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What are they protesting? I mean really. This crazed man ran at the officer after trying to kill him. It's like they have just ignored the facts and are swept up in some sort of religious fervor.
Just to clarify. Brown had attempted to get the officers gun to shoot him. He had repeatedly punched the officer in the face. He was running at the officer refusing to stop. WHAT WOULD ANYONE DO IF YOU HAD A WEAPON? Resort to harsh language?
You are completely deluded and borderline delusion to think that you can attack a cop and not potentially face a lethal escalation in doing so.
You simply cannot attack a police officer and go for his gun without risking your own life.
Same as robbing cigarrilos from a convenience store. Same as committing a home invasion etc.... Death is an occupational hazard.
Yep. As I've said, I have reservations about cops too. I don't necessarily trust them, but I do know that if you're dumb enough to try and fight a cop, or go for his gun, it probably isn't going to end well. Secondly, when you partake in criminal activities even as trivial as stealing a pack of cigarrilos, there is a potential of it ending badly.
I agree that Brown acted stupidly getting into an altercation with the cop. But I think that is not as bad as the police officer, who acted with excessive deadly force on an unarmed teen.
What you *think* is inconsequential. It's what you can prove - this case was a loser from the start. There have been multiple former prosecutors and defense attorneys that have said there is NO way they would have ever taken this case to trial.
The forensic evidence corroborates Ofc Wilson's story and contradicts a lot of the stories of the eye witnesses that the Brown family was supporting.
We'll never know the "truth", but the evidence points to Ofc Wilson's story being more true than, say, Dorian Johnson's.
I partially agree with you. I don't think the race of the shooter would matter! If all people dwell on is the racial aspect I think they're fooling themselves. Citizens of all races are railroaded by cops, DAs, judges etc.
Again... I'll be the the first to tell you that I don't trust most cops, and that the system has become corrupted. A lot of it has to do with this trumped up drug war, which has been an absolute failure and more or less a war on American citizens. Let's not for get the wonderful Patriot Act that our politicians in DC implemented. Both have given the cops carte blanche to harrass American citizens at will, in hopes that they will find some sort of easy pay day. So, yes it isn't about race and those who think so in 2014 are delusional. Having said that, attacking a cop, and trying to go for his gun is one way to end up dead. You could make that case for anyone who is carrying. Trying to go for anyone's piece is not the most intelligent decision in the world.
If the shooter had been a black male civilian, he'd be in jail right from the start, and awaiting his trial on capital murder charges, just like if George Zimmerman had been a black male.
What you *think* is inconsequential. It's what you can prove - this case was a loser from the start. There have been multiple former prosecutors and defense attorneys that have said there is NO way they would have ever taken this case to trial.
The forensic evidence corroborates Ofc Wilson's story and contradicts a lot of the stories of the eye witnesses that the Brown family was supporting.
We'll never know the "truth", but the evidence points to Ofc Wilson's story being more true than, say, Dorian Johnson's.
Dorian Johnson is a liar.
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