No prob. Besides, you’re a Cubs fan, you’ve suffered enough.
What other relevance does his probable no-goodness have than justifying the shooting? Maybe he robbed a store. Maybe he didn’t (though he probably did). That still doesn’t mean the cops get to execute him.
The cops were looking for an individual who had committed a violent crime just minutes earlier. They found him. There was an altercation INSIDE the cops car with a goddamn gunshot (undisputed). He was a big dude. Do you really think the fucking cop tried to pull him in the car and he was just trying to stand up or something? $10 says this kid was either drunk or high when all this shit went down and was out of his mind. Black, white, mexican, I don’t give a fuck. People do dumb shit like this all the time when they are out of their minds.
It doesn’t JUSTIFY the shooting. But it does give some insight to the cops perspective in that moment. It doesn’t mean the cop made the right decision, but it also doesn’t mean this cop just decided to waste some black kid. The INVESTIGATION will hopefully tell us the facts. The only FACTS we have right now are:
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The kid had just committed a violent robbery. (It’s a fucking fact. Look at the video. If you’re going to try to argue this then fuck off. )
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The kid was shot a distance away from the officer after a physical altercation.
The rest of the facts will hopefully materialize soon.
Legal guy on CNN says it permissible to use deadly force on a fleeing felon.
If you committed a felony, and resisted arrest, and ran down the street with your hands up, it sounds like you’re fair game.
Not sure if I agree with it, but if that’s the law, that the law.
Need to find out what really happened now.
If he said that, then CNN legal guy is wrong. You cannot constitutionally use deadly force against a fleeing felon who has not used deadly force in the commission of the felony and whom the officer does not reasonably believe will use deadly force against the officer or others if not immediately apprehended.
From the news reports the officer that shot Brown was, in fact, called in to investigate the robbery that Brown participated in 10 minutes prior to the shooting. If the robbery suspect’s description was known to him that would explain him stopping Brown as he was walking down the street.
I don’t know if you meant to quote that post or not, but it doesn’t matter why he was called in. You can’t just shoot a guy in the back because you’re investigating his involvement in a strong-arm robbery and he’s running.
liberal idiots on cnn arent the best source of information
Don’t you think, that being the case, it would have been to Ferguson PD’s advantage from the beginning to frame any discussion of the incident by saying that the officer contacted Brown and the other subject because they fit the description of robbery suspects?
That they didn’t indicates strongly to me that the officer either had no knowledge of the robbery, or didn’t consider the two suspects at the time.
Wow! Another hate-filled racist conservative in a thread about a black man getting killed. I’m so surprised!
I am seriously re-evaluating my relationships with a few of my Facebook contacts as a result of their response to this incident.
Did I say that? I said that explains why he stopped him in the street. So it wasn’t just “I see a black guy, let’s harass him” kind of thing. And since the guy just committed a robbery 10 minutes ago, Occam’s razor kinda directs one to think that the altercation with the policeman was related to it.
How about if the guy assaults the arresting officer and/or tries to grab said officers gun resulting in an intentional or unintentional discharge of the gun, after which the guy tries to run away? Or is the officer only justified in shooting the offender if he’s actively pointing a weapon at him?
The link I gave in the post to which you were responding indicated that the officer did, in fact, have knowledge of the robbery. As to whether he considered the two suspects, we would have to see the report that he submitted after the shooting. I believe police officers are required to fill a report on that, don’t they?
What is obvious, though, is that “the evil white cop harasses an innocent black boy on his way to his grandmother’s and shoots him dead” narrative is falling apart.
He may have shoplifted some cigars from a convenience store, so obviously the police were justified in shooting him in the back, leaving his dead body on the street for hours, and pointing assault weapons at protesters and otherwise acting like the paramilitary forces of some third world junta.
As a guy in my 30s with high blood pressure and bad feet? I don’t know how desperate Germany was for warm bodies in 1945, but I doubt it.
Just watched the surveillance video of the Strong Arm Robbery
Is he really wearing socks with sandals? 
Seriously, though, that was some Thug-Ass shit right there.
Bullshit, I’ll put it simply: if the cop thought they were suspects from the beginning, it would be the first thing the PD would have said in their comments about the incident.
So the narrative, whatever it has been, remains.
and its funny because it wasnt the conservative citys doing justice for trayvon rallys so who are the racists?
He didn’t shoplift them. Do you know what shoplifting entails? It doesn’t involve physical assault of the cashier!! According to the police report Brown was 6’4" and 300lbs. WTF?
Jesus christ. The whole thing is fucked up enough without willful disregarding of factual evidence.