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Gauge -> RE: Rioting is the answer (8/18/2014 4:01:21 PM)
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ORIGINAL: cloudboy
A professionally trained police officer should know how to handle an 18 year old, petty thief who by all previous reports has no record of violence. No matter what happened, shooting Brown 6 times will result in charges of excessive force and possibly unjustifiable homicide.
So, by your thinking, there is no way the officer could ever have a justified shooting? I hope you are never a juror on a criminal case.
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As the private coroner stated in his report -- the basic autopsy facts could have been released one-day after the incident. Why weren't they?
Who knows? You certainly do not, and should stop acting like you do.
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State authorities would not let the private examiner see Brown's clothes. Why not?
Where was it stated that the State authorities refused to give the clothes to the private examiner? And if it was stated they wouldn't give it to them, well, you know, perhaps they didn't give it to him because, you know, it is evidence. Tampering and all that minor stuff associated with just letting anyone handle evidence.
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Why did Brown's body lay in the road for five hours?
Why don't you tell us why it did? It takes time to process a scene like that and that covers that large of an area.
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Why did the police release the store video of petty theft when it was unrelated to the shooting?
Gee, I am not sure... maybe because the victim of the shooting was involved in the robbery? Did you think that would not come out? I think it is completely relevant.
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Yes, if there are no powder marks on Brown's clothes -- it will look even more like an execution.
Why? Please site your qualifications for making those claims.
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>Dr. Baden said it was unusual that the authorities in St. Louis had not released most of the information “on Day 1” after the county medical examiner completed her autopsy, especially considering the heightened interest in the case, which involved an unarmed black teenager being killed by a white police officer.<
Unusual, sure. Unheard of, no.
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>“People have been asking: How many times was he shot? This information could have been released on Day 1,” Dr. Baden said in an interview after performing the autopsy. “They don’t do that, even as feelings built up among the citizenry that there was a cover-up. We are hoping to alleviate that.”
It could have been, but it wasn't. So what does that prove exactly? Do we have to look for holes that may have been plastered shut to conceal something? The holes weren't going anywhere. Just because people are asking for information does not compel the police to release it.
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....A witness, Tiffany Mitchell, said in an interview with MSNBC that she heard tires squeal, then saw Mr. Brown and Officer Wilson “wrestling” through the open car window. A shot went off from within the car, Mr. Johnson said, and the two began to run away from the officer.
According to Ms. Mitchell, “The officer gets out of his vehicle,” she said, pursuing Mr. Brown, then continued to shoot.
Mr. Johnson said that he hid behind a parked car and that Mr. Brown was struck by a bullet in his back as he ran away, an account that Dr. Baden’s autopsy appears to contradict.
“Michael’s body jerks as if he was hit,” Ms. Mitchell said, “and then he put his hands up.”
So, let me get this straight, you accept everything this eyewitness says when she got a tiny minor detail wrong about the kid being shot in the back. Oh wait, that isn't a minor detail. Point being, any first year law student could impeach her testimony in no time, so her entire statement is useless.
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Mr. Brown turned, Mr. Johnson said, raised his hands, and said, “I don’t have a gun, stop shooting!”
Mr. Johnson? The guy who helped with the robbery? Oh, OK.
So, what are you going to do when the toxicology report comes out if it shows that this guy was high on PCP or heroin or something like that? Still excessive force? Still homicide? Or will you start pontificating that the police doctored the results?
Edited to state:
I realized after I posted this that I misread this line: Mr. Johnson said that he hid behind a parked car and that Mr. Brown was struck by a bullet in his back as he ran away as it was the woman giving the statement. My mistake.
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