Michael Brown verdict discussion policy

by Simon 254 Replies latest forum announcements

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  sammielee24

  Is it really a stretch to believe that 5-7 170 Officer Wilson mearly told Brown & Johnson to get on the sidewalk?

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  What's interesting is that the two robbery suspects - Johnson and Michael Brown - were carrying the stolen goods walking in the middle of the road. Most people after robbing a store, one would think, would not be so brazen as to amble down the center of the road bringing further attention to themselves. When a cop then stops you and you have stolen property on you and you just ignore his warning and keep ambling down the middle of the road with the stolen goods - it could be taken as an indication that you just don't give a crap about anyone else, you are on some sort of substance that alters your point of reality, you aren't intimidated nor threatened by any law enforcement etc. I'm not saying that is how Brown thought - but it's one of those things you wonder about - why after committing a robbery, would you deign to just saunter down the road not giving a care as to what you had done or who knew it.
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  skeeter1

  It's clear that Mr. Brown was not a hero or a martyr, that the community & black leaders rushed to put him on a pedastal.

  Honestly, it reminds me of the JW leadership. They find a story, make it into what they want the story to be by embellishing it, and having someone put their version out as an actual story at an assembly to garner guilt.

  I am not saying that police brutality and racism/profiling does not happen. It surely does happen. But, you can't pin your hopes on the parties in a single case until you know more facts. You can't condemn a police officer and martyr a man, prematurely. Because, isn't that racism in reverse?
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  Gregor

  The suspense is getting painful for those waiting to get some $300.00 sneakers or maybe a big screen TV.

  I'm serious
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  Marvin Shilmer

  This thing about j-moseying down the middle of the road is something I've often noticed. When there's automotive traffic on the street it's dangerous, it's rude, it's annoying, and it's needless. It's almost as though it's done to intentionally annoy drivers who'd otherwise be perfectly content to slow down and/or wait for a person to walk across the street who is using at least a normal speed gait.

  Then there's those j-walkers who do the same thing crossing the street.

  Am I the only one who sees these?

  I can definitely believe a traffic cop seeing one of these j-moseying-walkers would take time to direct the walkers to the sidewalk! That's where they belong! That's no stretch at all to me.
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  Simon

  Am I the only one who sees these?

  No, it's a kind of passive-aggressive arrogance. Some people seem to like that they are delaying you.

  Even here in Canada where people are mostly pretty polite there seems to be people who will literally slow to a crawl while they walk across a crossing that you are waiting to turn on or walk down the middle of the road in the parking lot. It's simply rude and inconsiderate.

  I vote for scythes and other pointy-bits on cars being made legal.
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  Ruby456

  If Darren Wilson already knew about the robbery and that Michael Brown had not used a gun there then his claim that he thought michael brown was reaching for a gun is questionable. I trust that the grand jury will consider this. Another thing I hope they consider is that police officers always claim that they thought the person was reaching for a gun after they have shot them. One wonders if they are taught to say this to cover themselves. edit: there is also a video online that shows a very uninjured Darren Wilson after the shooting - the claim here is that police exaggerated his injuries.

  I don't like these saint sinner scenarios either. The truth may be that there was aggression on both sides even if there was more aggression by Michael Brown and much less by officer wilson. but then again Officer Wilson did shoot Brown 6 times indicating quite a lot of aggression on his side - much more than from Michael Brown on this understanding.
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  sammielee24

  his claim that he thought michael brown was reaching for a gun is questionable.

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  What source did this come from?

  The only gun I have heard mentioned so far is the struggle for the officers gun that took place inside the police car - two shots were fired inside the car excluding any question that the struggle as stated did occur.
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  sammielee24

  there is also a video online that shows a very uninjured Darren Wilson after the shooting - the claim here is that police exaggerated his injuries.

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  The disclaimer that I saw underneath the video as it was played in the media, was that the video was too grainy and out of focus to draw any conclusion about any injury to the face of the officer. It is not the video that will be the evidence - it will be the hospital report from the doctors that will detail any injuries if they existed.
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  Ruby456

  so Wilson shot a man he knew was unarmed? if so this would strengthen the arguement toward aggression on Darren Wilson's part imo

  Surely then the grand jury will press for Wilson to be tried.
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  TheSilence

  Wilson shot a man who tried to forcibly take his gun.

  And i work in a casino. I've watched a lot of surveillance footage. Until we got hd cameras anything taken from that distance with that grain would not show the detail of an injury.