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Police: Officer Who Shot Michael Brown Did Not Know He Was a Robbery Suspect (But Brown Did)
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| Aug. 15, 2014 3:24pm
| Madeleine Morgenstern
Posted on 08/15/2014 2:26:10 PM PDT by xzins
The police officer who fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown did not know that he was a suspect in a convenience store robbery, Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson said Friday.
Jackson said the officer, previously identified as 28-year-old Darren Wilson, initially stopped Brown and a friend ”because they were walking down the middle of the street blocking traffic.”
Police earlier Friday released security footage they said showed Brown grabbing a box of cigars from a convenience store and then shoving the clerk away to leave.
Daryl Parks, an attorney for the Brown family, confirmed that the security footage “appears to look like” the teenager, but accused the police chief of “strategically” releasing the video to “assassinate the character of Michael Brown.”
Brown’s cousin, Eric Davis, called the video “smoke and mirrors” to obscure what had happened to the 18-year-old. Brown’s friend, Dorian Johnson, said he and Brown were ordered down on the sidewalk and that the officer attempted to pull Brown into his car before Brown tried to flee and was shot.
The police have said Brown was shot amid a struggle with the officer in and around the officer’s squad car.
After the police chief’s revelation, CNN legal analyst Paul Callan speculated that the decision to release the security footage while seemingly unrelated to the officer’s decision to stop Brown was because “Michael Brown knew about the robbery,” even if the officer didn’t.
“The officer didn’t know about the robbery in the store when he stopped Michael Brown, but Michael Brown knew about the robbery, and Michael Brown
thought that he was being apprehended for robbery, and therefore when the officer tried to put him in the car for not being cooperative or whatever his reasoning was, Brown immediately started to struggle because he thought he was going down on a robbery in the second-degree,” Callan said.
On Fox News, legal analyst Annemarie McAvoy made the same point: “The victim knew, if it was in fact him, that he’d just committed a robbery, may have assumed that he was going to be arrested and essentially tried to resist before he gets arrested.”
TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: adrenalin; assault; battery; brown; facts; ferguson; missouri; patrol; police
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To: Mariner
My limited knowledge of case law, very limited, leads me to believe that if the cop cannot demonstrate Imminent Threat, he's a candidate for Murder II.
Are you attempting to apply this to this case?
You know nothing about law and (like the rest of us) know nothing about the truth in this case.
I suggest you wait until all the facts are made public before hanging the cop.
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posted on
08/15/2014 3:55:37 PM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: jazusamo
No doubt MB is a hero in Hell — his desire to swipe a coupla “blunts” cascaded into millions of dollars of damage, loss and misery.
Satan will probably pin a medal on him.
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posted on
08/15/2014 3:58:31 PM PDT
by
Gasshog
(DemoKKKrats: Leaders of the Free Sh!t World)
To: Mariner
My limited knowledge of case law, very limited, leads me to believe that if the cop cannot demonstrate Imminent Threat, he's a candidate for Murder II.
A 300 pound man can certainly be considered an "imminent threat", depending upon how he is acting. Most adult males would be in grave and mortal danger if such an individual attacked them, especially if they were "out of control". So it all depends upon how he was acting. A police officer is not obligated to simply stand there and die, in order to appease the race hustlers, the useful idiots, and the free-stuff-now crowd.
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posted on
08/15/2014 3:59:19 PM PDT
by
jjsheridan5
(Remember Mississippi -- leave the GOP plantation)
To: xzins
Daryl Parks, an attorney for the Brown family, confirmed that the security footage appears to look like the teenager, but accused the police chief of strategically releasing the video to assassinate the character of Michael (The Gentle Giant) Brown. D-A-M-A-G-E C-O-N-T-R-O-L anybody?
Types like this have been whining for days about the lack of information. Then when they get it.........
I think he also said it didn't matter what happened at the store (Robbery 2 degree - a class B felony no less). MB was executed while he had his hands up. Amazing. LEO's are still putting the puzzle together, but he has all the answers.
In this day and age everybody seems to have cell/smart phone with video. Strangely the yutes at the scene didn't have any evidence to validate claims being made.
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posted on
08/15/2014 4:02:01 PM PDT
by
QT3.14
(USA born 7.4.1776 fathered by geniuses - died 11.4.2008 (Suicide) by idiots and traitors)
To: Tau Food
Who cares that he's now dead? Who cares why he's dead? This world is a better place without him. You and some cop are now judge, jury and executioner? No thanks.
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posted on
08/15/2014 4:03:00 PM PDT
by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
To: maggief
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=529274700424914&set=pb.100000271659972.-2207520000.1408143298.&type=3&theater
Orange soda, Sprite and cigars???
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posted on
08/15/2014 4:03:04 PM PDT
by
maggief
To: maggief
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posted on
08/15/2014 4:03:57 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: jjsheridan5
You missed the point but that’s common on these frothing at the mouth threads.
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posted on
08/15/2014 4:05:10 PM PDT
by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
To: Straight Vermonter
You and some cop are now judge, jury and executioner? No thanks.
You are oblivious to the fact that your narrative is rapidly breaking down, but rather than admit that you are potentially wrong, what do you do? Double down on the slander. Nice. I hope that if you ever need the assistance of emergency personnel who have to deal with scum like this on a daily basis, they tell you: "no thanks".
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posted on
08/15/2014 4:08:30 PM PDT
by
jjsheridan5
(Remember Mississippi -- leave the GOP plantation)
To: Mariner
Cop doesn’t have to demonstrate crap. The State has to prove, beyond doubt, that he committed murder.
/johnny
To: Straight Vermonter
Every time that you begin to mourn the loss of Michael Brown, I suggest that you think of all of the people that Michael Brown would have been victimizing and abusing on a daily basis, had he lived.
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posted on
08/15/2014 4:09:24 PM PDT
by
Tau Food
(Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
To: jjsheridan5
The less contact I have with Officer Felony the happier I am.
Find a boot to lick.
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posted on
08/15/2014 4:10:05 PM PDT
by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
To: Straight Vermonter
You missed the point but thats common on these frothing at the mouth threads.
What point did I miss? Be specific. You said (without any evidence, I might add), that it was an execution. I pointed out that it probably wasn't. So: what point did I miss?
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posted on
08/15/2014 4:11:59 PM PDT
by
jjsheridan5
(Remember Mississippi -- leave the GOP plantation)
To: Tau Food
I don't mourn Michael Brown. I didn't know the man. I'm just not a fan of big government killing citizens without a trial.
I'd think that would be a mainstream conservative idea.
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posted on
08/15/2014 4:12:43 PM PDT
by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
To: Straight Vermonter
The more you speak, the less confidence that I have that we are truly an intelligent species. “Find a boot to lick”? “Officer Felony”? What are you, 12?
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posted on
08/15/2014 4:13:55 PM PDT
by
jjsheridan5
(Remember Mississippi -- leave the GOP plantation)
To: Straight Vermonter
I'm just not a fan of big government killing citizens without a trial. If the cop did something wrong, then he should be disciplined. I just said that I don't care when a thug like Brown gets killed and that the world will be a better place without him. I don't know how anyone can disagree with that.
How many people died the same day he died? There were many sad, tragic deaths that day - children dying of cancer, civilians dying from war, people dying from malnutrition. Brown's death wasn't one of the sad, tragic deaths that day.
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posted on
08/15/2014 4:18:32 PM PDT
by
Tau Food
(Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
To: DiogenesLamp
Since it’s his own police chief who said he didn’t yet know, I’m going with his own chief.
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posted on
08/15/2014 4:19:31 PM PDT
by
xzins
( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
To: jjsheridan5
Let's try this again.
Here's the post I responded to: My limited knowledge of case law, very limited, leads me to believe that if the cop cannot demonstrate Imminent Threat, he's a candidate for Murder II.
My response was that the question of the cop being in imminent danger is the only thing that matters. The robbery at the store is not relevant. Many people on threads on this topic (including this one) seem to think that the cop should/could have shot the kid just for the robbery. That would be an execution.
execute [ek-si-kyoot]
verb (used with object), executed, executing.
4. to murder; assassinate.
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posted on
08/15/2014 4:24:10 PM PDT
by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
To: Straight Vermonter
There are imaginable scenarios in which the cop would not be found guilty or an executioner. We still don’t have the policeman’s side of the story.
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posted on
08/15/2014 4:26:05 PM PDT
by
xzins
( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
To: Tau Food
There were many sad, tragic deaths that day True but this one was done by an agent of the government. We should all be very vigilant about letting them have that power. History tells us they don't stop with killing street criminals.
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posted on
08/15/2014 4:27:23 PM PDT
by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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