Protests in Ferguson, Missouri

[jimmyz]

I noticed that the six shots went from the lowest on his wrist in an almost vertical line up his arm to the two head shots that were fatal. I shoot a lot and muzzle flip, if not corrected for by technique, can make your hits move up in height like that. If the first round was fired in car as the officer was being beat-on I don't think the officer should have exited and continued to shoot. But if reports of broken orbital bones are correct I think the officer was on pure adrenaline and not thinking clearly due to the stress of the encounter and being accosted in an unexpected way on a simple stop-n-contact for jaywalking or whatever.

I've read that there is more and more a propensity for people being contacted by police to be uncooperative and resist arrest more and more.

We will see at the trail.

[Professor]

BTW, Jimmy - I might not fully agree with your posts all the time, but I gotta give props to your sig. It's the perfect counterpoint to the other sigs floating around here.

[Professor]

[The Comrade]

[Medius]

[jimmyz]

Funny how the ant-cop posters here have melted away. He was "shot in back" has been proven wrong. And the cop has fractured orbital bones from Brown's fists. The cop's story is proving truer and truer and all the Phillys of the web are ShuttingTFU. LOL at Brown for putting his head down and charging the cop and catching one on the top of his head.

NO JUSTICE FOR LIES, NO JUSTICE FOR LIES!

[micfranklin]

[The Comrade]

so he attacked the cop, ran like 40 feet away, and then charged back at him? all the while, the cop was letting him do this?

was this a nintendo boss-battle?

[jimmyz]

[The Comrade]

the truth is somewhere in the middle. there likely was a struggle as all the eyewitness accounts say that the cop grabbed brown and some grappling ensued. the cop, being a pig, took this challenge to his authority very seriously and shot him.

if we accept what happened as you implied, the cop wanted to kill brown and waited for him, after supposedly being injured (which he wasn't, and there isn't a single reliable source to confirm that), to run away and then turn around and charge him. this means the cop waited until he could shoot brown from the front, not the back, to stop him. murder in the first-degree.