Like May 4th 1970 right?
Una, you’re certifiable! Designated driver! WHAT!?!
Send your friends home in cabs, send them in* limos*, put it on your credit card, sell plasma if you have to but GOBBLE THAT JELLO BOOB!
Don Lemon’s decked out in a bullet-proof vest for tonight’s dance. Jesus, folks! Go home already!
Police moving in to disperse a crowd. I hope this doesn’t get uglier.
That may have to become my new motto in life.
The bad thing about being old enough to be her mom is, I’m old enough to be her mom. 
No matter what happened to Michael Brown, kicking out Amnesty International is incredibly tone deaf on the part of the police.
If things seem unstable in Fergusen, MO now, wait until the authorities find a way to excuse their dirty cop from (alleged) murder.
OK, now this. This is by way of Crooks and Liars, who have been very reliable in the past, but my reluctance is based more on the bombshell implications. Your correspondent from the conservative wing of the extreme left makes no claims, but!
The story is that there was no actual theft, and the police may have edited the tape. Link here, make of it what you will.
Kinda have to hope it ain’t so, considering the trajectory of the shit intersecting the locus of the fan…
Human sacrifice is apparently what they want
Your anger makes you very stupid.
This is starting to go into “there were no planes” territory on the part of the people struggling to keep their “cop with no history of bad behavior just decides to just kill teenagers for no reason because racism” narrative intact.
The willingness is twofold. One, when people are already accusing you, that’s the time to make a counterargument. The longer you wait, the more likely you are having to come up with an explanation, rather than already having one. It comes across as the cop going to his buddies with the real story and asking how to say it so it doesn’t sound incriminating.
Second, the behavior of the rest of police force backs up the original determination that there was something wrong. If they are forcing reporters to stop filming and treating them like they are dangerous, it’s not hard to believe that the victim was also misjudged as dangerous.
We know that the rioters are not willing to wait. They clearly don’t trust the police. Story after story shows the black citizens of city talking about how they are mistreated by the police. The number of black people arrested and jailed is extremely out of proportion to the population. It is in that light that people assume there must be racial motivations involved.
The only people I’ve seen argue that the guy just decided to shoot a black guy because of racism is the people on the cops side. It appears to be a strawman used to discredit those who think the cop is wrong.
If there actually are any who believe that, they were being idiots even before we found out more information.
Someone posted this link earlier about being shot while high on PCP:
One the final paragraphs
It was interesting to me because l used to live one block over from the street where this started, across from the University of MD.
Two years later and about a mile down the road after this justifiable use of deadly force (although the guy woke up in the hospital the next day with no recollection of the incident.), the same department (Prince Georges County) arrested a bunch of students during a celebration of a basketball win over hated Duke.
Since the students had been known to riot after Duke games, the University, County, and Park police were out in force—and looking for a fight according to one student’s lawyer. His client was charged with assaulting mounted police, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, public intoxication and probably more. His injuries were reported a resulting from being kicked by one of the assaulted horses and not from the arrest.
It wasn’t until a cell phone video showed up days later after a public appeal by his lawyer that it became apparent that County police jumped him for no reason an beat the shit out of him.
Maybe both sides are lying in this case. Looks doubtful he was shot in the back like his buddy said. I’m tending to favor the cop here, but what happened at my alma mater gives me pause.
It’s just the wind entering through his ears and swirling around the empty chamber that is his head.
The story you cite claims that the independent autopsy showed a bullet entering back to front.
I didn’t see that claim in the autopsy, and the diagram I linked earlier shows all entry wounds.
Since Crooks and Liars is usually so reliable, can you help me understand the difference?
Dude, you’re the one who just suddenly showed back up when the SDMB started discussing another unarmed black kid being shot. Even just checked your posting history to make sure I wasn’t just seeing things, and you haven’t even posted in any other thread. And your posts in this thread seem to indicate you spoiling for a fight.
Your schtick of taking people out of context or otherwise deliberately misunderstanding them does get old. His complaint is clearly that he has trouble seeing why it would take that many bullets to bring the guy down. I’d say your misinterpretations come off more like trolling than anything 'luci has said.
I think this gives proper context to the events being discussed. Well said.
Well personally what I’m seeing in Ferguson is part of a much bigger problem which is the growing gap between rich and poor and the trouble that even hard working people are finding it to make ends meet.
Sadly blacks are getting the worse of it.
It wouldnt take much for more of the working class to jump into this. The government needs to address the issue before it gets any worse. Sadly in the US the rich control both parties.
It’s in Baden’s autopsy report:
http://aattp.org/baden-no-evidence-of-a-struggle-between-michael-brown-and-murderer-video/
Interesting. Apparently the NY Times article either didn’t include some of Dr. Baden’s comments, or Baden reconsidered his interpretation prior to yesterday’s press conference.
I wonder how the other autopsies will interpret the wounds.
I have to say, the inconsistencies in public statements, witness stories and official actions seem to me to be worse than the usual confusion and speculation of most sensational stories. From the “strong arm robbery” video that wasn’t, to the police chief’s changing and contradictory statements, to the incomplete or revised private autopsy report, to the bipolar police approach to protests and rioting, none of this makes a whole hell of a lot of sense. It seems we can’t assume any particular statement made by anyone involved -public official or witness or hired consultant- to have been made in good faith. And I don’t trust the reporting to be so either, particularly with predominance of private tweets reported as news.
I feel a bit ashamed having participated in the public speculation-accusation-retaliation cycle, but there’s seemingly no other way to even discuss social events now days. Og help us all.