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BTW- Why are there so many working age adults standing around protesting in the middle of the day? Do none of these people have jobs?
Conservative posters ask this all the time when liberals and/or blacks are out protesting. But they never seem to ask when all the repubs were protesting during the Clinton admin. or the tea party crowd.
Maybe they work at night or they took the day off to protest.
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Originally Posted by PedroMartinez
Sure, this is a little extreme, but here is a case where hands and feet were classified as deadly weapons by the court.
Why don't you link to those photos and explain to me how you can tell from them that he was shot at "some distance"?
The only way I know that they can tell distance is if it was really really close and he has visible powder burns on his clothes\flesh.
How can you tell he was shot at some distance?
I guess we shouldn't bother waiting to hear from the FBI forensics experts seeing as how you've "seen some pictures"? What's your background in this kind of investigation, watched every episode of CSI or something?
I don't yet accept as Fact that Brown didn't have a weapon. It's pretty certain he had no weapon on his body. That he didn't have a weapon before the shooting is not a Fact.
No gun recovered at the scene. Highly unlikely that with police (including the officer that shot him) right there that a wheapon just vanished *poof*.
It's illogical to claim there was a wheapon where no proof of one existed and then try to have others prove a negative that there was no wheapon.
Conservative posters ask this all the time when liberals and/or blacks are out protesting. But they never seem to ask when all the repubs were protesting during the Clinton admin. or the tea party crowd.
Maybe they work at night or they took the day off to protest.
They were planned out way ahead of time, and usually on weekends.
That being said, if I believed the police murdered an innocent person from my neighborhood, I'd probably skip work to participate in a protest (protest, not riot).
If you go and look at the awful photos of Mike Wood's body lying on the road, he doesn't look nearly as burly and fat as the guy in the store. So maybe it isn't him. THe guy in the video has a big gut.
But if the shoes, hat, T-shirt, and shorts are all identical to the body of the deceased, then it was probably him stealing the cigars.
I do agree the body mass looks very different. In addition, the fact this "info" was not disclosed for 5 days ..reeks of a pd coverup.
Now, even if one believed the cops, in the developed world, we do not have the p.d. execute a suspect. To those who disagree, if the cop is charged with a violent crime related to the shooting, you must be comfortable than with the arresting officer executing his sentence.
I'm starting to question whether this is a St. Louis suburb circa 2014 or perhaps Philadelphia, Mississippi circa 1964.
If they are gang signs (I wouldn't know), but most teens like to take pics like that because they think it's cool. Some one of the so called gang signs are probably the person giving a peace sign but holding their hand sideways.
Since liberals and other stupid people apparently need to be told this, here it goes:
Next time you feel compelled to slug someone, you might want to consider that they could be armed with a gun and aren't afraid to use it against you for being aggressive and threatening.
Life Lesson #1: You heard it first, right here on City Data, from AeroGuyDC.
You're welcome!
What's the point in telling them that? We've actually had more than one person post here that they would SPECIFICALLY TARGET people carrying guns to "mess with" them. "I'll just walk up behind you and grab your gun!" and other such nonsense.
Those with an unhealthy obsession with guns (and I'm not talking about the collectors) tend to be on the arrogant-but-stupid side anyway. I would chalk any such incident up to Darwinism on display.
If it's about "getting physical and assaulting the police," why is the robbery relevant? Why did you even bring it up? Also, do you have any evidence that Brown actually did "get physical and assault the police"? You are deeply confused.
And you know, actual libertarians are outraged about Brown's shooting. Read any libertarian publication online.
Because the robbery started this whole chain reaction. It's why he was pursued by police in the first place. You know this - why are you asking?
I am a Libertarian. But, like other political and civic philosophies out there, I cannot always be lumped into the exact same beliefs as everyone else. Let's not get off track from the topic of this thread.
A normal human being does not choke a shop owner and steal from them. I'm sorry but maybe that's another reason I won't be crying over this story. Even in my rough years as a teen, I never took part in violence or outright and open thievery like this guy.
What happened to this country in the past 20 years? Look at all the "hoods" and degraded areas in EVERY American city (big and small) that never existed in the past? I am not an 'old school' type of person. However, I am interested in how society changes from one decade to the next. We have had mostly negative changes and not positive over the past several years. Has voting for Democrats really help anyone?
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