Police state reached

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Pants II

del he physically assaulted the store clerk.

So using common sense...

he'd most definitely assault a cop.

Call me a pansy but I think shooting him dead was a bit extreme. Especially when no gun or weapon was used in the robbery of the blunts.

Shooting him with a Taser or simply maintaining a stand-off until backup arrived would have been the prudent action. IMO

[Pants II]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

Call me a pansy but I think shooting him dead was a bit extreme. Especially when no gun or weapon was used in the robbery of the blunts.

Shooting him with a Taser or simply maintaining a stand-off until backup arrived would have been the prudent action. IMO

Not if the officer is seated in the cruiser and the kid makes a move for his gun.

I'm no detective but a gunshot in the car kinda tells me there was a struggle.

Big no no.

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Cardus

One of the easiest stances to take -- and one that is meritless -- is to conclude how officers should have responded in a situation like this, especially when so little is actually known about the incident at this point.

Only if 'the easiest stance' is to make no conclusion or even more important judgment until all the facts are in and then do things like start midnight basketball leagues and pay gangbangers to form stop the violence programs that will secretly be used as drug dispensaries for heroin and cocaine.

It's worked so well to quell the violence in Chicago it should go national.

[Pants II]

Liberal media darling and benefactor of blatant nepotism Ronan Farrow just said the kid was executed.

How, outside of nepotism, did this douche get a media job? He sounds like a fresh order of fajitas.

[Danzig]

http://www.vox.com/2014/8/13/5994305...l-force-murder

i have no idea how this will all shake out...but there are a couple things that stand out in the discussion.

one, the witnesses claim the policeman told the two men to get out of the street and onto the sidewalk-that's not what police tell robbery suspects.
two, a witness says that the cop 'tried to pull brown into his car'. that's crap, officers don't pull on suspects to bring them into their car when they are still behind the steering wheel.

also, as the article explains, if a cop feels people are in danger-than shooting a fleeing suspect could be justified-but was brown fleeing? i don't know.

my dad was involved in a scuffle with a car thief one time. the thief stabbed my dad in the hand with a screwdriver. he lost his grip on the screwdriver, and then went after my dads revolver.
dad got there first. he shot the guy, who lived.
at any rate, i hope they do a thorough investigation by independant groups-and that there is no rush to judgement by anyone.

[Danzig]

wow, here's an odd cop story for you.

glad the girl's ok!

http://news.msn.com/us/police-va-dep...er-crashed-car

kids, don't sneak out of and into houses.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Cardus

That horse left the barn days ago.

maybe by some.
for days it's all just been 'unarmed teen shot dead'. obviously there's more to it than that.

[Danzig]

and now i see this in an updated article:

Police Chief Thomas Jackson said the officer did not know the teen was a robbery suspect at the time of the shooting and stopped Michael Brown and a companion "because they were walking down the middle of the street blocking traffic."


this is turning into a larger mess every moment. of course there's no telling now if this is a result of the press rushing to get stories out and leaving out details or what. because they certainly made it seem earlier that the cop was responding to a robbery, and now they're saying he wasn't.
was the press wrong, or the cops?

[hi_im_god]

Originally Posted by Danzig

and now i see this in an updated article:

Police Chief Thomas Jackson said the officer did not know the teen was a robbery suspect at the time of the shooting and stopped Michael Brown and a companion "because they were walking down the middle of the street blocking traffic."


this is turning into a larger mess every moment. of course there's no telling now if this is a result of the press rushing to get stories out and leaving out details or what. because they certainly made it seem earlier that the cop was responding to a robbery, and now they're saying he wasn't.
was the press wrong, or the cops?

It just doesn't matter. You're either on the New Black Panther team or you're a racist.

Pick a side.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by hi_im_god

It just doesn't matter. You're either on the New Black Panther team or you're a racist.

Pick a side.

[Pants II]

Surveillance footage...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHxXGvXQrno

Read that the poor child is 6'4" 295

How dare that store owner try to prevent him from stealing. Doesn't he know that kids great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather was a slave?