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Re: New Michael Brown Witnesses Speak Out: He Had His Hands Up 

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (1)
Thu, 11 Sep 14 11:34 PM | 110 view(s)
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hi clo,

i used fleeing felon as an example of a general issue. i wasn't attributing it to brown in particular.

when the relationship between police and public involves either or both being armed, this kind of stuff will happen again and again. guns make mistakes fatal.

where the general expectation is that no one is armed, then when a person runs away, the police officer is going to run after the suspect. the consequences of mistakes are less extreme.

i have sympathy for the us police generally because of the dangerous environment they inhabit. but in this case, it looks to me like the officer made poor decisions which will have a criminal consequence.

don't know anything about his motives at this point. but the witnesses seem to draw a consistent picture from several angles that shooting this guy was nonsensical.


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Re: New Michael Brown Witnesses Speak Out: He Had His Hands Up
By: clo in ALEA
Thu, 11 Sep 14 10:40 PM 		Msg. 16214 of 54959

At the time, Mike Brown was pulled into Officer Wilson's car for talking back to him when questioned for jaywalking.
(in the middle of the street at noon)

According to police Chief Jackson, Officer Wilson did not know about the cigar heist. Prior he had been helping a medical emergency.

IMO, this doesn't meet your supposition, since Officer Wilson wasn't aware of the theft.


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