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Alleged friend of the officer who shot Michael Brown calls into radio show...

Josie said:
What? LOL!
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You didn't know? You've been found out! In your free time you make propaganda videos just to mess with liberals on DP.

We're on to you!!:ninja:
 
americanwoman said:
I think it was the spouse. She knew alot about the exact story without hesitating. When I hear stories from another person who heard it from another person, some details get lost. She seemed very sure about the events and what happened. Not saying everyone is like me, but like a game of telephone alot of times things can get mixed up here and there.
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When she said who she heard all of this from, she fumbled a bit and ended up saying "significant other". I have a feeling it's the officer's wife/girlfriend or maybe a sister. Someone very close, though.
 
reinoe said:
Seven seconds in...

It says "Josie" on my call screener".

OMG the people in this forum sink to depths I never would have thought. I never thought someone would call a radio station pretending they know someone in the media just to prove their point on the internet but hey. Good work "Josie".:lamo
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Stop acting stupid. I didn't even realize she said her name was Josie. I'm going to guess that it's a fake name.
 
reinoe said:
Do you think it's a coincidence that the person calling in happened to be named "Josie"?
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You included me into your delusion. You were either baiting or just being a jerk.
 
Josie said:
Stop acting stupid. I didn't even realize she said her name was Josie. I'm going to guess that it's a fake name.
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It can be hard to keep a story straight when it's being made up at the top of a person's head. Take this gem that you pointed out...

Josie said:
When she said who she heard all of this from, she fumbled a bit and ended up saying "significant other". I have a feeling it's the officer's wife/girlfriend or maybe a sister. Someone very close, though.
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WCH said:
Thanks for posting this.
We recently had a case here locally where a man who was trying to cash a bad check at a bank was stopped by a plain clothes cop and took off running. The cop chased him for a long distance [even commandeering a car] then eventually became involved in a scuffle with the individual where the officers gun went off, killing the perp.

The city decided it was best to give the family $1.25 million before the trial of the officer ever began, pretty much sealing his fate.

This and the local decision are perfect examples of knee-jerk reactions before the facts are known.
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This is also why we should just start requiring cops to wear cameras as part of the uniform. If we can record these situations, it would go a long way into stopping the knee jerk reactions and allow us to properly assess the situation. If course it wouldn't be a 100% guarantee, but it would likely go quite far into clearing many these things up.
 
reinoe said:
Seven seconds in...

It says "Josie" on my call screener".

OMG the people in this forum sink to depths I never would have thought. I never thought someone would call a radio station pretending they know someone in the media just to prove their point on the internet but hey. Good work "Josie".:lamo
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And?
You have no evidence to connect it to the Josie that posts here. Let alone any Josie that posts here.
Stop with the absurdities.
 
reinoe said:
It can be hard to keep a story straight when it's being made up at the top of a person's head. Take this gem that you pointed out...
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Sounds to me like she had her story very straight. She just didn't want to give too much information about who she heard it from.
 
Josie said:
Sounds to me like she had her story very straight. She just didn't want to give too much information about who she heard it from.
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If I'm making up a story I probably wouldn't want to connect it to anyone either. Of course she had her story straight: there's no evidence to contradict it just yet...but there's already cracks in it...

Sister, significant other, girlfriend, forum user who crank calls radio stations...
 
Ikari said:
This is also why we should just start requiring cops to wear cameras as part of the uniform. If we can record these situations, it would go a long way into stopping the knee jerk reactions and allow us to properly assess the situation. If course it wouldn't be a 100% guarantee, but it would likely go quite far into clearing many these things up.
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That's a swell idea. Then cops could just walk up and down the street taking pictures of everyone and running those pictures through facial recognition software. Then, if you show up somewhere that you generally don't go they can investigate you as a potential threat to national security.
 
Lutherf said:
That's a swell idea. Then cops could just walk up and down the street taking pictures of everyone and running those pictures through facial recognition software. Then, if you show up somewhere that you generally don't go they can investigate you as a potential threat to national security.
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We're already doing that, we're heavily monitored and the NSA is already engaged in heavy spying. Could it be abused? Yes, like anything with government. Government needs to be restricted. But recording police interaction with the public can serve both well.
 
Ikari said:
This is also why we should just start requiring cops to wear cameras as part of the uniform. If we can record these situations, it would go a long way into stopping the knee jerk reactions and allow us to properly assess the situation. If course it wouldn't be a 100% guarantee, but it would likely go quite far into clearing many these things up.
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The officer's car wasn't equipped with a video cam.
 
If you take one story over the other, you are clearly biased and should be ignored. There are two sides, only one of which has been proven to have credibility issues.
 
reinoe said:
If I'm making up a story I probably wouldn't want to connect it to anyone either. Of course she had her story straight: there's no evidence to contradict it just yet...but there's already cracks in it...

Sister, significant other, girlfriend, forum user who crank calls radio stations...
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I'm sorry, but I don't understand why the friend/significant other's calling in is a crank call.

But I do think that this has probably put Officer Wilson in some hot water with his bosses, and it surely doesn't help him.
 
nota bene said:
I'm sorry, but I don't understand why the friend/significant other's calling in is a crank call.

But I do think that this has probably put Officer Wilson in some hot water with his bosses, and it surely doesn't help him.
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I wondered that too.
 
Totally off topic, but Dana is a smokin hot babe... oh ya!... carry on
 
Ikari said:
This is also why we should just start requiring cops to wear cameras as part of the uniform. If we can record these situations, it would go a long way into stopping the knee jerk reactions and allow us to properly assess the situation. If course it wouldn't be a 100% guarantee, but it would likely go quite far into clearing many these things up.
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I agree.
 
americanwoman said:
A third party calling into a radio station is not the other side's story. The other side is the officer's testimony.
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Interesting you use the word "testimony"

Nobody has actually given testimony yet. However, it seems many of you are willing to believe the friends of the store robbing hoodlum's side of the story, which is not testimony either.
 
soccerboy22 said:
I mean it could be. The reason why I do not put a lot of stock into what the friend says has nothing to do with her or the officer's credibility, but rather it is hearsay and is pretty unreliable because details can be lost in hearing the story or things could be changed in order to get a certain point of view across.
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Which is exactly why I don't believe the "witnesses" who also may want to get a certain point of view across, considering one of them was there with "Big Mike" and the others are members of that community..... who I am sure aren't unhappy with all the commotion.
 
The 'eyewitness testimony' cited in this thread should be conclusive. According to the guy that says he was there, the officer fired from inside the car, hit him in the head, and then when Brown was on his knees with his hands up, the officer shot him 4-5 more times at point blank range. In the back.

If ballistics show that it should be obvious. If not...'eyewitness testimony' wont mean **** in this case.
 
VanceMack said:
The 'eyewitness testimony' cited in this thread should be conclusive. According to the guy that says he was there, the officer fired from inside the car, hit him in the head, and then when Brown was on his knees with his hands up, the officer shot him 4-5 more times at point blank range. In the back.

If ballistics show that it should be obvious. If not...'eyewitness testimony' wont mean **** in this case.
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How do you get shot in the head, and then you still have the ability to be on your knees with your hands up for long enough for someone to walk around to your back side and shoot you in the back 4-5 times?
 
VanceMack said:
The 'eyewitness testimony' cited in this thread should be conclusive. According to the guy that says he was there, the officer fired from inside the car, hit him in the head, and then when Brown was on his knees with his hands up, the officer shot him 4-5 more times at point blank range. In the back.

If ballistics show that it should be obvious. If not...'eyewitness testimony' wont mean **** in this case.
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Yep. We don't know who is lying or "improving the truth" or has some sort of agenda. It's best to wait until all the evidence comes out before drawing conclusions. Same thing happened with the Trayvon Martin case. I thought Zimmerman was guilty as hell until it came out that Zimmerman had injuries.
 
Agreed. Seems as if there is always a rush to judgment. Peril of the "information age" (and the all-too-human temptation to find the facts that suit one's personal view and stop right there).
 
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