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Missouri Police Officer guns down unarmed 18 year old

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Londo_Jowo said:
Well, the Grand Jury has had free reign/access to all the witnesses and they could indict if they felt the evidence pointed to Officer Wilson committing a crime. It's quite telling when DOJ can't find any evidence to support charging Officer Wilson with civil charges.
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so you can look into the future??
 
Londo_Jowo said:
Go back and read the articles, more and more is coming out that backs up Officer Wilson. Forensic evidence is a bitch to get around.
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You still cannot jump to that conclusion......the Grand Jury can indict regardless of what the forensic evidence says. There are other reason to indict.

Yet there is as much a possibility that he will not be indicted .....still you are and have been jumping to conclusions that just do not bear the fact out properly.
 
soundforbjt said:
So far, nothing has came out supporting Wilson after he exited his vehicle.
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Sure it has.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Among the recollections of the witness, who agreed to an interview on the condition that his name not be used, were:
• After an initial scuffle in the car, the officer did not fire until Brown turned back toward him.
• Brown put his arms out to his sides but never raised his hands high.
• Brown staggered toward Wilson despite commands to stop.
• The two were about 20 to 25 feet apart when the last shots were fired.
He would not detail what he had told the grand jury but said the members seemed fair and asked a lot of questions.
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soundforbjt said:
Sounds like a he was a credible threat to me...:\

No "charging", he was staggering, posing no real threat...
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Yeah, we all know you're another billy badass on the interweb and would have waited to see if person who had already assaulted you would make it to you before taking any action.
 
Aren't there more than ONE witness who claims Wilson fired while Brown was running away? Yet ONE witness says the opposite and you believe him, yet you claim I'm biased?
 
soundforbjt said:
Aren't there more than ONE witness who claims Wilson fired while Brown was running away? Yet ONE witness says the opposite and you believe him, yet you claim I'm biased?
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Yes you are highly biased and it is affecting your judgment.

Personally, my posts in this thread are open for everyone to see. I'm trying my best to keep an open mind to all possibilities. Wilson may or may not be guilty. I'm on neither person's "side", I am on truth's side.

You made the claim:
soundforbjt said:
So far, nothing has came out supporting Wilson after he exited his vehicle.
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You made a factual statement, not an opinion. Your statement was wrong. When confronted with the facts, instead of accepting that fact as another piece of the puzzle, you got super-defensive and reinforced your bias.

You said on the subject of the possibility the grand jury decides in Wilson's favor:
soundforbjt said:
I somewhat agree, it's nearly impossible to indict a cop, but there's always a civil suit.
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I say on the subject of the possibility the grand jury decides against Wilson, there was sufficient evidence to convince the jury. However, I do not want to see anyone placed in jail based on people shouting "racism". The decision must be fact-based. Protest mob opinion is not evidence. Decisions based on mob opinions was how a lot of innocent blacks were oppressed and wrongly convicted. Mob opinions in the opposite direction do not solve, nor make up for, problems of the past. Decisions based on mob opinions only strengthen and prolong the racial problems even further (in my opinion). It takes influential power away from the moderates and gives it to people such as spidey.

Yes, you are horribly biased. Accept it. Stop deflecting.
 
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It's hard to think of a plausible way in which Brown's blood is not on the cop's uniform other than by events as the cop has described them; he was attacked while seated in his vehicle and defended himself. This high level of aggression by Brown is consistent with his behavior in the corner store shortly before this. There is more confusion and less sureness over the events outside of the vehicle. It's certainly possible Wilson acted inappropriately there, but ultimately it appears that Brown initiated a violent altercation with a police officer such that the cop felt he needed to go for his gun, and Brown ended up dead. There may be lessons here about race, but in my mind with the facts we have so far the first and foremost lesson is don't attack a police officer and your chances of being killed by them are quite low. This is also a lesson no heeded by the other person shot recently near Ferguson. He also became a champion case overnight, despite that matter being cut and dry that he was armed and fired on a cop.
 
Crazy times we live in. Sometimes I despise how quickly we can communicate with each other. It's like we are all in junior high on a national level.
 
mizzou said:
Crazy times we live in. Sometimes I despise how quickly we can communicate with each other. It's like we are all in junior high on a national level.
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This is evident to me watching--trying to watch--the morning news. Increasingly it consists of news anchors reading what is trending on twitter. That's no excuse for real information.
 
guy walks down middle of road

piggy to lazy to get out of car pulls in front of guy with driver door facing him

piggy tries to get out but guy wont let him out of car door

piggy strikes guy for not allowing him to open door

guy fires back in self defense

piggy pulls gun

guy runs and is shot in the back


piggy gets paid leave and back on the force after showing "exemplary conduct".


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NoStateofMind said:
guy walks down middle of road

piggy to lazy to get out of car pulls in front of guy with driver door facing him

piggy tries to get out but guy wont let him out of car door

piggy strikes guy for not allowing him to open door

guy fires back in self defense

piggy pulls gun

guy runs and is shot in the back


piggy gets paid leave and back on the force after showing "exemplary conduct".


113277_600.jpg
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I'm glad you live in a world kept safe by others so you can come up with crazy shit on the internet.
 
NoStateofMind said:
guy walks down middle of road

piggy to lazy to get out of car pulls in front of guy with driver door facing him

piggy tries to get out but guy wont let him out of car door

piggy strikes guy for not allowing him to open door

guy fires back in self defense

piggy pulls gun

guy runs and is shot in the back


piggy gets paid leave and back on the force after showing "exemplary conduct".


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Brown wasn't armed.
 
Sulaco said:
Apparently you think you do because you're afraid of the police.
But the internet tough guy facade is cute. Please keep it up.
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I'm not afraid but even I was would that fear be misplaced? Hardly. The level of "legal" abuses a police officer can inflict is a dangerous thing to confront.

Before you run away like you normally do I have a question that I am sure you'll shy away from and if by some miracle you don't I'm sure you won't think it through.

Should police be held to the same standard as the rest of us?
 
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