That’s what I heard in the earliest reports, too.
FWIW.
While unarmed has no bearing on threat levels, shooting one in the back, numerous times, and then leaving the dead body in the street, uncovered, for 15 hours, is problematic if those reports are true.
I’m left thinking about how far our society has fallen when all the institutions that made it great are now failing and under suspicion.
Marriage, patriotism, family, faith, authority, politicians, virtue, the military. I’m sure I left a few out.
These institutions have been successfully undermined and nearly destroyed, leaving us on the brink of complete chaos.
Completely irrelevant. The REAL issue is the overbearing response of the police to initially peaceful protestors in the first place, which provided the flashpoint for the rioting, looting, etc.
Which leads backwards to the even more endemic point about the police in this country in general being overly militarised and hating the Constitution.
THAT’S the issue, not a confrontation between one kid and a cop.
His friend says nothing about an attempt to take away the policemen’s gun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlMjhoYPmZ8
Say for the sake of arguement that the cop's story is completely true and that Brown did try and take his gun away from him. He failed. The police officer retained posession of his firearm. So that when Brown was fleeing he was unarmed. He may have committed a felony and the officer would have been within his rights to arrest him. But when he was running and no longer a threat to the officer and had made no threat to anyone else then there was absolutely no justifiable reason to shoot him.
One of them is clearly lying and both have motivation to lie.
In my misguided youth, I would have assumed the cop was telling the truth. I've since come to the conclusion that a cop is no more or less likely to tell the truth than anybody else.
So bring on the evidence and get to the bottom of it, come what may.
He was unarmed, according to reports, because he was unable to take the gun away from the police officer.
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After a lifetime of seeing police lie in every encounter I have been a part of I have no faith that this is anything but a distraction.
Where is your proof he was attempting that?
Seems to me every time someone gets shot & killed by police they were trying to take an officer's weapon. According to the people who did the shooting.
And you know this how? Did it come in a vision or did you speak with the cop in question? Maybe the Chief of Police made a statement on TV I missed?
Basic problem here. Why was the police officer attempting to put an un-handcuffed person in the back seat of his patrol vehicle?
At best, this is a major procedural gaffe, like not body searching someone before putting them in the vehicle.
You shouldn’t carry a gun, a criminal can easily take it away from you.