What a guy says when posting on a MB about an issue that he has other views about is very different than what he is thinking if he’s actually in that situation.
You can say whatever you want here. If it happened to you you’d be pretty sure the jig was up, just as Brown was.
Confused, maybe misreading. The robbery is reported, the cop goes there, the clerk says he went that-a-way, and the cop goes driving around looking for him. “Canvassing”, he calls it. Ten minutes or so after the robbery, Brown is dead. But the second officer did not hear about it? He was apparently close by, he could have been called for back up, which I understand is a fairly common precaution when dealing with potentially violent suspects.
But he canvassed the area, did not see Brown and apparently was unaware of any gunfire or fatal altercation, he simply resumed duty after his canvassing was for naught. Is this the same officer who reviewed the videos? How long was Brown lying there dead? Long enough for this other officer to return to the store, ask about witnesses, review the video tape, and then go to the scene and identify Brown as the suspect?
I am not implying anything, because I don’t actually know anything. But do these things “add up”?
The black community has been playing up the “just a random black boy who was 2 days away from heading to college. He’s being categorized as a black thug by the racist police and media”.
Well guess what? He WAS a fucking thug. He robbed a fucking gas station and physically assaulted the clerk and then, by most accounts, assaulted a fucking cop and then a shot was fired in/around the cops car. I don’t know how tall that clerk was but this dude also looked like a big intimidating kid based on the video captures.
Now I can’t say that shooting the kid from 30 feet away was the right call, it probably wasn’t, though it’s hard to say exactly what the fuck happened in those moments. That’s what investigations are for. To determine what happened. But this kid was NOT innocent and it sounds like he was actually a piece of shit, not because he was black, but because of his behavior, which was caught on fucking video.
Jesus Christ, if people want to have credibility fighting about what the cop did or didn’t do properly they are going to have to give up the claims that this was just a boy who was misidentified and callously shot by a cop. The longer they hold on to that false claim the more they damage the case against an overly militarized police force.
Before I get pummeled here let me make it clear that:
I don’t think the cop should have shot the kid based on what I know. But I also don’t think I know all the details.
The Ferguson police force handled this shit terribly after the fact.
Segments of the community of Ferguson handled this shit terribly.
I don’t know exactly what happened at the store or during the confrontation with the cop, but I agree that the photos are incriminating. The narrative just got a lot more complicated.
Who is making these claims? Hadn’t heard any such thing, where did you hear it? Sure gotta hope not, don’t even want to think about the shit that might happen if that’s true. Don’t even want to think about the shit that did happen, if that’s true.
The police force was already “overly militarized”.
Bricker, I think you’ve offered a colorable reading of Mast, but I do not think it is the best reading. You read it to hold that violations of implicit aspects of an order amount to non-compliance, and that because “Break it up” implies “Break it up and don’t immediately come back to this spot once I leave,” that it follows that “Let’s go” sufficiently implies “Depart in less than the 30 seconds it takes you to depart at your current rate.”
I disagree with that reading and application. Of course “and don’t immediately come back” is implicit in any order to disperse. There’s no reason to broaden that holding to apply to other implicit aspects of an order, and certainly not to find an implicit command that leaving in 30 seconds is too slow and he needed to leave in 25 seconds or 20 seconds or whatever you think would have been compliant here.
I also find your interpretation of the video to be tendentious. In particular, the “45 seconds” comment on which you put so much weight is not even directed at the reporter and certainly not clearly setting a timeline for the reporter to obey. More importantly, if it was a timeline, the reporter complied! He is at the doors within 30 seconds of that comment. If anything, the fact that he met the thing you think is a timeline but was still arrested cuts against your argument.
Nor do I agree that the reporter was self-evidently seeking to delay by asking questions while packing and one question while walking. Moving your lips is entirely unconnected with moving your arms and legs.
The bottom line here is that, from the evidence we have, this reporter dispersed in a minute or two. The officer is urging him along, but never says anything approaching “move faster or you’ll be arrested” or “you have 45 seconds to leave this restaurant or you’ll be arrested.” To find that the officer was implicitly ordering him to leave in less than 30 seconds is a leap of inference I do not follow and I don’t think a reasonable person would follow. It is quite different from finding that the officer was ordering him to leave and not immediately return once the officer leaves.