The writing is a pile of crap with a little ice-cream tossed on top.
If I had the power, I would have brought Brown back to life..... then killed him again. His death was not a tragedy, it was time for that POS to die.
I think about the lives and pain that may have been saved by taking the garbage out that day.
I’m sort of miffed that we can’t just wheel out a guillotine and be done with the enemies of reality like Jeffrey Toobin and the execrable Washington Post. As a conservative I value process and not resorting means-to-an-end thinking but it really does draw things out sometimes.
Unless you have been in that situation, you don’t know what you would do
Well, yeah, Einstein, it's there in your sentence. Let me show you: "Fully two-thirds of officers killed from 2000 to 2009 were with a partner." Good analysis right there.
they might have taken an extra moment to discuss how they would handle a pedestrian stop of two men, one of whom weighed 300 lbs
Sounds like profiling! Seriously, though, should Wilson have been fully intending for a struggle for his gun to become the focal point of a simple jaywalking encounter? If so, then why are any cops working alone?
And even if Brown and Johnson eluded the search, how many people living on Canfield Drive are 6-3 and 300 lbs.?
An assumption on the author's part, and probably not a good one.
I can’t imagine he doesn’t harbor some regret at having placed himself in so precarious a position.
Another assumption. I can just as easily imagine that Wilson is still thinking, "Damn, all I did was tell the guy to get out of the middle of the road and use a crosswalk. That was worth what he did?"
This article is fast and loose with assumptions and lacks any decent analysis.
Jack’s a dumbass..... the reason the criminal black thug got shot was because he refused to be arrested.
The death of such an oversize black thug was justice
The author of the article is uninformed of the fact that, according to Wilson, he had heard enough of the call on the strong arm robbery that when he saw the box of cigars and confirmed that Brown’s accomplice wore a black shirt, he did think he was onto the perps of the robbery. Wilson made the judgement that he could delay Brown without needing deadly force until backup arrived. Bad guess, in the event.
Once Wilson learned how dangerous Brown could be, and the rap on Brown was not only strong-arm robbery but also assault and battery on a police officer, he could have wimped out and waited for backup, allowing Brown to leave unchallenged but kicking the can down the road for another officer to possibly get blindsided even worse. He elected not to do that - still hoping that timely backup would arrive and the incident would be contained. He did after all know that another car had already been dispatched to the robbery scene.
And if my Aunt had b@lls, she`d be my Uncle!
How about how he would have been at home packing his bags for college if his parents had stepped up to their responsibility.
This trash isn’t worth the pixels it’s written with.
Dragnet, Adam-12, Car 54, The Lone Ranger and numerous Police Story episodes say it’s better to have a partner. I get all my inside information from TV.
Seconding guessing, I wasn’t in Wilson’s place but if I had been, a few shots.. he wouldn’t stop..oh well..I don’t want to feel any pain and abuse from any thug or gangbanger... or not..from anyone...
Black Folks seem very concerned about police shootings lately. I think their scientists should work overtime to develop something superior to firearms for stopping criminals without fatal results. That technology doesn’t exist currently, their science community and engineers should pull together and innovate a way out of their concerns.