Posted on 08/15/2014 12:36:56 PM PDT by IChing
Yep. I know what the media is reporting. They’re wrong. Chief Jackson said the robbery was unrelated to Officer Wilson’s initial contact with Brown. The timeline in the police reports seems to confirm that. See my post at 216.
Hmmm....where are all the phone videos of the actual shooting?
There were eye witnesses speaking on TV. Everyone on the street should have a phone.
Not one video has come out of the incident.
Agreed. The media has caused much confusion. Officer Wilson was on another call until 12:00:07. The full suspect description went out at 11:57:47. Wilson may not have heard the description. In my experience, when an officer is on scene at a call, they turn their radio (on their shoulder) way down while they’re dealing with the current situation. Wilson may have done so. And if he was out of his vehicle handling the sick call, he wouldn’t have received any notice over the computer in the vehicle.
I read somewhere but can’t find it now that Wilson was in a truck/SUV not a car. That changes the physical circumstances of the struggle/altercation with Brown through the window. It puts him up a lot higher. Have you read anything about the vehicle?
Confiscated when the police went door-to-door to talk to witnesses. CNN did get video from KMOX that Tiffany Mitchell took immediately after the shooting.
The cops took cell phones? For real??
Yep it was a truck/SUV — larger and higher than just an SUV — there is a picture in one of the videos.
There was what looked like a Tahoe parked at an angle in the street from the brief footage I saw.
No wonder the residents there are mad --
If the cop did not know the thugs were the subject of a BOLO after committing a crime- not just a couple of nuiscance cases walking in the middle of the street- the cop would not have taken heightened precautions that might have led to another outcome.
All just speculation now of course.
Hmmmm. Thank you much! I’ll check it out.
It will depend on how many times the perp was shit.
Please rephrase that for me. I’m not understanding you.
..”none other than Barack Hussein Obama himself once more ‘contaminated’ what would have been the jury pool in the case, ‘abusing his powerful office’, yet again,... by commenting on a local law enforcement matter,.... expressing prejudicial sympathy for one side–the BGI side–in an official White House press release and televised remarks ‘before any facts’ were vetted.”
BO knows it doesn’t matter what the facts are when you can manipulate the publics ‘perceptions’ so easily. Besides, Bo will always be for what he sees as the underdogs, be it terrorists, criminals, Black Panther Gangs or whatever...those he can manipulate easiest and those he always uses the most.
People taking the word of a thug on the chain of events.
The Chief contradicted himself on the same day.
The following excerpts are from the same site but at different times>
"....Jackson said Wilson, along with other officers, was called to the area after a 911 call reporting a “strong-arm robbery” at a nearby convenience store....Jackson said that a dispatcher gave a description of the robbery suspect, and Wilson, who had been assisting on another call, was sent to investigate. Wilson encountered Brown just after 12:01 p.m., with a second officer arriving three minutes later...."
http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2014/08/15/state-troopers-walk-side-by-side-with-thousands-of-protesters-in-ferguson/
posted there Friday August 15, 2014 10:25 AM
at the end of this article links are provided to related articles on the same site, including this one:
http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2014/08/15/ferguson-police-chief-officer-who-shot-michael-brown-didnt-know-about-robbery/
Note that it was posted almost four hours later.
Ferguson Police Chief: Officer Who Shot Michael Brown Didn’t Know About Robbery
posted there Friday August 15, 2014 2:18 PM
FERGUSON, Mo. (KMOX) – In a press conference on Friday afternoon, Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson said the officer who shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown last weekend was not aware of the armed robbery.
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So we were both right but at different times.
But the issue I raised still stands, only more mystifying then before.
Is it plausible that a solo officer in a radio patrol car with a radio and computer was unaware of the strong arm robbery and description of the suspect? It might hinge on one of those Clintonesque phrases. It is possible that Officer Wilson heard the radio and/or read the computer alert and chose to drive to the vicinity without notifying the radio dispatcher or noting it on the computer. in order to be nearby if responding officers require assistance. And in doing so found himself suddenly spotting Big Mike. At this point he should have followed what is likely SOP in notifying the dispatcher he spotted someone answering the broadcast description. Did he do that? I don:t know. This is one of those things that wil; come out at some point in the continuing investigation.
Brown thought he was about to be arrested for a Robbery,... the officer thought he was dealing with someone walking in the street blocking traffic. ....Logically, who has more motivation to escalate this encounter to violence?....... Brown not wanting to get arrested for a felony,... or the police officer dealing with a jaywalker?
IOW the cop would have been more on his guard against an attack,
And if the thug had not been able to attack him the thug would still be alive.
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