Posted on 08/12/2014 6:22:25 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
and actions before police shot the unarmed teen dead
Mr Johnson said that he and Brown were walking home from a store when the cop told them to get out of the street and 'get the f***' on to the sidewalk'....
The friend said the officer threw open the door which slammed closed again after bouncing off Brown. It was then that the officer grabbed his friend by the neck.
'The time frame was 60 seconds or less, it got out of hand really quickly.'
Johnson said that the officer had drawn his gun by this time and threatened to shoot Michael.
'I seen the fire come out of the barrel,' he told the network. 'I could see so vividly what was going on because I was so close.'
Johnson said the first time the officer fired, he and Brown got scared and ran away but he could already see that the teenager had blood coming down his shirt where he had been shot.
The 22-year-old ducked behind a car but Brown kept running.
'He shot again, and once my friend felt that shot, he turned around and put his hands in the air, and he started to get down,' Johnson said.
The 22-year-old said: '[Brown] stopped, turned with his hands up and said ''I don’t have a gun, stop shooting!'' 'But the officer still approached with his weapon drawn and fired several more shots.'
The eye-witness said despite the teenager's protests, the officer shot again, hitting Brown and leaving him on the ground.
The 22-year-old spoke to MSNBC on Tuesday alongside his attorney, and former St Louis' mayor, Freeman Bosley Jr.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
“I just wish everyone be as perfect as you.”
Doesn’t take much to be more perfect than a cop. The average hood rat probably has more morals than most cops. Though that isn’t hard.
Now, did you actually have a counter to the FACTS I pointed out? Or you just want to insult comments you don’t like?
He was a big kid and from witnesses it appears that the officer bit off more than he could chew by grabbing his throat and that’s when the officer pulled his gun for some extra help.
So what —
...hundreds of thousands of people you never met and who risk their lives to keep you and your family safe.
I laugh. Right in your face, copper.
You are so brave from behind your computer.
You and I both know you are a coward in real life.
If he were bruised then he would have had medical treatment.
Can’t they teach young journalism students how to cover a story without an angle to play? Is that asking too much?
When you take on a cop getting shot is a risk you take.
Done it more than once myself except I didn’t get shot.
How about calling it a Tony Stewart moment.
Unless you can get into either persons head (cop, teenager, race car driver) nothing will ever be a clear and cut case.
I don’t trust cops and I don’t trust any one who voted for 0bama.
As for race car drivers....I really don’t care.
Typical cop mentality...thinking you know what you just couldn’t. Did jumping to unwarranted conclusions get you the title of “detective”?
Do you want to choke me and shoot me now?
Wow. That took an ugly turn, didn’t it? What’s next? Dookie head?
You know very well that police have no duty to protect the citizens. Law enFORCEment is the name of the game.
Without signing on as a cop hater, this looks like a bad shoot.
At first glance looks like trouble for the officer (per video)
But something is seriously wrong with law enforcement today. This is a no-nonsense conservative site. One would expect most folks here to law-and-order types, and so be pro-police.
But most here are not now pro-police. That should be a wake-up call. I must tell you that I originally had my first sentence in this post read “Most police officers are good people.” But I just don't believe that anymore. So I changed my first sentence to the one above.
Look, it's one of two things. Either most of LE has changed for the worse, or the good LE folks have lost the PR war. Either way, LE must get its act together. Don't be like Tsar Nickolas II:
British embassador: You must regain the trust of your people.
Nickolas II: It's the people who must regain my trust.
Well, we all know what happened to the Tsar.
That took an ugly turn, didn’t it?
It sure did. Imagine how it manifests itself on the street.
As it turns out, I was.
Something’s missing here. Jesse Jackson is late to this show. Where is Obama talking about Brown being his kid? Eric Holder? They’re holding back for some reason, and it makes me uneasy.
Could the cop be black?
A running start from 35’ away?
Gotta start from somewhere.
another line of work for sure! Jesus! Bunch of armed union thugs, a lot of cops are nowadays.
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