammunition, number of shots fired, and the environment of the shooting. Gunshot primer residue also can travel downrange with each firing of a weapon.7 Long guns, like rifles and shotguns, tend to leave less GSR on shooters than handguns.”
It is good to read an authoritative and well written article confirming something that what most of us know through simple common sense.
HUFFPO forgot to add assaulting the store clerk to shoplifting followed shortly by assaulting a police offider in his patrol car causing the discharge of a weapon.
Best, most succinct answer. 100% correct.
With him admitting Wilson was being beaten, his fantastical story is blown out of the water.
“Novelist Stephen Hunter does know a lot about guns.”
A lot of people were posting similar the day the autopsy photos came out .... weeks before SH wrote it.
G s r only travels 5 feet tops and even at 5 feet it’s hard to detect. A charging assailant can cover five feet in a split second. This guy is a liberal moron talking to look good in the eyes of other liberals.
The rest of the country has moved on and is watching much more important stories.
They are, perhaps unknowingly, lowering themselves to the level of Al Sharpton, author of the Tawana Brawley hoax.
Pick a better source of news.
Yep, Friend of mine showed me the distance at which you must start to fire a shot in order not to be overwhelmed by an attacker. Seems to me it was over 20 feet. This poor, sweet, soon to be college educated gentle giant was a threat as soon as he started toward Wilson and more so the closer he came. He didn’t have to be next to Wilson to be a threat.
This article is all weasel words and juvenile emotional appeal trying to cover the facts with a racist blindfold.
As I’ve been saying, these people defending Brown and excoriating Wilson are not interested in justice, they want a lynching, and they fail to see the irony.
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