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And also the fact, good shoot or bad, it wouldn't have happened had he himself not escalated the situation.
Who is he himself?
And also the fact, good shoot or bad, it wouldn't have happened had he himself not escalated the situation.
I love how people are cherry picking the information released on MB. As if they only thing printed about him was that he "strong armed" a store clerk. Which BTW you really don't know as fact the circumstances surrounding.
Who is he himself?
So you want to put lives at risk.
There all smear jobs. How can you not see that?
But he had to work.... right?
People say these things like its so simple. Just quit. Who cares about housing, food, bills, etc. Just quit because its an evil evil place to work.
Most people, especially those working for small town police departments... can't afford to just walk away from a decent paying job (better than most small town jobs) because there are those around them that suck.
You presumed to speak for others in the post right above this one. In reality, I knew most of the stuff about the police officer prior to this OP (saw it when I looked up the officer last week) and still know pretty much nothing about Michael Brown except that he had a scholarship to some college, was 18, and was a suspect in an alleged robbery that the police officer found out about a very short time after stopping him and his buddy for walking down the middle of the street. I don't honestly know why he was shot, but there is almost certainly some evidence somewhere that will give us a good picture of why, whether the reason was right or wrong that the cop had in doing so.
I'm not appalled by the release of this information. In fact, I'm glad it was released in light of how some have tried to smear Michael Brown who isn't here to defend himself.So why wasn't this story released like the story was suppose to be so incriminating and telling about MBs "character"? What does this tell you about officer Wilson?
Frankly, I'm just as appalled by the release of this kind of information about this officer as I am by the blatant attempts at manipulating the narrative by the release of personal information about MB. Can we all agree to ignore this kind of crap?
I'm not appalled by the release of this information. In fact, I'm glad it was released in light of how some have tried to smear Michael Brown who isn't here to defend himself.
That said, I don't think this definitively proves anything about Wilson.
Maybe he was the whistleblower. We might never know.
Out of curiousity from another debate here- do you issue traffic citations and if so do you appear in court as a witness? You don't have to answer if you can't give out that kind of info but just wondering.
I've seen them and read them.
But it is okay to terrify innocent people?
Cops Pull Mother with Four Children Over at Gun Point, Caught on Camera, No Apologies - Hit & Run : Reason.com
Then maybe that's one of the things we need to rethink
I work with a lot of first responders, and the first job of many is not where they necessarily want to be but a beginning from which they can move on and move up. For example, if the police department is super-competitive, they make take a job as a jailer at the sheriff's office or in a nearby smaller town. It's a start. Firefighters often work for a volunteer department for a couple of years and then apply to the city fire department. Etc.
"We who?"
It's already standard police procedure. Are you suggesting they 'not' search all suspects? That kind of 'rethinking?'
Anymore than the info released about Brown proves he deserved to be shot. Right?
I'm suggesting that they may have other options besides shooting to kill
This has been discussed over and over and over again.
You put lives at risk when you shoot to wound.... because trying to shoot a small target like a leg increases the chance exponentially that you fail to stop the threat. Which in turn causes death or serious bodily harm to the Officer.
Lethal force is just that.... Lethal
Oh so now the 300lb giant is a small target. How convenient.
Before he was shot, the officer was told about the robbery. Originally, he didn't know about it. Then, when he was told about the robbery, things started to go south.
You can't unring the bell. He knew about the robbery, he told the guys to freeze. They didn't. :shrug:
Anymore than the info released about Brown proves he deserved to be shot. Right?
How was he supposed to know they were unarmed? He probably left behind his police-issue x-ray vision goggles that day.
And they didn't look like they were "allegedly" taken from the store. The video was pretty clear. Looks like the owner was pretty pissed off about it, too - at least until he was grabbed around the neck by that sweet, innocent little ole' college bound, wide-eyed innocent. Why would the owner be going nuts if they hadn't taken anything? The guy wasn't an idiot. He was half the size of Brown.
So why don't you folks take some of that righteous "outrage" all stirred up from this because of this post and see if you can maybe muster up just a tiny shred of empathy for Michael Browns family or some genuine respect for due process.