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Just have to wait for the investigation to get done. Hopefully there's fairly conclusive evidence pointing one way or the other. I think we should know a lot more in a week or two once toxicology and everything else has been completed.
Doesn't matter if he committed 150 crimes. Even if he was a previous ax murderer, you wouldn't shoot him dead, if he wasn't carrying an ax....No reason to shoot an unarmed suspect dead.
We do have protocol and rule of law in this country.
And if Brown did not stop approaching the officer in a threatening manner even after told to stop?
I used to work with the police in community programs to reduce youth violence and gang violence. I didn't grow up in the ghetto, but I met with gang members in Boston from the Dorchester area to interview them, met with at-risk young kids from the projects in Boston and Louisville, and also many concerned community members of violence-ridden neighborhoods. I've met lots of police. I'm not impressed with them.
You aren't impressed with them? Why? Please elaborate.
I used to work with the police in community programs to reduce youth violence and gang violence. I didn't grow up in the ghetto, but I met with gang members in Boston from the Dorchester area to interview them, met with many young kids from the projects in Boston and Louisville, and also many concerned community members of violence-ridden neighborhoods. I've met lots of police. I'm not impressed with them.
Why not "impressed" with them? In what sense?
I was a dispatcher. It was classified in administrative within that particular force. You get some frantic calls. Tough job taking them. Gotta be much tougher going to them.
My experience has been cops are no different than the rest of the job sectors in our country: good ones and bad ones exist.
Forgot to explain how the cop got his injures, and even the witnesses did not say anything like your theory happened, nor does the evidence, but hey don't let any facts get in the way of your story.
They could have struggled at the squad car and he took off running.
I never said he was shot execution style. But his friend Dorian Johnson implied that Michael Brown had turned around, and was in the process of raising his hands and going on his knees. That's what he said.
Or....he had turned around and was in the process of outstretching his arms to lunge.
I'll add my opinion of the possible scenario that took place:
All of the gunshots, except the head shots, were on the far right side of Brown's body. My estimation is that if Michael Brown was right handed, then his actions towards the police officer in a close-up confrontation would have had Brown's right half of his body closer to the police officer. This would be particularly true in a fight situation if Brown were actually reaching and/or attacking the officer.
To me, the 4 shots in the far right side of Brown tells a story. We just don't know what it is yet.
I think there's a good chance that a lot of what you've said here is true. I'll add that he didn't know the cop didn't know he had robbed the convenient store, and that's where his conscious really kicked in....after being confronted by the police. I'm thinking an overreaction Michael's part is probably a huge part of this equation.
As far as charging the police officer, i'm curious to find out to what degree he charged the officer, if any, and at what point the officer fired his weapon.
Yes, you're right.
I think the kid thought he was being confronted over the convenience store theft and didn't know the cop had no idea about it.
One of the bullet wounds was on the back edge of his forearm so he likely had his hands in the air in submission.
I haven't heard that the kid had a police record. If the kid had never had a run in with the cops he likely didn't know the drill.
If it teaches them anything it's not to run from the cops when being questioned.
Or....he had turned around and was in the process of outstretching his arms to lunge.
Unless Brown was Elastic Man, 'lunging' would have given him thin air.
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